What You Should Know:
- Patients in the Cedars-Sinai COVID-19 Recovery Program
receive a comprehensive in-person evaluation with an expert in infectious
diseases or pulmonary medicine who can refer them to a network of specialists.
Cedars-Sinai,
today announce the launch of the COVID-19 Recovery Program to meet the needs of a
growing number of COVID-19 patients who experience lingering symptoms weeks and
even months after physicians say they are virus-free.
COVID-19
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Depression
Hurdle Secures $5M for Digital Mental Health Platform for People of Color
What You Should Know:
- Washington, D.C.-based Hurdle raises $5M in seed funding to accelerate its digital mental health platform for people of color.
- Hurdle aims to provide an innovative teletherapy solution for employers and insurers; aims to remove barriers to mental health care for People of Color by rooting its services in evidence-based methods of cultural humility.
Hurdle (formerly Henry Health), a Washington, D.C.-based innovative digital mental health platform company,
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Capital BlueCross Taps NeuroFlow Support Member Mental Health
What You Should Know:
- Capital BlueCross, a health insurer serving a 21-county region in Central Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley by offering health insurance products, services, and technology solutions has signed a partnership with tech-enabled behavioral health company Neuro Flow.
- As part of its commitment to offering members the best
healthcare experience, Capital BlueCross has expanded its innovative
wellness resources to include a new mobile app focused on mental
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NeuroFlow Secures $20M for Tech-Enabled Behavioral Health Integration Platform
What You Should Know:
- NeuroFlow raises $20M to expand its technology-enabled behavioral
health integration platform, led by Magellan Health.
- NeuroFlow’s suite of HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based tools
simplify remote patient monitoring, enable risk stratification, and facilitate
collaborative care. With NeuroFlow, health care organizations can finally
bridge the gap between mental and physical health in order to improve outcomes
and reduce the cost of care.
NeuroFlow, a
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Why Hospitals Should Act Now to Create Clinical AI Departments
A century ago, X-rays transformed medicine forever. For the first time, doctors could see inside the human body, without invasive surgeries. The technology was so revolutionary that in the last 100 years, radiology departments have become a staple of modern hospitals, routinely used across medical disciplines.
Today, new technology is once again radically reshaping medicine: artificial intelligence (AI). Like the X-ray before it, AI gives clinicians the ability to see the unseen and has
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Digital Diabetes Market to Reach $1.5B by 2024, Research Finds
What You Should Know:
- The digital diabetes market is on track to reach $1.5
billion dollars by 2024, according to a new report by Research2Guidance.
- The confident growth of digital diabetes care will be driven by the growth of the global addressable market for digital diabetes services. Between 2019 and 2024, the number of diagnosed diabetics with access to smart devices is set to increase from 109 million to 180 million.
- Digital diabetes solutions have disrupted the
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How Care Coordination Technology Addresses Social Isolation in Seniors
Senior isolation is a health risk that affects at least a quarter of seniors over 65. It has become recognized over the past decade as a risk factor for poor aging outcomes including cognitive decline, depression, anxiety, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, hypertension, heart disease, impaired immune function, and even death.
Physical limitations, lack of transportation, and inadequate health literacy, among other social determinants of health (SDOH), further impair access to medical and mental
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Is Remote-Learning A Public Health Dilemma?
In 2014, pediatric occupational therapist Angela Hanscom set out to better understand the student experience by sitting in on middle school classes. She sat. She sat some more. She then noticed that a day’s worth of sitting was affecting her ability to focus. She asked “how on Earth do these children tolerate sitting this long?” before spotting all the fidgety, distracted bodies – “well, the short answer is they don’t.”
This phenomenon is rooted in the commonly ignored factor that students
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VHA, Ontrak Launch 3-Year AI Study to Help Prevent Veteran Suicide
What You Should Know:
- The Veterans Health Administration has selected Ontrak
in collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Brown University to transform
suicide prevention care for veterans.
- Leveraging AI developed by a Harvard Medical School
professor and the core analytics of the Ontrak platform, the three-year study
will look at the effect of intensive care coaching in addition to the standard
of care for veterans at high risk of suicide after inpatient hospitalization at
a
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Ontrak Acquires Science-Backed, Behavior Change Platform LifeDojo
What You Should Know:
- Ontrak acquires LifeDojo Inc, a San Francisco, CA-based
comprehensive, science-backed behavior change platform.
- The acquisition broadens Ontrak’s addressable market
and footprint to lower acuity populations enabling new interventions and remote
patient monitoring.
Ontrak, Inc., a
leading AI-powered
and telehealth-enabled,
virtualized healthcare company, today announced that it has acquired
LifeDojo Inc, a comprehensive, science-backed behavior change
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