DIGITAL HEALTHCARE
Revibe technologies | February 09, 2022
Revibe technologies, a commercial-stage digital therapeutics company, announced today the positive results of their feasibility study examining the efficacy of FokusRx in school aged children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). FokusRx is an investigational SaMD (Software as a Medical Device) that has the potential to provide a new nonpharmacologic approach to treating attention, focus and hyperactivity deficits associated with ADHD, and other mental health conditions.
ADHD is one of the most commonly diagnosed and increasingly prevalent mental health disorders in children and adolescents.Inthe United States, 6.1 million children aged 2-17 years have been diagnosed with ADHD. Approximately 50% of families stop using prescription drug treatments for ADHD within a year.Over 30% of parents refuse pharmacologic treatment for their children with ADHD.
In this, single-arm multi-rater feasibility study, parents (n= 38) and teachers (n= 26) rated youth aged 8-12 years with a parent-reported diagnosis of ADHD. Youth were attending in-person classroom learning and not taking medication for their ADHD. The study included a number of outcome measures including the ADHD-RS-5 (Home and School versions), Conners 4 – short version, Weiss Functional Impairment Rating Scale-Parent Form (WFIRS-P), and the Academic Performance Rating Scale (APRS). To be included in the analyses, youth had to have worn the Revibe Connect wearable device to school Monday to Friday for a at least three days per week or a minimum of 15 days total for a period of four weeks.
"We are pleased that the feasibility study has proven to be a successful exercise that de-risks our upcoming randomized sham-controlled pivotal trial. The moderate to large effect sizes observed and change scores that exceed standards for minimally important (clinically significant) differences, provide encouraging preliminary evidence supporting the efficacy of our intervention", says Dr.Lindsay Ayearst, Chief Scientific Officer of Revibe.
Revibe's Scientific and Medical Advisory Board member, Dr.Margaret Weiss, Director of Clinical Research in Child Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, stated, "These results are consistent across both symptoms and functioning, and across informants.They would translate into clinically significant change. Most impressive is the demonstration of an effect on academic performance."
"The data from the classroom feasibility study suggests FokusRx can effectively and safely improve ADHD symptoms and functioning in school-aged children. It is our intention that FokusRx will provide kids and parents another option to help them succeed and reach their full potential. We are excited to begin designing our pivotal trial planned for the fall."
Joseph Koziak, Chief Executive Officer of Revibe
About FokusRx
FokusRx is an investigational SaMD designed to provide a new nonpharmacologic approach to treating symptoms and impairment associated with ADHD. The FokusRx software is embedded within a dedicated smart watch to act as a digital therapeutic wearable.
About Revibe Technologies
Revibe Technologies is passionate about leveraging technology to help children and adults with focus and attention problems overcome obstacles in order to succeed in life. Revibe Technologies hopes to be a resource for students, parents, teachers, schools, and clinicians.
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Thea Health | November 19, 2021
Thea Health, a fast-growing medical communications provider, today announced a partnership with athenahealth, Inc. through the company’s Marketplace program.
As part of the athenahealth® Marketplace, this newly integrated application is now available to athenahealth’s growing network of healthcare providers to improve communications between primary care physicians and local specialists.
“Thea Health is focused on making it easier for providers to collaborate on their patients’ care. Our eConsult platform allows our growing network of primary care providers to seamlessly communicate with local specialists.Our platform reduces wait time for specialist expertise, improves local referral networks and, ultimately, saves patients money. Thea Health and athenahealth share a passion for moving toward a more connected and cost-effective healthcare system.”
Harry Cooke, Founder of Thea Health
Studies have shown eConsults resolve patient issues without an in-person appointment 54% of the time and reduce overall healthcare expenditures by $541 per patient.
athenahealth is a network-enabled, results-oriented software and services company that offers medical record, revenue cycle, patient engagement, and care coordination services for ambulatory and hospital clients nationwide. The company’s vision is to build a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. As a Marketplace partner, Thea Health joins a community of innovative, like-minded healthcare professionals who are looking to bring best-in-class solutions to the athenahealth provider base.
About Thea Health
Thea Health's eConsult system allows primary care physicians to ask specialists questions and include relevant labs, images, and other clinical data ahead of a treatment decision while ensuring they are reimbursed by payers for their time. Thea Health provides a HIPAA-compliant platform that is easy to use and fits with existing physician workflows and integrates seamlessly with EMRs. This allows our providers to communicate securely, naturally, and efficiently, while getting reimbursed without doing any extra work.
About athenahealth Marketplace
The athenahealth Marketplace, the largest EHR app store, is where athenahealth customers find innovative healthcare IT solutions that extend athenahealth services and allow customers to create highly tailored user experiences. Customers use Marketplace partner solutions to boost practice efficiency, increase patient satisfaction, and engage patients in their own care. The Marketplace has more than 250 solutions across 60 categories that are seamlessly integrated with athenaOne, athenahealth’s network-enabled platform through which the company offers medical records, revenue cycle, patient engagement, and care coordination service offerings.
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DIGITAL HEALTHCARE
HealthEdge Software | November 17, 2021
HealthEdge Software today said it is excited to upgrade long-time Altruista Health customer Colorado Access to a fully integrated ecosystem with the addition of HealthRules Payor®(HRP) to its operations via HealthEdge’s complementary Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) partner, UST HealthProof, a UST company. Colorado Access has relied on Altruista’s GuidingCare®care management platform to manage plan members for more than a decade, and is now poised for a major transformational effort to integrate the HealthEdge solution in core administrative processing. It will be one of the first health plans to adopt all three HealthEdge solution suites as it adopts Burgess Source®payment integrity software in 2022.
“Colorado Access is one of the first of many health plans we expect to recognize the value of our fully integrated core/clinical solution going forward. The unique value proposition that comes with integrating a health plan’s three most important value streams is becoming more apparent every day as plans push forward with value-based care.”
Steve Krupa, HealthEdge Chief Executive Officer
HealthRules is the leading modern core administrative system for health plans driving more agility, efficiencies, compliance and innovation than any other solution on the market. The vision for an integrated payer “digital nervous system” became possible with the HealthEdge acquisitions last year of SaaS innovators, The Burgess Group and Altruista Health. Burgess offers a leading payment integrity solution for editing, pricing and modeling. Altruista leads the industry in utilization management, care management, population health, social determinants of health, provider collaboration, member engagement and predictive analytics.
The new opportunity for Colorado Access came at contract renewal time for their incumbent provider of a core administrative processing system. The health plan found the prospect of moving to an integrated ecosystem intriguing.
“When we learned about the acquisition of Altruista Health by HealthEdge at the end of 2020, we were excited,” said Paula Kautzmann, Chief Information Officer at Colorado Access. “This presented a great opportunity to explore what an integrated ecosystem could deliver for us, our members and providers.”
“We serve our regional health plans with high quality, and our connected technology with the HealthEdge solution suite is a comprehensive yet cost-effective solution that reduces the need for customization and is proven to increase customer engagement and provider satisfaction,” said Raj Sundar, President, UST HealthProof.
Colorado Access has used GuidingCare to close gaps in care, enhance quality and compliance, and automate clinical workflows on behalf of its 545,000 members since 2010. After a review, Colorado Access concluded they could achieve cost savings, better performance, streamlined operations and a better member experience in moving to an integrated model with HealthEdge.
“We are really excited about the integration because it makes us more nimble,” said Kautzmann. “It gives us a way to leverage a 360-degree view of the member to more completely understand their needs and support them to optimal health. When our care management team see claims data in the care management environment, it gives them a chance to make preventive interventions that can improve a member’s health.”
Kautzmann noted that there are cost savings and overall efficiencies with integration, including not having to maintain separate membership, provider and benefit systems. The payment integrity solution from Burgess also reduces the administrative burden associated with recovering provider overpayments. In an environment of rigorous public budgets, the new arrangement is a better deployment of resources.
Colorado Access also opted to implement the new GuidingCare®Authorization Portal, which electronically streamlines the prior authorization process and eases the paper work burden between providers and the plan. Altruista introduced the Authorization Portal last year, generating sufficient utilization review data for one plan to actually reduce its list of services requiring preauthorization, reducing administrative burden and cost. Some 80 percent of services are auto-approved with the electronic tool, dramatically streamlining the process at the same time it aligns care with the world’s leading clinical guidelines.
About Colorado Access
As the largest and most experienced public sector health plan in the state, Colorado Access is a nonprofit organization that works beyond just navigating health services. The company focuses on meeting members’ unique needs by partnering with providers and community organizations to provide better personalized care through measurable results. Their broad and deep view of regional and local systems allows them to stay focused on our members’ care while collaborating on measurable and economically sustainable systems that serve them better.
About HealthEdge
HealthEdgeoffers the health insurance industry’s leading next-gen solution suit providing automation and seamless connectivity between all parts of a payer’s administrative and clinical systems. HealthEdge provides modern, disruptive healthcare IT solutions that health insurers use to leverage new business models, improve outcomes, drastically reduce administrative costs, and connect everyone in the healthcare delivery cycle. Its next-generation enterprise solution suite is built on modern, patented technology and is delivered to customers via the HealthEdge Cloud or onsite deployment. In 2020, funds managed by Blackstone became the majority owner. HealthEdge and its portfolio of mission-critical technology assets for payers, including Source®and GuidingCare®, are collectively driving a digital transformation in healthcare.
About UST HealthProof
UST HealthProof, a UST company, is on a mission to reduce administrative cost and play a role in shaping how the future of healthcare is delivered through consumer centricity. Our proven core admin solutions and business process-as-a-service (BPaaS) provide transparency, improve operational efficiency, break down operational barriers to scale and drive strategic growth.
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