Today, food insecurity affects more than 41 million Americans and is prevalent among children and the elderly population. Food insecurity is defined as the limited availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food or the inability to acquire these foods in socially acceptable ways. As a result, food insecurity can exacerbate medical conditions driving up hospital/health systems patient care costs. To learn more about how healthcare providers can address food insecurity, we sat down with Dr.
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Kidney Disease
National Kidney Foundation and Healthy.io Partner on Kidney Disease Detection
What You Should Know:
- The National Kidney Foundation (NKF), a non-profit health organization and Healthy.io, a global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a clinical-grade medical device, announced a new effort to promote the detection of chronic kidney disease (CKD).
- Through their partnership, the NKF and Healthy.io will offer Healthy.io's Minuteful Kidney™ at-home kidney test, free of charge, to people who are at risk for kidney disease.
Healthy.io's Minuteful Kidney
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Healthy.io & Reset Kidney Health Partner on Comprehensive Virtual Kidney Care
What You Should Know:
- Healthy.io, the global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a medical device, and Reset Kidney Health, a hybrid care platform that offers gold-standard multidisciplinary care to patients with kidney disease, have announced a partnership that will give patients the option to utilize at-home, smartphone-powered kidney testing.
- As part of the partnership, Reset will provide eligible patients with Healthy.io's Minuteful Kidney™ test to complete at
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BrightInsight Adds ixlayer to BrightInsight Ecosystem to Improve Therapy Matching
What You Should Know:
- BrightInsight announced that ixlayer has joined the BrightInsight Ecosystem, a network of more than 20 of the world’s leading healthcare and technology companies driving growth and adoption of digital health solutions.
- The BrightInsight Ecosystem of partners collaborates to solve healthcare’s biggest challenges to drive digital innovation, adoption and engagement.
Why It Matters
Conditions such as high cholesterol, autoimmune
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Evergreen Nephrology Taps Innovaccer to Transform Kidney Care
What You Should Know:
- Evergreen Nephrology, a nephrology-focused value-based care organization, has chosen the Innovaccer® Health Cloud and Innovaccer’s full solution suite to accelerate the transformation of kidney care.
- Innovaccer’s cloud-native solutions selected by Evergreen include tools to optimize care management, physician engagement, patient engagement, referral management, advanced analytics, and dashboard-driven insights to optimize delivery of value-based specialty
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Monogram Health Secures $375M to Expand In-Home Kidney Care
What You Should Know:
- Monogram Health, a Nashville, TN-based kidney disease benefit management and care delivery company announced a $375M growth funding round that will drive the company’s continued rapid expansion as the leading solution for high-quality, in-home care for polychronic patients living with chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease in the U.S.
- Investors in the round include CVS Health, Cigna, Humana, Memorial Hermann Health System, SCAN, TPG Capital, Frist Cressey
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How Tech Can Improve Health Plan Performance & Star Ratings in 2023 & Beyond
The open-enrollment period that recently concluded for U.S. health plans was the first since the expiration of pandemic-linked changes to how Star Ratings were calculated. This is a period of major transition for the industry, with some health plans struggling to maintain their previous ratings and plan participants, who are now accustomed to home-based testing and treatment, expecting those services and features to continue. Fortunately, new technology can help health plans boost plan
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Valencell Unveils Calibration-Free, Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitor
What You Should Know:
- Valencell, the company whose optical heart rate technology enabled the ability of wearables to accurately measure cardiovascular vitals during exercise, today announced plans to launch its own branded product line in the digital health sector as it concentrates efforts to bring solutions to market to manage chronic diseases.
- The company’s first product candidate being showcased at CES is focused on helping people monitor and manage hypertension by combining
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Anumana & Pfizer Partner on Amyloidosis AI-ECG Algorithm Development
What You Should Know:
- Anumana, an AI-driven health technology company and portfolio company of nference, today announced a multi-year agreement with Pfizer for Anumana to develop an investigational artificial intelligence electrocardiogram algorithm (AI-ECG) designed to enable the early identification of patients who may be at risk of cardiac amyloidosis.
- Anumana will conduct a clinical validation trial and pursue De Novo classification for the algorithm as a
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How Continuous Glucose Monitoring Can Alleviate Language Barriers in Diabetes Care
As an endocrinologist with 19 years of experience in treating patients with diabetes, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that communication is key.
Patients with diabetes live with the heavy burden of making choices and taking action every single day to manage their blood glucose levels. Thankfully, advancements in technology have come incredibly far, giving way to tools like continuous glucose monitors (CGM), automated insulin delivery systems and more. But for
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