What You Should Know: - CVS introduced Spoken Rx™, a new feature of the
CVS Pharmacy app that can read important prescription information out loud. It
is vitally important for patient safety and adherence that prescription labels
are clear and visible, but for patients with visual impairments or those who
can’t read standard print labels, that’s not always the case. - Spoken Rx provides an audible label option that reads
important info such as patient name, medication name,
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Backed by Northwell, Conversa Health Raises $12M for AI-Powered Chatbots
What You Should Know: - Conversa Health raises $12 million in Series B funding
round to expand its AI-powered chatbots enabling health systems, payers and pharmaceutical
companies to engage patients and collect patient-generated health data and
patient-reported outcomes. - Conversa plans to use the funding to scale its virtual
care and communication platform—97 percent of patients who have used its chatbots
say they can better manage their care with Conversa. - Murray Brozinsky
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Colorado Health Plan Deploys Texting for COVID-19 Medicaid Outreach for Its Members
What You Should Know: - Colorado
Access has deployed a text message program to its Medicaid members to quickly
distribute basic facts on COVID-19 and health risk information, as well as
resources for people who might be struggling with their mental health during
the pandemic and information on where to get food and unemployment support. - Through
its partnership with Welltok, the health plan sent more than 700,000 texts over
three weeks in English and Spanish. Using Welltok’s data
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Sharecare Acquires Evidence-Based Behavior Change Apps MindSciences
What You Should Know: - Sharecare announced the acquisition of Boston-based MindSciences, an evidence-based behavior change suite of apps focused on mental health (anxiety, stress management), smoking cessation, and weight loss/binge eating, and more. - The acquisition rounds out Sharecare’s portfolio of mHealth-based therapeutic programs improving chronic disease risk and overall health outcomes by targeting varying aspects of well-being. - Based on the work of Dr. Judson Brewer, now
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UnitedHealth Group, Microsoft Launches Free App That Screens Employees for COVID-19 Symptoms
What You Should Know: UnitedHealth Group and Microsoft team up to launch ProtectWell,
a return to workplace protocol that includes a free smartphone app that screens
for COVID-19 symptoms and clears employees for daily work. Backed by CDC guidelines and the latest clinical science,
ProtectWell provides employers a return-to-workplace framework to support the
health and safety of the workforce and workplace. UnitedHealth Group and Microsoft Corp. have joined forces to
launch
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Ginger Acquires Technology Assets of Mental Health App LiveBetter
What You Need to Know: - Ginger has acquired the technology assets of LiveBetter, a company that brings free mental health and well-being support to anyone through a highly engaging, conversational app. - LiveBetter reaches over 10,000 users and continues to reach more individuals every day - young adults, the unemployed, new parents, and the homeless. Ginger, on-demand access to behavioral health coaching, video therapy, video psychiatry, and self-guided content has acquired the
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Fitbit, FibriCheck Expand Partnership to Deliver CE-Marked Heart Health Detection App in Europe
- Fitbit and FibriCheck have expanded their partnership to enable users in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain to monitor their heart rhythm for irregularities, such as Atrial Fibrillation (AFib), directly from their Fitbit smartwatch. - The partnership was first announced in September 2019, when the FibriCheck app was made available to Fitbit smartwatch users in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Since the app launched on Fitbit OS, more than 150,000 heart rhythm measurements have
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Welldoc, Redox Partner for Bidrectional EHR Integration with BlueStar App
- Welldoc and Redox announce a partnership to ensure bidirectional integration with EHR with Welldoc's digital health solution for diabetes management, BlueStar. - This partnership will allow providers to receive and review insights about users of Welldoc's BlueStar digital health app for diabetes management directly within their EHR at the point of care. Welldoc, a digital health
company revolutionizing chronic disease management, announced today its
strategic partnership
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Taxi App Curb Integrates with Ride Health’s Patient Transportation Platform
- Curb and Ride Health partner to coordinate smarter transportation for every patient need, to power non-emergency medical transportation via licensed taxis. - Uber and Lyft provide healthcare organizations with patient transportation services, but hospitals and health plans will soon be able to tap licensed taxis across the country to transport patients to and from medical appointments. Curb, a New-York City-based leading mobility platform for licensed taxi and for-hire rides in North
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Sharecare Integrates App-Based Tobacco Cessation Program into Digital Health Platform
- Sharecare integrates MindSciences’ mindfulness-based smoking cessation program called Craving to Quit into their digital health platform. - The Craving to Quit program targets the neurological function that enables habit formation to instead lead the user to curb tobacco use. Sharecare, the digital health
company that helps people manage all their health in one place, and MindSciences, the leader in
evidence-based behavior change apps, today announced a partnership to
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