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Testimonial: Walt’s Story

For years, the twin goals of health plan leaders have been the same: 1.) Improve member care 2.) Reduce costs and utilization Increasingly, digital health is recognized as the best means to reach these goals. But with more and more digital health solutions on the market, health plan leaders are left with one critical question:

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What is the Potential of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) with Digital Health?

Dr. Monique Tello, internal medicine physician, and Dr. Mansur Shomali, Chief Medical Officer at Welldoc®, discuss the complicated questions around CGM and how the real possibilities of CGM lie within digital health. What is a continuous glucose monitor? Dr. Tello: It’s a small wearable device that measures glucose, directly transmitting the numbers to a smartphone

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Case Study: Scaling Chronic Care, Driving Better Outcomes

The BlueStar® Diabetes Platform Takes Patient Self-Management to the Next Level Type 2 diabetes disproportionately affects vulnerable populations, and poor management increases the risk of premature death, according to studies. Health systems need new tools for patients to access care remotely so they can improve self-management and impact health outcomes. One of the country’s largest safety

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Whitepaper: Digital Health: Now and Next

Embrace Digital Health With 5 Strategies to Overcome Adoption Barriers Policy support. Evidence-based efficacy. Integration of artificial intelligence. These are some of the advances fueling the transformative era of digital health. In this white paper, Moving Digital Health to the Mainstream: 5 Strategies to Transform Care, Welldoc presents the key enablers to overcome barriers to the

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Whitepaper: Moving Digital Health to the Mainstream

We released a new whitepaper – Digital Health: Now and Next – that outlines a framework to clearly delineate digital health solutions that are grounded in clinical evidence and categorized as SaMD (software as a medical device).  These solutions are very different from commercially available consumer wellness apps, which can include anything from sleep trackers

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Coproducing Health at Home

Insights on connecting patients and providers by extending beyond traditional care During a recent virtual summit, one concept was central to each keynote presentation: coproducing health at home. Welldoc hosted the event in partnership with TytoCareand Zipline to discuss trends in digital health and more. Dr. Vivian Lee (Verily), Dr. Robert Huckman (Harvard Business School), and Stacie Ruth (Best Buy Health) were fantastic keynote speakers. Here

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Drones, Devices, and Digital Health: 4 Virtual Summit Takeaways

Discussing emerging trends in healthcare with industry leaders and innovators In partnership with TytoCare and Zipline, Welldoc hosted a virtual summit in early March to discuss trends in digital health and more. The summit included keynote presentations from Dr. Vivian Lee (Verily), Dr. Robert Huckman (Harvard Business School), and Stacie Ruth (Best Buy Health). Attendees listened to additional industry conversations with Marc Harrison(Intermountain), Keller Rinaudo (Zipline), David Bardan (TytoCare),

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Understanding Cardiometabolic Risk in Chronic Care

Chronic care must address comorbidities, so what can providers do to mitigate cardiometabolic risk? In the past, the practice of medicine viewed metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, as distinct from cardiovascular conditions like heart disease. Patients with glucose issues would come and see specialists like myself. Whereas those with heart conditions would see a cardiologist.

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Taking Diabetes Self-Management to the Next Level