More than two years since its launch, pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) CVS Caremark’s Transform Diabetes Care program has helped PBM members better control their diabetes through a combination of highly personalized member support and coaching focused on improving medication adherence and better control of HbA1c. In fact, more than 50 percent of members with uncontrolled diabetes who enrolled in the program have moved to a controlled status and, on average, members have improved HbA1c by 1.2
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XLerateHealth Unveils 2019 Louisville Cohort of 9 Digital Health Startups
XLerateHealth, a Louisville, KY-based healthcare accelerator announced it has selected nine digital health startups to participate in its 2019 Louisville accelerator cohort. This is the 8th cohort to be selected into the bootcamp program since XLH’s launch in 2013.XLerateHealth (XLH) Accelerator Program OverviewThe accelerator’s 12-week intensive program will help the early-stage healthcare companies build out their commercialization strategy, which includes their intersection with Payers,
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Q&A: Scott Nordlund Shares Banner Health’s Approach to Healthcare Innovation
Banner Health’s Chief Strategy & Growth Officer Scott Nordlund shares their approach to achieving healthcare innovation with their Banner Innovation Group (BIG).
It may only be comprised of staff members, but Banner Health’s BIG (Banner Innovation Group) has immense goals. Launched in May, BIG was created to engage with partners in healthcare and other fields—such as technology, academia, and venture capital—to rethink every part of the health care system, in all
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What Is The Upside of Establishing Extended Reality As A Medical Device?
XR stands for extended reality. Basically, it's an umbrella term covering the VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality), and MR (mixed reality) technologies. All three are already involved or will be involved in healthcare. In the very near future, you will be able to “swipe” between all three within an application. Different combinations of the technologies will be used to provide specific health benefits, eventually all within a single platform.
It is sometimes hard to explain to people
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Virtual Care Provider WellStart Health Joins Blue Shield of California’s New Digital and Community-Health Network
WellStart Health's digital program helps improve outcomes for members with diabetes, hypertension and obesity, at no cost to Blue Shield members.WellStart Health has been selected to be part of Blue Shield of California's Wellvolution, its new digital and community-health based lifestyle medicine network, which delivers clinically proven health-management and wellness resources to help people holistically manage their health to prevent, treat and even reverse disease.Blue Shield of California's
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Google Nest to Provide Up to 100k Google Home Minis to People Living With Paralysis
In celebration of the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Christopher & Dana Reeve
Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to improving quality of life for people
living with paralysis, announced a partnership with Google
Nest to improve independence for the greater paralysis community. As part
of the partnership, Google Nest is providing up to 100,000 free Google
Home Minis through the Reeve Foundation for individuals and families
impacted by paralysis, to enhance
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Rite Aid Launches Telehealth Kiosks With RediClinic Express in Pennsylvania
Rite Aid Corporation has announced the launch of RediClinic Express, in partnership with InTouch Health, a leading telehealth company that offers telehealth kiosks stations. As part of the partnership, Rite Aid will leverage InTouch Health's virtual care software platform, Solo by InTouch, to power the virtual health program to connect patients to clinicians via RediClinic Express kiosks located in Rite Aid stores. Patients will be able to speak with RediClinic clinicians directly via a
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Tele-ICU: Advancing from Triple Aim to Quad Aim with Improved Critical Care Team Satisfaction
Tele-ICU is increasingly being recognized for its ability to improve the satisfaction of high-acuity care teams, which can ultimately impact the ability to enhance patient outcomes.
Since 2007, hospitals and healthcare systems in the U.S. have been driving toward a common set of goals: The Triple Aim. This model broadly calls for enhancing the patient experience, improving population health, and reducing the per capita cost of healthcare. This capstone objective for the healthcare system was
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Mayo Clinic to Leverage Viome’s Microbiome Analysis Platform in Study to Help Understand Sleep and Obesity
Mayo Clinic is collaborating on a study with Viome, a company transforming health through personalized nutrition based on individual biology to better understand the role of nutrition in disease and to explore the potential of Viome's AI-driven personalized diets in helping manage sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and obesity.
Understanding Microbiome
A person’s microbiome is the entire collection of microbes living in and on the body. The microbiome forms a living layer over your skin
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UK Startup Flow Raises $1.5M for Brain Stimulation Headset, Therapy App
Flow, a London-based medical device startup using a brain stimulation headset and therapy app to treat depression has raised $1.5 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures. In Europe, Flow has been approved as a Class II medical device intended for use as a treatment for depression – and is the first approved treatment of its kind in Europe available to buy and use at home. The investment will be used to support Flow’s European rollout, introduce Flow to healthcare clinics, and fund
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