Episode #18 - Spotted - This Week in Healthcare
It's time for the healthcare weekly round-up 🤝
📌 Welcome to Edition #18 of "Spotted! - This Week in Healthcare", and I'm your host: Vivek Nanda.
Each week I share the interesting things that I spotted in the world of healthcare.
Let's dive in...
Edition #18
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Wearable technology appears to offer great potential for early detection and management of agitation experienced by people with communication-impaired neurological disorders.
Through the use of wearable sensors and a multimodal sensing approach, caregivers can provide personalized interventions that could significantly improve patients’ lives.
This personalizing approach seeks to minimize the incidents of agitation while improving overall well-being among patients.
Now that's good news!
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Healthcare costs are rising in the U.S. In 2023, the average premium for family coverage was nearly $24,000 per year, a 47% increase from 2013.
Sounder Benefits aims to address this problem. The company launched last week with $7.5 million in funding and was built at Redesign Health.
The company targets employers with less than 1,000 employees. It pairs AI-driven insights with strategic benefits advisory services to help employers design their health benefit plans.
Sounder Benefits receives revenue for its services on a per-member-per-month basis. It’s licensed to operate in all 50 states. While it officially launched last week, the company had already been in the market testing its product for about 90 days.
Go check them out.
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Hinge Health and Midi Health launched a partnership to support women going through menopause.
Hinge Health serves payers and employers and provides physical therapy for the neck, upper back, shoulders, elbows, lower back and more. Patients receive a care team, including physical therapists, health coaches and physicians.
In May, Hinge Health began offering movement-based menopause support for those with musculoskeletal and pelvic health conditions. The program is meant to relieve menopause symptoms like hot flashes, joint and muscle pain and pelvic floor disorders.
Through the new partnership with Midi Health, Hinge Health members receiving the movement-based menopause support can also access clinical care from Midi Health (as long as they’re in-network with Midi). Midi Health is a virtual clinic for women ages 35 to 65 and supports them during the perimenopause and menopause stages.
Go check them out.
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Last but not the least.
On popular demand, we have moved this weekly series on our website: TopHealth dot Care.
If you want to check out any previous episodes of this series you could go to TopHealth dot Care and click Shows. That's it!
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And that's a wrap!
Tune in next week for more buzz from the health-tech world.
Have a fantastic weekend. Cheers!