- Blue Shield of California and Accolade announced a new partnership to deploy Accolade's personalized health technology + human support to Blue Shield's employer customers. - By adding Accolade's personalized engagement solution, employers can benefit from proven boosts in program utilization, employee satisfaction, and cost savings. - The Blue Shield and Accolade offering is available for a January 2021 plan effective date. Blue Shield of California and Accolade today
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Canadian Government Awards $49M Grant to Establish Canada-wide AI Health Data Platform
The government of Canada has announced an investment grant of up to $49 million in the Digital Health and Discovery Platform (DHDP), a network of partners that seeks to establish a cutting-edge Canada-wide health data platform. Through this new platform, researchers and doctors will work to accelerate the development of new and personalized treatments to help to find cures for diseases that affect Canadians. While the platform will initially focus on cancer, the plan is to expand to other areas
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Novo Nordisk, Glooko Team Up to Develop Digital Diabetes Solutions
Pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk and Glooko, a remote patient monitoring platform for diabetes are teaming up to develop digital health solutions for diabetes. As part of the non-exclusive collaboration, both companies will work together to create co-branded digital health solutions that will deliver personalized, digital services to support people with diabetes in areas including treatment adherence and blood glucose management.For Novo Nordisk, the integration of these offerings within its
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Rock Health: How Predictive Analytics Impacts Patient Care
As data sources and technology advance, algorithms will be able to deliver better, personalized care. Though personalized medicine has yet to deliver on the promise of its powers, its precursor, predictive analytics, has proven effective in many industries and is now focused on transforming healthcare. Dozens of new digital health products have hit the market and $1.9B has flowed into the space since 2011—but what does it take for an algorithm to accurately and reliably impact care? Rock
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