Walmart’s relationship with Included Health dates back to 2016 when its previous incarnation – Doctor on Demand – began providing virtual urgent care services to Walmart employees in three states. Nearly eight years later, the San Francisco company continues to be the only partner charged with delivering virtual primary care to almost 1 million people in 49 states. In announcing a large expansion of its virtual primary care program on Tuesday, Walmart strongly endorsed its health tech partner charged with providing that care to workers and their families enrolled in its health plans: Included Health. “They’re the partner,” responded Lisa Woods, vice president, physical & emotional wellbeing at the Bentonville, Arkansas retailer, when asked whether Included is simply one of the partners involved in the announcement. Through the expansion, 1 million people including Walmart associates and their family members will be able to access virtual care in 49 states. “Yesterday, ...
BY SEAN WHOOLEY Caption Guidance on the Venue Go system in use. [Image courtesy of GE HealthCare] GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC)+ announced today that it launched its Venue point-of-care ultrasound systems with AI-driven Caption Guidance. Chicago-based GE HealthCare says the Venue family is the first of its ultrasound guidance to include Caption Guidance. The company added the AI-driven imaging guidance to its arsenal when it acquired Caption Health earlier this year. Caption Guidance, an optional add-on, offers new capabilities at the point of care with diagnostic-quality cardiac images. It supports clinicians in a wide range of clinical settings, like emergency departments, critical care wards and anesthesiology. GE HealthCare says the Caption Guidance technology offers clinicians step-by-step instructions to acquire ultrasound for cardiac assessments. It helps providers — even those who aren’t ultrasound experts — by addressing training and skill barriers to ultrasound usage. This, in turn, expands ultrasound access. According ...
As a combined entity, Virgin Pulse and HealthComp will serve more than 1,000 self-insured employers and more than 20 million members. New Mountain Capital will be the majority owner. By MARISSA PLESCIA Navigation company Virgin Pulse and benefits and analytics platform HealthComp announced Wednesday that they plan to merge to create an integrated platform for employer-sponsored benefits. The $3 billion deal was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. Providence, Rhode Island-based Virgin Pulse works with employers, health plans and health systems. It offers a navigation platform called Homebase for Health, which provides access to motivating challenges, lifestyle coaches and specialty partner programs. Fresno, California-based HealthComp works with employers, brokers and providers. It offers claim protection and integrity, clinical care management programs, customizable technology, a customer service model and data-driven reports. Virgin Pulse is backed by Marlin Equity Partners, while HealthComp is backed by New Mountain Capital, according to a ...
Nearly one in three Americans wear a wearable device, like a smartwatch, to track their health and fitness. Studies have shown positive effects of increasing movement in ways that can be measured by these devices, especially for people who recently had a heart attack or other cardiovascular event. But a Michigan Medicine-led report shows that adding a mobile health application to such devices yields mixed results. Tailored text messages to encourage high-risk people to move more may improve some short-term outcomes but doesn’t always improve physical activity levels for everyone. The randomized clinical trial, called the Virtual AppLication-supported Environment To Increase Exercise Study, or VALENTINE, compared the physical activity levels of patients enrolled in cardiac rehabilitation who received the mobile health intervention to those who did not. Cardiac rehabilitation is a medically supervised program is recommended after cardiovascular events, such as heart attack or surgery. Of the more than 200 ...
Dive Brief GE HealthCare has teamed with Mayo Clinic to advance medical imaging, artificial intelligence and theranostics, a type of cancer treatment that involves imaging and targeted therapeutics. The organizations will collaborate on the application of AI to magnetic resonance imaging, the automation of diagnostic and interventional ultrasound and other activities that could improve patient care. GE HealthCare has formed a series of partnerships since separating from its parent company, striking deals with companies including Boston Scientific, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic. Dive Insight GE HealthCare and other parts of its former parent company, GE, have a long history of working with Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo, teaming up with the hospital to test remote monitoring devices, found a gene therapy software startup and develop a medical electronic record system. The latest deal brings together scientists, technology developers and clinicians working at GE HealthCare and Mayo to collaborate on four core areas ...
UK immersive technology company FourPlus, along with collaborators Holosphere and the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, have been awarded funding from Innovate UK to create and test a mixed reality training platform that enables customized training delivery for pharmaceutical companies and healthcare. The project is a GBP 1 million investment, with almost 75% from Innovate UK, and has been awarded via the Digitalization and Automation of Medicines R&D and Manufacture competition. It will support the development of a customizable platform that leverages mixed reality and multi-player capabilities. The digital and automated training platform will be designed specifically for a number of manufacturing roles within cell and gene therapy, biopharmaceutical and wider life science sectors, including those at hospital sites. It will support initial training of staff, validation and the creation of digital training records. The platform will also enable healthcare trainers and trainees to collaborate seamlessly within virtual ...
Dive Brief The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking for public input on the transition to at-home care and how it can support enabling technologies. As part of its push to advance health equity, the FDA has posed a series of home-care questions to the medtech industry, including a query about how it can support the development of devices for use in non-clinical care settings. Other questions cover how digital health technologies can support home-based healthcare, the device design attributes that facilitate use outside of clinical settings and methods for generating data to inform regulatory reviews. Dive Insight The development of remote patient-monitoring devices and other connected medical technologies has made it possible to treat more patients at home. In theory, home care can help reduce costs and risks associated with spending time in healthcare facilities and lessen burdens on patients. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated uptake and validation of ...
ADVANZ PHARMA has collaborated with Veeva Systems to set up a unified digital-first commercial foundation in Europe. ADVANZ intends to drive a unified field strategy across all markets and strengthen field engagement with healthcare professionals (HCPs) using Veeva Commercial Cloud, a family of data, software and services for advancing commercial excellence in life sciences. ADVANZ is also using Veeva OpenData and Veeva CRM Suite to consolidate its operations and to gain a clear understanding of customers throughout the healthcare ecosystem, with a focus on products within oncology, anti-infectives, critical care, endocrinology and rare diseases. This allows the company’s newly merged field teams to coordinate more effectively with HCP touchpoints across channels and regions. Veeva Europe commercial strategy vice-president Philipp Luik stated: “With Veeva Commercial Cloud, ADVANZ now has a digital foundation to sustain growth as it expands operations in Europe. “By reaching the right people sooner and leading more impactful ...
Dive Brief The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Veterans Health Administration have signed an agreement to increase medical product manufacturing capacity and flexibility in times of crisis. The agencies will create “digital stockpiles” to improve the resilience of domestic supply chains during emergencies, shortages and pandemics. The digital stockpiles will store electronic plans, instructions and methods to make and test medical products to enable trusted suppliers to quickly scale up production when needed, according to the agencies. Dive Insight The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the shortcomings of existing supply chains. When the crisis struck, the U.S. and other countries struggled to meet demand for personal protective equipment and other medical devices used in the response to the coronavirus. The experience led officials to consider how to make supply chains more resilient and able to cope with crises. Now, the FDA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the VHA. ...
Lisette Hilton | Healthcare practices are already using chatbots to help with administrative tasks like scheduling appointments or requests for prescription refills. And while users say the current generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology falls short for safely treating patients, a recent survey of healthcare practices suggests 77% of users predict chatbots will be able to treat patients within the next decade. According to Software Advice’s 2023 Medical Chatbot Survey of 65 healthcare providers or practice owners who use live chatbots on their websites, which was conducted in March 2023, more than three quarters of those surveyed are extremely or somewhat confident in chatbots’ ability to assess patients’ symptoms. Chris R. Alabiad, MD, professor of clinical ophthalmology and ophthalmology residency program director at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL, has tested the use of ChatGPT (Open AI) in the academic and clinical settings. He piloted the use of ChatGPT at Bascom ...
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