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Innovating Ahead of the Caregiver Cliff
“Home health” is a term we are poised to hear much more about in the coming years. According to a report Village Capital published in conjunction with Kaiser Permanente, people... Read More >
A Closer Look at Build Versus Buy
Whether you’re a small digital health startup determining your software needs for the first time, or a seasoned health care organization whose current solution isn’t meeting business demands, the conversation... Read More >
Workplace Wellness Programs: Managing Stress at its Source
Workplace wellness programs can be a valuable asset for employers and employees. These employee-sponsored programs aimed at helping participants achieve specific health goals and healthy behaviors, such as weight management... Read More >
Create Your Best Program in Welkin’s Workshop
Health care workers have hard jobs. Ideally, the tools they rely on to perform their work should make it much easier to do, so they can focus on patient care... Read More >
Notice Anything…Different?
We warned you. Big things were in the works to help us better tell the Welkin story. About a year ago, we began thinking critically on how Welkin expressed itself.... Read More >
Modernizing Medicare: CMS Proposes Reforms Promoting Digital Health
The potential for telehealth and other digital health services to improve patient engagement and relieve some of the major challenges facing health care is abundant. Yet, despite the data proving... Read More >
The Growth of Telehealth to Better Address Complex Disease Care
Stakeholders understand that health care delivery in the U.S. continues to be fragmented, expensive, hard to access, and not driven by the patient experience. Fueled by a need to tame... Read More >
Leveraging Connectivity for Long-Term Weight Loss
Weight issues are endemic nationwide. In 2014, 71 percent of American adults were overweight, with 35 percent of men and 40 percent of women diagnosed with obesity. About one in... Read More >
Overcoming One of Health Care’s Greatest Hurdles: Patient Nonadherence
Maintaining adherence is key to improving the health of patients living with chronic or serious disease. For some, it’s a matter of life and death. Yet, as we know, the... Read More >
Meeting Complex Health Needs Across Patient Populations
Managing complex and chronic disease is complicated, and for some patients, there are numerous factors which can make the task especially difficult and therefore, seemingly impossible. The health care industry... Read More >