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Employee wellness is not a new idea, but new ideas from digital health companies like Castlight Health and Fitbit, as well as incumbents like UnitedHealthcare, are reimagining and reinvigorating the space.

UnitedHealthcare has added a new wearable to its Motion employee wellness program.

The announcement comes after a new review found that more than 230 million errors occur every year in England in the medication process.

Last week, Fitbit announced that it was acquiring Twine Health for an undisclosed sum.

A recent NHS Digital survey of social workers highlighted that the majority wanted to see easier methods of information-sharing to support their work. A key challenge to achieving this, unsurprisingly, was sharing data with health organisations.

Correction: A previous version of this article misstated Provata's 2016 revenue.

Patients are used to getting bombarded with communications from their insurance providers.

“Our quest is to harness large-scale data analysis and technology to power the UK as a leader in the field of precision health,” Professor Andrew Morris, Health Data Research UK Director, said at the Festival of Genomics in London last month.

Digital health companion app for employees and insured individuals Humanoo recently landed $6.

BJ-HC spoke to representatives from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and its charity, CW+, about digital health innovation success and the importance of frontline clinician support.