Employee Benefits
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Tech-forward, third-party administrator health plan company raises $30M series A
Flume Health offers a platform for customized health plan administration for insurers who want to develop customized health plans to target certain populations. The company says it can bring tailored plans to the point of launch in just six months.
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Employee Benefits, Health Tech
Accolade CEO: Where Glen’s model is wrong; Glen Tullman: You can’t navigate a broken system
A battle of ideas from two prominent health tech CEOs came to life at the recently-concluded HLTH conference in Boston. It’s a substantive debate on solving healthcare’s entrenched problems and one worth having.
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Better primary care isn’t only good for health—it’s good for business
The rising cost of employer-sponsored healthcare makes it difficult for American businesses to compete globally. That doesn’t have to be the reality. Learn how one company changed its trajectory.
Tom Gentile, CEO of Spirit AeroSystems & Richard Gephardt, Co-founder of SolidaritUS Health
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Employee Benefits, SYN, Telemedicine
Is Ro taking the business-to-business route next?
By all accounts, Ro is a successful direct-to-consumer telehealth and pharmacy services startup. At the recently-concluded HLTH conference, Ro’s chief medical officer speculated on how it might enter the business-to-business healthcare world.
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Employee Benefits, Telemedicine, Health Services, Health Tech
After Grand Rounds and Doctor on Demand merged — what’s next?
The combined company, now called Included Health, is selling employers on its integrated virtual care and patient navigation services. Doctor on Demand President Robin Glass shared more about what the company has planned next and how it’s setting itself apart from other digital health platforms.
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MedCity Influencers, Employee Benefits
Quantifying stress & anxiety: Why corporate wellness programs will play a pivotal role in this paradigm shift
Establishing digital biomarkers which correlate physiological parameters with mental health and wellbeing not only has the potential to provide more reliable tools for guiding diagnosis and evaluating patient outcomes but will also improve our understanding of the pathophysiology of mental disorders
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Employee Benefits, Retail Health
Amazon, Crossover Health expand primary care partnership to two more states
The companies now have a total of 17 primary care clinics, which are currently limited to Amazon employees. It’s a separate effort from the telehealth service Amazon rolled out earlier for its Washington employees.
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Employee Benefits, Health Tech
Mental health startup Lyra passes $2B valuation
Mental health startup Lyra Health raised $187 million in funding, giving it a post-money valuation of about $2.3 billion. The company also struck a partnership with EAP-provider ICAS, which would expand its mental health benefit to employees in other countries.
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MedCity Influencers, Employee Benefits, Health Services
The role of coaching in motivating and creating personal accountability for better health
Leveraging dedicated personal coaches and individualized content are the key ingredients of a successful health and wellness program.
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Is an Omada Health IPO inevitable?
The markets may be battered, the economy shaken by Covid-19 concerns, but that didn’t prevent a discussion with a top digital health CEO about the attractiveness of an IPO.
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MedCity Influencers, Employee Benefits
The employer’s guide: Primary care to curb rising care costs
Industries across the U.S. can leverage primary care and data integration as a way to tailor the care experience for employees and promote a culture of health across their employee base.
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In Silicon Valley, startup cofounder battles VC over the future of health insurance
Bind Benefits’ Shawn Wagoner and OMERS Ventures’ Michael Yang tussle over dueling visions of the future of health insurance, specifically whether consumers have the wherewithal to make prudent buying decisions, at a recent Bay Area event.
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New Premier collaborative network to bring Walmart-style cost efficiency to healthcare
Group purchasing organization Premier is building a new healthcare network of health systems, employers and payers, and whose goals parallel those of large U.S. employers such as Walmart but are also meant to reach employees at smaller firms.
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Walmart to give workers financial incentives to use higher-quality doctors
Walmart is working with Embold Health of Nashville, a recent startup company that uses data to analyze whether doctors provide “appropriate, effective and cost-efficient care.”