On March 4th, San Francisco-based ridesharing app Lyft has announced its partnership with Solve.Care – a blockchain startup firm to improve access and control over non-emergency healthcare related transportation.

Solve.Care is a healthcare administration platform using blockchain technology as the underlying distributed ledger. According to the press release, the partnership of Lyft and Solve.Care can help to improve the usage of users. By using the blockchain-based technology, which are Solve.Care digital wallets, Care.Wallet users would be able to schedule their own Lyft rides to doctors’ clinics, hospitals, or pharmacies in a desired arrival times. Another additional option is that users can share their ride payment with their family members, employers, insurers and others.

Taking about the partnership with Lyft, Pradeep Goel, CEO of Solve.Care, expressed that the collaboration will help to “reduce wait times, and simpler cost-sharing and access to transportation subsidies.”

This is not the first time that blockchain technology is applied in the healthcare field. As The Crypto Sight reported last month, IBM Canada has partnered with pharmaceutical firm Boehringer Ingelheim to use blockchain-empowered technology to improve the quality of clinical trial processes and record keeping. IBM has also developed a blockchain system aiming to cut costs with insurance firm Aeta in the healthcare industry.