A consumer desire for a personalized experience is converging with the healthcare consumerism trend to alter patient expectations for their relationships with caregivers. Wearable devices, IoT data, and healthcare apps that track sleep, diet, and exercise give consumers more insight and control of their overall health, and they increasingly view PCPs and healthcare professionals (HPs) as simply part of an overall healthcare journey. An important part, to be sure, but more like partners pursuing
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Virgin Pulse Completes Acquisition of Welltok – Health M&A
What You Should Know: - Virgin Pulse, a global provider of tech-enabled wellbeing solutions, today announced it has completed acquisition of Denver-based consumer activation company, Welltok, a leader in data analytics-based targeting and multi-channel outreach solutions. - Welltok’s proprietary activation engine is focused on motivating consumers, employees, patients, and members to complete targeted actions like participating in a mental health program, refilling a medication,
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Virgin Pulse to Acquire Welltok to Enhance Health Activation: 5 Things to Know
Virgin Pulse, a global provider of tech-enabled wellbeing solutions, today announced its intent to acquire Denver-based consumer activation company, Welltok, a leader in data analytics-based targeting and multi-channel outreach solutions. Here are five things to know about the acquisition: 1. The Welltok acquisition will accelerate Virgin Pulse's ability to serve substantially more clients, consumers, patients and members across the full healthcare continuum – employer, health plans
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Welltok Introduces New Consumer-Facing Marketplace
What You Should Know: - Welltok, a consumer activation company, introduced The Connect Store, a new consumer-facing marketplace that allows users to spend designated benefits dollars or pay directly for health and wellbeing programs and products that meet their immediate needs. - This supplemental benefit program features Welltok’s Connect Partners Ecosystem and helps Welltok clients like health plans and employers offer more extensive wellbeing without additional costs
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Welltok Relaunches Text4Baby Program to Improve Health for New & Expecting Moms
What You Should Know: - Welltok today announced it is relaunching its gold standard Text4baby program, an interactive text messaging service, has been updated with the latest prenatal and infant care guidelines and food allergy prevention and management information from FARE, the world’s leading non-governmental organization engaged in food allergy advocacy and the largest private funder of food allergy research. The information is clinically validated with
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COVID-19 Pandemic Further Exposes Systemic Racism…
This will be ugly and sad. Racism has cost this country $16 trillion over the last twenty years according to a recent Citigroup report. Much of this loss ($13 trillion) was attributed to discriminatory lending practices and the 6.1 million fewer jobs created as a result, while disparity in wages ($2.7 trillion) and discrimination in housing policies and lost income due to restricted access to higher education accounted for the balance. The report estimates that if these gaps were to be
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Colorado Health Plan Deploys Texting for COVID-19 Medicaid Outreach for Its Members
What You Should Know: - Colorado Access has deployed a text message program to its Medicaid members to quickly distribute basic facts on COVID-19 and health risk information, as well as resources for people who might be struggling with their mental health during the pandemic and information on where to get food and unemployment support. - Through its partnership with Welltok, the health plan sent more than 700,000 texts over three weeks in English and Spanish. Using Welltok’s data
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New Survey Underscores Importance of Social Determinants of Health Amid COVID-19 Crisis
What You Should Know: - Welltok survey reveals social determinants of health (SDOH) are becoming increasingly valuable during the COVID-19 pandemic for providers and health plans. It’s important they know what kind of lifestyle and environmental factors consumers are up against during social distancing and preventing the spread of the virus - Welltok survey of more than 2,000 adults finds consumers don’t know what SDOH to share with their provider for optimal care As the COVID-19
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Welltok Appoints Bob Fabbio CEO, Jeff Margolis to Serve as Chairman of the Board
What You Should Know: - Welltok appoints COO Bob Fabbio to CEO to lead the next stage of growth. - Outgoing CEO, Jeff Margolis, will continue in his role as Welltok’s Chairman of the Board. Welltok, the consumer health activation company, announced today that COO Bob Fabbio, has succeeded Jeff Margolis as chief executive officer. Margolis, who led the company as CEO for seven years, will remain involved strategically and continue in his role as Welltok’s Chairman of the Board.
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Report: Millennials Are Demanding More Wellbeing Support From Their Employers
Millennials are demanding more from their employers in terms of wellbeing support. This includes wanting support from managers and wellbeing programs, and multiple ways (including digital) to access resources. The new Millennials: Raising the Bar for Wellbeing report by Welltok, large employers’ principal partner for employee health and wellbeing activation, confirms that this generation is more likely to invest in their whole self and many feel that their employer is missing the mark.The
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