Collaboration leverages both Samsung Health and American Well apps to easily connect consumers to high-quality telehealth servicesSamsung, Anthem, and American Well, today announced a new partnership to provide consumers access to a broad array of telehealth services through the Samsung Health app and American Well’s LiveHealth Online app. Starting today, consumers with an Anthem-affiliated health plan and the updated Samsung Health app on their Samsung Galaxy device can now access LiveHealth
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Philips and Samsung Partner to Connect Samsung’s IoT Platform to Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform
Philips and Samsung announced plans for a strategic partnership to connect Samsung’s ARTIK Smart IoT Platform to the Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform. This collaboration will ultimately allow the Samsung ARTIK ecosystem of connected devices to safely access and share information with Philips’ cloud platform. Healthcare application developers will be able to realize interoperable connected health solutions using integrated data sets and innovative HealthSuite services such as advanced health
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WellDoc’s Digital Platform for Type 2 Diabetes Powers “Diabetes Wellness Program” Through Samsung Health
Samsung Electronics America, Inc. and WellDoc, a digital therapeutic company, announced today that Samsung Health users now have access to a new consumer version of WellDoc’s digital platform known as the Diabetes Wellness Program (DWP). Samsung Health users now have access to a new Diabetes Wellness Program (DWP) available through the Samsung Health service that is powered by WellDoc’s platform used in its BlueStar® product. It is available to individuals in the United States with Samsung
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UnitedHealthcare and Qualcomm Integrate Samsung, Garmin Wearables Into Wellness Program
UnitedHealthcare and Qualcomm Life have integrated wearable devices from Samsung and Garmin International, Inc., into UnitedHealthcare Motion. UnitedHealthcare Motion is a national wellness program that provides eligible plan participants access to activity trackers and enables them to earn more than $1,000 per year by meeting certain daily walking goals.The Samsung Gear Fit2 Pro and Gear Sport, and the Garmin vívosmart 3, have been integrated and validated with Qualcomm Life’s 2net platform for
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Samsung, TigerText Partner to Offer Mobile Clinical Collaboration Solution for Care Teams
Samsung and TigerText today announced a new strategic partnership and joint offering to improve communication and coordination efforts among care teams, offering CNOs and CNIOs a top of the line, enterprise-grade smartphone that meets the consumer-expectations of staff. Improvements in efficiency allows clinicians to streamline continuity of care and spend more time caring for patients and less time tracking down colleagues or completing redundant administrative tasks. The new all-in-one
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Samsung Health Integrates with WellDoc’s Consumer Diabetes Health App
Today, WellDoc announced it has entered a joint commercial partnership agreement with Samsung. The enhanced partnership with WellDoc gives Samsung an opportunity to serve global consumers who are ready to embrace the combined health innovations that both companies plan to offer. Samsung also becomes a distribution channel for WellDoc.The companies will integrate WellDoc’s newly-released consumer diabetes health app, BlueStar® C, with the recently launched Samsung Health, a mobile one-stop shop
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Time For a Mobile Security Assessment – A Comprehensive Mobile Security Checklist
Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Samsung. Unbeknownst to all, the healthcare industry is in possession of vast amounts of valuable data, while also being the most at-risk and easy to breach. Using outdated, interconnected electronic systems without a strong security plan contributes to this problem. According to Symantec’s 2016 Internet Security Threat Report, healthcare was the most targeted sector in 2015. To help ease the pain of this huge wound, Samsung and Booz Allen Hamilton
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Samsung, Nestlé Partner to Develop New Digital Health, Nutrition Platform
Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center and Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences has announced a digital health collaboration to harness the healthcare IoT and nutrition science to provide deep insights into healthy living. As part of the partnership, both parties will work towards the development of a new digital health platform to provide more personal and meaningful insights that inspire healthy living.Nestlé , Samsung Collaboration DetailsThe digital health collaboration aims to
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New Pain Diversion Technology Helps Ease Patient Discomfort
Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Samsung. A new case study has been released in conjunction with Southern Hills Hospital, Samsung and AccendoWave, creator of a patient satisfaction platform that provides feedback on a patient’s pain level and distress. With the help of Samsung’s mobile devices, AccendoWave partnered with Southern Hills in a six-month pilot program to test the pain diversion technology in an effort to understand and help ease patient discomfort and create better patient
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8 Best Practices to Integrate Mobility Solutions for Healthcare Providers
Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Samsung.Today’s healthcare sector strives to achieve profitability and success under some of the most challenging business conditions driven by declining margins and provider consolidation. When deciding where and how to begin integrating mobility solutions into day-to-day operations, providers should keep the following eight best practices in mind: 1. Establish Strategy Team & MakeupThese are the actual users of the mobile solutions and should be
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