Under the Affordable Care Act, patient satisfaction has become even more important. And, having a low patient satisfaction or HCAHPS scores can directly impact the financial operations of a healthcare organization as well as its reputation in the community.
Ask any person who has ever been hospitalized or stayed at the bedside of a loved one, and they will agree that hospitals are busy, noisy places. Alarms clang. Pages blare overhead. Doors open and close. TVs drone. And, of course, people
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Archives for 2015
Rally Health Launches Online Healthcare Shopping Experience, 20M Have Access at Launch
Consumer-centric digital health company Rally Health today launched Rally Connect, an online experience that enables people to shop for the right health care based on their personal needs. Rally Connect integrates with a person’s contracted health plan to offer a better understanding of both the quality and cost of the care they receive. The result is cost savings both for the consumer and for the health plan.
At launch, 20 million people enrolled in employer-sponsored health plans will have
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MedHelp Adds Blood Glucose Tracking via Apple Watch App
MedHelp®,the consumer division of Physicians Interactive®(PI) is expanding its diabetes management platform to allow individuals to track blood glucose levels on the Apple Watch®. With this new capability for consumers, MedHelp continues its focus on creating highly effective tools that help consumers, providers, payers and otherpartners address the management of chronic conditions that are rapidly taking a significant toll on America's health and the national healthcare system.
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Welltok Rolls Out Watson-Powered CafeWell Platform to IBM Employees
Welltok is offering a Watson-powered version of the CaféWell Health Optimization Platform™ to IBM employees, leveraging the power of cognitive computing to help revolutionize how IBM manages health resources and engages employees. For IBM employees, Welltok's CaféWell platform organizes IBM's 36 disparate partners, including five health insurance carriers, flexible spending accounts and retirement programs. The integration will allow employees the ability to access a single, engaging and
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Can Mobile Health Apps Transform Mental Health Care?
Any conversation focused on what’s great about America usually includes a mention of optimism, hopefulness or some variation on the theme.
Americans generally still believe in a brighter future, and especially the ways in which technology can enable that future. But that sense of optimism contains a kernel of potential disappointment when we ask technology to do too much.
Consider the case of mental health care, a profession that faces massive budget shortfalls.
According to Robert
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DICOM Grid Raises $3M for Cloud-Based Medical Images
DICOM Grid, makers of the leading cloud-based, medical image management suite has raised $3 million in venture debt financing from City National Bank to the Series B equity financing led by Canaan Partners last year. The latest funding brings its total funding to date at $34M. The company plans to use the new funds to ramp up sales and marketing efforts and accelerate product development.
To date, DICOM Grid has processed over 2 billion diagnostic images, more than 100,000 every month, and
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TeleHealth Startup HealthiestYou Raises $30M to Help Consumers Avoid Expensive Visits
HealthiestYou, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based telehealth company focused on engagement and utilization has raised $30 million in growth investment from Charlotte, North Carolina-based Frontier Capital. The company will use the investment to accelerate sales and marketing efforts, technology enhancements and leadership to increase its share of the large and rapidly growing telehealth market.
HealthiestYou Telehealth App
Available to individuals and employers, HealthiestYou can be
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Ask The Doctor Acquires UK’s Largest Telehealth Services Provider
Toronto-based Ask The Doctor, a health platform that connects users to doctors to receive immediate help has acquired Patients Connected Ltd., one of the largest telehealth services in the United Kingdom. Patients using the telehealth platform can easily connect to thousands of licensed physicians in the UK. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Integration Details
As part of the acquisition, Ask The Doctor will take over the Patients Connected London office at the end of
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TigerText Pulls In $50M to Accelerate Secure Messaging Market Share
TigerText, a provider of secure communications and workflow platform for the enterprise has raised $50 million in Series C funding to accelerate adoption of its secure messaging app, "TigerConnect." The Series C round was led by Norwest Venture Partners, Invus Group and Accolade Partners, as well as existing investors Shasta Ventures, OrbiMed, and Reed Elsevier. Dr. Robert Mittendorff, principal at Norwest Venture Partners and board certified emergency physician will join the TigerText board of
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Startups CirrusMD, Wellpepper Named 2015 Venture+ Forum Pitch Winners
Digital health startups CirrusMD Inc., and Wellpepper have been named the winners of the 2015 Venture+ Forum Pitch competition for startups during the 2015 mHealth Summit. The selected startups were among four final companies selected to deliver live pitch presentations during the 'final four' competition Tuesday evening. The finalists were selected from a field of 11 digital health startups who presented during the first round of live competition held on Sunday at the Summit.
This year's
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