Nov 29,2023 TOP STORY

Blue Shield of California's Award-Winning Wellvolution Now Accessible for Spanish Speakers And Adds Dario's Hypertension Offering

Blue Shield of California is making its award-winning digital health platform Wellvolution more accessible for Spanish-speakers and expanding its program with the addition of Dario, an at-home solution for high blood pressure, or hypertension, that combines personalized health coaching and tech-enabled monitoring. Built in collaboration with Solera, over 148,000 Blue Shield of California members are currently enrolled in Wellvolution programs for lifestyle medicine and mental health support. Now, the nonprofit health plan has launched a new Wellvolution webpage where eligible members can sign up, select their health goal, complete a health questionnaire, and receive personalized program recommendations — all in Spanish. Available in both English and Spanish, Dario is the newest addition to Wellvolution combining intelligent technologies with personal coaching support to help members track and reduce hypertension, while improving health behaviors.

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Oct 17,2023 TOP STORY

ClearView partners with Osara Health to support customers affected by cancer

Listed life insurance company, ClearView Wealth Limited, has partnered with cancer support and education provider, Osara Health, to give claimants access to a digital health care program that is proven to help improve health and wellbeing. Utilising Osara Health’s Cancer Coach program, ClearView customers who have been diagnosed with cancer will gain access to professional health coaches, educational resources and practical strategies to support them on their cancer journey.

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Feb 24,2023

AIA Australia extends cancer care program to health customers

Major life, health, and wellbeing insurer AIA Australia has extended its CancerAid program to AIA Health Insurance (AIA Health) customers after four years of seeing the program's positive impact on life insurance customers. The new partnership between AIA Health and CancerAid gives customers diagnosed with cancer access to Cancer Coach – an educational, behavioural change program that aims to support people living with cancer to take back control of their cancer care.

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Sep 10,2018

Kiio and Quartz Health Solutions’ Low Back Pain Study Demonstrates the Success of Digital Therapeutic in Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes

Today, Kiio and Quartz Health Solutions unveiled the results of a one-year study to evaluate the impact of Kiio’s digital program on the challenges presented by low back pain. Quartz offered Kiio, customized and white-labeled to Quartz as MobileBack?, to plan members with a history of low back pain and living near Madison, Wisconsin. The results demonstrate tremendous improvements among Kiio participants compared to a non-participant group: 100% decrease in ED and urgent care visits; 78% decrease in filled opioid prescriptions; and 55% reduction in low-back-pain-related medical spend. Quartz has made significant strides to provide effective care for low back pain and address these costs using Kiio. Given the positive results, the Quartz family of health plans is moving forward with a full rollout of the program.

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Aug 28,2020

Wisconsin Health News Features Kiio CEO

Madison-based Kiio plans to expand its offerings to provide a full spectrum of care for musculoskeletal pain, while already working with Wisconsin health plans like Children’s Community Health Plan, Quartz and WEA Trust as well as employers, including Promega and Navitus Health Solutions. And they’re working with national health plans and employers, like Walgreens, Tufts Health Plan and UnitedHealthcare. Lydia Zeller, who became CEO in April, said it’s an “incredibly exciting time in healthcare.” “The pandemic has shaken things up in a way that provides significant opportunity,” she said in a recent interview with Wisconsin Health News.

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Mar 02,2021

CCHP Partners with Kiio to Support Medicaid and Marketplace Members During COVID-19 with an Evidence-Based Pain Management Solution

To do more to serve its Medicaid and Marketplace health plan members during COVID, Children’s Community Health Plan (CCHP) partnered with Kiio to expand outreach efforts, tripled enrollment in its digital musculoskeletal (MSK) program, and had significant impact on improving member health while minimizing the need for emergency room and other in-facility visits. CCHP initially rolled Kiio out to its Medicaid and Marketplace members in early 2019 and saw very strong results for Kiio participants in the first year. Members using Kiio experienced a 61% reduction in pain and a 52% improvement in function on average.

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Jun 03,2021

WPS and Kiio team up to tackle pain

WPS Health Insurance, one of the largest benefits providers in Wisconsin, has partnered with Kiio to offer digital musculoskeletal (MSK) care to its employees and self-insured employer groups. “WPS is committed to providing solutions to our members that both increase the quality of their lives and tackle the rising cost of healthcare,” says Dr. Jonah Fox, WPS Medical Director. “Kiio allows WPS to offer members a simple, effective, evidence-based solution to prevent and manage musculoskeletal pain while also providing them with greater flexibility in how and where they receive care.”

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Aug 25,2021

Kiio study highlights how an exercise therapy app can help employers and payers reduce costs associated with low back and other joint pain

Recognizing the opportunity to use innovation to combat this problem, Kiio developed a digital MSK therapy solution that combines advanced software and evidenced-based guidelines to treat and prevent back, knee, neck, and hip pain. Kiio client and investor, WEA Trust, an independent, not-for-profit health insurance company in Wisconsin, provides group health insurance and administrative services to public employers, with a total of 110,000 plan members. Back pain was the driver for much of their plans’ medical utilization and cost, with a significant additional impact on employment costs and productivity. The study’s most compelling findings were 62% lower combined medical and pharmaceutical spend, 89% lower opioids and 74% lower benzodiazepine use in the Kiio group, and significantly lower use of urgent care services, diagnostics, and procedures. Given the link between chronic pain and mental health, the study also evaluated pharmaceutical utilization of antidepressants. Kiio participants had 51% lower antidepressant use than WEA Trust members diagnosed with lower back pain who did not participate in Kiio.

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Mar 09,2020

Feel Mental Health program: New partnership with leading insurance organisations, SCOR and Gothaer Life Insurance

Feel Therapeutics, Inc., today announced a partnership with German insurance provider Gothaer Life Insurance and SCOR, the world’s fourth largest reinsurer. The partnership’s aim is to use Feel to prevent and treat occupational disability caused by mental health disorders such as stress or burn-out. Feel comprises four components: the Feel Emotion Sensor, an emotion tracking wearable device that detects and quantifies a person’s emotional changes, the Feel mobile app which responds to those changes and deploys real-time interventions, weekly sessions with an assigned licensed psychotherapist, and access to an online library of tools and exercises.

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Jul 20,2023

Lark Health and Desert Oasis Healthcare Announce Expanded Partnership

Lark Health and Desert Oasis Healthcare (DOHC), a member of Heritage Provider Network, today announced their expanded partnership where DOHC will offer Lark's Prevention program and CDC-recognized Diabetes Prevention program to their patients. Coming off the success of their Heart Health partnership, DOHC is making Lark's programs available to their greater patient populations for enhanced remote monitoring and scalable education programs designed to improve outcomes and lower total healthcare costs. The new program offerings will enable DOHC to target specific conditions, such as, prediabetes, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and general preventive care.

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