Digital Health

The pharmacy benefit manager has vetted 15 programs from Livongo, Propeller Health, Omada Health and others to help clients choose effective digital health management tools.

The study, which was presented at the Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology yesterday, found that patients using the technology improved their sustained attention compared to those in the control group. 

The deal will allow members to switch their prescriptions to PillPack without having to reenter their insurance details or medication list. 

The amount secured was not disclosed by the company.

Jörg Studzinski, with HIMSS Analytics, and Jochen Messemer, with McKinsey & Company, discuss HIMSS European eHealth Survey findings, including telemedicine's growing importance and which countries are digital health role models and why.

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iFit has added more than 77,000 paid subscribers in the last quarter, giving the company a userbase of roughly 330,000 members.

Also: Mustafa Suleyman takes on new role at Google; HIMSS appoints senior VP for international analytics. 

Still, a new state-by-state survey from Foley & Lardner suggests there is still plenty of ground to cover in terms of telehealth payment parity, as well as the language used in the laws themselves.