What You Should Know: - Anthem, Inc. announced a new study that examines how the use of everyday devices, like Apple Watch and iPhone, may help individuals with asthma, led by the University of California, Irvine. - Launching in the fall, the two-year, randomized controlled study will enroll participants from Anthem-affiliated health plans who have been clinically diagnosed with asthma. -Anthem, Inc. today a new study that examines how the use of everyday devices, like Apple Watch
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Medisafe Launches New Platform for Medication Management to Improve Patient Journey
What You Should Know: - Medisafe launches a new Medisafe Maestro platform that brings precision and speed to patient journeys. - The new platform aims to revolutionize digital health platforms by combining a host of resources to help patients through any hurdle in their journey and updates and monitoring happen in real-time to meet patients in their moments. Medisafe, a Boston, MA-based digital therapeutics companion platform, announced the immediate deployment of its new Medisafe
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Optimize.health Raises $15.6M for Remote Patient Monitoring Platform
What You Should Know: - Optimize.health raises $15.6M in Series A funding to accelerate access to and adoption of its remote patient monitoring platform. - Optimize.Health enables improved access to care, more favorable health outcomes, and contained healthcare costs through the combination of high-quality monitoring devices and a user-friendly, HIPAA-compliant digital platform that supports two-way video calls and text conversations between patients and their
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Propeller Health, Novartis Co-Package Asthma Medication in Europe for Prescription
What You Should Know: - Propeller Health announced it will co-package a new asthma medication from Novartis, which was approved by the European Commission this week for use in the EU. - Enerzair® Breezhaler® plus Propeller Health sensor is the first asthma medication to be co-packaged and co-prescribed with a digital health platform. - Propeller’s solution works by attaching a sensor to the Enerzair® Breezhaler® inhaler, which then delivers objective data on medication use to the
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90% of Consumers Believe Remote Health Monitoring Device Helps Better Manage Chronic Conditions
What You Should Know: - Nearly 90 percent of those consumers believe they could better manage chronic conditions with a specialized remote health monitoring device, according to Sony’s mSafety Wearable Platform Division. - The mSafety study found that managing chronic conditions remains “stressful” and “difficult” despite advances in technology — particularly remote health monitoring devices and platforms. - The mSafety study also found more than half of those surveyed would consider
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Walmart Acquires Medication Management Platform CareZone for $200M to Enhance Digital Health & Wellness Capabilities
What You Should Know: - Walmart acquires app-based patient medication management platform CareZone for reportedly $200M to enhance its digital health and wellness capabilities. - CareZone’s technology and team members will join Walmart to augment their current Health & Wellness capabilities and support its focus on digital health care solutions. CareZone will remain a separate company unrelated to Walmart. Walmart announced it has acquired CareZone, a San Francisco,
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Oncologists Believe Social Determinants of Health Impacts Outcomes for Cancer Patients
What You Should Know: - Oncologists state social determinants of health (SDOH) significantly impact outcomes for cancer patients, according to new research from Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions. - The findings illustrate certain disconnects between physician perceptions and the increasing body of evidence on the significance of SDOH. - Appropriately, 91 percent of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that SDOH directly impact cancer treatment outcomes. More than 90% of
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Propeller to Connect AstraZeneca’s Inhaler Symbicort Users to Propeller Platform
What You Should Know: Propeller Health has been awarded FDA 510(k) clearance to connect patients using AstraZeneca’s Symbicort Inhaler to Propeller, enhancing medication coverage and respiratory digital health. The sensor for Symbicort, a controller medication for asthma and COPD, was developed in partnership with AstraZeneca. With this new medication on our roster, Propeller now connects to 90 percent of the inhaled medications for asthma and COPD on the U.S. market. Propeller
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AI Can Identify Unseen Sufferers of COVID-19 & Enable Proactive Care
As the nation’s eyes focus on COVID-19, another healthcare crisis is unfolding out of sight. Hidden from view, millions of Americans who don’t have COVID-19 are suffering healthcare crises in their homes. These unseen individuals are facing major challenges, on multiple levels: acute, chronic, and preventive. Patients are waiting longer at home before coming to the hospital for acute illnesses like appendicitis, stroke, or heart attack. Patients with chronic diseases are not receiving
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KLAS: COVID-19 Guide to Telehealth Virtual Care & Remote Care Platforms
What You Should Know: - New KLAS telehealth reports aims to aims to provide high-level COVID-19 guidance helpful to healthcare organizations on the virtual care and remote care platform vendor landscape. - Includes high-level overviews of validated vendors’ current customer satisfaction, key questions to consider in building a strategy, and a consolidated view of KLAS’ previously published telehealth reports. Telehealth adoption in healthcare until recently had been increasing at a
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