KP CEO: Future care will be lifelong, patient-driven, and distributed
Kaiser Permanente CEO Bernard Tyson believes three major trends are driving changes in the healthcare system, he said during his keynote on the final day of the Health 2.0 event in Santa Clara,...
View ArticleBessemer, Kaiser Permanente help Rock Health invest up to $250K in later...
Rock Health has raised its third fund and will up its contribution to new companies from $100,000 to $250,000, the company announced this morning. The lead investors in the fund are Bessemer Venture...
View ArticleSamsung reveals 24 digital health partners including Aetna, Cigna, Humana,...
At the Samsung Developer Conference this week in San Francisco, the South Korean consumer electronics giant revealed much more about its digital health plans, including the names of 24 partners it has...
View ArticleKaiser: Members who use app are more adherent, satisfied, and loyal
Kaiser Permanente now has 70 percent of its 9 million members as active users of its online and mobile offerings, according to Christine Paige, senior vice president of marketing and digital services...
View ArticleHealth plan members who use apps are happier with their plan
A J.D. Power survey on health plan satisfaction finds that mobile apps are a significant role player in helping health plans increase their member satisfaction, which overall has gone up since last...
View ArticleSix out of 10 healthcare organizations lag in digital health adoption
Nearly 60 percent of healthcare organizations are either behind on their digital health strategy or lack one entirely, according to a new survey of 450 healthcare companies from Validic. Specifically,...
View ArticleReport: 4.9M members use Kaiser’s online health management platform
Around 4.9 million members in health system Kaiser Permanente’s 9.6 million member network are using Kaiser’s online health management platform, called My Health Manager, according to Kaiser’s 2014...
View ArticleKaiser Permanente, Mount Sinai to study Noom app for eating disorder treatment
Wellness app maker Noom will work with both the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai hospital in New York and Kaiser Permanente on a 12-week, 200-person trial of a new mobile health app for eating...
View ArticleHealth tech investors talk frothy valuations, healthcare consumerism, and...
Digital health funding is on the rise — for example, MobiHealthNews tracked $689 million in deals this quarter, spread across 49 deals, compared to $392 million in Q3 of last year. But investors at a...
View ArticlePermanente Medical Group CEO: Video, big data are the future. Wearables, not...
Doctors, technologists, and entrepreneurs have a lot of different visions of the future of medicine, and they don’t always line up. Dr. Robert Pearl, the Executive Director and CEO of The Permanente...
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