Navigating the Wellness Frontier: Show Me the Science
Wellness-oriented consumers are seeking products and practices backed not only by promises but by scientific credibility.
Wellness-oriented consumers are seeking products and practices backed not only by promises but by scientific credibility.
Vale Health announced its launch on Monday at ViVE. The startup's platform helps health systems connect their patients to health and wellness products, which are becoming increasingly interesting to consumers. Vale has 16 founding health systems partners that will go live with the platform, with the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network being the first.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Lumen sells a handheld device that measures users’ metabolism through breath and connects to an app that helps track goals and provides nutrition coaching. The funding round was led by Pitango Venture Capital, and included participation from Hanwha Group and Resolute Ventures.
HLTH 2022 will include compelling discussions across eight stages from the state of women's health, sleep tech, healthcare CEOs’ perspectives on collaboration partners, the mind-body connection in health, investment trends, and more. Register today!
Among the topics of discussion at the event within the HLTH conference are: making the future of food and nutrition accessible and sustainable, managing and monitoring sleep health, and destigmatizing sexual health and wellness. Register today!
The MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference in Dallas, scheduled for September 28, will zero in on digital health topics and trends in the context of employer and employee healthcare concerns.
Wellness is no longer about fad diets, only calorie-counting or workout videos a la 'Barry’s Bootcamp.' Wellness today is broad, encompassing fitness, nutrition, and physical and mental health. It's a complete body-mind approach.
A randomized, controlled three-year study of workplace wellness programs found no significant improvement in health outcomes for employees or cost. In fact, there was no improvement in self-reported health behaviors for employees who participated for the full 3-year period compared with those who participated for just 18 months.
The e-commerce giant made its debut in the wearables market with Halo, a fitness tracker with some unique features. Amazon said the device and its corresponding app can scan a user’s voice for emotions and measures a user’s body composition.
Health tech companies in the wellness industry might face a more difficult market than those in the clinical-grade domain. Benefits offered by wellness companies are those most likely to be viewed as nice-to-have perks that may not bring enough value.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Patients with type 2 diabetes on WellCare of Georgia’s Medicaid plan will be able to receive the wearables as part of their plan starting in 2020.
"We realized that that the old way of doing things - which was identifying a single point solution and putting that out to members - wasn't going to work," said Bryce Williams, Blue Shield of California's vice president of lifestyle medicine.
Redmond, Washington-based ADURO offers a digital platform combined with live coaching, which can help employees in areas such as health, finance and personal growth.
Personalized medicine shouldn't be practiced in just clinical settings but for all aspects of a person’s health and wellbeing to truly transform the industry and control burgeoning spend.
At the Health 2.0 conference in Santa Clara a range of healthcare players from large employers to young startups spoke about their approaches to developing and implementing digital therapeutics.