What You Should Know:
- BayCare, a healthcare system, has announced a strategic partnership with Cadence, a chronic disease management company, to implement a comprehensive remote patient monitoring and virtual care program.
- This collaboration aims to enhance the care of seniors with chronic conditions such as hypertension, congestive heart failure, and type 2 diabetes across Florida’s Tampa Bay and West Central regions.
Proactive and Preventive Healthcare to Seniors with
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Chronic Care Management Program
Verily Launches AI-Powered Chronic Care Solution, Lightpath
What You Should Know:
- Verily, Alphabet's precision health subsidiary, today announced Lightpath, a next-generation chronic care solution designed to address the evolving needs of health plans and their members.
- The initial offering, Lightpath Metabolic, focuses on empowering individuals with cardiometabolic conditions to achieve and maintain their health goals. Open enrollment is targeted for early 2026.
Building on Success with Onduo
Lightpath Metabolic leverages the
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Highmark Taps Lark Health for AI-Driven Chronic Disease Management/Prevention
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Highmark, one of the largest Blues plans, has chosen Lark Health for its
chronic disease prevention and management platform.
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Members will have access to Lark’s 24/7 AI-based coaching and programs to
manage diabetes, hypertension, and prevent chronic conditions.
Highmark Inc., America's fourth-largest overall Blue Cross Blue Shield-affiliated organization, announced a growing collaboration with Lark Health, virtual chronic disease prevention and management
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Maximizing Telehealth Success: How to Optimize Operations & Revenue Cycle Management
In COVID-19’s wake, providers’ financial recovery will be crucial yet daunting. U.S. hospitals and health systems stand to collectively lose $36.6 billion between March and June 2020 alone. Physician practices also face serious financial challenges as they recoup revenues that declined up to 55 percent and patient volume that decreased 60 percent.
Amid these hardships, telehealth has emerged as a widely accepted vehicle for care delivery – providing a way for healthcare organizations to
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88% of Hospitals Plan to Invest in Remote Patient Monitoring Solutions to Support Value-Based Care
- 88% of health systems and hospitals surveyed have invested or plan to invest in remote patient monitoring solutions to support their organizational transitions to value-based care, according to the latest Spyglass Consulting Group report. - Healthcare provider investments in RPM solutions are being driven by several underlying market factors including exploding healthcare costs, a rising aging baby boomer population, the increased prevalence of chronic disease, and continuous healthcare
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Karuna Labs’ VR Rehab Management Now Available for Workers Comp Patients with Chronic Pain
- Karuna Labs, creator of personalized functional restoration and chronic pain management programs using virtual reality (VR) technology, is available to patients through workers’ compensation insurance. - Karuna Labs’ Virtual Embodiment Therapy will increase adherence to physical therapy and focus on exercises performed in daily living to improve quality of life.Virtual Reality (VR) technology is now being integrated workers comp injuries in order to alleviate chronic pain and improve range of
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VR for Chronic Pain Startup Karuna Labs Raises $3M to Retrain The Brain
- Karuna Labs raises $3M in seed funding to expand personalized chronic pain management programs using virtual reality (VR) technology to retrain the brain.
- Karuna Labs uses Karuna uses evidence-based techniques to retrain the brain to perceive movement as non-threatening.
- Karuna Pro is now available in clinics, while Karuna Home is available as direct-to-patient for home use.
Today, Karuna Labs, the San Francisco, CA-based creator of personalized chronic pain management
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PE Firm Backs Nation’s Largest Care Coordination Company ChartSpan
Blue Heron Capital, a growth private equity (PE) firm based in Richmond, Virginia has announced its investment in a Series A round of funding in ChartSpan, the largest healthcare managed service provider of chronic care management. The firm is part of a five-investor syndicate.Impact of Chronic Conditions on Patient Health OutcomesAn alarming 75% of Americans over the age of 65 live with multiple chronic conditions that require ongoing medical attention and often impact their ability to live
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Wellframe Lands $15M to Expand Mobile-Enabled Care Management Platform
Wellframe, a Boston, MA-based mobile-enabled care management solution provider has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by F-Prime Capital, with participation from existing investors including DFJ. The company plans to utilize the funding to develop their care management platform and expand its business reach. The latest round brings total funds raised by the company to $25 million.Founded in 2011, Wellframe enables leading health plans and at-risk providers to better leverage their care
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Survey Reveals Physicians Accelerating Adoption of Medicare’s Chronic Care Management Program
Following a slow start, U.S. physician groups have significantly accelerated their adoption of a key federal program aimed at improving the care of Medicare patients with chronic disease, while they remain relatively in the dark about the details of the 2015 law that the program has come to support.Forty-one percent of physician groups have launched a Chronic Care Management (CCM) program that meets the requirements for reimbursement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Management (CMS),
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