- Fitbit and FibriCheck have expanded their partnership to enable users in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain to monitor their heart rhythm for irregularities, such as Atrial Fibrillation (AFib), directly from their Fitbit smartwatch.
- The partnership was first announced in September 2019, when the FibriCheck app was made available to Fitbit smartwatch users in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Since the app launched on Fitbit OS, more than 150,000 heart rhythm measurements have
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Wolters Kluwer, SAS Integrate to Power Real-World Evidence (RWE) Analytics
- SAS to leverage Wolters Kluwer’s Health Language portfolio of data quality solutions to power real-world evidence (RWE) analytics within SAS Health.
- Through a disease-centric approach, Health Language will enable SAS Health’s clients to more effectively manage reference data, such as ICD-10, CPT® and SNOMED CT, establish relationships between clinical and claims data and extract value from unstructured text within the medical record–providing a comprehensive view of a patient’s clinical
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Catholic Medical Partners Taps Innovaccer to Deliver Value-Based Care to IPA
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with Catholic Medical Partners (CMP), the largest Independent Physician Association (IPA) in Buffalo, New York to empower the IPA to deliver value-based care and help healthcare care as one.
- CMP is the largest network of physicians in the entire region, comprised of nearly 1,000 primary and specialty care providers in Erie and Niagara counties.
- With Innovaccer as their latest partner, CMP will have new access to unique, longitudinal patient 360
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MedBridge Partners with Redox to Expand Its Network of EMR Integrations
- MedBridge partners with healthcare integration platform Redox that will allow MedBridge users to quickly create and assign Home Exercise Programs, and more easily document within their EMR, without interrupting their workflow.
- MedBridge EMR integrated clients have already achieved savings of over $4,500 per clinician per year, by reducing five minutes of documentation time per patient.
MedBridge, the industry-leading continuing education and patient engagement solution that enables
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WELL Health Launches VirtualClinic to Deliver Telehealth Across Canada
- WELL Health launches VirtualClinic+ by WELL Health that gives Canadians across the country convenient access to telehealth services.
- VirtualClinic+ provides physicians a platform to add telehealth consultations as a convenient enhancement to their existing family practice. It also allows physicians to offer primary care for unattached patients. There are an estimated 4.8 million Canadians1 who are currently without a family doctor.
- Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, WELL plans to rapidly
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Pager Goes International, Expands Virtual Care Model to Latin America
- Virtual care companion Pager announces its international expansion in Latin America with Seguros SURA Colombia.
- As part of Seguros SURA Colombia´s virtual healthcare model, Pager will deliver a virtual doctor into the family healthcare experience so that patients can seamlessly interact with their care team anytime, anywhere, via chat, voice, and video.
Pager, a virtual care companion that provides a personalized, connected care experience throughout your healthcare journey has
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Pillo Health Launches Population Health Data & Device Manager to Improve Visibility into Home Health Habits
- Pillo Health launches Pillo Remotely, a population health data and device manager to improve engagement and visibility into in-home health habits.
- Pillo Remotely offers versatile configurations to deploy disease-state or population-specific engagement workflows and allows care professionals to schedule interactions that enable patients to better participate in their care plans and treatments.
Pillo Health, a Boston-based
technology company improving longevity and quality of life for
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Blue Shield CA, Accolade Partner to Offer Personalized Health for Self-Funded Employers
- Blue Shield of California and Accolade announced a new partnership to deploy Accolade's personalized health technology + human support to Blue Shield's employer customers.
- By adding Accolade's personalized engagement solution, employers can benefit from proven boosts in program utilization, employee satisfaction, and cost savings.
- The Blue Shield and Accolade offering is available for a January 2021 plan effective date.
Blue Shield
of California and Accolade
today
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DrChrono EHR, Cognition IP Partner to Process 5 Machine Learning-based Patents
- DrChrono partners with Cognition IP to draft and file 5 new patent applications related to the company’s core technologies on machine learning.
- DrChrono patents aimed at helping physicians interact with data via machine learning algorithms in its open healthcare platform.
DrChrono Inc., the company developing the
essential platform and services for modern medical practices to make care more
informed, more interactive, and more personalized, partnered with Cognition
IP, a law firm
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AMA Releases Playbook to Aid Patients with Electronic Access to Medical Records
- American Medical Association (AMA) releases Patient Records Electronic Access Playbook that focuses on dispelling myths around HIPAA and helping physicians and their practices understand their obligations to provide patients with access to their health information.
- Playbook provides best practices including detailed process flows for efficiently providing patients with electronic access to medical records are combined into an authoritative resource.
The American Medical
Association
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