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Walgreens offers new tool for chronic care management
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...
5 hospital marketing trends to watch: data personalization, chatbots & more
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...
How digital health apps are leading the fight against diabetes
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...
How artificial intelligence can detect hidden diseases
As the field of medicine advances, new connections leading to the diagnosis of rare illnesses are being made. Komodo Health’s artificial intelligence algorithms are sifting through a decade of data about health conditions across several hundred million Americans, many scenarios that once were the stuff of imagination...
9 Digital Health Startups that Could Join the IPO Wave
Large companies like Lyft, Pinterest, and Uber have made big-splash IPOs in 2019, and Slack and Airbnb are expected to join them. But behind the headline-making companies is a wave of digital health startups that have been transforming the health industry for close to a decade or more—and they are either announcing...
On Amazon Prime Day, What Could Health Care Look Like?
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, author of the book HealthConsuming, recently wrote on the Health Populi website about how we could “Amazon-ize” health care to increase its benefit to consumers. In the U.S., patients have been morphing into health care consumers—a trend that has been accelerated by the growth of high-deductible...
AI for all that ails American health care. But how smart is that?
Health technology investment and research company Rock Health reports that from 2011 to 2017, 121 digital health companies earned $2.7 billion in venture funding to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to 19 areas ranging from drug research and development to clinical-decision support to health benefits administration....
Adam Boehler, Who Championed Value-Based Care, to Leave HHS
Adam Boehler has stepped down from his position as head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to take a position in the world of foreign aid. In addition to his CMMI role, Boehler served as a senior advisor to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on value-based care. The idea behind value-based...
The Most Trusted Man at Accolade Inc.
Richard Eskew may be the chief privacy officer at Accolade, but his colleagues rarely have difficulty finding him. Because he is available to talk and answer employees’ questions, he is able to keep privacy and security front and center for Accolade’s more than 900 employees. Accolade customers are typically...
How medication management tech helps one hospital better identify interventions
CGH Medical Center is a 97-bed hospital located in Sterling, Illinois. As a small facility, preventable readmissions represent a huge financial and clinical uncertainty. The hospital knew that not taking medications as prescribed after discharge is a major driver of readmissions. Thus, it knew it needed a way to...
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Saint Thomas Health Offers Virtual Care Clinic Anytime, Anywhere in Tennessee
Saint Thomas Health has partnered with telemedicine company Carena to offer virtual health care that is accessible and affordable for everyone. The newly introduced service—called Saint Thomas Health On Demand—is available 24/7. A flat fee of $49 allows patients to...
Physician Productivity Startup Augmedix Secures $23 Million
Augmedix, a leader in smartglass-based physician productivity platforms, has announced its recent acquisition of $23 million in funding from McKesson Ventures and OrbiMed. Augmedix’s services are based on the idea of increasing the amount of time physicians have to...
UAB Medicine Selects Kyruus for Patient-Provider Matching and Provider Data Management
On Monday, Kyruus added UAB Medicine to its long list of prestigious clientele. UAB Medicine, one of the largest academic medical centers in the U.S., will be implementing two new programs designed by Kyruus. The first program, called ProviderMatchTM for Access...
Virginia Mason Partners with Carena to Provide Insurance Billing for Virtual Clinic Visits
Virtual healthcare provider Carena announced a partnership with Virginia Mason Health System to offer insurance billing to Virginia Mason Virtual Care Clinic patients insured by Regence BlueShield. Carena is Virginia Mason’s clinical and technology partner, powering...
Everseat Expedites Medical Access and Provider Reimbursements with PokitDok
Everseat recently announced that it will make instant insurance eligibility verification a core component of its scheduling service. It will do this by incorporating the PokitDok Eligibility Application Programming Interface into its software. “PokitDok is the magic...