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Study Reveals Texts Messages Engage, Activate Medicaid Members

by Jasmine Pennic 07/07/2016 Leave a Comment

Study Reveals Texts Messages Engage, Activate Medicaid Members

Study findings released this week reveal interactive, two-way text messages has a positive impact on engagement, knowledge base, activation, and ultimately resource utilization among Medicaid members. Conducted by CA-based Inland Empire Health Plan in partnership with mPulse Mobile, the study’s results are encouraging given CDC data released last month noting a rise in ED utilization with Medicaid/CHIP accounting for 25% of all ED visits.As Medicaid-centric health plans including IEHP grow,
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Validic Integrates Patient-Generated Data with SAP Connected Health Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 07/06/2016 Leave a Comment

Validic Digital Health Platform

Digital health integration platform Validic has announced a strategic partnership with SAP to integrate patient-generated data into the SAP Connected Health platform. Through this strategic relationship, Validic will enable SAP and its global healthcare clients the opportunity to scale the access patient data from clinical devices, wearables and consumer health apps. Validic-SAP Patient Generated Data IntegrationValidic's digital health platform, delivering access to health insights from over
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How Virtual Reality Can Improve Patient Experience in Healthcare

by Jasmine Pennic 06/30/2016 Leave a Comment

Cedars-Sinai Unveils Therapeutic Virtual Reality to Enhance Patient Experience

Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Samsung. The global market for Virtual Reality (VR) in healthcare is projected to reach $3.8 billion by 2020 driven by technology advancements in healthcare IT, which would undoubtedly expand its use into more diverse applications and medical disciplines while also increasing the demand for rehabilitation and simulation VR-training in hospitals and clinics.  VR technology continues to gain ground and visibility as a potential diagnostic tool in the form
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Medsphere Systems and ChartLogic Merge to Create Integrated Health IT Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 06/28/2016 Leave a Comment

Medsphere OpenVista EHR

 Medsphere Systems Corporation and ChartLogic, Inc., today announced that they have executed a definitive agreement to merge the two companies. Financial details of merger were not disclosed. The merger will help expand Medsphere’s existing enterprise healthcare IT products and services to include ChartLogic’s proven ambulatory EHR, practice management and medical billing solutions. As part of the merger, ChartLogic will retain its name and operate as a division of Medsphere. Founded in 1994,
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Behavioral Telehealth Startup AbilTo Taps Rob Rebak as New CEO

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AbilTo, a provider of behavioral telehealth programs proven to improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs has appointed Rob Rebak as its new Chief Executive Officer. In his new role as CEO, Mr. Rebak will be responsible for shaping the vision and strategy of AbilTo going forward, as well as for building upon the company's history of clinical innovation and strong performance.Rob Rebak Background/ExperienceA 25-year healthcare industry veteran, Rebak brings a broad range of strategic and
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NIH Awards $2.3M Grant to Develop Disease Diagnosis App, FeverPhone

by Jasmine Pennic 06/27/2016 Leave a Comment

FeverPhone

The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded to Cornell a four-year, $2.3 million four-year grant to develop FeverPhone, an portable disease diagnosis kit. Once developed, the FeverPhone will provide real-time, rapid and accurate diagnosis using a drop of blood to differentiate and identify specific pathogens for six febrile diseases in the field: dengue, malaria, chikungunya, typhoid fever, leptospirosis and Chagas’
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Google, Mayo Clinic, Harvard Team Up for Easy Symptom Search

by Jasmine Pennic 06/24/2016 Leave a Comment

Google, Mayo Clinic, Harvard Team Up for Easy Symptom Search

 Roughly 1 percent of searches on Google are symptom related. Starting  this week, when consumers access Google’s mobile search for information about certain symptoms, they will quick, accurate facts on relevant related medical conditions up front on their smartphone or other mobile device.Announced in a blog post by Veronica Pinchin, a product manager on Google's search team, the goal of the new symptom search feature allows consumers to quickly explore and navigate health conditions related to
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XPrize, IBM Watson Launch $5M Artificial Intelligence Competition

by Jasmine Pennic 06/24/2016 Leave a Comment

XPRIZE has teamed up with IBM Watson to launch IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, a $5 million, four-year global competition challenging teams to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to tackle the world’s greatest challenges.The $5M prize will focus on creating scalable AI apps that benefit consumers and businesses across a multitude of disciplines including healthcare, education, energy & environment, global development and
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Jamaica Hospital Launches Pilot for Virtual National Diabetes Prevention Program

by Jasmine Pennic 06/23/2016 Leave a Comment

Noom Health

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center (JHMC) has announced a pilot program to offer a virtual National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP) platform to 66k New Yorkers. The program will deploy mobile coaching platform Noom to provide a user-centric, mobile coaching experience that engages and empowers individuals achieve their health goals and effortlessly monitor their progress in real time via their smartphone.With more than five million people in New York with prediabetes, Jamaica sought out a
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StartUp Health, Aurora Health Calls for Startups to Create a Personalized Population Health Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 06/23/2016 Leave a Comment

StartUp Health and Aurora Health Care

StartUp Health, global entrepreneurship development company investing in the world’s largest community of healthcare transformers, and Aurora Health Care, a leading not-for-profit health care system has announced an innovation for digital health startups to integrate into a personalized population health platform. The population health platform is intended to provide targeted care to Aurora’s patient population and the surrounding community, and could be applied to patients using the Medicaid
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