—“Only the fact that there are others out in this great big world, going through the same things/feelings and rough patches as I am.” This is how Audrey starts the last of our several email exchanges after I have asked her what was her most important takeaway from Better Choices Better Health® (BCBH). We’ve […]
This month we feature an article by C.J. Sieck, et al, The Patient Engagement Capacity Model: What Factors Determine a Patient’s Ability to Engage? Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst, Sieck et al start their article describing the “Promise and Challenge of Patient Engagement” and then proceed to present their “Engagement Capacity […]
When we’re on the phone, Judy explains that she wanted to make sure her mother-in-law would already be asleep. She had scheduled our call for late Tuesday night – well late for the east coast, but 6pm in Los Angeles. Judy has been a caregiver for many years, first for her own parents and now […]
This month we’re pleased to share insights from one of our newer partners – Salt Lake County. Salt Lake County covers about 800 square miles and is home to more than 1.1 million people. The County is a diverse government employer with more than 30,000 employees. In collaboration with the Utah Department of Health, Salt […]
Individual behavior change is often central to enhancing quality of life and improving health. This includes adopting healthier habits around diet, physical activity, sleep, and other core individual behaviors. It includes new tactics to improve social interactions with family and friends and with healthcare providers. And it often includes new medical-related behaviors such as medication […]
DTx West took place at the end of February and serves as a great reminder of just how far the broader industry and the digital therapeutics segment have come. Topics included the regulatory environment and pathways for digital therapeutics, commercialization strategies, and partnership approaches. I had the good fortune to moderate an incredible panel with […]
We were glad to see the interest in Paul’s article from last month’s Canary Health newsletter about designing digital interventions to highlight behavioral modeling. Providing behavioral modeling is one of the key approaches to increasing an individual’s self-efficacy — i.e. the confidence in one’s ability to set a goal and accomplish it. Increasing self-efficacy has […]
At the beginning of 2019, a number of executives in healthcare were asked to share their thoughts on a new effort to fund Medicaid through block grants and the argument that it may spur innovation. Here’s the article if you missed it. Read the Article
It’s late afternoon in Los Angeles, early evening in Dallas, when I connect with Thelma by phone. I hear her energy and enthusiasm, and with a smile on my face and a small chuckle, we get right to her story. Thelma, wrestling with the anxiety that comes from surviving cancer, shares that she joined […]
The core outcome of the Better Choices, Better Health® (BCBH) program is to increase participants’ self-efficacy. Across the entire program we’re deliberate about how we design not only to engage and delight our participants, but also to ensure we increase their self-efficacy. In 1977[i] Albert Bandura defined self-efficacy as “the belief in one’s capabilities to […]
Over 40 years ago, Albert Bandura postulated that self-efficacy was important for individuals and societies to be able to be successful. Many others have subsequently validated his concepts. Self-efficacy serves as the core element of a wide variety of interventions. “Self-efficacy is the belief we have in our own abilities, specifically our ability to meet […]
The DTxDM Conference – now twice yearly – is the premiere conference for Digital Therapeutics innovators. This rapidly coalescing industry is built on the commitment that digital solutions can deliver meaningful and proven outcomes. The conference highlighted the continued research and growing evidence, presented the emerging business models and dealt honestly with the opportunities and […]
DistilNFO had an opportunity to interview Adam Kaufman, President & CEO at Canary Health®, to talk digital therapeutics. Some of the questions posed were: What are the current needs in healthcare? What is digital therapeutics? What results have you seen? How important is peer support in online programs? and many more. Read the article to […]
Cost savings were driven by decreased all-cause inpatient, outpatient, Emergency Department, and pharmacy utilization, as well as diabetes-specific outpatient utilization. Participants also had lower comorbid disease burden at one year than their controls, including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, renal disease, and depression. Read more on the results. About the Referenced Study Results *For the most recent […]
When founding Canary Health®, one of the pillars of our programming that was a must and continues to be, is understanding the patient. The question we had to ask ourselves was: How do we get patients engaged in their own health, and keep them engaged so they can live the life they want to live? […]
Diabetes Daily, an online resource for patients with diabetes, explores the world of online diabetes management programs. They sat down with Neal Kaufman, Canary Health’s Chief Medical Officer, to get his perspective. Read the Article
Recently published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the Stanford-Anthem study explores online digital therapeutic programs for patients with diabetes and its effectiveness on reducing healthcare costs and improving patient outcomes. The study found healthcare cost savings of $815 per patient in year following the program, and a decrease in the use of health-related […]
Canary Health was recently featured in The Anthology of Bright Spots, a project of the DiabTribe Foundation. The project identified programs, companies, etc. in type 2 diabetes and prediabetes that are considered ‘working’ or successes in the fight against both, and which can be looked upon as benchmarks in the industry. Canary Health is proud […]
Neal Kaufman, MD, MPH, is currently the Chief Medical Officer at Canary Health, but prior to his current role and still today, Dr. Kaufman has been invited to partner with a number of diabetes related charities internationally. They are partnerships that allow him to ‘pay it forward’, but also to offer Canary Health a unique […]