“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other” – Bill Gates wrote this in 1999 and, nowadays, the same can certainly be said about information technology and healthcare.
The ability to collect, analyze, and use data is becoming ubiquitous with many of healthcare’s most exciting advancements. Whether it’s Google’s DeepMind using artificial intelligence (AI) to help
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Impact of Diabetes Management for Patients, Payers, and Providers| News, Policy, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Verily’s Onduo Virtual Care Solution Expands to Multi-Condition Platform
What You Should Know:
- Verily's Onduo, known for its tech-based solution for virtual diabetes management, is launching a new multi-condition platform that matches the right care to the right consumer at the right time. The expanded virtual care platform is designed to support patients managing type 2 diabetes and hypertension, with plans for further expansion into mental and behavioral health.- In addition, Onduo has introduced multi-language support to make the virtual
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Teladoc Health, Dexcom Offers CGM-Powered Insights to People with Type 2 Diabetes
What You Should Know:
- Teladoc Health and Dexcom announced an expanded
partnership on a new offering measures the impact of continuous glucose
monitoring and real-time health recommendations for people with Type 2 diabetes
at no cost.
Teladoc Health, Inc., the first and only comprehensive virtual care system, and DexCom, Inc., the leader in real-time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), today announced that joint Livongo for Diabetes and Dexcom members will now
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4 Predictions for Diabetes Management and Technology in 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to put an unprecedented amount of strain on the entire healthcare sector, and the industry has responded by accelerating the ways innovation is developed and adopted. Health leaders have faced a generational challenge and the result has been the rapid deployment of technology to address dire patient needs. Health systems, physicians, and frontline staff pulled together in remarkable fashion to implement these emerging technologies that enhance the ways patients
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Humana Taps Vida Health to Power Virtual Diabetes Management for Kentucky’s Medicaid Population
What You Should Know:
- Humana Healthy Horizons™ in Kentucky announced it has selected Vida Health’s virtual diabetes management program to serve Kentucky’s Medicaid population.
- Vida’s diabetes management program
achieves lasting results for participants. Because chronic conditions like diabetes,
obesity, and hypertension often occur simultaneously, Vida’s unique program was
built from the ground up to treat multiple conditions at the same time.
- The new partnership, which will
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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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Highmark Taps Lark Health for AI-Driven Chronic Disease Management/Prevention
What
You Should Know:
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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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Intermountain Adds Omada’s Diabetes Prevention Program to At-Risk Patients
What You Should Know:
- Omada’s diabetes prevention program will be available
to Intermountain’s at-risk patient population as part of a limited engagement
in 2020 and 2021.
- Omada’s diabetes prevention program is personalized to
meet each participant’s unique needs as they evolve, ranging from diabetes
prevention, type 2 diabetes management, hypertension, behavioral health, and
musculoskeletal issues.
Deepening a collaboration that began in 2016, Omada
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GuideWell to Offer Livongo for Diabetes to Florida Blue Members
What You Should Know:
- GuideWell partners with Livongo to provide Florida Blue
Members an end-to-end consumer-centric virtual care experience.
- Florida Blue will become one of the first health plans to provide health consumers with a single access point for whole-person care through Livongo and Teladoc’s best-in-class combined care experience.
Livongo,
the leading Applied Health Signals company empowering people with chronic
conditions to live better and healthier lives, today
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Virta Adds Prediabetes and Obesity Reversal to Services
What You Should Know:
- Virta is expanding its suite of treatment options to
include prediabetes reversal, obesity reversal, and type 2 diabetes management.
- By making this crucial expansion, Virta can scale its
treatment to support the tens of millions of additional patients with
prediabetes and obesity, as provide an on-ramp to reversal for those with T2D
that aren’t yet ready to reverse.
Virta Health, the
leader in type 2 diabetes reversal, today introduced the addition
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