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Vuzix, VSee Launches Telemedicine Smart Glasses Solution

by Fred Pennic 04/09/2019 Leave a Comment

Vuzix, VSee Partner to Launch Telemedicine Smart Glasses Solution

Vusix, a supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, today announced it is partnering with VSee, San Jose-based telemedicine company, to provide a smart glasses telemedicine solution for real-time video. Adding HIPAA-compliant live video chat to the Vuzix smart glasses line means real-time video doctor visits, surgical training, medical equipment training, and more. VSee provides a HIPAA-compliant video telehealth and telemedicine video conferencing solution
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How the Walgreens-VA Partnership Demonstrates the Benefits of EHRs

by Charlie Whitfield, CEO of Whitty IT Solutions 12/21/2018 Leave a Comment

The Walgreens-VA Partnership Demonstrates the Benefits of EHRs

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), each year in the United States, adverse drug interactions cause more than a million visits to hospital emergency rooms. The CDC also found that 40 percent of negative interactions were preventable. One way to minimize these events is to give pharmacists electronic access to summaries of people’s medical histories so they can better predict how a new medication will affect each person’s health. Walgreens is taking a bold step in this direction
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Walgreens Launches New Digital Marketplace to Connect Visitors to Healthcare Providers

by Jasmine Pennic 07/26/2018 Leave a Comment

Walgreens today introduced Find Care Now, a digital platform and marketplace that helps connect the company’s millions of mobile and online visitors to healthcare services to a growing selection of recognized healthcare providers in their community. The company is working closely with a current list of 17 participating providers as part of the effort, further enhancing Walgreens omnichannel role as a convenient and trusted neighborhood healthcare destination.Find Care Now services include
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Fitbit Rolls Out New Digital Health Apps with its Partners to Improve Overall Health

by Jasmine Pennic 05/07/2018 Leave a Comment

Fitbit Rolls Out New Digital Health Apps with its Partners to Improve Overall Health

Leading global wearables brand Fitbit, today announced new apps and clock faces to help people better manage their health, directly from the wrist.Built using Fitbit’s SDK, the apps and clock faces will give Fitbit smartwatch users new options to improve wellness and help manage conditions like diabetes and some types of cancer. Additionally, the apps will give health plans, employers and clinical researchers new opportunities to better support their users outside of a clinical environment,
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Blue Cross Expands Partnership with Lyft, Collabs with CVS & Walgreens to Send Patients to Pharmacies

by Jasmine Pennic 03/15/2018 Leave a Comment

Circulation and Lyft Team Up for Non-Emergency Medical Transportation

In an effort to address the community effects of social determinants of health, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) today announced a first nationwide partnership with Lyft to ensure Americans are not missing vital health care appointments simply because they lack reliable transportation.This partnership exemplifies Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s (BCBS) commitment to bringing private and public entities together to improve community health in a manner that a health care organization
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NewYork-Presbyterian, Walgreens Partner to Launch In-Store Telemedicine Kiosks

by Fred Pennic 12/12/2017 Leave a Comment

NewYork-Presbyterian, Walgreens Partner to Launch In-Store Telemedicine Kiosks

NewYork-Presbyterian and Walgreens has announced a new collaboration to bring convenient access to NewYork-Presbyterian's world-class care through in-store telemedicine kiosks at select Duane Reade drugstores in New York. NewYork-Presbyterian, New York's No. 1 hospital, is offering the telemedicine services as part of its NYP OnDemand suite of digital health services.The first NewYork-Presbyterian NYP OnDemand telemedicine kiosk is currently available at the Duane Reade location at 40 Wall
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Walgreens Launches Center for Health & Wellbeing Research Featuring More Than 50 Outcome Studies

by HITC Staff 08/15/2017 Leave a Comment

Walgreens Launches Center for Health & Wellbeing Research

Walgreens has announced the launch of its Center for Health & Wellbeing Research, a website that features more than 50 Walgreens outcomes studies completed over the past six years. Areas of research include access to care and patient experience, adherence and clinical outcomes, digital health and member engagement, health care costs, HIV and specialty pharmacy, vaccinations and more.OverviewLed by a team of more than 25 Walgreens health services researchers, clinicians, statisticians, public
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OurCrowd Launches Israel’s First $50M Digital Health Fund

by Fred Pennic 11/02/2016 Leave a Comment

OurCrowd Launches Israel’s First $50M Digital Health Fund

OurCrowd, an Jerusalem-based global equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors has launched Israel's first $50 million fund to invest in digital health startups. The new fund called OurCrowd Qure will focus on digital health startups at seed and series A stages in Israel, the US and the Asia Pacific region. Allen Kamer and Dr. Yossi Bahagon has been appointed to lead the fund.OurCrowd Qure has established a collaboration with Johns Hopkins University to provide validation of value,
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Walgreens Study: Pill Reminder, Activity Tracking Features Improves Medication Adherance

by HITC Staff 09/13/2016 Leave a Comment

Walgreens mobile pill reminder feature and its activity tracking digital health solutions has improved medication adherence among pharmacy patients, according to two recent company studies. Recent Walgreens research has shown that consumers over 50 years of age who track activities through its Balance® Rewards for healthy choices (BRhc) program, which awards loyalty points for healthy behaviors and activities, are more adherent to their medication therapies. A separate Walgreens study found that
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Walgreens Adds Gamification for Medication Adherence via HealthPrize

by Jasmine Pennic 08/16/2016 Leave a Comment

HealthPrize

Walgreens is teaming up with HealthPrize Technologies to offer digital patient engagement, education and gamification for medication adherence platform through Walgreens.com. The Walgreens program powered by HealthPrize is expected to finish development later this month and will be co-marketed by both companies to pharmaceutical sponsors. It is planned to be offered to patients filling certain brand-name prescriptions for chronic conditions such as diabetes on Walgreens.com. Medication
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