Capital BlueCross, a Harrisburg, Pa-based healthcare solutions and insurance company announced it will now offer telehealth visits its health plan members beginning Jan. 1, 2016. To deliver telehealth visits for its health plan members, Capital BlueCross has partnered with American Well to deliver Amwell, the nation's largest telehealth service, to members. Amwell's model contrasts with its competitors in that patients are connected face-to-face with a doctor in less than two minutes, instead of
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Novant Health To Integrate Epic MyChart with FitBit & HealthKit
Starting this month, Novant Health patients will be able to share data from FitBit and Apple HealthKit with their doctor through Novant Health's patient portal, Epic MyChart. By integrating with Fitbit and Apple HealthKit, Novant Health's more than 430,000 MyChart patient portal users will be able to submit data from personal fitness devices, such as smart scales and wearable fitness trackers, directly to their doctors.
According to Epic, Novant Health leads the nation in patient engagement
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IMS Health Launches Global Thought Leadership App
IMS Health has launched an IMS Health Insights app that delivers the company’s extensive thought leadership materials from 19 major countries directly to Apple and Android tablet devices. Addressing the growing demand for easily accessible, global insights on critical healthcare topics, the new app enables decision makers in life sciences and healthcare to instantly locate and download IMS Health research and white papers that are based on the company’s extensive global information assets,
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Medisafe Integrates with Human API Enabling Users to Import Their Medication Lists
Medisafe, a mHealth platform for medication management with 1.9 million active users has announced integration with Human API data platform to import their medication lists from thousands of top hospitals and medical facilities. Starting now, users have the option to bring in their exact medication, with specifics including medication shape, color, dosage and frequency. Medisafe initially launched the medication import functionality via Human API on its iOS app, with Android to follow in a
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Report: Consumers Are Willing to Share Health Data for Insurance Discounts
Consumer willingness to share their personal health data in exchange for a health insurance discount varies by device used, ranging from 42% of digital pedometer owners to only 26% of those with a sleep-quality monitor, according to recent Digital health research from Parks Associates. Among smart watch owners, 35% are willing to share data from their device for a health insurance discount. Parks Associates report, Digitally Fit: Products and Services for Connected Consumers assesses consumer
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Children’s Health Deploys Telehealth to 57 North Texas Schools
After a successful telemedicine program pilot in 27 schools last year, Children’s Health will soon deploy telehealth in 57 schools across Dallas, Grayson, Collin and Tarrant counties, Dallas Business Journal reports. The school-based telehealth program will include lab consultations, providing nurses the ability to conduct strep and flu tests. The program makes Children’s Health the only North Texas health care system providing telemedicine to local schools.
How It Works
The program was
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Fitbit Launches Windows 10 App to Personalize Fitness Journey Across Windows Devices
Wearable fitness leader, Fitbit has launched Fitbit for Windows 10 app designed to provide a more engaging and fluid app design that lets users personalize the way they interact with key pieces of their health and fitness journey across all their Windows devices. Through new Windows 10 app features, people at all fitness levels can now more easily access and log their most important personalized data in real-time. Fitbit helps users track their steps, activity, exercise, food, weight
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Dispatch Health Raises $3.6M for Mobile Healthcare Delivery
Mobile health delivery startup, Dispatch Health has raised $3.6 million in seed funding to expand its current services, as well as to administer onsite, advanced medical care, improve outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. The Denver, Colorado-based company uses mobile cars staffed by acute care clinicians, equipped with a CLIA-certified lab, medical equipment, medications and IV’s, WiFi connectivity providing access to the health information exchange, and a network of established mobile
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New Roche App Measures Parkinson’s Disease Fluctuations
Roche Pharma Research & Early Development (pRED) has developed a smartphone app for those with Parkinson’s disease that complements traditional physician-led assessments with automated tests that continuously measure their symptom fluctuations. According to Roche, this could potentially be the first time that such an app has been used to measure disease and symptom severity in a medicine development program in Parkinson’s disease. Developed in consultation with Max Little, a pioneer in PD
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4 Types of Telehealth Solutions
Telehealth represents the next frontier in medical care, and it's something healthcare providers are already feeling the pressure from their digitally connected patients to provide. How much pressure? According to Logicalis Healthcare Solutions, the healthcare-focused arm of Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, that depends on the generation of patient being served.
While traditional communication channels remain popular among older patients, the next
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