Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a condition characterized by a gradual loss of kidney function through time. Those with CKD may develop complications such as high blood pressure, anemia, weak bones, poor nutritional health, and nerve damage. CKD can progress to end-stage kidney failure, which is fatal without dialysis or a kidney transplant. While individuals [...]
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, attacks cells in the brain and spinal cord that carry messages from the brain to the muscles. As motor neurons degenerate and die, it leads to scarring — or [...]
Nearly 1 million adults in the U.S. are living with Multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease that causes the immune system to mistakenly attack healthy cells. In people with MS, the immune system attacks cells in the myelin, the protective sheath that surrounds nerves in the brain and spinal cord. Damage to the myelin sheath [...]
What is Advance Care Planning? Advance care planning (ACP) is an ongoing process that supports individuals at any age or stage of health in understanding and sharing their personal values, life goals, and preferences regarding future medical care. ACP can provide specific instructions as to what an individual may want or not want [...]
Aledade, the startup company that is working to reshape primary care, notched its first tuck-in acquisition by scooping up Iris, the company announced Tuesday. Austin, Texas-based Iris provides advance care planning technology solutions, and Aledade will fold the company's technology into its new health services unit, called Aledade Care Solutions, the company said. Aledade did not [...]
Acquisition Enables Company to Provide More High-Value, Patient-Centered Services Through Its Network of More Than 1,000 Independent Primary Care Practices and Health Centers BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aledade, the leading primary care enablement company, announced today that it has acquired Iris, the best-in-class provider of Advance Care Planning (ACP) solutions for tens [...]
Parkinson’s disease can be complicated for individuals in that it is a progressive nervous system disorder affecting movement and may be dismissed in its early stages as merely part of the aging process. Symptoms begin gradually, often showing themselves as a barely noticeable tremor in just one hand. While tremors are common, the disease also [...]
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), also known as coronary heart disease, or ischemic heart disease, affects about 18.2 million adults aged 20 and older and about two in 10 deaths from CAD happen in adults less than 65 years old. CAD narrows or blocks arteries by building up fatty material called plaque, also known as atherosclerosis. [...]
Iris, the leading provider of Advance Care Planning (ACP) solutions for health plans and provider groups, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC), the largest not-for-profit health insurer in Missouri and the only not-for-profit commercial health insurer in Kansas City, are announcing a new partnership to offer advance care planning [...]
