This dearth of maternity care providers is exacerbating the country’s less-than-stellar reputation for birth outcomes. In order to ensure better health for mothers and their newborns, OB-GYNs must identify risk factors that negatively impact pregnancy early on and work to maintain the whole picture of their pregnant patients' health. However, OB-GYNs aren’t incentivized to do this under a fee-for-service payment model.
Cigna has been pushing heavily into digital health as evidenced by a venture capital arm it launched earlier this year as well as acquisitions like its 2017 purchase of digital practice management company Brighter.
In a webinar on April 16 at 1pm ET, Aneesh Chopra will moderate a discussion with executives from DocuSign, Velatura, and behavioral health providers on eConsent, health information exchange and compliance with the CMS Final Rule on interoperability.
In addition to the acquisition, Providence Ventures, PSJH's venture capital fund, said it will take part in Wildflower's Series C financing round.
The Wyoming Department of Health has rolled out a new app that seeks to help patients track the health of each member of his or her family. The tool was developed by San Francisco-based Wildflower Health.
Its app is designed to help public and private payers predict, prevent and treat high-risk pregnancies.
Wildflower Health's app Due Date Plus, which functions as a patient navigation tool, can be customized by plan to help users understand what is covered, direct them to help lines and be aware of development milestones.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Wildflower Health, a San Francisco-based mhealth startup has ambitious aspirations that begin in the payer and providers’ pockets and follow moms across the care continuum: to “own Mom as the healthcare consumer,” CEO Leah Sparks said. When Sparks launched Wildflower with cofounder Kathy Bellevin in June 2012, she was about six months pregnant with her […]