- Sharecare acquires Visualize Health, a Franklin, Tenn.-based population health and quality measure platform that enables payers and providers to close gaps in patient care to maximize value-based care.
- The acquisition will enhance Sharecare’s capabilities for medical records management and is the 14th acquisition since Sharecare was founded in 2010.
Sharecare, the digital health
company that helps people manage all their health in one place, today announced
its acquisition
of
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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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Lark, HealthPartners Team Up to Provide AI-Powered Diabetes Management
- Lark Health partners with Minnesota-based HealthPartners to help members better manage their diabetes after a successful pilot program.
- Through the new partnership, more than 650,000 HealthPartners members will have access to Lark’s AI-based Diabetes Management Program at no cost. It’s a big step for members in Minnesota, where 8 percent of adults have been diagnosed with diabetes and the total estimated cost of diabetes estimated at $4.7 billion per year.
- The partnership follows a
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Maven Raises $45M to Expand On-Demand Virtual Care for Women’s & Family Health
- Today, Maven, a women’s and family digital health company, announced it has raised $45 million in Series C funding led by Icon Ventures and including investments from Reese Witherspoon and Natalie Portman.
- Maven’s women’s and family telemedicine network expanded rapidly to include 1,700 providers across more than 20 specialties – filling in critical gaps in care.
- The company also announced the launch of Maven Wallet: a new feature to help members better manage receipts and expenses
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Report: Digital Health Tools Fail to Keep Up with Patients’ Expectations
- New research report from the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) finds that health system apps and other digital health tools for patients are not providing the best consumer patient experience.
- CCM partnered with HIMSS Media to conduct a survey of 136 qualified professionals at U.S. hospitals and health systems in September 2019.
- The report reveals that fewer than 1 in 3 respondents believe their organization is providing a best-in-class digital experience for patients. The result
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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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Analysis: Why Digital Health Investors are Falling in Love with Femtech
Women’s health technology, known as Femtech, is one of the fastest-growing and well-funded categories of digital health. Femtech generally encompasses a range of digital health software and tech-enabled service providers that cater to the specific biological needs of women. These needs span from general health and wellness to reproductive health, including fertility, pregnancy, and nursing care.
Today, reproductive health is the focal point of femtech, thanks in part to the
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Capital Rx Wins Top Award at Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge
- Capital Rx has been named first-place Innovation Champion and Carrot Health as second-place Top Innovator of the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge.
- Capital Rx’s clearinghouse model connects pharmacies and employers to establish a marketplace for drug pricing to reduce costs and create a better experience for both plan sponsors and patients.
Capital Rx has been
named Innovation Champion of the Accenture
HealthTech Innovation Challenge, which recognizes innovative approaches
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Commure Launches FHIR-Native Open Platform for Healthcare Developers
- Commure launches an FHIR-native open platform for healthcare developers that makes it easy to build and deploy the next generation of healthcare apps by providing a secure, reliable, and interoperable foundation.
- The Commure Platform provides REST APIs, SDKs and cloud services that support healthcare application development by the broadest range of developers across the application life cycle.
Commure, a San Francisco, CA-based healthcare technology company, announced the launch of
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Analysis: January Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of January 2020.
Ten years into the bull market, we operate in a heightened state of awareness for any indication of market weakness that may signal a downturn. While debt levels are rising and GDP growth somewhat sluggish, the world of private equity, public equity, and M&A continues to be in full swing bull market
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