Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross) today announced that it is partnering with Sharecare, the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, to offer its personalized health platform to Blue Cross commercial customer groups and members starting in 2019. This partnership will provide exclusivity to Blue Cross as the only Minnesota-based plan to offer the Sharecare platform.As part of the agreement, Sharecare will serve as the foundation for Blue
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SnapMD Launches Patient Presenter Workflow Capabilities
Today, SnapMD, the full-service enterprise telehealth technology innovator and solutions provider, launched a new Patient Presenter Workflow functionality within its Virtual Care Management (VCM) telehealth platform. The new provider interface seat type is a fast and easy means to bring care to patients in a wide variety of settings. Whether it’s a virtual consult for a child at school, advice to caregivers for a patient in hospice, or a specialist consult from a patient’s bedside, the VCM
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Qventus Lands $30M to Expand AI Platform for Hospital Operations
Qventus, a hospital operations management solution for health systems that leverages artificial intelligence (AI), announced that it has secured $30M in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital as well as existing investors Mayfield Fund and Norwest Venture Partners. The funding comes at a time when health systems are struggling to provide services to their communities at sustainable margins. The company, which has now raised over
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How the Internet of Things is Revolutionizing Medical Adherence
Every day, doctors and medical researchers are challenged to find new, improved drugs and courses of treatment for chronic disease. But, what if the answer to improving health outcomes for many patients was simpler than developing new drugs? What if it was as simple as ensuring more patients stick to their treatment regimens?Medical non-adherence is a massive challenge all over the world. According to the World Health Organization, half of patients in long-term treatment for chronic illnesses
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Philips and Emory Healthcare Launch Remote Intensive Care Monitoring Program in Australia
Today, Philips and Emory Healthcare have announced the launch of a (eICU) remote intensive care monitoring program based at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia. Through this program, Emory Healthcare will use advanced technology that enables clinicians to monitor multiple critically ill patients remotely, alert ICU staff to any issues and ensure early intervention to improve outcomes. Based on the successes of a pilot program Emory Healthcare ran out of Sydney in 2016, this partnership is
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AHRQ Report: Mobile Apps Have Little Clinical Evidence of Improving Diabetes for Patients
A new report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on mobile phone applications for diabetes patients reveals that out of hundreds of commercially available apps, only 11 had been researched, and of these, only five were associated with clinically significant improvements in levels of blood sugar control as measured by hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) tests.Report OverviewAHRQ-funded researchers sought to understand the effectiveness of roughly 280 apps that may be used to support
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Philips Acquires Sleep Apnea Wearable Nightbalance to Expand its Sleep & Respiratory Care Portfolio
Philips announced that it has acquired NightBalance, a Netherlands-based digital health startup that has developed a sleep apnea wearable that is used to treat positional obstructive sleep apnea and positional snoring. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a serious disorder in which breathing pauses and re-starts during sleep. Common symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome are snoring and excessive tiredness during the daytime.When most of these pauses in breathing occur when you lie on your
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Reimbursify Launches New App for Out-of-Network Reimbursement Claims
Reimbursify, a healthcare-focused technology company providing app-centric solutions for consumers, healthcare providers & businesses has launched a new app that gives patients a quick and easy way to file out-of-network reimbursement claims with their insurance company in less than 60 seconds. Users can also monitor their current, pending, and past claims from the app. Reimbursify is currently being used by patients in 21 states as well as Puerto Rico."Visits to healthcare providers who
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Alphabet and Michael J. Fox Foundation Team Up to Use Verily Study Watch to Research Parkinson’s Disease
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) and Verily Life Sciences LLC, an Alphabet company has announced a new collaboration on a two-year sub-study in Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative will include Verily Study Watch to add new dimension of health data. More than 800 participants will be equipped with Verily's multi-sensor investigational wearable device, to passively collect data on movement and physiologic and environmental measures continuously. The goal is to
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Medibio Launches Mental Health Measurement App for Apple Watch
Medibio Limited, a world leader in objective measurement technology for mental health, announced today the release of a personal, mental health measurement technology app for Apple Watch users.With the Medibio app, Apple Watch users will be able to capture and process specific biometric features that reflect the performance of the body's autonomic nervous system (ANS) to create an objective view of their mental health.Users have the ability use the Medibio app in conjunction with Apple Watch
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