UnitedHealthcare and Qualcomm Life have integrated wearable devices from Samsung and Garmin International, Inc., into UnitedHealthcare Motion. UnitedHealthcare Motion is a national wellness program that provides eligible plan participants access to activity trackers and enables them to earn more than $1,000 per year by meeting certain daily walking goals.The Samsung Gear Fit2 Pro and Gear Sport, and the Garmin vívosmart 3, have been integrated and validated with Qualcomm Life’s 2net platform for
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Allscripts, Garmin Partner to Integrate Wearables with Population Health Tools
To help clinicians better manage patient care, Garmin will join with Allscripts to integrate its vívofit suite of wearable devices into the FollowMyHealth and CareInMotion platforms, designed to address specific population health management priorities. Berkshire Medical Center (Pittsfield, Mass.) will serve as the beta site for this 2016 initiative.
As part of pilot, Berkshire Medical Center will identify a specific patient population to wear vívofit devices and use the Index Smart Scale.
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Jiff Adds Garmin, Glooko, Others to Enterprise Health Platform
The digital health space is growing rapidly, and more and more digital health solutions (wearables like Fitbit, telemedicine like Doctor On Demand, and chronic condition coaches like Omada) are reaching millions of consumers through their employers. Jiff, the company that helps employers offer all of these solutions in an easy-to-manage platform, is announcing today it's expanding its platform to include some major players in the health space: Garmin, My Dietitian, higi, and Glooko.
These
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