What You Should Know:
- Amwell (NYSE: AMWL), a provider of digital health solutions, announced a new partnership with Vida Health, a virtual cardiometabolic care provider.
- The strategic collaboration expands Amwell's clinical program portfolio, offering a comprehensive suite of cardiometabolic care services to its extensive network of health plans and employers.
Addressing the Cardiometabolic Health Crisis
Over 40% of American adults struggle with obesity, a major risk factor
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Technology
How Clinical Pharmacist-Led Telehealth Models Are Transforming Diabetes Care
Diabetes, a chronic condition affecting millions of Americans, is on the rise. According to the CDC, 15.8% of the U.S. population now lives with diabetes. With over 38 million people managing this complex disease, effective care is essential. Yet, access to diabetes care has become increasingly challenging, especially for underserved communities. The closure of primary care clinics by major retail pharmacy chains has further strained access to care, leaving vulnerable populations without the
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Increasing Participation in Muscular Dystrophy Clinical Trials
Muscular Dystrophy (MD) refers to a group of rare genetic conditions that cause progressive muscle weakness and degeneration in patients. Some forms of MD, such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), can be life threatening to heart and respiratory functions.
But recent research found that among 3,661 U.S. patients with Muscular Dystrophy, only 33% of those with Duchenne and 12% of those with Becker Muscular Dystrophy - a similar but milder and later-onset MD condition - have previously
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Teladoc Health Joins Amazon’s Health Benefits Connector for Cardiometabolic Programs
What You Should Know:
- Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC), a global leader in virtual care, announced a new collaboration with Amazon to improve access to its chronic condition management programs.
- The strategic partnership will allow eligible Amazon customers to seamlessly discover and enroll in Teladoc Health's programs for diabetes, hypertension, prediabetes, and weight management through Amazon's Health Benefits Connector.
Addressing the Chronic Disease Burden
More than
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Rethinking Long-Term Care Infection Control for an Aging America
From April to August 2020, 45% of U.S. COVID deaths occurred in long-term care (LTC) facilities, even though LTC residents made up only 0.45% of the population. This stark disparity revealed that nursing homes were particularly vulnerable during the pandemic, with high transmission and fatality rates in these congregate settings. Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs), commonly known as nursing homes, represented about 80% of LTC COVID deaths, making them the deadliest place to live during COVID.
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Veradigm Enhances EHR Database with SDoH and Mortality Data
What You Should Know:
- Veradigm (OTCMKTS: MDRX), a leading provider of healthcare data and technology solutions, announced a significant expansion of its Veradigm Network EHR (VNEHR) Data with the integration of social determinants of health (SDoH) and mortality data.
- The enhancement provides researchers with a more comprehensive view of patient health, enabling deeper insights and driving innovation in life science research, public health, and academic studies.
VNEHR
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Amwell Divests Psychiatric Care Business to Avel eCare for $21M
What You Should Know:
- Amwell (NYSE: AMWL), a leading global provider of digital care solutions, announced today the sale of its Amwell Psychiatric Care (APC) business to Avel eCare, a prominent provider of clinician-to-clinician telehealth services.
- The strategic divestiture allows Amwell to further sharpen its focus on key growth areas, drive greater efficiencies, and better align with evolving client needs in the digital health market.
Strategic Divestiture and
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OMNY Health Partners with Scipher Medicine to Advance Precision Immunology
What You Should Know:
- OMNY Health, the leading healthcare ecosystem for compliant real-world data insights at scale, and Scipher Medicine, which has the world’s largest immunology clinico-transcriptomics data set and is focused on advancing precision medicine with proprietary AI network biology solutions, today announced a partnership to advance precision medicine efforts for immunology.
- This collaboration marks a significant leap forward in the fight against autoimmune diseases,
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XO Health Launches Next Gen Value-Based Care and Benefits Platform
What You Should Know:
- XO Health launches operations of its value-based care and benefits platform, serving self-insured employers, level-funded plans and third-party administrators (TPAs). This launch will enable XO Health to bring their value-based provider network and comprehensive benefits administration offerings to customers in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and Minneapolis.
- XO Health is redefining how healthcare is delivered and paid for by dramatically expanding access to
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The Obesity Conversation: Moving Beyond Stigma and Shame
The conversation about what makes a “healthy” body has never been simple. Throughout every era of history, people have resorted to calling each other too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too curvy, too muscular, or too lanky, often to reinforce power structures or achieve social agendas.
And every single time, we fall for it. We spend billions upon billions of dollars on products, potions, and procedures to help us get a little closer to that perfect body — whatever that means.
It’s
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