December 21, 2020

Silver Fern Wraps Up 2020 Adding Hypertension Program to Its Proven Platform

On December 21, 2020, Silver Fern Healthcare released Hypertension, the newest chronic disease program featured on its proven Behavior Diagnostic Platform. This Platform provides chronic care management teams with previously inaccessible insights to improve treatment plans and achieve better health outcomes for people with chronic diseases. The Hypertension Program applies Silver Fern’s evidence-based techniques for …

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December 15, 2020

Board of Advisor News: Research by Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, featured in the New York Times

The research of Silver Fern Board of Advisor, Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH, FACP, was featured by the New York Times in an article titled: Social Inequities Explain Racial Gaps in Pandemic, Studies Find. His research is providing essential and timely insights into the impact of social inequities on incidence rates and morbidity from COVID-19. “Dr. Gbenga …

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November 13, 2020

Dr. Welch, Silver Fern Healthcare Co-Founder and CSO, featured guest on “The Public Health Podcast”

Dr. Garry Welch, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Silver Fern Healthcare, was recently invited to speak about his expertise in chronic disease management on “The Public Health Podcast.” The podcast is produced by a team of NPR veterans and is hosted by Ryan Birchmeier and Katie Fendler, a brother-sister duo that is “bringing the public back into public …

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November 10, 2020

Silver Fern Healthcare CEO, Colleen McGuire, invited to facilitate conversation on chronic disease prevention at the Harvard Business School Healthcare Alumni Association 21st Annual Conference

The Harvard Business School Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) recently held its 21st Annual Conference virtually on November 5th and 6th. Colleen McGuire, HBS alumna and Co-Founder and CEO of Silver Fern Healthcare, was invited to the event to facilitate a roundtable discussion entitled “Chronic Disease Prevention, Treatment and Management”. During the session, Colleen led a discussion about the importance of lifestyle-based strategies for treating and managing chronic diseases. She described how our current approach to treating conditions such as diabetes or hypertension primarily uses pharmaceutical and surgical interventions which fail to focus on prevention or to address the root causes of …

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November 2, 2020

Version 2.1 of the Silver Fern Behavior Diagnostic Platform integrates highly anticipated Suggested Actions and features a new Healthy Lifestyle and Disease Prevention program for emerging risk pools

On November 2nd, Silver Fern released the most insightful and powerful version of its Behavior Diagnostic Platform ever. Version 2.1 of Silver Fern’s software-as-a-service product includes the highly anticipated integration of a new feature, “Suggested Actions”. Silver Fern has developed thousands of Suggested Actions that are evidence-based and have been used successfully by clinicians with …

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September 14, 2020

Silver Fern CEO, Colleen A. McGuire, Featured Entrepreneur in the Metro Hartford Alliance’s Innovation Destination Hartford Blog

Silver Fern Healthcare Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Colleen A. McGuire spoke with MetroHartford Alliance Content Manager Nan Price about bringing an innovative new concept to the digital health market. NAN PRICE: Give us a little background about your career evolution. COLLEEN MCGUIRE: I was trained in a general leadership management program at Harvard Business School, and …

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August 31, 2020

Silver Fern Launches Version 2.0 of Transformative Behavior Diagnostic Platform

On August 31st, Silver Fern released the newest version of its revolutionary software as a service product, the Behavior Diagnostic Platform, with an enhanced user experience, improved features to enable faster and more effective workflow, and integration of a new Heart Failure program. The Behavior Diagnostic Platform, originally released in the commercial market in 2018, …

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August 25, 2020

Silver Fern Featured in Endocrine Today

Endocrine Today recently highlighted our poster for the ADCES conference which highlighted the results achieved by our partners at WellSpark utilizing the Silver Fern Behavior Diagnostic Platform to create a behaviorally enriched Diabetes Prevention Program. They achieved 7x the typical patient engagement level and 2x the number of patients achieving the goals for weight-loss and physical activity. …

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August 11, 2020

Silver Fern and WellSpark Health to present program outcomes for commercial drivers with chronic disease at ADCES 2020

The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists’ (ADCES) annual conference highlights innovation in prediabetes, diabetes, and cardiometabolic care. On August 14, the ADCES conference will feature a presentation by Silver Fern Healthcare and WellSpark Health describing how their behaviorally enriched Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) combined the best of digital health with the engagement benefits …

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May 15, 2020

Healthcare veteran Tom McGuire joins Silver Fern Healthcare as General Council

Silver Fern welcomes Tom McGuire to it’s growing team! Tom has 25+ years of healthcare experience serving in various legal, regulatory, and compliance roles. For more than 10 years, he was Senior Deputy Counsel at UnitedHealthcare and a member of UnitedHealth Group’s Executive Leadership Team. Tom will provide counsel to Silver Fern’s executive team on …

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