employee benefits
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How one company has moved to support reproductive rights despite looming regulatory uncertainty
The reversal of Roe v. Wade led Forma to make a series of changes to its reproductive health benefits on top of what it originally offered — both for its internal employees and its customers.
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Attention employee benefit healthcare startups: Apply to INVEST Digital Health Pitch Perfect
Employee benefits is the theme of the MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference in Dallas September 28, in collaboration with Health Wildcatters. We’re looking for startups across insurance, care navigation and those that help to improve and provide ROI on employee benefits programs. The application deadline is July 15.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Employee Benefits, Startups, SYN
Study shows tech-based program improves workers’ mental health, productivity
The peer-reviewed research is among the first to examine the effectiveness of the new crop of digital mental health startups. It looked at people enrolled through their companies in a mental health platform developed by Spring Health.
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Investors funnel $40M into high-tech benefits brokerage
Armed with fresh capital, Nava Benefits hopes to take advantage of what it believes will be a disruption in the way smaller businesses approach health and wellness benefits, including the many digital tools now on the market.
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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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Flexible benefits company Forma – formerly Twic – secures $40M in Series B
Forma, a company offering customizable benefits for employees announced a rebrand as well as $40 million in Series B funding that will be used to build more products and services and increase hiring, among other things.
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MedCity Influencers, Employee Benefits, Health Tech
What a platform for employee healthcare management including for mental health should look like
Employers today realize they must give workers choices to support their whole being, including resources to meet their psychological needs. Fortunately, digital health management platforms bring together robust offerings that evolve as health needs change.
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Health IT, Startups, Employee Benefits
A founder built a platform after bringing together her daughter’s health records. Now, employers are offering it as a benefit.
B.Well Connected Health, a startup that brings together patients’ health records and helps them navigate their benefits, recently raised $32 million in funding. CEO Kristen Valdes started the company based on her own experience advocating for her daughter.
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Employee Benefits, Health Services
In another blow to workplace wellness programs, study finds no improvement in health outcomes, cost
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.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
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Employee Benefits, Health Services
Professional services firm rolls out digital musculoskeletal care program
Employee benefits firm Aon is bundling together three digital health solutions as part of a broader musculoskeletal care offering. It’s partnering with Hinge Health, 98point6 and Employer Direct Healthcare.
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After Haven dissolves, JPM goes it alone
Less than a year after Haven dissolved, JPMorgan is starting a new venture to improve healthcare with a similarly broad vision. In the meantime, Amazon is rolling out new employee benefits as it starts selling a telehealth benefit to other companies
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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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Startups, Health Services, Payers
Cigna covers Ginger’s mental health app as in-network benefit
Insurer Cigna plans to cover mental health startup Ginger’s coaching services as a covered benefit. Investors are pouring more funds into mental health startups as they companies and insurers alike look for more ways to meet people’s care needs during a challenging year.
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Startups, Employee Benefits, Health Tech
Mental health startup Ginger raises $100M
Ginger, a startup that connects users with mental health coaches and therapists, raised $100 million in funding. The company is shifting to a risk-based model as it expands.