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Southern Illinois Healthcare Selects Xealth to Digitally Engage Patients

by Jasmine Pennic 02/08/2023 Leave a Comment

Digital Prescribing Platform Xealth Raises $11M to Expand Digital Health Tools

What You Should Know: - Today, Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH) announced that it’s using Xealth’s digital health platform system-wide to automate digital programs, starting with smoking cessation. SIH plans to add additional digital health programs to deliver operational efficiencies while enhancing the patient experience. - The Xealth digital health platform is designed to help clinicians integrate, prescribe and monitor digital health tools for patients from one
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Why It’s Time for Healthcare Organizations to Start Treating Patients Like Consumers

by Emily Goetz, VP of Commercial at Bright.md 10/12/2022 Leave a Comment

Why It’s Time for Healthcare Organizations to Start Treating Patients Like Consumers

When the pandemic disrupted routine procedures and primary care across healthcare, many care delivery organizations believed patients would eventually return to in-person care as they always have once the pandemic was over and restrictions were lifted. Pent-up patient demand for non-emergency, preventative services–everything from cancer screenings to mental health support to birth control to smoking cessation–would eventually draw patients back into the healthcare system. Patients with common
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Qnovia Secures $17M to Advance Inhalable Therapeutics Pipeline

by Jasmine Pennic 09/28/2022 Leave a Comment

Qnovia Secures $17M to Advance Inhalable Therapeutics Pipeline

What You Should Know: - Qnovia (formerly Respira Technologies)—a pharma company developing inhaled therapeutics with an initial focus on nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and cardiopulmonary diseases—has raised $17M in Series A funding led by Blue Ledge Capital and included DG Ventures, Evolution VC Partners, Gaingels, TL Capital, and Vice Ventures. - Qnovia will use the Series A proceeds to advance its NRT drug candidate through an IND submission with the FDA and begin human
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AWS Names 10 Startups for 2022 AWS Healthcare Accelerator Cohort

by Jasmine Pennic 08/31/2022 Leave a Comment

AWS Names 10 Startups for 2022 AWS Healthcare Accelerator Cohort

What You Should Know: - AWS names the ten digital health startups selected for its AWS Healthcare Accelerator cohort, focused on health equity. - With the aim of reducing health disparities, these startups are increasing access to health services, addressing social determinants of health, and leveraging data to promote equitable and inclusive systems of care. 2022 AWS Healthcare Accelerator Program Details Over the course of the four-week program, these 10 startups will receive
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Challenges and Opportunities for At-Home COPD Management

by Sridhar Nemala, co-founder and Head of AI at Curie AI 08/24/2022 Leave a Comment

Challenges and Opportunities for At-Home COPD Management

There are an estimated 16 million Americans who suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Patients with COPD are frequently prescribed respiratory medication and given at-home treatment strategies designed to improve general wellness and improve airflow. These strategies may include smoking cessation, air quality control, exercise, and stress management. Unfortunately, despite the use of medication and widespread adoption of lifestyle strategies, COPD continues to represent a
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Raising Clinical Outcomes and Engagement Through Healthcare Equity: What Health Plans Need to Know

by Anne Davis, VP of Government Markets & Strategy at Wellth 05/04/2022 Leave a Comment

Raising Clinical Outcomes and Engagement Through Healthcare Equity: What Health Plans Need to Know

Structural racism and poverty are correlated with a higher incidence of obesity among Black Americans (49%). Social drivers of health, which impact a disproportionate number of non-white Americans who live below the poverty line, account for as much as 90% of individuals’ health outcomes.   These are just two examples of data that highlight the need for equity.  Health plans are well-aware that shifting this dynamic and boosting clinical outcomes is possible through better,
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Highmark Taps Lark Health for AI-Driven Chronic Disease Management/Prevention

by Fred Pennic 12/07/2020 Leave a Comment

Highmark Taps Lark Health for AI-Driven Chronic Disease Management/Prevention

What You Should Know: - Highmark, one of the largest Blues plans, has chosen Lark Health for its chronic disease prevention and management platform. - Members will have access to Lark’s 24/7 AI-based coaching and programs to manage diabetes, hypertension, and prevent chronic conditions. Highmark Inc., America's fourth-largest overall Blue Cross Blue Shield-affiliated organization, announced a growing collaboration with Lark Health, virtual chronic disease prevention and management
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Blue Cross NC Launches No-Cost Virtual Programs to Quit Smoking and Reverse Diabetes

by Jasmine Pennic 10/20/2020 Leave a Comment

Blue Cross NC Launches No-Cost Virtual Programs to Quit Smoking and Reverse Diabetes

What You Should Know: - Today, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina partners with Carrot Inc. and Virta Health to help address two of the largest ongoing health issues facing Americans today - smoking and type 2 diabetes. - Virta and Carrot’s programs will be available to individual under-65 members and fully insured group members beginning November 2020. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC), today announced it is teaming up with Carrot Inc. and Virta
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Sharecare Acquires Evidence-Based Behavior Change Apps MindSciences

by Fred Pennic 06/03/2020 Leave a Comment

Sharecare Acquires Evidence-Based Behavior Change Apps MindSciences

What You Should Know: - Sharecare announced the acquisition of Boston-based MindSciences, an evidence-based behavior change suite of apps focused on mental health (anxiety, stress management), smoking cessation, and weight loss/binge eating, and more. - The acquisition rounds out Sharecare’s portfolio of mHealth-based therapeutic programs improving chronic disease risk and overall health outcomes by targeting varying aspects of well-being. - Based on the work of Dr. Judson Brewer, now
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Sharecare Integrates App-Based Tobacco Cessation Program into Digital Health Platform

by Fred Pennic 02/17/2020 Leave a Comment

Sharecare Adds App-Based Mindfulness Program for Tobacco Cessation

- Sharecare integrates MindSciences’ mindfulness-based smoking cessation program called Craving to Quit into their digital health platform. - The Craving to Quit program targets the neurological function that enables habit formation to instead lead the user to curb tobacco use.  Sharecare, the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, and MindSciences, the leader in evidence-based behavior change apps, today announced a partnership to
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