- Livongo announced a partnership with telehealth companies MDLIVE and Doctor On Demand to enable access to virtual acute and primary care services for people living with chronic conditions. - Livongo will begin by offering telehealth within the Livongo for Behavioral Health solution in January 2020 and will soon expand to additional use cases including medication management for diabetes, hypertension, and other opportunities to effectively close gaps in care. Livongo Health, an Applied Health
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care.ai, NVIDIA Partner for AI-Enabled Autonomous Patient Monitoring
- care.ai and NVIDIA announced a collaboration to provide an artificial intelligence-powered autonomous patient monitoring in healthcare leveraging NVIDIA’S platform. - The collaboration brings together care.ai’s autonomous monitoring solution and NVIDIA’s Jetson platform to help healthcare systems improve patient safety and staff efficacy.care.ai, a healthcare AI innovator, announces today its collaboration with NVIDIA to transform how healthcare is delivered. care.ai’s cutting edge end-to-end
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Uber Integrates With Cerner EHR To Enable Clinicians to Order Ride Requests for Patients
- Uber and Cerner announce a partnership that will integrate Uber’s non-emergency transportation solution with Cerner’s EHR system. - The new integration will enable providers to order ride requests for patients to help reduce transportation barriers.Today, Uber Health and Cerner announced that the two companies will work together to help reduce transportation barriers that can lead to delayed care, poor management of chronic conditions and declining health outcomes for patients. With this
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ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte Launches New Digital Health Ecosystem Platforms
- ConvergeHEALTH MyPATH for Health and MyPATH for Connected Care help enhance the patient experience, improve adherence and generate a rich, longitudinal, real-world data set for insights.Today at HLTH 2019, ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte announced the launch of a robust platform for the healthcare ecosystem that supports two critically important patient journeys. MyPATH for Health and MyPATH for Connected Care work together to connect and support patients and their care teams across the patient
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Sun Genomics Delivers Personalized Probiotics In Only 6 Weeks to Address Gut Health Issues
- Sun Genomics launches personalized probiotic solution to identify and address individual gut health issues to improve the health of millions of Americans. - Solution delivers precise probiotic formula required for each person to address their own unique gut health issues in just six weeks. - Sun Genomics Floré includes a kit to collect a micro-stool sample, a full microbiome analysis report, and a 90-day supply of precision probiotics.Sun Genomics today launched the first customized
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How to Build A Tech-Enabled Flu Immunization Program That Works
While the weather is warm, preventing the flu is usually not top of mind for most healthcare consumers. But for health plans, it’s never too early to start planning for the impending 2019-2020 season. Ideally, people will be vaccinated in the early fall, allowing sufficient time to build antibodies before the season is in full swing.
One of the challenges faced by health plans is designing a flu immunization program that addresses the low vaccination rates for adults in the U.S. Among adults
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Cognoa Launches Pivotal Study of Diagnostic Aid for Autism
- Cognoa launches a pivotal study to demonstrate the effectiveness of its diagnostic aid for autism spectrum disorder (ASD).- The results of this pivotal study will be the basis for the submission to the FDA in 2020. - The Cognoa digital diagnostic aid has the potential to become the first cleared medical device to help diagnose autism intended to be used by pediatricians and primary care physicians.Cognoa, a Palo Alto, CA-based pediatric behavioral health company developing digital medicines,
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Google and care.ai Launches Autonomous Monitoring for Hospitals
- Google collaborates with a new company, care.ai to bring autonomous monitoring capabilities of self-driving cars to hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare facilities to prevent patient falls, bedsores, protocol violations, etc.- care.ai uses Google’s Coral TPU to turn every room in a facility to a “Self Aware Room,” its active learning neural networks and edge sensors can predict and prevent potentially fatal mishaps for patients in a clinical setting.care.ai, a healthcare AI innovator,
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How Value-Based Care is Changing the Way You Build Digital Health Companies
After years of talk, fee-for-service payment models are finally being challenged in a real way. With value-based care, providers are reimbursed based on patient health outcomes rather than the number of patients they see, which has begun to pass the burden of cost from insurers and employers to providers and patients.
Fundamentally, value-based care requires vendors as well as providers to operate differently, but new revenue models and a new approach to hiring deserve special consideration. In
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AppliedVR Awarded $2.9M Grants to Study Virtual Reality As An Opioid-Sparing Treatment
- AppliedVR awarded more than $2.9M in NIDA grants to support clinical trials to study virtual reality platforms as an opioid-sparing tool for acute and chronic pain. - The grants will enable the company to advance two clinical trial programs respectively with Geisinger and Cleveland Clinic.AppliedVR, a Los Angeles, CA-based next generation of digital medicine announced that it has been awarded two multi-year grants totaling more than $2.9 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse
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