PeerWell, whose mobile PreHab technology helps patients prepare for surgery, has announced the launch of an extension of its platform to assist patients through post-operative recovery. PeerWell’s platform now starts with PreHab to prepare patients for surgery and continues with ReHab to enable patients to recover from surgery. PeerWell’s PreHab to ReHab solution will first roll out for patients undergoing joint replacement surgery for the hip or knee.PeerWell collaborated with retired NFL star
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Castlight Health Acquires Enterprise Health Benefits Platform Jiff
Health benefits platform provider Castlight Health has acquired employee digital health platform Jiff to form a single company offer the most comprehensive health benefits platform in the industry. The combined company will expand product offering and distribution channels that will accelerate growth on a larger revenue base serving more than 240 customers, including over 70 of the Fortune 500. This marks the first digital health acquisition of 2017.Based in Mountain View, CA, Jiff serves as a
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SnapMD Joins athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ Program
Telemedicine technology innovator SnapMD has joined athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ (MDP) program to offer its private-label, cloud-based telemedicine platform available on the athenahealth® Marketplace. A comprehensive telemedicine offering, SnapMD will now be integrated with athenaClinicals® (EHR) and athenaCollector® (revenue cycle management) services. The end-to-end VCM platform enables a network of more than 85,000 healthcare providers to offer telehealth services to their
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WellDoc, American Association of Diabetes Educators Partner on Digital Diabetes Content
WellDoc and the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) has partnered to integrate its “AADE Diabetes Education Curriculum: A Guide to Successful Self-Management” into WellDoc's BlueStar digital therapeutic platform. BlueStar is an FDA-cleared digital therapeutic used to help adults living with type 2 diabetes self-manage their condition. Additionally, both parties will explore how to collectively engage AADE’s members, as well as develop new strategies that bring innovative tools to
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Vocera Communication Lands $14M Contract with U.S. Department of Defense
Vocera Communications, Inc., a provider of clinical communications system in healthcare has been awarded a $14 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and deployments will begin in January 2017 in U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) facilities around the world. As part of the contract, Vocera will equip care team members with its unique wireless, hands-free communication solution in 23 facilities across MEDCOM. This agreement with the DoD marks the largest contract in Vocera’s
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EarlySense, American Well Partner to Power Telehealth Access via Smart Sensors
EarlySense, a provider of contact-free continuous monitoring solutions has teamed up with telehealth provider American Well to connect users with clinical experts at the click of a button. As part of the partnership, EarlySense users located in the United States will gain access to an extensive pool of clinical experts and be able to initiate consultation sessions with doctors practicing on Amwell whenever users have questions or see opportunities to improve their sleep or general health. This
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Qardio Unveils First Medical Grade ECG Monitor, QardioCore
Digital health company Qardio has unveils its first medical grade wearable ECG monitor, QardioCore, now available for pre-order. Priced at $449, QardioCore's first wearable medical electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG) monitor allowing users to proactively look after their heart health long-term, all without the need for wires or patches. Packed with proprietary sensor technology, QardioCore records more than 20 million data points, streaming the user's live medical-grade data to their smartphones.How It
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Vocera Appoints Benjamin Kanter, MD, as Chief Medical Information Officer
Vocera Communications, Inc. has named Benjamin Kanter, MD, FCCP, as the new Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) to lead the company's physician-nurse communication. Prior to joining Vocera, Dr. Kanter worked as an industry consultant and thought leader with innovative healthcare IT companies, including Extension Healthcare, where he was the CMIO. In 2013, while the CMIO of Palomar Health in San Diego, Dr. Kanter worked with Extension Healthcare to create a reverse look-up smartphone app
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2 Cerner Qatar Hospitals Earns HIMSS Stage 6 Accreditation
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics has recently announced that two Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) facilities, the Heart Hospital and the National Center for Cancer Care and Research (NCCCR), have achieved the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM) Stage 6 distinction, an international benchmark for the use of advanced IT to improve patient care.HMC’s Heart Hospital and NCCCR are the first two hospitals in Qatar to achieve
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UnitedHealthcare, Qualcomm Integrates Fitbit Charge 2 Wearables for Wellness Program
UnitedHealthcare and Qualcomm has announced the expansion of UnitedHealthcare Motion™, a wellness program that provides employees with Fitbit Charge 2 at no additional charge and enables them to earn up to $1,500 per year by meeting certain goals for the number of daily steps.The two companies introduced UnitedHealthcare Motion in 2016 as a pilot in 12 states to select employers, using Qualcomm Life’s 2net™ Platform* for medical-grade connectivity that features multiple safeguards to help keep
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