BaseHealth, a healthcare-focused predictive analytics company has teamed up with health and wellness company TriVita to launch a new personalized wellness program at scale for consumers. Through the partnership, BaseHealth’s comprehensive assessments will power TriVita Shield, a new personalized wellness program. BaseHealth claims this marks the first time that predictive analytics for healthcare is available to consumers at scale. Wellness Program OverviewThe TriVita Shield wellness program
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Accenture Intelligent Patient Platform Integrates with Salesforce Health Cloud
Accenture has teamed up with Salesforce to integrate its Accenture Intelligent Patient Platform with Salesforce Health Cloud, giving life science and healthcare providers the ability to deliver a personalized patient experience. The Salesforce Health Cloud integration gives life sciences companies and healthcare providers the ability to support more informed patient decisions, help increase patient engagement across their caregiver networks, and more efficiently manage patient data.The Accenture
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Canary Health Acquires Mobile Stress Management Company bLife
Digital health self management company Canary Health(formerly DPS Health), announced it has acquired mobile stress management company, bLife, to round out its self-management suite that includes a CDC-recognized Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) and the chronic disease online workshops from Stanford University's Patient Education Research Center. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition, bLife co-founder Paul Campbell has joined the senior management team
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Accenture: Top 5 Digital Health Trends Show the Power of People
Every year, the Technology Vision team partners with Accenture Research to pinpoint the emerging IT developments that will have the greatest impact on companies, government agencies and other organizations in the next three to five years.The research process began during 2015 with gathering inputs from the Technology Vision External Advisory Board, a group comprising more than two dozen experienced individuals from the public and private sectors, academia, venture capital and entrepreneurial
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Anthem Unveils New Health Innovation Studio in Atlanta
This week, Anthem Inc. unveiled its new health Innovation Studio in midtown Atlanta’s Technology Square. The 6,500 square feet studio will house a multi-disciplinary team focused on creating new digital health solutions to enhance the consumer health care experience, improve the quality of care, and lower health care costs.The Innovation Studio work will focus on further advancing Anthem’s three strategic pillars: I. consumer experienceII. managing the cost of careIII. Provider
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Johnson & Johnson, HP Partner to Create 3D Printing Solutions for Personalized Care
Johnson & Johnson and HP Inc. has announced a collaboration to use 3D printing technologies to create better health care outcomes at reduced costs. Together, both companies plan to combine their scientific, clinical, material science and technological expertise, and deep insights to develop products and solutions which can be manufactured quickly and customized to the needs of an individual patient or consumer. Collaboration DetailsThe collaboration will focus on personalization of
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Fitbit Acquires Wearable Payment Assets from Digital Wallet Coin
Connected health and fitness market Fitbit Inc. has acquired wearable payment assets of digital wallet startup Coin. The deal includes key personnel and intellectual property specific to Coin’s wearables payment platform. Currently, Fitbit states it has no plans to integrate Coin’s wearable payments technology into the 2016 Fitbit product roadmap. The acquisition also excludes Coin's 2.0 "universal card" solution. The company wrote on its blog that "Coin will no longer sell its line of smart
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PokitDok Unveils 3 New Pharmacy APIs for Real-Time Digital Access
Healthcare API platform startup PokitDok has unveiled a new suite of pharmacy APIs to bring quick data access prior to writing prescriptions and sending patients to pick them up. Starting today, physicians, EMRs and other digital innovators can have a consolidated view of patient prescription plans, qualified formularies, in-network pharmacies, and related financial information.Lack of Real-Time IntegrationWhile hospitals and medical practices maintain EHRs to house patient health history, the
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SAP, Dell, Intel Team Up to Deliver Personalized Care through Actionable Insights.
This week during SAP Sapphire NOW, Dell has announce an optimized architecture for SAP Foundation for Health, which is built in collaboration with Intel and SAP. The collaboration will offer a clear path to analytics value and personalized medicine for organizations in health, life science, and other industries.With patient care, first time accuracy, speed and reliability as top requirements in the medical field, this architecture enables healthcare organizations to analyze large amounts of
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American Well Unveils Supply & Demand Telehealth Exchange Platform: 6 Things to Know
National telehealth provider American Well, today has unveiled its newest enterprise telehealth service called the Exchange allowing healthcare organizations the ability to redistribute their services online to new patient populations. Here are six key things to know about the new Exchange: 1. With the Exchange, the virtual barriers between the supply and demand generators and their distinct telehealth services are lifted. Now, these organizations can connect and exchange their services with
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