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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October 22, 2020

Part 3 – A deep dive into the treatment options for type 2 diabetes: Intensive lifestyle change

This post looks at a third treatment option for patients living with type 2 diabetes: intensive lifestyle change to achieve remission. Our two previous posts in this series covered medication management, which focuses on diabetes control, and gastric surgery, which focuses on remission – defined as achieving normal blood glucose without diabetes pills or injections. …

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October 19, 2020

Part 2 – A deep dive into the treatment options for type 2 diabetes: Weight-Loss Surgery

This is the second post in a series exploring three very different treatment options for people living with type 2 diabetes, a common, lifestyle-related chronic condition.   In the first post in the series, we explored the traditional medication management approach to type 2 diabetes. Here, we explore weight-loss surgery (WLS), which allows many patients …

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September 28, 2020

A deep dive into the treatment options for type 2 diabetes: Three different approaches; three very different patient journeys

As we explored in earlier posts, the United States faces a growing epidemic of obesity-related chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. This tsunami of preventable sickness impacts 133 million people in the US, and these numbers will continue to rise without sweeping changes to our modern culture and lifestyle habits. …

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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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September 10, 2020

A post-COVID-19 model of US primary care: Telehealth and a behaviorally enriched, expanded primary care team can tackle our chronic care challenge

The US healthcare system excels at many things. We lead in the development of new medical and digital technologies, medical devices, and drugs that benefit people worldwide. We are the world’s leader in complex and emergency medical care delivered in hospitals and emergency rooms. We train specialists to heroically diagnose, triage, and fix or stabilize …

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