higi, Validic team on remote monitoring, wellness efforts

CHICAGO — Validic and higi on Wednesday announced a new partnership that will see the two working together to deliver more divers, actionable health data to healthcare organizations that can be used to improve outcomes and improve treatments. 

 

With the collaboration, Validic’s Clients — from payers to providers and wellness companies — will be able to see real-time biometric data from those among higi’s nearly 30 million users who provide authorization. They will also be able to engage patients using higi stations. The move will expand higi’s reach and distribution to Validic’s client population, which numbers 160 million in 47 countries.

 

“We are excited to expand the digital health ecosystem with higi,” Ryan Beckland, CEO and co-founder of Validic, said. “higi, like Validic, believes that access to actionable health information can not only motivate patient behavior, but can also empower healthcare organizations to deliver a higher quality of care to improve health outcomes.” 

 

Under the partnership, health systems and hospitals could benefit by developing more efficiently designed clinical improvement programs that would allow lower-risk patients to send statistics through their local higi station rather than an in-home monitoring device. The free higi check-ins — which also allow patient to track their statistics — would allow hospitals and health systems to monitor more people with a minimal cost increase, the companies said. 

 

“We believe all healthcare organizations will be using biometric health data, like the data provided by higi, as the means to quickly and cost-effectively identify at-risk populations to improve treatments and outcomes for their patients. higi is perfectly positioned to partner with a digital health leader like Validic in this effort so healthcare organizations can provide better care because they will now have a more complete understanding of their consumers to provide even more personalized treatments,” higi CEO Jeff Bennett said.

 

On Dec. 9, higi will discuss the partnership in a webinar as part of Validic’s Digital Health Leadership Series.