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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Collaborates with Propeller Health to Support Consumers with COPD

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Ohio announced the rollout of a new program to help improve health outcomes for Ohio consumers enrolled in Anthem’s Medicare Advantage health plans who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In partnership with Propeller Health, Anthem will provide small sensors that attach to customers’ existing inhalers, along with a mobile app that will automatically track medication use and provide personal feedback and insights that help patients manage and cope with their symptoms. Using data gathered from the sensors, providers will...

GRAIL Announces Appointment of Hal Barron and Hans Bishop to its Board of Directors

GRAIL Inc. recently announced the appointment of Hal Barron, M.D., and Hans Bishop to its Board of Directors. Hal Barron is globally recognized for his clinical and scientific leadership. Currently he is the Chief Scientific Officer and President of R&D at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Before he took that position, he served as president of R&D at Calico and as the Executive Vice President, Head of Global Product Development, and Chief Medical Officer at Roche Pharmaceuticals. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer...

New report shares details about the digital therapeutics industry

A new market report has been released about the state of the global digital therapeutics industry. The report, released by Deep Research Reports, profiles 10 companies, including McKesson Ventures portfolio company Propeller Health. The report, “Global Digital Therapeutics Industry: 2018 Market Report,” contains research on major market conditions in the digital therapeutics industry, focusing primarily on the United States, Europe, Japan, and China. The report provides a basic overview of the industry including definitions, applications, industry structure, and classifications. It’s provided for international markets and includes information...

ACOs using medical home physicians save money, yield higher quality, report finds

The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) and the Robert Graham Center recently released their 2018 Evidence Report. In it, the organization found that Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) with a higher proportion of physicians who have patient-centered medical home (PCMH) experience tend to generate more savings and demonstrate higher quality scores than other ACOs who have fewer physicians specializing in this field. PCMH is a care delivery model in which the patient’s primary care provider coordinates that patient’s care. The system is designed to produce coordinated,...

CoxHealth Taps Kyruus to Optimize Patient-Provider Matching to Improve Patient Experience

Springfield, Missouri-based health system CoxHealth has chosen Kyruus’s ProviderMatch for Access Centers and ProviderMatch for Consumers software to optimize patient-provider matching and improve patients’ overall experience when accessing care at the system. CoxHealth was looking for software to enhance patients’ experience from their first contact, whether that was through the system’s website or its call center. CoxHealth chose Kyruus because it will help Cox’s six hospitals and more than 80 clinics to further centralize and scale its contact center by providing an accurate and robust provider...