Komodo Health has entered a long-term strategic partnership with Veradigm, an Allscripts business unit, to advance life sciences research. Initially, the partnership will focus on linking Allscripts’ ambulatory electronic health records (EHR) data with Komodo’s Healthcare Map, which contains encounter data from more than 150 private...
Amerigroup Texas is now offering the state’s Medicaid consumers the option to access medical and behavioral health care providers through telehealth visits at no cost. On August 1, the company launched a new Medicaid benefit that allows eligible consumers to log into LiveHealth Online, a...
Accolade, a provider of personalized advocacy solutions for employers, today announced a new solution that guides employees and their dependents (“members”) to the highest-performing doctors and other health care providers. Enabled by the company’s acquisition of MD Insider, Accolade Total Care combines data-driven physician quality...
Ambulatory infusion center operator Infusion Express today announced completion of a $22.5 million funding round, which will enable the company to accelerate its nationwide expansion. Infusion Express also announced that it will rebrand as IVX Health. McKesson Ventures and Health Velocity Capital co-led the funding round,...
Patient loyalty and outreach have been, and continue to be, key priorities for health care organizations. However, as the industry shifts from fee-for-service to value-based payment models, and patients become more like consumers, the path for achieving those goals has changed. John Ward, the senior vice...
Kyruus, a leader in providing search and scheduling solutions for health systems, announced that OHSU in Portland, Oregon, a nationally distinguished research organization, will use the Kyruus ProviderMatch® platform to enhance patient access to providers and services across the OHSU health system. OHSU is building a...
Health and lifestyle journalist Bonnie Estridge has been a reporter all of her adult life, and that hasn’t stopped since she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In a recent article she wrote for London’s Daily Mail, she lamented that tasks like remembering passwords have gone...
Walgreens is expanding the services available on its Walgreens Find Care digital platform to include chronic care management. The company is now offering connected devices and digital therapeutic solutions for asthma and COPD management from Propeller Health, and diabetes management from Dexcom on the platform. Since...
Health systems are transitioning toward a value-based model of care, and so too must their marketing. Rather than just highlighting available services, health system marketers must also promote improved patient outcomes. Here, according to Evariant, are five data-driven, digitally minded trends that will help hospital...
Chronic conditions like diabetes require constant monitoring between regularly scheduled doctor visits. Livongo, the first digital health company to go public after a years-long drought, is hoping to prove that technology can help better manage costly chronic illnesses. The platform analyzes data to build a picture...