University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, a not-for-profit regional medical center in Towson, MD, and member of the 13-hospital University of Maryland Medical System has entered a partnership agreement with virtual care platform for obstetrics Babyscripts. As part of the partnership, expectant mothers who receive care at UM St. Joseph will now have free access to the Babyscripts app and remote monitoring support throughout—and beyond—their pregnancies.Using internet-connected devices for
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CVS Uses Analytics to Expand Transform Diabetes Care Program
More than two years since its launch, pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) CVS Caremark’s Transform Diabetes Care program has helped PBM members better control their diabetes through a combination of highly personalized member support and coaching focused on improving medication adherence and better control of HbA1c. In fact, more than 50 percent of members with uncontrolled diabetes who enrolled in the program have moved to a controlled status and, on average, members have improved HbA1c by 1.2
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Rimidi Adds Aggregated Cardiovascular Disease EHR Data to Platform
Across the United States, cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to threaten populations. It’s the leading cause of death, with nearly half of all U.S. adults suffering from some form of CVD. Rimidi, a cloud-based software platform that enables personalized management of chronic cardiometabolic conditions across the population has expanded its cloud-based platform to include a view for CVD. Working within the electronic health record (EHR) workflow, clinicians can seamlessly navigate between the
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Apple to Sell One Drop’s Blood Glucose Monitors in Select Retail Stores
One Drop, a digital blood glucose monitoring kit for diabetes management will now be available in select retail Apple stores, CNBC reports. Currently sold online in the Apple Store for $69.95, the digital diabetes kit includes a Bluetooth glucose meter, test strips, lancets (optional), and one year of free coaching from a certified diabetes coach.One Drop Blood Glucose MonitorOne Drop’s blood glucose meter ensures clinically proven accurate, reliable results in just five seconds. The meter then
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Why Playing Political Games Does Not Improve Patient Care
Now that it is the political season where divisiveness rules the day, the bevy of President wannabes’ interest in maternal health is suspect. After all, none of them have joined the many maternal health advocates who praised the President for signing into law the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act which gives grants to the states to help identify the causes of maternal mortality.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black and American Indian/Alaska Native women are about 3
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Philips Launches New IntraSight Interventional App Platform for Image-Guided Therapies
Philips launches new IntraSight interventional applications platform to seamlessly integrate intravascular imaging and physiology applications for image-guided proceduresToday, Philips announced the launch of the new IntraSight interventional applications platform, a comprehensive suite of clinically proven iFR, FFR, IVUS and co-registration modalities that help support physicians in improving care for their cardiac and peripheral vascular patients.Growing Need for Image Guided TherapiesIn
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How Consumer Technology is Influencing Healthcare Innovation
When it comes to healthcare, we look to physicians, nurses, and specialists and trust them to be the experts when it comes to our health, but we don’t typically look to them to be technology experts. In fact, the healthcare industry, especially the back office, has been historically slow to adopt new technology, relying on paper records and pagers, fax machines and even hand delivery of files and records. Many clinics are not equipped to digitally connect to another office’s patient records.
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Physician Practices Strategy to Developing A Strong Chronic Care Management (CCM) Program
Zachary Blunt, Sr. Manager of Product Development, Population Health at Greenway Health
More than three years have passed since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced its separately billable non-face-to-face Chronic Care Management (CCM) service. This was intended to help more than two-thirds of individuals on Medicare who suffer from multiple conditions receive more coordinated, regular primary care. The hope was that a focus on managing chronic conditions would
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Validic Integrates With Welldoc’s Bluestar Platform to Enable Real-Time Insights for Patients
Validic, a provider of data solutions for remote monitoring and virtual engagement is integrating with Welldoc’s BlueStar platform. The integration of personal health data within the Welldoc BlueStar digital therapeutic platform will allow users to connect their wearables, apps, and in-home health devices directly to the platform – enabling deeper engagement and better self-management of one's health.The Power of Leveraging Device-Generated Data for PatientsAs the number of people managing
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Smartphone Detection of Chronic Kidney Disease Could Save NHS $877M Over 5 Years
Healthy.io, an Israeli-based provider of FDA-cleared smartphone-based urinalysis has announced the results from its early detection of chronic kidney disease (CKD) pilot study with 2,000 NHS patients with diabetes. The pilot found improved test compliance (raising responses to 72% among patients who had previously not responded to testing reminders) and discovered previously undiagnosed cases of CKD (10 percent of those who took the test).Financial Impact of CKD for the NHSWith a staggering
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