Last year, the average annual premium for employer-sponsored family health coverage rose 4% to $22,221—including employer and worker contributions—according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. While employers are most often the ones selecting the health plan options and insurance for employees, the worker is the one who is left to navigate the healthcare continuum (including their true cost of care). In a recent study, 96% of patients indicated that the quality of their financial experience
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Castlight + Vera Appoints New CEO; Rebrands as Apree Health
What You Should Know:
- Vera Whole Health, Inc. and Castlight Health, Inc. appoints former Cerner President Donald Trigg as chief executive officer (CEO)
- In addition, the companies have rebranded as apree health that will be combine Castlight’s healthcare navigation platform with Vera’s advanced primary care solutions to improve patient outcomes and transform the healthcare industry.
Donald Trigg Background
Donald Trigg most recently served as president of
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Castlight Health and Vera Whole Health Merge in $370M Deal
What You Should Know:
- Castlight Health and Vera Health announce merger, the combined company will integrate Castlight’s market-leading navigation technology with Vera’s best in class advanced primary care model to expand access to care, reduce healthcare costs, and improve outcomes.
Castlight Health, Inc. (“Castlight”) (NYSE: CSLT), a healthcare data and navigation company, and Vera Whole Health, Inc. (“Vera”), a pioneer in advanced primary care, jointly announced a merger agreement
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Kaiser Appoints First Chief Digital Officer, Teladoc’s New COO, Castlight Health CEO, Other Health IT Appointments
Kaiser Permanente has appointed Prat Vemana as its first chief digital officer for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals. In this newly created role, Vemana will lead the ongoing development and execution of Kaiser Permanente's digital vision and strategy, in collaboration with internal health plan, hospital, and medical group teams.
Atlantic Health System has named Dr. Sylvia Romm as Chief Innovation Officer. In her new role, Romm will be responsible for building new partner
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Big Health, Castlight Health Partner to Offer Clinically-Proven Employee Mental Health Solution
Digital medicine company Big Health, today announced a new partnership with leading health navigation platform provider Castlight Health. Now through Castlight’s suite of digital health and wellness solutions, employers will be able to seamlessly deliver improved sleep and mental health to their employees with Big Health’s digital sleep improvement program Sleepio.Sleepio is clinically proven to help individuals overcome insomnia as well as improve anxiety and depression via a web and mobile
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Castlight Health Integrates With Washington Health Alliance to Improve Care Guidance
Castlight Health, Inc. announced a new partnership with the Washington Health Alliance, the state’s leader in healthcare cost and quality transparency. The partnership integrates Castlight’s comprehensive health navigation platform with Washington state’s largest healthcare cost and quality database to help the state’s Castlight customers, including Boeing, Esterline Technologies, Microsoft and Providence St. Joseph Health and their employees make smarter health benefits and healthcare
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Castlight Health Acquires Enterprise Health Benefits Platform Jiff
Health benefits platform provider Castlight Health has acquired employee digital health platform Jiff to form a single company offer the most comprehensive health benefits platform in the industry. The combined company will expand product offering and distribution channels that will accelerate growth on a larger revenue base serving more than 240 customers, including over 70 of the Fortune 500. This marks the first digital health acquisition of 2017.Based in Mountain View, CA, Jiff serves as a
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SAP Purchases $18M Worth of Stock into Castlight Health
SAP has purchased purchased 4.76 million shares of newly issued Class B common stock in Castlight Health, a leading health benefits platform provider. The purchase results in SAP holding 4.7% post-issuance of the currently-outstanding common shares of Castlight, at a price per share of $3.77, for approximately $18 million in cash. SAP also received a warrant in connection with its stock purchase, under which SAP has the right to purchase an additional 1.9 million shares of Castlight Health Class
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Castlight Launches Partnership with Behavioral Health Platform MyStrength
Health benefits platform provider Castlight Health and myStrength, Inc., a recognized leader in computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (CCBT), announced an agreement to integrate myStrength’s CCBT as a value added offering into Castlight’s behavioral health solution Elevate. Castlight Elevate helps employees working through conditions such as depression, anxiety, substance use disorder, insomnia, and stress. myStrength is one of most recent and deepest integrations into the Castlight platform
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Castlight Health Talks Where Predictive Analytics Is Heading in 2016
It’s been hailed as the next “big thing” in healthcare. Predictive analytics promises to aid in every aspect, from creating administrative efficiencies to improving outcomes. But beyond the algorithmic buzz, predictive analytics isn’t just going to help providers make better decisions, according to Castlight Health’s Chief R& D Officer, Jonathan Rende.
Turns out, predictive analytics has the potential to reveal a lot more for patients, including the competitive costs of procedures and how
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