Social media is an essential online marketing and outreach
tool for any organization that wants to connect to the largest audience
possible. However, health organizations — like
hospitals — can face unique challenges in managing social media,
which can make effectively leveraging these tools less straightforward.
Many large hospitals have been successful in making social media work for them. As a result, they've provided a template that other healthcare
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BCBS Kansas City to Deliver Wellframe’s Digital Health Tools to Members
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City announces their collaboration with Wellframe, a leader in digital health management, to bring its health plan members into a new era of health management.
- Through Wellframe’s innovative app, Blue KC members can access digital resources and support for chronic and complex conditions, wellness, transitions of care, maternal health, cancer, and end-stage renal disease.
- The Wellframe solution helps members build trusted relationships
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Black History Month: Social Determinants of Health, The African American Experience
For the sake of history and, the auspices of a bountiful potential of a great people of a Great Nation may there be boldness and courage in the noble battle waged to address social determinants of health within US healthcare? History has revealed the health and well being of a Nation and its people is as important as matters of national security.
Thus, stands the profound import of equitable access to good health and wellness within the United States of America and Nations around the world.
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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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Advanced Healthcare Supply Chains: Why It’s All in the Data
Josh Skiba, Product and Portfolio Manager for GHX
During the past decade, the healthcare industry has undergone an unprecedented technological transformation. The industry, once defined by manual processes, has moved squarely into the digital age. As patients, we’ve all become accustomed to seeing physicians as well as clinical staff use laptops during office visits. And behind the scenes, hospitals and health networks have made substantial investments in financial and HR systems, among
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Hinge Health Raises $90M to Expand Digital Musculoskeletal Care Solution
- Backed by Bessemer Ventures, Hinge Health raises $90M in a Series C financing round for its digital musculoskeletal care solution.
- The company plans to use the funding to expand across the MSK care continuum, accelerate employer and health plan market growth, and advance surgery prediction and member support.
Hinge Health, a San Francisco, CA-based digital musculoskeletal (MSK) solution, today announced a $90 million round of Series C funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with
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Microsoft Launches $40M, 5-Year AI for Health Initiative to Advance Health Globally
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- Microsoft launches 5-year, $40M AI for Health initiative to advance the health of people and communities around the world through artificial intelligence (AI).
- AI for Health will focus on three core areas: quest for discovery, global health insights, and health equity.
Microsoft
Corporation, today announced the launch of AI for Health, a new $40M, five-year program to empower researchers and
organizations with AI to improve the health of
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LifeOmic, Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank Partner to Advance Breast Cancer Research
- Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank partners with LifeOmic to aggregate and analyze data on LifeOmic’s AI-powered cloud platform, the Precision Health Cloud (PHC), to gain insight into breast cancer. - The Komen Tissue Bank is the only repository in the world for normal breast tissue and matched serum, plasma, and DNA. The tissue bank advances breast cancer research by offering high quality, richly annotated tissue samples to scientists worldwide. LifeOmic, the creator of the LIFE mobile apps and the
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Notable Launches Observational Clinical Trial for Patients with Blood Cancer
- Notable launches The ANSWer Study, it's new observational clinical trial for patients with blood cancer and is currently enrolling patients.- The primary assessment is to establish a tumor registry with annotated clinical outcomes.Notable, a San Francisco, CA-based company redefining cancer treatment with a clinically validated platform that rapidly advances drug development, is currently enrolling patients in its new observational clinical trial. The clinical trial will take place at
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Validic, Humana Launch Health Incentive Program to Support Device Connectivity
- Validic and Humana form partnership to launch a health incentive program to support Medicaid and Medicare communities with device connectivity. - As part of this engagement, Humana and Validic plan to expand the devices and data points available in Humana’s Go365 wellness and rewards program to address additional health barriers, such as nutrition, smoking cessation, mental health and more.Humana Inc., a health insurer company and well-being company and Validic, the market leader in platforms
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