Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions, retirements and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Unlocking Transparency in PBM Pricing
The TSX Venture Exchange has a strong history of helping early-stage health and life sciences companies raise patient capital for research and development.
9 ViVE Announcements You Don’t Want to Miss
This year's ViVE conference featured a variety of news announcements — from company launches to new products to partnerships to acquisitions and more. In this list, MedCity News compiled short summaries for nine of the conference's most notable announcements.
Highmark Health Collaborates with Epic, Google Cloud To Improve Payer/Provider Coordination
Epic’s Payer Platform is being integrated with Highmark’s claims data on Google Cloud, the companies announced Monday at ViVE. This will give providers better insight into patients' health.
‘Food Equity Can’t Be a Side Gig’: How Food as Medicine is Becoming A Core Team Capability
As the food as medicine movement grows, some payers and healthcare organizations are carving out specific roles and teams dedicated to food and nutrition. Doing so can be beneficial considering the significant impact diet can have on health outcomes.
Payer Insights Program Highlights How Payers and Tech Partners Are Thinking About AI, Health Equity, and the Consumer Experience
HLTH 2023 introduced a new program focused on technology trends for and perspectives from payers in a series of conversations around AI, health equity and healthcare innovation.
Using Informed Awareness to Transform Care Coordination and Improve the Clinical and Patient Experience
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Highmark Health, Spring Health Team Up for Mental Health Solution
Spring Health and Highmark Health are collaborating to launch Mental Well-Being, a solution that offers therapy, medication and other services for some Highmark members.
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.
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.
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.
The Impact Brands: Empowering Wellness Through Natural and Holistic Solutions
In an era of escalating healthcare costs and a growing preference for natural, holistic approaches to health, The Impact Brands emerges as a collective of diverse brands dedicated to supporting overall wellness through natural means.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.