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Virtual Care Provider WellStart Health Joins Blue Shield of California’s New Digital and Community-Health Network

by Fred Pennic 07/30/2019 Leave a Comment

Virtual Care Provider WellStart Health Joins Blue Shield of California's New Digital and Community-Health Network

WellStart Health's digital program helps improve outcomes for members with diabetes, hypertension and obesity, at no cost to Blue Shield members.WellStart Health has been selected to be part of Blue Shield of California's Wellvolution, its new digital and community-health based lifestyle medicine network, which delivers clinically proven health-management and wellness resources to help people holistically manage their health to prevent, treat and even reverse disease.Blue Shield of California's
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Livongo to Offer 10.7 Million Shares in IPO, Priced Between $20 & $23 Per Share

by Jasmine Pennic 07/15/2019 Leave a Comment

UCSF Launches SUGAR Clinical Trial Study to Compare Livongo’s Diabetes Management Program to Standard Diabetes Care

Livongo Health, Inc., today announced it plans to offer 10,700,000 shares of its common stock to the public with the price expected to be between $20.00 and $23.00 per share. Livongo has applied to list its common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “LVGO.” Livongo also intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,605,000 shares of common stock from Livongo.Livongo offers an integrated suite of solutions to promote sustainable health
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Rimidi Adds Aggregated Cardiovascular Disease EHR Data to Platform

by Fred Pennic 07/11/2019 Leave a Comment

Rimidi Raises $6.575M for Cloud-based Enterprise Solution for Diabetes Management

Across the United States, cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to threaten populations. It’s the leading cause of death, with nearly half of all U.S. adults suffering from some form of CVD. Rimidi, a cloud-based software platform that enables personalized management of chronic cardiometabolic conditions across the population has expanded its cloud-based platform to include a view for CVD. Working within the electronic health record (EHR) workflow, clinicians can seamlessly navigate between the
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Can AI Transform Patient Care from Reactive Craft to Strategic Art?

by Ori Geva, Co-founder and CEO, Medial EarlySign 07/09/2019 Leave a Comment

Can AI Transform Patient Care from Reactive Craft to Strategic Art?

Personalized Analytics is becoming essential in healthcare, stemming from the movement from fee-for-service to a value-based market. The need to preempt and prevent disease on a more personal level, rather than merely reacting to symptoms, has created a significant opportunity for machine learning-based applications. This “analytics of one” approach (using advanced mathematical models and artificial intelligence techniques) is already impacting several key areas: 1. Medical imaging is utilizing
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Digital Health Company Livongo Files for $100M IPO

by Jasmine Pennic 06/28/2019 Leave a Comment

Livongo Files for $100M IPO

Livongo Health, Inc., today announced that it has publicly filed a registration statement for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. Livongo has applied to list its common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol "LVGO."Livongo Growth MetricsFounded in 2014, Livongo offers an integrated suite of solutions to promote sustainable health behavior change based on easy, real-time data
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Vida Health Raises $30M for Personalized Virtual Care Platform for Physical & Behavioral Health

by Fred Pennic 06/19/2019 Leave a Comment

Vida Health Raises $30M for Personalized Virtual Care Platform for Physical & Behavioral Health

Vida Health, a personalized virtual care platform for physical and behavioral health has raised $30M in Series C funding from strategic investors including GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation, Teladoc Health, and Workday Ventures. Existing investors from previous rounds also participated.Impact of Chronic Disease in the U.S.Sixty percent of adults in the United States have one chronic disease, and 40% have two or more. More than 68% of adults with a mental health condition have at least one
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Allscripts Acquires Prescription & Prior Authorization Platform ZappRx

by Jasmine Pennic 06/14/2019 Leave a Comment

Allscripts Acquires Prescription & Prior Authorization Platform ZappRx

EHR vendor Allscripts has reached an agreement to acquire prescription and prior authorization platform ZappRx, according to CNBC. The acquisition will help Allscripts diversify its business outside of electronic medical record (EHR). The company has raised a total of $40M in funding to date.Founded in 2012 by Zoe Barry who previously worked at athenahealth, ZappRx streamlines the complex process required to order specialty medications, increasing efficiencies when collecting and maintaining the
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Research: Livongo for Diabetes Program Improved Diabetes Distress Levels

by Fred Pennic 06/10/2019 Leave a Comment

UCSF Launches SUGAR Clinical Trial Study to Compare Livongo’s Diabetes Management Program to Standard Diabetes Care

Livongo, an Applied Health Signals company empowering people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, today announced the findings of a study conducted in collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company that demonstrated 94 percent of Livongo program Members who participated in a program survey achieved improved Diabetes Empowerment Scale-Short Form (DES-SF) or Diabetes Distress Scale 2 (DDS2) in year one. The research findings were presented on June 8, 2019, at the American Diabetes
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Why Playing Political Games Does Not Improve Patient Care

by Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD, President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) 05/22/2019 Leave a Comment

Playing Political Games Does Not Improve Patient Care

Now that it is the political season where divisiveness rules the day, the bevy of President wannabes’ interest in maternal health is suspect. After all, none of them have joined the many maternal health advocates who praised the President for signing into law the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act which gives grants to the states to help identify the causes of maternal mortality.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black and American Indian/Alaska Native women are about 3
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Solera Health Raises $42M to Scale Integrated Benefit Network for Chronic Disease Prevention

by Jasmine Pennic 05/15/2019 Leave a Comment

Solera Health Raises $42M to Expand Integrated Benefit Network

Solera Health, a Phoenix, AZ-based technology-enabled integrated benefit network has raised $42 million in Series C funding led by HCSC Ventures. Current investors BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners/Sandbox Advantage Fund, Adams Street Partners and SJF Ventures also participated in the most recent funding round. The Series C round, Solera's largest to date, brings its total funding to $72 million.Integrated Benefit NetworkFounded in 2015, Solera Health serves as an integrated benefit network
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