Cardiogram is a digital health company announced that it's wearable-based monitoring for atrial fibrillation and diabetes is now covered by Oscar Health Insurance, without paying out of pocket. The coverage will help provide end-to-end preventive care: continuous wearable monitoring, convenient testing, contextualized results, and clinical triage.Impact of Chronic ConditionsFor chronic conditions like diabetes, atrial fibrillation, hypertension, and sleep apnea, anywhere between 20–80% of cases
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Cone Health, Babyscripts Expands Partnership to Develop Digital Solutions for Prenatal & Postpartum Health
Babyscripts, a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, has expanded its partnership with Cone Health, a leading not-for-profit network of healthcare providers in North Carolina. The expanded partnership seeks to develop new digital modules to improve access to high-quality pregnancy care for risk-specific populations.Cone Health’s Expanded Partnership with BabyscriptsAs part of the partnership, Cone Health provides Babyscripts invaluable clinical input, access to clinical staff and
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10 Major Barriers Hindering The Digitalization Of Chronic Conditions
Hundreds of millions of patients are affected by chronic diseases globally, often suffering from several of them. Despite such a huge opportunity, the coverage of chronic conditions with digital solutions is still below the acceptable level. Today, more than twenty common chronic conditions have its own specificity and are currently at its digital development stage, yet all of them face the same challenges in the digital health market, according to a recent Research2Guidance report.The report,
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Zipnosis Launches Personalized Virtual Care Offering for Health Systems
Virtual care software company, Zipnosis has announced the launch of ZipPlus – a customized virtual care platform offering designed to give health systems the tools and support they need to deliver truly personalized care. Today’s Health Systems Not Realizing Benefits of Virtual CareHealth systems are not fully realizing the benefits of virtual care as they struggle to overcome disparate technologies that are designed without the patient at the center, and implemented without provider workflow
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Livongo Adds HIPAA-Compliant Amazon Alexa Healthcare Skill for Diabetes
Livongo, the leading Applied Health Signals company, today announced the Livongo for Diabetes program will now leverage Amazon Alexa's voice service to offer its Members the ability to ask any of their Alexa-enabled devices to provide their blood glucose readings and health tips via the new Livongo skill. The integration marks Livongo as the first consumer digital health company to collaborate with Amazon Alexa on a new HIPAA-compliant healthcare skill, which builds on Livongo's efforts to make
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Amazon Choice Integrates with One Drop for Diabetes and Hypertension Management
One Drop, a provider of digital therapeutics solutions, today announced an integration partnership with Amazon’s exclusive health brand, Choice. The integration with One Drop’s app will provide Amazon’s Choice customers living with diabetes and hypertension with affordable, accessible, and comprehensive digital health management services.One Drop/Amazon Choice Integration BenefitsLaunched in late 2018, Amazon Choice was developed by Arcadia Group to offer an array of affordable medical devices
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Livongo Taps Amazon Lex to Power Voice-Enabled Hypertension System
Livongo unveils new voice-enabled cellular blood pressure monitoring system powered by Amazon Lex and Amazon PollyApplied health signals company Livongo Health, today unveiled their new voice-enabled hypertension system powered by Amazon during their invitation-only conference SIGNUM 2019 in San Francisco, CA. As voice increasingly becomes one of the preferred ways people interact with technology, Livongo will leverage Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly to power its voice-enabled cellular blood
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Oschner Health Pilots Apple Watch to Manage Chronic Diseases
After being the first Epic client to integrate with the Apple HealthKit, Ochsner Health System has announced it is now the first hospital in the nation to use the Apple Watch for managing patients suffering from chronic diseases. As part of the Ochsner Hypertension Digital Medicine Program pilot program, the New Orleans-based provider will utilize the Apple Watch to track several hundred patients who are struggling to control their blood pressure.
How It Works
Through wireless blood
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Mobile Application Spotlight: HP tests its new Mobile Health Monitoring Solution in Singapore
Link mobile health monitoring devices with cloud computing in the right way and you can change how we practice medicine. That's the vision behind HP's Mobile Health (mHealth) Monitoring Solution, a new, always-on, cloud-based healthcare offering that builds on research conducted at HP's Data Center Design for Cloud Computing Lab in Singapore.In a joint effort between HP in Singapore, telecommunications giant SingTel, medical device maker HealthSTATS and Singaporean health provider Frontier
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