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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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Virta Adds Prediabetes and Obesity Reversal to Services

by Jasmine Pennic 10/07/2020 Leave a Comment

Virta Expands Offerings to Treat New Group of Chronic Illnesses

What You Should Know: - Virta is expanding its suite of treatment options to include prediabetes reversal, obesity reversal, and type 2 diabetes management. - By making this crucial expansion, Virta can scale its treatment to support the tens of millions of additional patients with prediabetes and obesity, as provide an on-ramp to reversal for those with T2D that aren’t yet ready to reverse.  Virta Health, the leader in type 2 diabetes reversal, today introduced the addition
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NIH Funds First Nationwide Rare and Atypical Diabetes Network

by Fred Pennic 10/02/2020 Leave a Comment

NIH Funds First Nationwide Rare and Atypical Diabetes Network

What You Should Know: - NIH awards funding for Rare and Atypical Diabetes Network, or RADIANT that will seek to discover the cause of several unusual forms of diabetes. - RADIANT plans to screen about 2,000 people with unknown or atypical forms of diabetes that do not fit the common features of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The National Institute of Health (NIH), announced this week it is funding a nationwide study with The Rare and Atypical Diabetes Network (RADIANT) that will seek
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DreaMed Diabetes Supports Research on Efficacy of Virtual Diabetes Care

by Fred Pennic 08/10/2020 Leave a Comment

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What You Should Know: - DreaMed Diabetes, the developer of personalized, AI-based diabetes management solutions, will participate in a clinical study, led by Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation, to evaluate the efficacy of virtual treatment for diabetes patients. The research is funded by a grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.  - DreaMed uses AI-powered technology to seamlessly treat patients remotely with its virtual diabetes management service by
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Lemonaid Health Raises $33M to Expand On-Demand Consumer Telehealth Platform

by Fred Pennic 07/31/2020 Leave a Comment

Lemonaid Health Closes oversubscribed $33M Series B to expand telehealth services

What You Should Know: - Lemonaid Health, a direct to consumer telehealth company raises $33M in Series B funding to expand the company’s medical team and number of services being offered to patients. - To date, the company has treated more than a million patients online for a variety of medical conditions ranging from erectile dysfunction to sinus infections to depression and anxiety for roughly $25/visit (less than a typical co-pay). Lemonaid Health, a convenient, affordable,
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COVID-19 Chronic Condition Patient Population Report

by Jasmine Pennic 06/04/2020 Leave a Comment

Google Awards Morehouse School of Medicine $1M to Study Racial Impact of COVID-19

What You Should Know: Wellframe report finds patients want access to virtual solutions to help manage their chronic conditions amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant effect on the chronic condition population by delaying access to care and exacerbating mental health challenges. Wellframe, a provider of Digital Health Management solutions, announced the findings of its COVID-19 Chronic Condition Patient Population Report
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Welldoc Awarded 8th FDA Clearance for Bluestar Medical Device for Diabetes

by Jasmine Pennic 06/04/2020 Leave a Comment

Welldoc’s BlueStar Integration with Xealth Improves Patient Engagement by 2.5X

What You Should Know: Marks 8th FDA clearance for BlueStar, the only reimbursable software as a medical device for diabetes that integrates with all of a patient's existing devices. Welldoc, revolutionizing digital health with the first FDA-cleared Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) for diabetes, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared an additional feature for the digital health product BlueStar Rx which supports individuals using long-acting
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Non-Invasive Technology for Measuring & Monitoring Liver Fat

by Scott Howell, D.O., MPH&TM, CPE, Advisor to Echosens 05/27/2020 Leave a Comment

As part of the growing awareness about chronic disease, it’s important to understand the relationship between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), an asymptomatic condition characterized by elevated levels of fat in the liver, and diabetes. As a common complication of Type 2 diabetes and obesity, NAFLD can be overlooked comorbidity. Diabetes is one of the leading causes of disability and death in the United States. One in 10 Americans have diabetes – more than 30 million people – and
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Omada Health Acquires Telehealth Physical Therapy Company Physera

by Fred Pennic 05/19/2020 Leave a Comment

Omada Health Acquires Telehealth Physical Therapy Company Physera

What You Should Know Tele-physical therapy company Physera announced that they are joining Omada Health, a digital health company that offers programs for chronic disease prevention and management, and mental health support.  Through the deal, Omada adds Physera’s musculoskeletal solution to its suite of digital care programs for the prevention and self-management of diabetes, hypertension, and mental health. Physera recently launched a
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Why Now’s the Time to Use Connected Health Devices for Diabetes Prevention

by Charlotte Puechmaille, Director of Strategy, New Health Businesses at Withings 05/15/2020 Leave a Comment

Why Now’s the Time to Use Connected Health Devices for Diabetes Prevention

It’s no secret that chronic disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, taking up 90 percent of healthcare spending in the United States. For the last several years, there has been a rise in discussions and research around the promise of connected health devices helping manage and prevent chronic conditions as well as healthcare spending. However, today a number of factors are coming together to make that promise a reality.  This includes the improvement of real-world data insights
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