Mercer Health and Benefits LLC and Kurbo Health have formed an alliance provide employers with a proven mobile health coaching and weight loss program created specifically for kids, teens and families. The alliance will combine Mercer's health benefits consulting capabilities and market reach with Kurbo Health’s platform, which combines ease of a mobile app with the proven science of the Stanford’s Pediatric Weight Control Program to help shape healthy eating and physical activity among children
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Caradigm Forms Care Transformation Team to Accelerate Population Health Initiatives
Caradigm, a provider of enterprise population health has announced the formation of a Care Transformation Team dedicated to accelerating the success and outcomes of population health initiatives for providers that employ Caradigm solutions. Recognizing that population health is not a “one size fits all approach,” the Caradigm Care Transformation Team, consisting of clinical experts in population health, will provide deep support and guidance to providers throughout the entire customer engagement
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NY Entrepreneur Launches Educational Hub to Humanize OCD
Today an NY entrepreneur is breaking the silence on his 20 year battle with mental illness to launch IntrusiveThoughts.org, a resource that humanizes the experience of OCD and empower sufferers to live a healthier, happier life. Undiagnosed with Pure Obsessional OCD until his mid-30s, he struggled with violent thoughts until resorting to Google, only to find a grave lack of user-friendly and relatable public mental health resources.
Recognizing the need to change the digital resources
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Health Fidelity Unveils Risk Analytics to Leverage Big Data to Predict Future Claims
Today, UPMC-funded startup Health Fidelity announced the launch of Risk Analytics, a new solution that helps healthcare organizations further improve their risk adjustment performance by optimizing ROI, identifying care gaps, and providing a network-wide view of risk adjustment performance. Now available as a subscription, the new capability enables insurers to better predict prospective claims to help stabilize risk adjustment.
As a complement to the company’s existing HCC Scout solution,
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Medisafe, Nestlé Health Science Integrate to Improve Patient Health
Medisafe®, the personalized mHealth platform for medication management, announced today a new collaboration with Nestlé Health Science, a health science company that is advancing the role of nutritional therapy to improve patient health. The partnership aims to realize the proven benefits of compliance to the proper regimen ofIMPACT ADVANCED RECOVERY Specialized Nutrition Drink to address the unique nutritional needs of major elective surgery patients at risk of infection.
The companies will
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How Digital Health is Opening Up Communication Between Doctors & Patients
Nothing is more important between a doctor and a patient than communication. The more you communicate, the healthier people get and the more knowledgeable doctors become. Without open lines of communication, important details can be missed, patients might put off appointments for too long and trust can’t be built.
Cloud-based patient relationship management (PRM) systems are one of the latest ways for offices and clinics to keep the lines of communication open. This new digital health
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10 Healthcare Analytics Trends to Watch (Infographic)
Infographic created by Perficient illustrates ten key healthcare analytics to watch in 2016 and beyond:
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Health First, HealthLoop Team Up to Enhance Patient Experience
Health First, a Central Florida not-for-profit, integrated delivery network is teaming up with HealthLoop, a patient engagement platform to establish automated communications with their patients, starting with surgeons in the Orthopedic Surgery Department at Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center.
With HealthLoop, Health First patient follow ups will be automated and through text message and email communications. Physicians will be able to deliver timely, condition-specific guidance
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e-MDs Acquires Ambulatory Software Asssets from McKesson to Boost Market Share
Ambulatory EHR provider e-MDs announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire several ambulatory software assets from McKesson Business Performance Services in a move to boost its market share in the ambulatory EHR space. These McKesson assets include McKesson Practice Choice™, Medisoft®, Medisoft® Clinical, Lytec®, Lytec® MD, and Practice Partner®.
"The McKesson team supporting these products is passionate about the same thing we are ─ helping doctors maintain focus on the patient,”
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Welkin Health, Face It TOGETHER Partner to Use Real-Time Data to Transform Addiction Care
Face It TOGETHER and Welkin Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company specializing in patient relationship management, have partnered to improve the care and management of drug and alcohol addiction. The partners will apply evidence-based digital support tools to recovery coaching with the goal of improving outcomes and reducing costs so that more people suffering from addiction can get well and stay well.
The collaboration will focus its efforts initially at Face It TOGETHER’S
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