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When Baltimore, Maryland-based WellDoc announced its newest mobile health offering BlueStar this week, the big news was the fact that a “mobile integrated therapy” — as the company refers to its offerings — could be prescribed to patients via existing Rx channels and would be...
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Last August — almost a year ago now — The New York Times reported that two insurers had agreed to pay $100 a month in reimbursement for use of WellDoc’s mobile-enabled diabetes management program. The report, which sourced WellDoc’s president Anand Iyer as its source, expected...
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It’s been a busy few weeks in mobile health and our loyal readers have done a great job of analyzing, interacting with and contributing to our reporting. We wanted to give a shout out to some especially thoughtful comments that we’ve seen in the past couple weeks. Be sure to keep the comments...
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In a recent blog post about its quarterly funding round-up, San Francisco-based health incubator Rock Health wrote that it’s “hearing WellDoc will be the first major acquisition announced in Q2.” Given WellDoc’s stature in mobile health, such a deal would be quite a story.
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A recent meta-analysis from The Cochrane Library found that computer-based interventions for Type 2 diabetes provide, at best, a small improvement from traditional care methods. The analysis, based on 16 studies, found that the interventions reduced A1C (the standard measure for blood glucose control...
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Filed under: Uncategorized, diabetes, WellDoc, Type 2 diabetes, Ginger.io, iPhone diabetes app, Omada Health, Cochrane Library, mHealth efficacy studies, diabetes intervention, metanalysis
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At the HIMSS13 event this week, an executive from the automaker Ford recapped the company’s now well-documented vision for how to transform the car into a next generation platform for mobile health apps, devices, and services. For the first time, however, Gary Strumolo, Ford’s global manager for...
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Filed under: Uncategorized, microsoft, Medtronic, WellDoc, Toyota, IMS Health, HIMSS13, mobile health developers, heart sensors, carseat sensors, AppLink, Car That Cares, Sync, Ford
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Technology moves too quickly for the world of academic publishing. That’s a long held belief by many but also a common topic of conversation among those working in digital health today. How to best study efficacy can be a tricky subject for digital health, however, the argument that efficacy data...
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Waltham, Massachusetts-based Alere acquired wireless remote patient monitoring company MedApps last summer for an undisclosed sum, but according to Alere’s SEC filings, the most that Alere will potentially have to pay for MedApps – based on an undisclosed earn-out structure – is $22 million. The...
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Filed under: Uncategorized, remote patient monitoring, MedApps, mHealth, WellDoc, Voxiva, digital health, Alere, AirStrip, Alere Connect, HealthPAL
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The role of evidence in mobile health app development — and the level of scrutiny such apps should be subjected to — is still an open question. At the mHealth Summit 2012, a variety of speakers from different sectors of the market offered their opinions on what, exactly, is meant by evidence...
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Calling mobile health “one of the most significant health IT developments of the past five years” in terms of treating chronic diseases, a coalition of health IT advocates sees strong potential in mobile and wireless technologies to address the diabetes epidemic, even in “socially disadvantaged”...
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Earlier this week, MobiHealthNews reported on positive – albeit vague – preliminary results from a pilot test of WellDoc’s DiabetesManager system among employees of health insurer Health Care Service Corp. (HCSC) who had type 2 diabetes.
But what does it really mean that 88 percent of the 156 participants...
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Thu, Aug 30 2012
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Filed under: Uncategorized, iPhone health apps, AT&T, WellDoc, text message reminders, DiabetesManager, mobile health efficacy, mobile diabetes apps, HCSC, mobile diabetes care, Health Care Service Corp
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WellDoc continues its hot streak. Fresh off deals with Alere and two unspecified health insurance companies – not to mention a new round of funding – WellDoc corporate partner AT&T reports strongly positive early results from a test of the Baltimore-based company’s DiabetesManager system.
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According to an SEC filing this week, Baltimore, Maryland-based WellDoc has raised more than $500,000 toward a hoped for $13 million round of funding. According to the filing, six investors have contributed to the round so far. In the past the company has raised some $5 million, according to various...
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Thu, Aug 16 2012
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Filed under: Uncategorized, Rock Health, venture capital, WellDoc, DiabetesManager, digital health investments, HealthLoop, NetPulse, MyHealthTeams, BitGym
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As expected, Ford has announced the launch of the first mobile health app to connect to certain Ford models via the car company’s Sync AppLink platform: IMS Health’s Allergy Alert app, which is powered by data from IMS Health’s Pollen.com site. MobiHealthNews attended Ford’s media...
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