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NewsCisco taps Walgreens to provide telehealth to employees
In yet another solid move into the mHealth sphere--and into a possibly competitive position with hospitals--Walgreens has partnered with Cisco to provide telehealth and onsite clinical services to Read more...
Are insurers harnessing the potential of smartphone apps?
After Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina launched an iPhone app that provides users with information for making informed healthcare decisions, FierceHealthPayer's Dina Overland started Read more...
West Wireless CMO: Opting for money-saving mobile technologies is a matter of priorities
Everyone with an inkling of knowledge about healthcare policy knows that the current system of episodic "sick care" is unsustainable. "There's a bleak future that's in front of us unless something Read more...
Virtual doctor visits widen access, but still draw controversy
Fans of mobile healthcare and telemedicine know what the bloviators in Washington seem to be ignoring in this folly of a healthcare debate that's kept the nation so rapt for months: you can expand Read more...
CA health organizations look to mobile technologies; NC awards grant to support wireless monitoring;
> Mobile and wireless technologies are central to innovation at Kaiser Permanente and UC-Davis. Article > AmeriChoice, an affiliate of UnitedHealth Group, is donating $290,000 worth of Read more...
UnitedHealth, Cisco go national with telehealth plans
Cisco Systems and UnitedHealth Group are teaming up to create a nationwide network for telemedicine, marking perhaps the first time a major health insurer has gotten behind remote patient care on a Read more...
| Press ReleasesMore Than $187,000 in Grants Awarded to Schools and Community Groups to Help Fight Childhood Obesity“UnitedHealth HEROES” grants support local programs that engage children as learners and leaders of healthy habitsCommunity-focused, service-learning initiative by UnitedHealthcare and Youth Service Read more >> UnitedHealth Group Schedules Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Results Earnings Release and Conference Call for January 19MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2011 on Thursday, January 19, 2012 before the market opens. At Read more >> UnitedHealthcare Donates $125,000 to Three Arizona Medical Facilities to Help Improve Health Care Delivery for Local ResidGrants for facilities in Tucson, Flagstaff and Yuma to improve care coordination, use of electronic medical records, among other efforts PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- UnitedHealthcare of Arizona has Read more >> Ailing consumer confidence may limit growth for health-care companies, says Turner Investments commentaryInvestment firm’s analysts think subpar health-care usage rates may curb growth for health-care companies BERWYN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Few people look forward to visiting the doctor’s office, but Read more >> UnitedHealth Group Receives 2011 Business Civic Leadership Center’s Corporate Citizenship Award for “Best U.S. Business NeUnitedHealth Group honored for its Diabetes Prevention and Control AllianceThe “Citizens” Awards honor excellence in corporate citizenship and civic leadership for initiatives in the United States Read more >> |
