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Holistic care requires proactive pursuit of health services, which more people might seek if financing options are available to manage costs. The post When It Comes to Preventive and Proact...

https://medcitynews.com/2024/05/when-it-comes-to-preventive-and-proactive-wellness-accessibility-is-key/

Wellness-oriented consumers are seeking products and practices backed not only by promises but by scientific credibility. The post Navigating the Wellness Frontier: Show Me the Science app...

https://medcitynews.com/2024/03/navigating-the-wellness-frontier-show-me-the-science/

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 inter...

https://medcitynews.com/2024/02/health-wellness-marketplace/

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 Pita...

https://medcitynews.com/2022/12/dtc-metabolic-tracker-company-to-expand-personalized-nutrition-guidance-with-62m/

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 conn...

https://medcitynews.com/2022/10/11-highlights-of-the-hlth-agenda/

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 desti...

https://medcitynews.com/2022/09/well-by-hlth-program-builds-on-consumerization-of-healthcare-trend/

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 concern...

https://medcitynews.com/2022/04/invest-digital-health-combines-consumer-and-employer-perspectives-in-healthcare/

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...

https://medcitynews.com/2021/11/consumer-attitudes-are-changing-whole-body-health-is-the-new-normal/

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-r...

https://medcitynews.com/2021/07/in-another-blow-to-workplace-wellness-programs-study-finds-no-improvement-in-health-outcomes-cost/

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 ...

https://medcitynews.com/2020/08/amazon-tries-its-hand-at-wearables/

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 v...

https://medcitynews.com/2020/07/are-we-experiencing-a-natural-selection-moment-in-health-tech/

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. The post Fitbit launches first partnersh...

https://medcitynews.com/2019/12/fitbit-launches-first-partnership-with-medicaid-plan/

“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...

https://medcitynews.com/2019/06/blue-shield-of-california-launches-marketplace-with-a-new-approach-to-wellness/

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. The post Bon Secours Me...

https://medcitynews.com/2019/05/bon-secours-mercy-health-invests-in-aduro/

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....

https://medcitynews.com/2019/05/healthcare-leaders-listen-up-personalized-wellbeing-is-the-next-frontier/

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 therapeuti...

https://medcitynews.com/2018/09/key-takeaways-in-developing-digital-therapeutics/

By using the New York City startup’s app, individuals can have unlimited video or messaging consultations with their own care team, which consists of a family medicine physician, a psychoth...

https://medcitynews.com/2018/08/izzy-care-holistic-approach/

Sean Slovenski, the former vice president of innovation at Humana, has been tapped as Walmart’s senior vice president of health and wellness. The post Walmart hires former Humana exec to ...

https://medcitynews.com/2018/07/walmart-former-humana-exec/

In 2009, Ben Evans and Dr. Jeff Wells founded OurHealth with a goal of helping employers give their employees access to better healthcare. “If there’s one thing employers are challenged w...

https://medcitynews.com/2018/02/ourhealth/

Thorne Research will get exclusive rights to distribute and commercialize future Drawbridge Health products within the U.S. health and wellness industry and will invest millions in Drawbridge...

https://medcitynews.com/2017/12/drawbridge-health-and-thorne-research-collaboration/

John Bojanowski, the president of Life Care Solutions, Honeywell Home and Building Technologies, talked about expanding its remote patient monitoring tools to include wellness tools to help a...

https://medcitynews.com/2017/06/president-honeywells-telehealth-division-talks-plans-expand-wellness/

A wearable alone won’t solve the nation’s obesity problem or help people manage congestive heart failure. Data needs context, a Silicon Valley startup executive explained. The post The quan...

https://medcitynews.com/2016/02/quantified-self-kool-aid/

The $550 premium discount may not have been large enough. The post Bad news for wellness programs: A $550 weight-loss incentive doesn’t do squat appeared first on MedCity News .

https://medcitynews.com/2016/01/bad-news-for-wellness-programs-a-550-financial-incentive-didnt-do-squat/

Hollywood celebrities and other Beautiful People don’t want to spend hours in the gym, so they make smart lifestyle choices. Data can help inform these decisions, according to celebrity fitness...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/09/harley-pasternak-wellness-data-video/

Value on investment is about more than just the financial bottom line, according to Stuart Slutzky, chief of product innovation for Humana Vitality, the health insurer’s wellness and incentive ...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/09/humana-wellness-exec-talks-value-on-investment/

Mindbody, maker of software for wellness centers, gyms and personal trainers, this week registered for a $100 million IPO after seeing revenue soar 44 percent last year to $70 million, then exper...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/05/wellness-software-maker-mindbody-files-100m-ipo/

Wellness is all the rage these days, particularly from the investment and payer perspectives, but exactly how well received the catch-all concept is with consumers remains somewhat murky. HealthM...

https://medcitynews.com/2015/01/survey/

Seattle-based Limeade, which develops digital engagement and wellness tools for large corporations and their employees, is getting a $25 million injection of venture capital from Oak HC/FT Partne...

https://medcitynews.com/2014/10/wellness-developer-limade-gets-25m-investment/

The state of Washington is stepping up wellness efforts for its more than 108,000 employees with the selection of Limeade to spearhead efforts to curb healthcare costs and create a more healthful...

https://medcitynews.com/2014/09/washington-to-get-15m-in-wellness/

A new study shows that artificial sweeteners may make it harder for your body to process sugar, which increases your chances of pre-diabetes and diabetes. The post Too bad: Diet sodas may give ...

https://medcitynews.com/2014/09/study-diet-sodas-wreck-gut-increase-diabetes-risk/