WebMD Ignite, a division of WebMD, has launched Coach, a platform that aims to improve care-management programs by integrating into care managers' workflows allowing them to bring customized health education, videos and interactive resources to members.
Coach expands on the company's set of services designed for health plan care managers, including HealthHub Interactive, which bundles three...
Digital health firm Zyla Health has recently raised $1 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by venture capital company Seeders.
The round also drew the participation of SuperMorpheus Investment Group, co-founders of Epigamia, Rahul Jain and Uday Thakker, PitchGround CEO Udit Goenka, and Kinderpass founder Sumedha Khoche, among others.
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Founded in 2017, Zyla provides...
Patient engagement has long been a tough nut for healthcare to crack, and it’s not for a lack of trying. New technologies that meet the patient in their home offer a clear opportunity to meet patients throughout the course of their daily lives, but the tools themselves are only half of the solution — making a real connection is just as much about addressing and responding to each individual’s...
Boston-based Wellframe, makers of mobile patient engagement and care management software, has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by F-Prime Capital. Existing investors DFJ also contributed, and the new capital brings the company’s total funding to date to $25 million.
Wellframe teams up with health plans and providers to offer a suite of customizable care plans that are designed to keep...
New York health insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield has partnered with Boston-based Wellframe to make Wellframe's mobile platform a part of its Health Care Improvement team. Excellus’s HCI team focuses on integrating care management and quality improvement programs to close gaps in care, and the partnership with Wellframe will help Excellus to achieve those goals through its mobile app. ...
Silver Spring, Maryland-based mental health care management company Mindoula Health has acquired Care at Hand, a Boston-based healthcare analytics company that offers a mobile-based early warning system for home caregivers, for an undisclosed amount.
"We have dedicated our company to transforming what we see as a broken behavioral health system,” Mindoula CEO Steve Sidel said in a statement. “Our...
Boston-based healthcare analytics company Care at Hand has raised $560,000. The round was led by strategic investor PCG Public Partnerships, a financial management services firm that helps state, county, and local public agencies to implement a participant-directed service model so they can make personalized choices about which services they receive within their budgets.
Care at Hand offers a...
Boston-based patient engagement and care management company Wellframe raised $8.5 million in a funding round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), with additional investment from Formation 8, Waterline Ventures and Queensbridge Venture Partners. This brings the company's total funding to date to $10 million.
Existing investors include athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush; Tim Draper, founder and...
An interactive text-message based care management system was able to create a 40 percent improvement in appointment adherence and modest improvement in medication and care plan adherence, according to new data from New York City-based Sense Health's randomized control trial with Montefiore Medical Center.
Sense Health uses pre-scripted but customizable text messaging to help overloaded Medicaid...
Emmi Solutions' patient engagement software.
Whether intentional or coincidental, the timing of Clay Christensen's controversial Wall Street Journal editorial on "The Coming Failure of ACOs" was interesting, putting Christensen's well-rooted skepticism at the forefront of the conversation going into HIMSS 2013, where ACOs were a dominant topic of discussion. Christensen contends that ACOs will...
