Telemedicine apps are making it much easier for many people to get help from a doctor. They’re based on a simple idea: most people already have a smartphone or a personal computer, so why not use these devices to speak to a doctor online? The...
Aledade and Aetna are partnering to bring population health to patients and greater accountability of total cost to providers, said Travis Broome, vice president of policy at Aledade, in an interview with AJMC. Broome said one of Aledade’s core beliefs is that they want the total...
Vator recently interviewed Mike McSherry, Founder and CEO of Xealth, a platform that enables clinicians to prescribe digital health tools to patients. Through the Xealth platform, clinicians can find and order digital health tools and programs for patients direct from a health system’s electronic health records...
Patients with emphysema, also known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) whose inhalers were tracked by a monitoring device were less likely to need hospital admission, according to a new study by Propeller Health and the Cleveland Clinic. Electronic monitoring allowed healthcare providers to intervene sooner...
According to a new study from American Well, 52 percent of U.S. residents over 65 are willing to use telehealth services. For its Telehealth Index: 2019 Senior Consumer Survey, the company hired market research firm Harris Poll to conduct an online survey of more than 2,000...
Four years ago, Philadelphia-based Accolade established a second headquarters in Seattle. Now the company has announced that it plans to double its staff and open new offices with room for more than 225 employees. “We’ve outgrown our Convention Center space and need room to grow—and not...
Digital health prescribing platform Xealth has raised an additional $3 million in Series A financing, bringing the amount raised in this round to $14 million. New investors Atrium Health, Cleveland Clinic, and MemorialCare Innovation Fund join McKesson Ventures, Novartis, Philips, ResMed, Threshold Ventures (formerly DFJ...
Matthew Holt of The Health Care Blog recently interviewed Kyruus Chief Technical Officer Chris Gervais about what Kyruus is doing to improve patient access and help health systems match patients to the right providers. When asked what Kyruus does, Gervais said, “We’re focused on patient access,...
Thanks to a partnership between Duke Health and Seattle startup Xealth, Duke providers will be able to prescribe apps, videos, educational materials, and other digital health tools to their patients. In the future, the Xealth platform will also enable “contextual awareness,’ which will present relevant...
In a short amount of time, digital health has gone from “new kid on the block” to the darling child of investors and providers alike. But now the industry is starting to think about how to implement sustainable economic business models. “In the next five to...