Valera Health, a behavioral health care management startup that developed an app to help clinicians remotely monitor patients with anxiety and depression, added Wisconsin health maintenance organization Group Health Cooperative of Eau Claire to its customer base in a multiyear contract. The payer also wants to use Valera’s program to support patients receiving treatment for opioid addiction, according to a company release.
In a phone interview, Valera Health CEO and co-founder...
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Patients with diabetes, vascular disease or clinical depression are getting some of the best possible care at dozens of HealthPartners and Park Nicollet clinics, based on new recognition by the Minnesota Health Action Group....
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Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC) announced today that its specialty solutions division, Envolve, Inc., has been selected by Maryland Care, Inc. d/b/a/ Maryland Physicians Care MCO to provide health plan management services for its managed Medicaid operations in Maryland effective July 1, 2017....
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As consumerism continues to reshape the healthcare landscape, healthcare practices should be looking inward to discover how they can better meet patient demands. Patient wait times are a frequent bone of contention between patients and their providers' practices, and a new Medical Group Management Association stat poll shows if you aren't taking steps to reduce patient wait times, you're in the minority. And that's not a good place to be. In a MGMA stat poll, medical practice lea...
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Tuberculosis ranks alongside HIV/Aids as a leading cause of death worldwide. According to the World Health Organisation, 1.5 million people died from TB in 2014. The challenges in tackling the disease include the facts that people are tested too late and that the turnaround for most tests is long. To remedy this, a point-of-care rapid diagnostic test for TB has been developed by a multinational team of scientists led by researchers at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. One of its co-invent...
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"We need to raise awareness that we are all responsible for meeting the challenge of reducing the number of occurrences of this kind," says Amanda Gonçalves, the ICU nurse and coordinator of the Injury Prevention Committee Pressure....
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