Local startup RexPay has developed an app designed to help people manage all their medical bills and payments easily in one mobile app. Individuals can download the app and create an account for free, snap a picture of their bills and RexPay will import all of the information so they can manage and pay all their medical bills in one place. In addition to offering … [More]
Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation’s Wellness AtoZ Initiative Launches Healthy AZ Pledge
Wellness AtoZ, an initiative of the Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation (Foundation), is launching the Healthy AZ Pledge to support Arizona’s businesses and community members that make a commitment to follow local and state health and safety guidelines to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. “Wellness AtoZ is addressing a need in the Arizona business community by recognizing … [More]
Two-Way Texting Platform to Overcome Open Enrollment Challenges During COVID-19
Dialog Health, a two-way texting platform that enables information to be pushed to and pulled from staff, announces it is expanding support for organizations adding text messaging to improve employee engagement during open enrollment. With many employers adopting telecommuting and reducing on-site, face-to-face interactions to comply with social distancing guidelines and … [More]
Digital Platform for Optometrists Allows Patients to Safely Interact with Doctors
In an effort to make eyecare safer and easier for both optometrists and their patients, a digital platform called Opti-Xpres has launched nationwide to help with patient onboarding, outreach, EHR synchronization, and provide a contactless glasses frame try-on feature that currently provides the highest accuracy on the market. The application allows doctors to customize an app … [More]
Medical Advisory Services Co. Launches Medicare Services throughout Arizona
Connie Health, a personal Medicare advisory service combining Medicare expertise and local advisors with data-driven insights, to help individuals make confident and informed decisions about their Medicare options, has launched its services in Maricopa, Pinal and Yavapai counties. Connie Health was formed in 2019 by Valley resident David Luna and partners Michael Scopa and … [More]
Magellan Health and Livongo to Co-create a New Digital and Clinical Care Experience across the Behavioral Health Continuum
Magellan Health, Inc., one of the nation’s leaders in behavioral health, today announced a strategic relationship with Livongo (Nasdaq: LVGO) the leading Applied Health Signals company empowering people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, making Livongo for Behavioral Health available to Magellan Health customers and their members as the digital entry … [More]
Changing the Way Hospital Rooms Are Disinfected, One Robot at a Time
The current COVID-19 outbreak has created tremendous awareness of the importance of thorough disinfection. Given the extraordinary challenges facing healthcare systems and hospitals today, it is critical that the healthcare industry transform its disinfection and cleaning protocols to focus on deadly pathogen elimination to ensure the greatest safety for staff, patients and the … [More]
Get Up-to-Date Return-to-Work Requirements across All 50 States
Text-message health-screening company Picohealth offers businesses a free tool, COVID-19 Employee Health Screening Requirements by State, to make sense of constantly changing COVID-19 symptom and temperature screening requirements in all 50 states. Each week, states are issuing return-to-work guidelines and executive orders mandating how employers should keep their … [More]
Pair of Arizona Researchers to Receive COVID Funding
In response to COVID-19 and the severe underfunding of mental health research in the U.S., the Institute for Mental Health Research (IMHR) is awarding two grants that will enable immediate and continued research into the pandemic’s effect on mental health. Awardees are Arizona scientists Athena Aktipis, PhD and Michelle “Lani” Shiota, PhD. Money for the awards comes from IMHR’s … [More]
