mHealth Apps ($2.7B), wearables ($1.6B), telemedicine ($1.5B), data analytics ($1.4B), scheduling/appointment booking ($1.2B), clinical decision support ($998M), wellness ($889M), mobile/wireless ($885M), and practice management solutions ($818M) is the top funded health IT technologies since 2010, according to Mercom's Annual and Q4 2016 Healthcare IT Funding and M&A Fact Sheet. Mercom’s comprehensive report covers healthcare IT and digital health deals of all sizes across the globe.Since
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Walmart Adds Easy Refills, Express Lanes to App Features for Pharmacy Customers
Walmart today announced new capabilities in the Walmart app that create a more convenient shopping experience for Pharmacy and Money Services customers. Walmart also announced the implementation of a new store experience that allows customers to skip traditional service lines using “Express Lanes” in these areas. These changes will become available starting in March and are anticipated to be available in nearly all of Walmart’s 4,700 stores by fall.Details on each new app feature include:
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Welltok: 4 Strategies to Improve Employee Health Engagement
Welltok announced findings around the value of employee wellness program engagement. The research confirms that employee health and well-being programs are not only good for employees, but for the company’s bottom line. According to the research, an employer group with 10,000 employees could drive almost $3 million in annual new value by increasing engagement by 10 percent in key health activities among employees and dependents. High value activities include better management of chronic
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RegimenMD, SkyMD Partner to Create End-to-End Telehealth, Dispensing Platform
RegimenMD and SkyMD announced that they established a strategic alliance to integrate their technologies and create an end-to-end platform to blend telehealth, dispensing and patient education. This integration provides both doctors and their patients an integrated telehealth experience. This includes everything from online consultation, diagnosis, treatment, dispensing of skincare products and continuity of care.The RegimenMD – SkyMD alliance empowers doctors to see patients on a more
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Report: 58% of Patients Finds Two-Way At-Home Monitoring Devices Useful
58% of patients believe two-way, at-home monitoring devices are very useful to interact with their healthcare provider than a more basic one-way at-home device, according to a report from West. The report, Strengthening Chronic Care reveals while (50%) of patients feel an at-home medical device that measures their health using sensors and sends information back to providers for an evaluation would be extremely beneficial, nearly three in five believe a two-way at-home medical device that allows
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Evidation Health, Shepherd Center Partner to Measure Real-Life Experiences of People with Neurological Conditions
Shepherd Center, a private, not-for-profit hospital specializing in medical treatment, research and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury or brain injury has announced a collaboration with Evidation Health. The collaboration will measure the real-life experiences of people with neurological diseases and injuries, as well as the impact of digital health interventions on clinical and economic outcomes.Collaboration DetailsThe initial goal of the partnership is to help quantify the
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Survey: 87% of Patients Believed Provider Access to Their Full Medical History Is Vital to Personalized Care
87% of patients believed provider access to their full medical history Is vital to personalized care, according to a new digital health survey released today by Transcend Insights, a population health management company. The report reveals that in the era of digital health, patients have very high expectations for medical information sharing, but they may not be aware of the health care industry’s current limitations. To gather these and other insights, Transcend Insights conducted an online
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Validic Integrates Personal Health Data into Salesforce CRM and HealthCloud
Digital health integration platform Validic has announced integration with Salesforce Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to securely view patient-generated health data. With this integration, care teams can now manage their patient population with near real-time data from over 400 personal health devices—creating more connected, personalized touchpoints with patients driven by actionable insights and clean data visualization.Integration DetailsTransforming the way providers service,
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CloudMine, Redox to Optimize Secure Sharing of Healthcare Data in the Cloud
CloudMine, a secure, cloud-based platform that enables healthcare organizations to build connected digital health apps has partnered with Redox, a cloud-based healthcare integration and API services to enable users to seamlessly connect to many clinical systems while keeping data secure in the cloud. The digital health developers, and various healthcare organizations who use CloudMine need to access and share data with EHR systems using a modern and streamlined API. Redox does just that, acting
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Teladoc Integrates Telehealth App With Kinsa Smart Thermometer
Teladoc and Kinsa has expanded their partnership by integrating Teladoc’s app with the Kinsa Smart Thermometer to further drive engagement, quality and value in telehealth. With this integration, the Teladoc app automatically detects the Kinsa app on a user’s mobile phone, guides the user to Kinsa, and offers the option to import up to 10 days of temperature readings into the Teladoc platform.Upon opt-in, the data is integrated into the Teladoc physician’s view of the health record, supporting
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