Iron Bow Technologies, a provider of technology solutions and services has partnered with remote patient monitoring platform provider Vivify Health to deliver scalable in-home telehealth services. As part of the partnership, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded the company a $258M VA Home Telehealth contract to improve Veterans access to quality remote healthcare.Iron Bow is one of the four companies awarded the contract which also include Care Innovations, LLC, Medtronic
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WEGO Health Unveils On-Demand Digital Matching Platform to Connect Healthcare Companies with Patient Leaders
Over the past decade, patient community platform WEGO Health has steadily built the world’s largest network of health experts and patient influencers. Today, the company unveiled WEGO Health Experts, the first on-demand digital matching platform to pair health care organizations with influential patient leaders who are part of the growing sharing economy. The platform is designed to eliminate the barriers companies face when trying to find patients with the time, skills and expertise to consult
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Mayo Clinic Backs Virtual Nurse Engagement Platform Sense.ly, Raises $8M in Series B Funding
Sense.ly, a virtual nurse platform for patient engagement and chronic disease monitoring has raised $8 million in a Series B round of funding, led by Chengwei Capital with participation from Mayo Clinic, Bioved Ventures, Fenox Venture Capital and the Stanford StartX fund. The company plans to utilize the funding to expand the platform to better serve clinicians and patients including its presence in the US, UK, and international markets. Virtual Nurse Engagement Platform OverviewPatients sign up
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Practice Fusion Unveils EHR-Integrated Post-Marketing Active Safety Surveillance Program
EHR provider Practice Fusion has unveiled a first of its kind post-marketing active safety surveillance program within its EHR platform. The new active safety surveillance program can help facilitate Adverse Events of Special Interest (AESI) reporting by messaging healthcare providers directly at the point of care about AESIs their patients may have experienced during the course of therapy.Post-Marketing Active Safety Surveillance Program BenefitsThe post-marketing active safety surveillance
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360ofme Joins NATE to Strengthen Consumer Control of Data
The National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE) has welcomed its newest member, 360ofme. 360ofme is an online solution that enables consumers to regain control of their digital assets, allowing them to manage, share and act on powerful insights that are surfaced utilizing a person’s digital data.360ofme is a new platform that provides consumers with portability, ubiquity and insights from their digital life. From healthcare to financial and insurance to automotive and home, 360ofme
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ClearDATA Unveils CaaS Solution to Securely Host Apps with Patient Health Info
Managed cloud provider ClearDATA has unveiled the first fully-managed Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution to help health IT and DevOps teams quickly and securely deploy individual applications in a HIPAA-compliant cloud.The ongoing security maintenance of applications, whether in testing or production mode, is a frequent burden to healthcare organizations and digital health companies, especially when protected health information is at stake. To assist these companies, ClearDATA, an AWS
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Yale New Haven Taps Reflexion Health to Offer In-Home Virtual Exercise Rehab Program
Yale New Haven Hospital’s (YNHH) Center for Musculoskeletal Care (CMC) has partnered with digital health startup Reflexion Health Inc. to deliver New England’s first in-home virtual exercise rehabilitation program starting this month.The rehab program is designed to help YNHH patients recover more easily, quickly and efficiently from joint replacement surgery via an FDA-cleared Virtual Exercise Rehabilitation Assistant called VERA™. Additionally, recognizing that post-acute care (PAC) costs
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CareSkore Unveils Population Health Management as a Service App (PHMaaS )
CareSkore, a provider of end-to-end personalized population health management, announced today the release of its Population Health Management as a ServiceTM (PHMaaSTM), providing direct access to its extensive machine-learning analytics engine to 3rd-party applications through an API.“PHMaaS completely changes the game for how organizations adopt population health management,” said Jaspinder Grewal, CEO of CareSkore. “We have too many proprietary application interfaces in health care. PHMaaS
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Accenture: 78% of Consumers Are Interested in Receiving Virtual Healthcare Services
More than three-quarters (78 percent) of consumers say they’d be interested in receiving virtual healthcare services, but only one in five (21 percent) have had the opportunity to receive services in this way, according to a new survey from Accenture. The Accenture survey of 1,501 U.S. consumers reveals that growing consumer demand for virtual healthcare services is putting increasing pressure on providers and payers to expand delivery options for on-demand health services. The research
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Propeller Health, Novartis Partner to Develop Custom Add-On Sensor for Breezhaler Inhahler
Propeller Health and Novartis Pharma are collaborating to develop a custom add-on sensor for the Breezhaler inhahler, a device used for the company’s portfolio of COPD treatments (UltibroTM BreezhalerTM, OnbrezTM BreezhalerTM and SeebriTM BreezhalerTM), integrating these medications into Propeller’s digital health platform in Europe. The partnership reinforces Propeller’s position as the leading platform in respiratory digital health and position as the partner of choice for major respiratory
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