Health optimization provider Welltok has acquired Predilytics, a leading healthcare predictive analytics company to help enhance Welltok’s CaféWell Health Optimization Platform. The acquisition adds another powerful layer of consumer intelligence and analytical capabilities to Welltok’s CaféWell Health Optimization Platform, providing even more personalized guidance for consumers and delivering more value and insights to health plans, at-risk providers and other population health
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Archives for 2015
MD Anderson Pilots Apple Watch for Breast Cancer Treatment
MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper is teaming up with behavioral health technology company Polaris Health Directions (Polaris) on an behavioral health pilot project using the Apple Watch to help improve breast cancer treatment outcomes. The integrated medical behavioral health pilot project will utilize the Apple Watch to capture behavioral data that could affect the courses and outcomes of treatment for breast cancer patients.
The partnership brings together MD Anderson Cooper’s expertise
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How the Colossal Clash Will Disrupt the Digital Health Landscape (Infographic)
Pressures on the US healthcare system coupled with evolving consumer expectations have fueled the appetite for funding of digital healthcare startups and have ushered in a new era of industry innovation. A digital disruption in healthcare is being played out, as witnessed by the emergence of new business models and technology offerings that change social interactions, alter consumer expectations and ultimately improve health outcomes.
Billions of dollars are being poured into healthcare
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Healthways CEO Ben Leedle Steps Down, Appoints Interim CEO
Wellness program provider, Healthways, Inc. announced that Ben R. Leedle, Jr. has stepped down as Director, President & Chief Executive Officer. The Healthways Board of Directors has appointed Alfred Lumsdaine, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, to serve as interim Chief Executive Officer until it selects a successor. The process to identify a permanent CEO will be led by the Board's Nominating and Governance Committee, which will consider both internal and external
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Xerox Expands into Population Health with Acquisition of Healthy Communities Institute
Xerox announced its acquisition of Healthy Communities Institute (HCI), a Berkeley, Calif.-based company with a leading cloud platform that puts socioeconomic and community health information at the fingertips of hospitals, public health agencies and community coalitions.
HCI’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform centralizes proprietary, healthcare and community data to help hospitals and other health organizations manage population health. By tapping data derived from clinical visits,
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Erlanger Chooses Epic for $100M Integrated EHR
Earlier this month, Erlanger Health System announced that is has selected Epic as its strategic partner for a single, integrated EHR system that is expected to cost close to $100 million over 10 years. The new EHR system will incorporate clinical documentation from all areas of patient care into a single database for greater ease of use, better accuracy and timeliness, and the increased satisfaction of patients and clinicians, as patient information will be shared more easily. Epic reportedly
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Modernizing Medicine Integrates AUA’s Choosing Wisely Guidelines into Its EMR
Specialty practice EMR provider, Modernizing Medicine, Inc. has announced that it has incorporated the American Urological Association’s (AUA) 2013 Choosing Wisely® list in EMA Urology. EMA Urology was developed by urologists for urologists as a native iPad application with intuitive touch-screen functionality to give doctors a streamlined, efficient EMR system experience while improving the physician and patient relationship. It is the first urology-specific EMR system to incorporate the AUA’s
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Parity Not Apparent: There Is No Biopsy for Mental Illness
Getting legislation through Congress—often a monumental battle—is one thing. But implementing new laws may be a greater challenge simply because they require so much sustained energy and attention.
Take mental health parity laws, for example.
Congress passed the Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) championed by Sens. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) and Pete Domenici (R-NM) in 1996. The law prohibits employee-sponsored group health plans from charging more in a year or over a lifetime for mental health
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Philips, Rhiza Foundation Pilots Mobile Health Clinic in South Africa
Philips South Africa and the Rhiza Foundation today launched their mobile health clinic project focusing on delivering basic primary healthcare to thousands of people living in townships that have little or no access to healthcare facilities.
A collaboration between Philips South Africa, Rhiza Foundation and corporate social investment partners Nozala Trust and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), the mobile health clinic is currently being deployed to service the
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Hospital to Create Emergency Experiences Using Virtual Reality
Next Galaxy Corp, a developer of fully immersive consumer virtual reality (VR) technology has inked a multi-year agreement with Miami Children's Hospital to help educate and train medical staff using VR. Next Galaxy will develop immersive virtual reality medical instructional content for patient and medical professional education. Per the agreement, Next Galaxy and Miami Children's Hospital will jointly work on creating creating VR instructionals on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and other
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