Highmark Health
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh, Highmark Health
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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How Highmark Health Is Battling Food Insecurity
Highmark Health has been launching a series of initiatives to support the “food as medicine” movement, including a program that provides some West Virginia residents with debit cards to purchase healthy food at Dollar General stores.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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How Can the Healthcare Industry Make It Easier for Patients To Make Healthier Food Choices?
It shouldn’t be so hard for Americans to access healthy foods, said Dr. Elizabeth Klodas, founder of healthy food company Step One Foods, during a Tuesday panel at the MedCity INVEST conference in Chicago. There should be incentives for food companies and better nutrition education for Americans.
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Advocates of Digital Therapies Hope Bill Can Ease Reimbursement
A similar bill appeared last year but did not progress. Given the potential costs of reimbursing prescription digital therapeutics, Congress could be skeptical. Still, with growing attention on mental health, advocates are optimistic.
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Highmark Health Launches Pilot Program Providing Medically-tailored Meals
The six-month pilot program aims to support 1,000 Highmark insurance members with certain chronic health conditions and who are at high-risk of food insecurity. These members will receive two medically-tailored meals a day, as well as coaching and social work to help them live a healthier lifestyle.
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Highmark, Google, League Partner to Launch New Digital Health Platform
The new platform is a “digital front door” for members, offered on the web and through the My Highmark app. It will help members with scheduling appointments, accessing primary care and urgent care, managing prescription drugs and other services. It will roll out in January.
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Highmark, Allegheny Health Network Adopt Cedar’s New Tech to Alleviate Billing Confusion
Cedar recently launched a new set of features to bring the disconnected ecosystem of healthcare entities together and make billing easier to understand for patients. Pittsburgh-based payer Highmark Health and its health system, Allegheny Health Network, are the first customers to implement the product, which Cedar dubbed its “payer intelligence layer.”
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Highmark strikes deal with Verily as part of broader Google partnership
Verily become part of a six-year collaboration between Google Cloud and Highmark Health. A big part of the partnership will be Verily’s platform for managing chronic conditions, Onduo.
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Health IT, Hospitals, Health Tech
Highmark strikes six-year contract with Google Cloud
The insurer, which also owns Allegheny Health Network, struck a six-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud, which includes building out a new platform to help better manage patient care.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Startups with tech to improve payer and provider efficiency: Video from MedCity INVEST Digital Health
This Pitch Perfect contest track reflected technology to remove financial barriers for their patients, automating workflows, reducing inefficiency and waste associated with the Prior Authorization process, and more.
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Check out the lineup of judges for our startup competition at INVEST Digital Health
Time is running out to register for INVEST Digital Health virtual conference, scheduled for September 21-25. In addition to compelling panel discussions, it will spotlight startups who will present their products and services to teams of judges in four categories.
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Health IT, Hospitals, Events, Health Services, Health Tech, Payers
How four healthcare executives are planning for the future of digital health
Executives with Kaiser Permanente, Houston Methodist, Providence St. Joseph Health and Highmark Health shared their thoughts on the future of digital health and how they used technology to care for their patients at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Highmark Health provides initial stamp of approval for virtual cardiac rehab program
Highmark Health is reimbursing Moving Analytics’ virtual cardiac rehab tool through an innovation program and is expected to roll it out more broadly should the tool lower readmissions and lower costs.
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Hospitals, Startups, Health Tech, Payers
Can Highmark successfully commercialize the healthcare innovation process?
Highmark Health is turning its internal VITAL Innovation program into a commercial offering meant to help startups test their products in real-world clinical environments.
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Morning Read: Highmark may sell its vision business to offset insurance losses
Also, Philips has acquired Northern Ireland-based digital pathology firm PathXL and Impax has agreed to purchase generic drugs from Teva and Allergan in a $568 million deal that the FTC required in order for Teva’s $40 billion acquisition of Allergan to move forward.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
