In 2017, Cigna announced it is expanding its telehealth coverage with the addition of virtual consults from American Well to its existing offerings of MDLIVE. The latest offering will support Cigna's employer-sponsored group health plans, as well as many of its individual health plans on and off public marketplace exchanges.Both services operate national networks of board-certified doctors that are able to treat minor medical conditions such as allergies, cold and flu and sinusitis via
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Aetna Launches Apple Watch Subsidy Program for Select Customers
Starting this fall, Aetna will make Apple Watch available to select large employers and individual customers during open enrollment season. As part of the consumer health experience, Aetna will subsidize a significant portion of the Apple Watch cost, offering monthly payroll deductions to make covering the remaining cost easier.In addition, Aetna plans to provide Apple Watch at no cost to its own nearly 50,000 employees, who will participate in the company’s wellness reimbursement program, to
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Medable Launches Axon to Build ResearchKit Apps Without a Developer
Medable, a Palo Alto-based healthcare app and analytics platform, today announced the launch of Axon, a SmartStudy system that enables health experts--researchers, physicians, and others--to build ResearchKit apps without a developer in a matter of hours. By leveraging ResearchKit's platform, Axon unlocks the potential of health professionals to directly collect patient data at massive scale through dedicated mobile apps reducing development time from six months to one day. While there are a lot
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PR-GLNT and UCB Collaborate on Parkinsons Wearables
Great Lakes NeuroTech (GLNT) has announced plans to collaborate with the pharmaceutical company UCB to provide individuals with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and their clinicians with improved quantitative tools for assessing the impact of their current treatment with the aim of providing better individual patient experiences and, ultimately, improving quality of life.Parkinson’s causes motor symptoms of tremor, slowed movements, and impaired mobility, with side effects of medication including
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Can a Healthcare App Seal of Approval Foster Innovation?
Editor’s Note: Michelle Longmire, MD is a Stanford-trained physician-entrepreneur and the CEO of Medable Inc., an app and analytics platform for healthcare. Reach her at @LongmireMD. In an effort to protect consumers, Apple has released guidelines for its health apps. In developer guidelines released this summer, it dictates: “If your app behaves in a way that risks physical harm, we may reject it.”Apple’s stance on health app safety will be regarded as the first significant industry step
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AirStrip Granted FDA 510(k) Clearance, Patent for AirStrip ONE App
AirStrip announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to a web client for the AirStrip ONE® mobile interoperability platform and app that can be run on desktops and laptops using Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. AirStrip ONE® provides a single, data- and vendor-agnostic platform that connects clinicians with the right information at the right time, via the most convenient device at hand.The company also recently received a U.S. patent for new functionality: ECG waveform 'visual calipers'
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Validic Report: How Digital Health Devices and Data Impact Clinical Trials
Pharma and biotech will increasingly turn to digital health tools over the next five years to better collect, analyze and act on patient-generated health data (PGHD), according to a new research paper published by Validic. The study conducted over two months includes survey responses of the BioPharma Dive readership from nearly 200 global pharma and biotech companies, CROs and technology providers to provide insights on the benefits and challenges of using digital health data and devices in
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Infographic: 5 Kinds of Mobile Health Users
A new recent study by Ketchum reveals that despite potential concerns about privacy, Americans are becoming more comfortable with the idea of using a mobile device to manage health. In fact, a growing number of Americans with smartphones are sharing medical information via device, tracking their health on devices and also show a surprising level of comfort using artificial intelligence (AI) for health:· 6 in 10 Americans with a smartphone say they’ve shared information with a medical
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American Well Adds Psychiatry Services to its Telehealth Offering
Telehealth provider American Well has added psychiatry services to its core telehealth offering through its clinical partner, The Online Care Group with plans to roll it out across all States in the U.S. by end of 2016. American Well has provided has provided behavioral health services as part of its core telehealth offering since Summer 2014. American Well's psychiatry program is available to adults ages 18 and above. Currently more than 400 credentialed therapists see patients across the
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Klara Lands $3M to Expand its Secure Healthcare Messaging App
Klara, a NYC-based secure healthcare messaging company has raised $3 million in funding led by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Project A Ventures from Berlin along with existing investors Atlantic Labs and Groupe Arnault. The company plans to utilize the new funding to support its vision of building the "central nervous system of healthcare" through connecting all medical providers, patients and other medical professionals such as pharmacies, labs and specialists together on one platform.Founded in 2013
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