Is my prescription covered? What’s my copay? Choosing a health insurance plan that gets you the most bang for your buck is daunting. For many, medication price and coverage is a crucial decision factor. Meanwhile, drug prices vary under different … Continue reading →
Verizon launched Verizon Virtual Visits, which connects patients remotely to a clinician for colds, flus, sore throats or other simple, acute conditions. Users complete and send intake forms to providers and can then “see” a doctor via video on their … Continue reading →
A recent article in The Los Angeles Times cited publicly available federal government data to demonstrate wide variations in the quality of care at California’s community health centers. The article goes on to say patients can expect access to data … Continue reading →
Healthrageous, Inc., a personalized health technology company, completed a $6 million Series A financing led by North Bridge Venture Partners with investment partners Egan Managed Capital and Long River Ventures. Voxiva, the company behind HHS’s Text4Baby initiative, partnered with health … Continue reading →
Indian Health Service, the agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides health care to Native Americans, announced that it is creating a personal health record system. Patients will be able to view online and … Continue reading →
Human resources and health benefits consultancy Aon Hewitt will unveil its own online health benefits exchange this fall. Its exchanges will exists independent from the state exchanges that are supposed to be up and running by 2014. NantHealth launched the … Continue reading →
EveryMove Inc. raised $2.6 million in Series A Financing from Premera Blue Cross, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska, BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners (managed through Sandbox Industries) and angel investors. EveryMove is building a platform that will help people … Continue reading →
iSonea will design and market a home and mobile asthma monitoring platform in partnership with Qualcomm. The new technology will combine iSonea’s Acoustic Respiratory Monitoring technology and wireless asthma management systems with Qualcomm’s 2net platform. The integration will securely link … Continue reading →
HolaDoctor releases a white paper on opportunities and barriers to delivering mHealth interventions to Hispanic patients. HolaDoctor finds that Hispanics are more likely to own a smart phone than any other ethnic group, more likely to access the web through … Continue reading →