New York Life Partners with Human API to Further Support Consumers in the Life Insurance Purchase Experience

“This innovative work in the electronic health record space, including our latest partnership with Human API, is an important part of New York Life’s overall mission to enable consumers to obtain the financial security they need in a faster and more efficient way.”

— Ari Roy, Head of Strategic Solutions Group, New York Life

NEW YORK, December 6, 2022 - New York Life, America’s largest mutual life insurer, today announced a strategic partnership with Human API, a leading provider of digital health data innovation and solutions, to continue to streamline and simplify the life insurance purchase experience.

Powered by Human API’s Health Intelligence Platform, New York Life, with applicant consent and in full compliance with HIPAA regulations, will retrieve consumer mediated electronic health records (EHRs) in the form of normalized digital health data. Replacing traditional, manual methods of obtaining medical records with more easily accessible digital forms brings additional speed, transparency, and efficiency to the life insurance underwriting process. With this partnership, New York Life will expand its access to machine-readable health data which will further advance the company’s efforts to improve the consumer experience when purchasing life insurance.

“New York Life’s efforts to increasingly remove friction from the life insurance purchase process over the last several years have involved achievements in digitizing, improving data resources, and automating,” said Ari Roy, head of New York Life’s Strategic Solutions Group. “This innovative work in the electronic health record space, including our latest partnership with Human API, is an important part of New York Life’s overall mission to enable consumers to obtain the financial security they need in a faster and more efficient way.”

“Like New York Life, we at Human API understand that digital health data is the future of the life insurance industry and believe strongly in the opportunities, actionable insights, and efficiencies that come from its implementation,” said Andrei Pop, Chief Executive Officer of Human API. “We will continue to innovate to bring our partners the foremost solutions in health data for underwriting and customer experience transformations.”

About New York Life

New York Life Insurance Company (www.newyorklife.com), a Fortune 100 company founded in 1845, is the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States1 and one of the largest life insurers in the world. Headquartered in New York City, New York Life’s family of companies offers life insurance, retirement income, investments and long-term care insurance. New York Life has the highest financial strength ratings currently awarded to any U.S. life insurer from all four of the major credit rating agencies2.

Based on revenue as reported by “Fortune 500 ranked within Industries, Insurance: Life, Health (Mutual),” Fortune magazine, 5/23/2022. For methodology, please see http://fortune.com/fortune500/.

Individual independent rating agency commentary as of 10/18/2022: A.M. Best (A++), Fitch (AAA), Moody’s Investors Service (Aaa), Standard & Poor’s (AA+).

About Human API

Human API’s Health Intelligence Platform connects and converts health data into actionable intelligence that accelerates underwriting, improves placement rates, and creates better customer experiences. The company’s platform is powered by a robust and comprehensive data network which includes access to electronic health records (EHR) networks, health information exchanges (HIEs), patient portals, and traditional APS retrieval partners. Coupled with smart evidence orchestration capabilities that optimize for the best data retrieval paths and a reporting engine that presents useful information to underwriters at the right time, Human API’s solution is helping leading carriers easily access and use health data to transform underwriting and customer experiences. To learn more, visit HumanAPI.co.

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Nationwide and Human API Unite to Automate Data for Faster Underwriting

“Nationwide and Human API are committed to a customer-centric experience that delivers fast and transparent life insurance to the consumer. By obtaining an applicant’s medical history in a digital format, we start providing value to them before a policy is even issued in the form of a faster, smoother process.”

— Lee Fluharty, Chief Underwriter of Life Insurance, Nationwide

COLUMBUS, Ohio – - Nationwide announced today a partnership with Human API, a leading health data platform, to improve the life insurance buying experience by maximizing the use of digital health data to accelerate the underwriting process.

Human API’s Health Intelligence Platform connects electronic health data from thousands of sources in the US, servicing millions of Americans. This platform enables Nationwide to rapidly acquire consumer’s rich, digital health data and eliminate the need to wait weeks for labs or exams. 

Human API and Nationwide built a fully integrated process where only HIPAA-compliant health data that the applicant has agreed to release is automatically ordered and delivered. Using digital health data instead of traditional attending physician statements, labs, and exams during underwriting is especially attractive to those who may have previously put off buying life insurance due to the cumbersome process.

“Nationwide and Human API are committed to a customer-centric experience that delivers fast and transparent life insurance to the consumer,” said Lee Fluharty, Chief Underwriter for Nationwide’s life insurance business. “By obtaining an applicant’s medical history in a digital format, we start providing value to them before a policy is even issued in the form of a faster, smoother process.”

Human API believes the future is moving towards digital data and processes and consumers expect these experiences. 

“Our platform allows insurers to capitalize on the availability of digital medical data, using this data to shape their life insurance application process into a smooth, end-to-end digital experience for their consumers, previously unattainable with manual processes,” said Andrei Pop, CEO of Human API. “We are thrilled to be working with Nationwide to redefine the life insurance buying process for their consumers.”

About Human API

Human API’s Health Intelligence Platform connects and converts health data into actionable intelligence that accelerates underwriting, improves placement rates, and creates better customer experiences. The company’s platform is powered by a robust and comprehensive data network which includes access to electronic health records (EHR) networks, health information exchanges (HIEs), patient portals, and traditional APS retrieval partners. Coupled with smart evidence orchestration capabilities that optimize for the best data retrieval paths and a reporting engine that presents useful information to underwriters at the right time, Human API’s solution is helping leading carriers easily access and use health data to transform underwriting and customer experiences.

About Nationwide

Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company based in Columbus, Ohio, is one of the largest and strongest diversified insurance and financial services organizations in the United States. Nationwide is rated A+ by both A.M. Best and Standard & Poor’s. An industry leader in driving customer-focused innovation, Nationwide provides a full range of insurance and financial services products including auto, business, homeowners, farm and life insurance; public and private sector retirement plans, annuities, mutual funds and EFTs; excess & surplus, specialty and surety; and pet, motorcycle and boat insurance. For more information, visit www.nationwide.com. Follow the firm on Facebook and Twitter.

This material is not a recommendation to buy or sell a financial product or to adopt an investment strategy. Investors should discuss their specific situation with their financial professional.

Nationwide and Human API are separate, non-affiliated companies.

This information is general in nature and is not intended to be tax, legal, accounting or other professional advice. The information provided is based on current laws, which are subject to change at any time, and has not been endorsed by any government agency.

Nationwide Investment Services Corporation (NISC), member FINRA, Columbus, OH. Nationwide Retirement Institute is a division of NISC.

Nationwide, the Nationwide N and Eagle, Nationwide is on your side and Nationwide Retirement Institute are service marks of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company © Nationwide 2022

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Pacific Life and Human API Partner to Further Transform the Life Insurance Buying Experience

“Our customers expect an elevated, individualized experience that is quick and noninvasive. Real-time, actionable data is key to delivering a streamlined underwriting process. Human API’s platform offers the sophistication required to support our large-scale transformation goals.”

— Susan Ghalili, Senior Vice President of Underwriting, Pacific Life

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pacific Life today announced a strategic partnership with Human API, a leading electronic health records provider. By incorporating access to electronic health records and attending physician statements through Human API’s platform, applicants can benefit from a more seamless underwriting experience.

Pacific Life is focused on innovating the life insurance underwriting process. Access to electronic health records is the most recent of the many improvements that have been made to simplify the buying process by eliminating high friction points and making policies easier for consumers to buy and for financial professionals to sell.

“Our customers expect an elevated, individualized experience that is quick and noninvasive,” said Susan Ghalili, senior vice president of underwriting transformation at Pacific Life. “Real-time, actionable data is key to delivering a streamlined underwriting process. Human API’s platform offers the sophistication required to support our large-scale transformation goals.”

Andrei Pop, chief executive officer at Human API agreed that their data platform and Pacific Life’s commitment to transforming the customer experience promise to be a powerful combination. “We are delighted to work with Pacific Life and contribute to their industry-shaping goals,” he said. “We believe Pacific Life’s appetite for data-driven intelligence, combined with our ability to support their innovation, will lead to a new normal for how life insurance is bought and sold.”

About Pacific Life

For more than 150 years, Pacific Life has helped millions of individuals and families with their financial needs through a wide range of life insurance products, annuities, and mutual funds, and offers a variety of investment products and services to individuals, businesses, and pension plans. Whether your goal is to protect loved ones or grow your assets for retirement, Pacific Life offers innovative products and services that provide value and financial security for current and future generations. Pacific Life counts more than half of the 100 largest U.S. companies as its clients and has been named one of the 2022 World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute. For additional company information, including current financial strength ratings, visit www.PacificLife.com.

Pacific Life refers to Pacific Life Insurance Company and its affiliates, including Pacific Life & Annuity Company. Client count as of June 2022 is compiled by Pacific Life using the 2022 FORTUNE 500® list. Pacific Life Insurance Company is licensed to issue insurance products in all states except New York. Product/material availability and features may vary by state.

About Human API

Human API’s Health Intelligence Platform connects and converts health data into actionable intelligence that accelerates underwriting, improves placement rates, and creates better customer experiences. The company’s platform is powered by a robust and comprehensive data network which includes access to electronic health records (EHR) networks, health information exchanges (HIEs), patient portals, and traditional APS retrieval partners. Coupled with smart evidence orchestration capabilities that optimize for the best data retrieval paths and a reporting engine that presents useful information to underwriters at the right time, Human API’s solution is helping leading carriers easily access and use health data to transform underwriting and customer experiences.

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USAA Life Insurance Company Partners with Human API to Transform Life Insurance Buying Process

“Human API’s platform further expands our ability to provide our members the best experience buying life insurance.
We were the first company to use digital health data and are continually looking for ways to improve our processes—including increasing the percentage of medical records we can receive digitally which cuts down on the time that it takes to get life insurance coverage.”

— Christopher Flint, Senior Vice President and GM, Life Insurance at USAA

SAN ANTONIO—August 16, 2022—Today, USAA Life Insurance Company (USAA Life) announces the next step in the evolution of their life insurance offering by partnering with Human API, the leading health data platform. Pairing USAA Life’s rich experience with digital health data and Human API’s industry-leading technology will drive transformation in the life insurance buying process to create an unmatched member experience.

USAA Life will continue to expand the use of digital health data in the life insurance underwriting process through its implementation of Human API’s Health Intelligence Platform, including its vast patient portal network, HIPAA-authorized networks, and APS retrieval services, all powered by the Human API’s smart order orchestration. The Human API platform connects to 30,000+ data sources in the US, including EHR networks, HIEs, provider networks and more, providing widespread digital health data access for over 13 million USAA members. Prioritizing digital health data will improve the USAA member experience and help members acquire important life insurance coverage faster and easier.

Human API’s proprietary data normalization engine expands the utility of digital health data, delivers deeper data insights, and unlocks exciting new opportunities through the development of this unique data asset. As USAA Life continues to drive towards the future of automated underwriting, the partnership with Human API will ensure that USAA will deliver the best experience to its members today and in the future.

“Human API’s platform further expands our ability to provide our members the best experience buying life insurance,” said Chris Flint, senior vice president and general manager, life insurance at USAA Life. “We were the first company to use digital health data and are continually looking for ways to improve our processes—including increasing the percentage of medical records we can receive digitally which cuts down on the time that it takes to get life insurance coverage.”

“We are thrilled to be working with USAA. Human API is excited to assist USAA in continuing to deliver the best in services and experience to their members and we look forward to helping USAA power the future of digital health data and underwriting automation.” says Andrei Pop, CEO of Human API.

About Human API

Human API’s Health Intelligence Platform connects and converts health data into actionable intelligence that accelerates underwriting, improves placement rates, and creates better customer experiences. The company’s platform is powered by a robust and comprehensive data network which includes access to electronic health records (EHR) networks, health information exchanges (HIEs), patient portals, and traditional APS retrieval partners. Coupled with smart evidence orchestration capabilities that optimize for the best data retrieval paths and a reporting engine that presents useful information to underwriters at the right time, Human API’s solution is helping leading carriers easily access and use health data to transform underwriting and customer experiences.

About USAA

Founded in 1922 by a group of military officers, USAA is among the leading providers of insurance, banking, and investment and retirement solutions to more than 13 million members of the U.S. military, veterans who have honorably served and their families. Headquartered in San Antonio, USAA has offices in eight U.S. cities and three overseas locations and employs more than 38,000 people worldwide. Each year, the company contributes to national and local nonprofits in support of military families and communities where employees live and work. For more information about USAA, follow us on Facebook or Twitter (@USAA), or visit usaa.com.

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CLEARED4 Launches Vaccine Verification Platform with Human API, Supporting Safe Reopening of Venues

CLEARED4 adds COVID-19 Vaccine Verification to its platform, is empowering People to Safely Return to Work, Travel and Normal Life

NEW YORK, NY, USA, January 14, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- CLEARED4, a market leader in COVID-19 safety solutions, announced it has integrated COVID-19 vaccination verification into its platform through Human API. Human API, a digital health data platform, enables CLEARED4 users to access their COVID-19 vaccination proof from over 30,000 labs and electronic health systems in the US.

“We know accessing COVID-19 test results and vaccination proof in real-time will be critical to a safe reopening of workplaces and venues across the country,” said Dr. Soumi Eachempati, CEO of CLEARED4. “CLEARED4 needed a platform that could deliver ubiquitous health data and found that in Human API’s digital health data platform. After months of development and testing, our clients are now using our industry-first solution to make better informed decisions about when and how to reopen safely.”

“Secure, real-time access to COVID-19 test results and vaccination data is pivotal to helping us reopen the country safely and keep people healthy,” said Andrei Pop, Founding CEO of Human API. “We never envisioned an event like the pandemic when we started, but our platform was built to facilitate and fulfill this exact type of consumer interaction. We’re thrilled to be powering organizations like CLEARED4 that are paving the way for a return to normal work and life.”

CLEARED4 recently celebrated the issuance of its one millionth COVID-19 access pass and is currently being used across industries such as finance (Soros Capital Management), education (Manhasset School District), sports stadiums (including AT&T Stadium the home of the Dallas Cowboys), municipalities (Suffolk County) and manufacturing (Misonix and Sun Chemical).

CLEARED4 PARTNERS WITH HUMAN API TO DELIVER REAL-TIME COVID-19 TEST RESULTS THAT SUPPORT SAFE WORKPLACE REOPENING

CLEARED4 is Empowering Employees to Safely Return to Work By Sharing COVID-19 Test Results Through Human API’s Consumer Health Data Platform 

Today, November 13, 2020 CLEARED4, a market leader in return-to-work safety solutions, announced that the company has integrated COVID-19 test results into their return-to-work platform through Human API. Human API is a consumer health data platform that enables CLEARED4’s customers to access their employee’s COVID-19 test data in real-time from over 5,000 leading labs, including Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp and CVS.

As workplaces reopen, monitoring employee health status with ongoing COVID-19 test results data will be critical in maintaining a safe work environment. This strategic partnership with Human API allows CLEARED4’s customers to consolidate all their employee and office visitor COVID-19 test results into one health management platform that supports a safe return to work. 

“We knew accessing COVID-19 test results in real-time would be critical to a safe reopening of workplaces and venues across the country,” said Ashley John Heather, President & COO of CLEARED4. “We were looking for a platform that could deliver ubiquitous test results and found that in Human API’s consumer health data platform. After months of development and testing our clients are now using our industry-first solution to make better informed decisions about when and how to reopen safely.”

“We’re seeing an emerging ecosystem of COVID-19 technologies that are aimed at helping

us reopen the country safely,” said Andrei Pop, Founding CEO of Human API. “Our mission is to radically accelerate the pace of health innovation and we’re really excited to be working alongside forward-looking organizations like CLEARED4 that are paving the way for a safe return to work and normal living.”

Launched in April 2020, in New York, CLEARED4’s health management platform uses text messaging, health-centric technologies and on-site kiosks to obtain valuable health clearance and optimize safe reopenings.  The CLEARED4 system requires no cumbersome apps to be downloaded and delivers an intuitive, user-friendly experience.  This unique approach results in maximal adoption of the platform which ultimately enables the safest possible work environment. CLEARED4 recently celebrated the issuance of its one millionth Covid-19-free  access pass and is currently being used across industries such as finance (Soros Capital Management), education (Manhasset School District), sports stadiums (including AT&T Stadium the home of the Dallas Cowboys), and manufacturing (Sun Chemical).

In addition to facilitating access to COVID-19 test results through Human API, CLEARED4 was the first commercially available solution to integrate Influenza and Covid-19 vaccination data into its platform and allowing employers to track their employee health vaccination status.

About CLEARED4

CLEARED4, is one of a suite of Covid-safety solutions from Chelsea Health Solutions, a NY company, enabling its clients to safely return to businesses, schools and stadiums across America.  CLEARED4 is a patent-pending platform from Chelsea Health Solutions that provides a higher level of safety where COVID-19 cases could occur and afflict other individuals.  Pioneered from advanced technology, CLEARED4CLASS includes advanced symptom monitoring, secure access control, automated contract tracing and Covid testing.

Chelsea Health Solutions launched the CLEARED4 platform in April 2020 with CLEARED4WORK, and more recently launched additional vertical specific solutions including CLEARED4CLASS, CLEARED4FANS, CLEARED4DINING and CLEARED4TRAVEL.

CLEARED4 is easy to implement and can be integrated into the back-to-work plan of a new client within 24 hours.  For more information, visit www.Cleared4.org. 

About Human API

Human API is on a mission to radically accelerate the pace of health innovation by giving consumers the easiest way to connect and share health data with companies they trust. The company has built a consumer health data platform that connects, normalizes, and structures data from a rapidly-growing network of hospitals, pharmacies, labs, wearable devices and fitness apps, and EHR data partners. Human API empowers insurance, corporate wellness, health plans, digital therapeutics and clinical research organizations to build and deliver consumer-centric apps and services with electronic health records (EHR) and personal device data from everywhere. For more information, visit https://www.humanapi.co.

Human API Raises $20M+ in Series C Funding To Scale Consumer-Controlled Health Data Ecosystem

The platform aims to accelerate innovation by giving consumers a cutting-edge means of sharing health data with the enterprises and researchers putting it to good use

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Human API, the company empowering consumers to connect and share electronic health data with companies they trust, announced today that it has raised over $20 million in Series C funding. The round includes participation from Samsung Ventures, CNO Financial Group, Allianz Life Ventures, and Moneta VC, as well as from existing investors BlueRun Ventures, SCOR Life and Health Ventures, and Guardian Life Insurance Company.

Human API has established a strong reputation helping Fortune 500 financial services companies – like Prudential and John Hancock – deliver consumer-centric buying experiences, as well as assisting digital health scale-ups – including Omada Health and Thrive Global – to power digital health and wellness solutions. Positioning itself as a driving force in health data liquidity, the company is working to simplify the aggregation from direct-to-EHR networks, regional HIEs, and national data networks to create seamless digital experiences that allow consumers to securely share their data with companies that can put it to good use.

"Human API's 'one stop shop' of health data helps enterprises realize new possibilities in lasting consumer engagement models," said Paolo DeMartin, CEO of SCOR Global Life. "They're truly moving the industry into a new era of innovation."

The recent funding round positions the company to build on its significant momentum in industries including insurance, pharma and digital health, and to advance its mission to make true consumer-controlled health data liquidity a reality across a spectrum of markets.

"With this new capital we're evolving Human API into a digital transformation platform unifying more data from more sources," said Andrei Pop, Founder and CEO of Human API. "We're speeding up growth in the insurance, clinical trials, and health plans markets, as well as new use cases like COVID-19 screening."

The capital will be used to scale new products and services that enable new product design, granular risk stratification, optimize clinical trial recruitment, support population health management, automate patient monitoring, and digitize chronic disease management. To drive forward this period of growth, Human API has brought on Richard Dufty as Chief Commercial Officer. Having spearheaded AppDirect's growth from early stage startup to Unicorn status in just 4 years, and having led Symantec's $1B US Consumer and Cloud business, Dufty brings extensive experience launching and growing software ecosystems.

Human API's platform gives consumers a streamlined means of accessing and sharing their health records, opening up ways of transacting with enterprises through an intuitive experience likened to that of PayPal. Designed to give every consumer free, simple, and full control of all their health data, the platform connects, manages, and shares data from electronic health records, pharmacies, labs, wearables, and fitness apps.

Though consumers today generate vast amounts of health data, data remains unstructured and fragmented, keeping it out of reach for those innovating in the industry. For consumers, dispersed data prevents them from taking control of their health. For businesses, complex data prevents them from fully realising its value. In making health data an easily accessible and normalized asset, this data becomes actionable for both patients and trusted innovators, providing immediate value to consumers and enterprises alike.

Andrei Pop explains the possibilities: "On our platform, you can easily and instantly give a digital health provider the consent and data they need to deliver you personalized care. Or, through a couple of easy steps, you could immediately enlist as part of a pharma company's new clinical trial. Or, even, if you're in need of life insurance, but COVID-19 prevents an in-person assessment, you can instantly send what's required via our platform, completing the underwriting process in 24 hours."

"By facilitating these transactions," explains Sean Duffy, Co-Founder & CEO at Omada Health, "Human API is bringing into being a new consumer health ecosystem driven by consumer-centric health apps and services."

About Human API
Human API is on a mission to radically accelerate the pace of health innovation by giving consumers the easiest way to connect and share health data with companies they trust. The company has built a digital health data platform that connects, normalizes, and structures data from a rapidly-growing network of hospitals, pharmacies, labs, wearable devices and fitness apps, and EHR data partners. Human API empowers insurance, corporate wellness, health plans, digital therapeutics and clinical research organizations to build and deliver consumer-centric apps and services with electronic health records (EHR) and personal device data from everywhere. For more information, visit https://www.humanapi.co.

Human API Wins Best “New EHR Advance” for UCSF Digital Health Awards!

September 24, 2020 -- SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- UC San Francisco’s Health Hub, an innovation hub and startup studio supporting the next wave of digital health entrepreneurs, announces the winners in the UCSF Digital Health Awards. This unique awards event celebrated the achievements of innovative companies dramatically improving healthcare with technology.
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The winners were selected across 15 categories by an unmatched team of 250 expert judges from the healthcare and VC industry, including Stan Kachnowski (HITLAB), Steve Barsh (Dreamit Ventures), Bob Kocher, MD (Venrock), Desert Horse-Grant (UCLA Biodesign), Ursheet Parikh (Mayfield Fund), Paul Grand (Medtech Innovator), Bambi Francisco (Vator), Anne Wellington (Cedars-Sinai Accelerator), Daniel Kraft (Digital.Health), Blake Wu (NEA), Michael Roizen (Cleveland Clinic), Michael Blum, MD (UCSF), Michael Lesh, MD (UCSF), and Lindy Fishburne (Breakout VC).

The winners were chosen from more than 750 submissions based on a rigorous judging criteria. In the first round of judging, the priority was on market validation and traction; in the second, innovation and differentiation; in the third, overall patient impact.

Due to COVID-19 and social distancing measures, winners were announced and honored at a virtual ceremony on the UCSF Mission Bay campus on September 23, at 6:00 pm PT where finalists from across the world joined in through Zoom, waiting in anticipation to see if they had won. Each award was presented by two industry experts, with occasional cameos from some of the biggest changemakers in healthcare, such as Alex Gorsky (CEO of Johnson & Johnson) and Dr. Amy Abernathy (Principal Deputy Commissioner of the FDA). The full video stream of the event is here.

The awards this year also honored innovative digital health companies who stepped up to the many challenges that the pandemic presented — misinformation, the danger of in-person doctor’s appointments, slow testing, and even slower results, and safely returning to work — among many others. These companies either pivoted their products entirely to combat COVID, tweaked certain aspects of their preexisting solutions, or simply saw the pandemic as a new use-case of a perfectly applicable, tried, and tested product. These products were launched within weeks of the first lock-downs, displaying American ingenuity at its finest. At the UCSF Digital Health Awards, we especially wanted to celebrate these unsung heroes of the pandemic through three new COVID Patriot categories - Best Diagnostic Testing Solution, Best Patient Engagement Solution, and Best Delivery and Decision Support Solution.

“We’re honored to shine a spotlight on the early stage companies and their founders making the brave steps making access to care affordable and practical,” said Mark H. Goldstein, Chairman of the UCSF Health Hub and General Partner at venture capital firm Builders VC. “Our winners represent the best of the best and we’re excited to now help them open new providers' doors.”

Winners of the 2020 UCSF Digital Health Awards are:

New Application of AI: Viz.ai
‍New EHR Advance: Human API
‍Remote Diagnostics: Conversa Health
‍Hospital Diagnostics: Eko Health
Telehealth: GoodRx
‍Mental & Behavioral Health: Ginger
‍Consumer Wellness: Oura
‍Consumer Prevention: Dexcom
Employer Wellness & Prevention: Grand Rounds
Patient Cost Savings: Advocatia
COVID Patriot - Best Diagnostic Testing: Mammoth Biosciences
COVID Patriot - Best Patient Engagement: ConsejoSano
COVID Patriot - Best Delivery & Decision Support: Carbon Health
Best Technology with UCSF DNA: Akili
UCSF Digital Health Hall of Fame: Doug Hirsch, Trevor Bezdek, Rajeev Singh, and Roy Shoenberg

Submissions were open to qualified, mature digital health companies with in-market products that have been used by thousands of patients and have been verified in a validation study or clinical trial.Despite the recent growth of the digital health industry due to COVID-19, which is now valued at over $112B globally, the reach of digital health remains limited by a lack of knowledge on the potential of these technologies. UCSF Health Hub established the Digital Health Awards to spread awareness for the leading digital health companies transforming patient care, so that today’s cutting-edge technologies can have an even broader reach to better people’s lives and decrease healthcare costs. Marketing collaborators for the awards include Startup Health, Dreamit Ventures, Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, Plug & Play, Rock Health, TMCx Innovation, Health Wildcatters, Berkeley Skydeck, UCSF Innovation Ventures, Builders VC and MATTER, as well as the American Medical Association’s Physician Innovation Network.

About UCSF Health Hub
UCSF Health Hub is a 501c3 non-profit supported and funded by Silicon Valley’s top health-related venture capital firms in a unique affiliation with UCSF. UCSF Health Hub connects ideas and companies with the people, expertise, and capital to scale breakthrough healthcare solutions and produces monthly on-campus events operates an company-to mentor-to clinician online matching system called Health Hub Connect and produces the UCSF Digital Health Awards show. Visit us at https://www.healthhubsf.org/ and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Media Contact

Oiendrilla Das
oiendrilla@ucsfhealthhub.com
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Jetstream APS Partners with Human API to Enable Electronic Health Records Retrieval for Life Insurance Underwriting

LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, September 14, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Today, Jetstream APS, a leading medical records retrieval vendor, announced a partnership with Human API to enable life insurance applicants to digitally share access to their electronic health records (EHR). Human API, a consumer-controlled health data platform that includes 90% of U.S. hospitals, allows consumers to electronically share their medical records within minutes. With this partnership, Jetstream APS aims to reduce the time it takes for their carrier and distribution customers to secure medical data and help improve the life insurance buying experience for applicants.

Electronic health records (EHR) from Human API can now be ordered directly within Jetstream’s portal, streamlining the medical records retrieval process. Prospective applicants receive an email invitation to complete a two-minute data sharing experience that can be done in the comfort of their home without the need to interact with healthcare providers. The Jetstream team guides applicants through the data connection process, and delivers the shared EHR data in a PDF file directly with carriers and to expedite underwriting.

“We’re very excited to bring this new capability to our carrier and distribution partners,” says Don Slobin, CEO of Jetstream APS. “We’re seeing great success in our initial pilot, with a 66% completion rate with applicants when the EHR request is sent to them. Human API’s nationwide health data network and their intuitive, user-friendly experience makes it seamless for applicants to connect & share medical records. This process is driving formal and informal cases to placement faster while improving the consumer life insurance buying experience. We’re fully embracing electronic health records and look forward to helping our industry move in the right direction.”

“Carriers and distribution partners everywhere are looking for ways to accelerate underwriting and improve the consumer buying experience,” says Christian Wieland, VP of Growth at Human API. “Jetstream APS is known for their commitment to delivering quality and timely medical records retrieval services, and our partnership helps expand their offering and drive further EHR adoption across the industry. We’re very excited to see more forward-looking stakeholders leverage digital health data to improve life insurance distribution.”

About Jetstream APS
Having been in business for over thirty years, Jetstream APS has an earned a reputation as one of the industry leaders by providing fast and reliable service. Jetstream APS understands their clients value having APS orders completed quickly and therefore treats every case as a rush. Now that Jetstream APS supports both traditional APS and EHR retrieval, they provide a convenient one-stop shop. For more information, visit https://www.JetstreamAPS.com, call 310-826-3759 ext 229 or email info@jetstreamaps.com.

About Human API
Human API is on a mission to radically accelerate the pace of health innovation by giving consumers the easiest way to connect and share health data—no matter where or how it was stored. The company has built the first consumer-controlled health data platform that connects, normalizes, and structures data from 90% of acute care and critical access hospitals, along with pharmacies, labs, and 300+ wearable devices and fitness apps. Human API empowers insurance, corporate wellness, health plans, digital therapeutics and clinical research organizations to build and deliver consumer-centric apps and services with electronic health records (EHR) and personal device data from everywhere. For additional information, visit https://www.humanapi.co.

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Alliance between CMDX and Human API Encourages Members to Burn It and Earn It

The innovative collaboration expands CMDX’s wealth generation model, giving users more opportunities to earn through improving their health

ROSEAU, GA, DOMINICA, May 4, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ --CMDX, a global community dedicated to generating wealth by rewarding healthy living, has announced a new partnership withHuman APIto expand opportunities to its members to earn money through healthy living through the Burn It and Earn It program.

CMDX’s robust platform rewards members monetarily for a wide variety of activities. By engaging in healthy practices like exercise and mindful eating or sharing the CMDX platform with other uses around the globe, community members earn cryptocurrency rewards. These rewards can then be used within CMDX’s growing global network of healthcare providers or be used to purchase goods and services anywhere cryptocurrency is accepted.

With its new partnership with Human API, CMDX will offer its global membership network more ways to earn rewards for engaging in a healthy lifestyle. Human API is a service that allows consumers to connect and share health data with companies they trust. With the new partnership, CMDX members will be able to connect their CMDX accounts to over 30 brands of fitness trackers, including CMDX’s biometric wrist monitoring device CMDXFit. By engaging in activities such as biking, hiking, swimming, or even sleeping, users can earn anywhere from $10 to $250 per month in CMDXRewards.

“We are thrilled to partner with Human API to expand opportunities for our members to maximize their wealth through making healthy lifestyle choices,” said Tom McMurrain, CEO of CMDX. “Human API is a trusted name in the health data market, so partnering with them was an easy decision. With our Burn It and Earn It program, we are moving forward on our vision of becoming the Bitcoin of healthcare and the number one firm in the wearable tech sector by expanding opportunities for our users to earn through healthy living.”

CMDX currently boasts 290,000 members in 40 countries. The company offers three levels of user affiliation with varying degrees of earning opportunities. Members can earn CMDXRewards by engaging in healthy activities and referring others to the platform. Healthcare providers who accept CMDX as payment can earn referral rewards, and Ambassadors can earn rewards and build wealth through deploying CMDX’s three-step system to share the vision and mission of the company.

About CMDX
CMDX is a global community dedicated to generating wealth for its users by rewarding healthy living. Through rewarding users for healthy lifestyles with cryptocurrency and creating a global network of healthcare providers accepting its smart currency, CMDX is changing the face of healthcare to make it affordable for every man, woman, and child and creating a better quality of life across the globe. To learn more, visithttps://cmdx.io.

About Human API
Human API is on a mission to radically accelerate the pace of health innovation by giving consumers the easiest way to connect and share health data—no matter where or how it was stored. The company has built the first consumer-controlled health data platform that connects, normalizes, and structures data from 90% of acute care and critical access hospitals, along with pharmacies, labs, and 300+ wearable devices and fitness apps. Human API empowers insurance, corporate wellness, health plans, digital therapeutics and clinical research organizations to build and deliver consumer-centric apps and services with electronic health records (EHR) and personal device data from everywhere. For additional information, visithttps://www.humanapi.co.

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LIBRA Insurance Partners Embrace Human API Platform to Enhance Life Insurance Buying Process

Amid COVID-19 Crisis, LIBRA Helps Partner Agencies Provide Consumers with Easy Way to Access Electronic Health Records.

NEWS PROVIDED BY LIBRA INSURANCE PARTNERS, 4/29/2020

LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Md., April 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, LIBRA Insurance Partners (LIBRA), one of the nation's largest insurance marketing organizations, announced a strategic partnership with Human API to simplify the life insurance purchase process by giving consumers a quick and easy way to share access to their electronic health records (EHR). The move to utilize EHR data has been accelerated by the current COVID-19 crisis. Given the disruption to traditional underwriting requirements such as paramedical exams and attending physician statements, the insurance industry is proactively leveraging alternative data sources like EHRs to find new ways to respond.

"Too many Americans have little or no life insurance in place. We know that life insurance provides peace of mind and is fundamental to good financial planning. However, many consumers find the buying process rather daunting. We need to make it easier if we are going to close the protection gap. Human API helps our partner agencies deliver a streamlined experience. Now more than ever, it's critical that they can deliver a fast, no-touch and digital option to help consumers secure the protection they need," stated Kelli Grass, Senior Vice President at LIBRA Insurance Partners. "Our agencies are essential resources, making sure advisors have the right solutions for their clients. It's important that they also have the tools they need to expedite the underwriting process as much as possible for their clients," she added.

Human API's consumer-controlled health data platform creates transparency and trust throughout the insurance buying journey by giving applicants a way to instantly share their medical records. Through this partnership, LIBRA aims to provide its agencies with a fully digital authorization experience. The two-minute process can be done in the comfort of a client's home without the need to interact with healthcare providers or in-person nurse visits. Agencies can then share the digital medical data directly with carriers to expedite the underwriting process and replace required labs and paramedical exams.

"We're working with everyone across the insurance ecosystem, from carriers to IMOs such as LIBRA, that are focused on making sure we navigate this crisis and emerge stronger as an industry on the other side," said Andrei Pop, CEO at Human API. "We're in a unique position to help the insurance industry adapt to our new normal. It's a privilege and responsibility that we don't take lightly. We're very excited to be working with a partner like LIBRA that has its sights set on the future. This is a perfect opportunity to advance the industry's digital transformation with collective action, which aligns with our company mission to accelerate the pace of innovation for consumers leveraging their own health data."

About Human APIHuman API is on a mission to radically accelerate the pace of health innovation by giving consumers the easiest way to connect and share health data—no matter where or how it was stored. The company has built the first consumer-controlled health data platform that connects, normalizes, and structures data from 90% of acute care and critical access hospitals, along with pharmacies, labs, and 300+ wearable devices and fitness apps. Human API empowers insurance, corporate wellness, health plans, digital therapeutics and clinical research organizations to build and deliver consumer-centric apps and services with electronic health records (EHR) and personal device data from everywhere. For additional information, visit https://www.humanapi.co.

About LIBRA Insurance PartnersLIBRA Insurance Partners is an insurance marketing organization that is dedicated to serving its partners and their brokers in navigating the marketplace. It offers industry-leading knowledge, resources and education to provide financial security for families and businesses. Formerly known as LifeMark Partners and BRAMCO Financial Resources, the united firm is committed to the ongoing development and enhancement of robust, proprietary resources for its partners that revolutionize the industry. The organization's foundation is built on collaboration and sharing best practices; partners grow their agencies together through regular training, networking and educational opportunities. To learn more about becoming a LIBRA partner firm, visit www.LIBRAInsurancePartners.com or call (410) 837-3022.

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AIMCOR Group, LLC Announces Partnership with Human API to Optimize Advisor and Client Experience with Electronic Health Records (EHR)

PAOLI, Pa., Feb. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, AIMCOR Group, LLC announced a strategic partnership with Human API, the largest consumer-controlled health data platform, to create a faster life insurance buying experience for agents and their clients by giving applicants a simple and digital way to share access to their electronic health records (EHR).

AIMCOR Group, LLC is a National Insurance Marketing Organization with a relentless desire to win and a vision of introducing excitement to our industry while making a difference in the lives of our member agencies, advisors and consumers. Human API is a Silicon Valley-based health technology company that works with stakeholders across the entire insurance ecosystem, including both carriers and their distribution partners. The Human API platform allows insurance applicants to connect and share medical data from over 90 percent of US healthcare providers (health systems, hospitals, clinics and physician offices). With instant access to medical information such as lab results, medications, vital measurements and conditions, AIMCOR and its member firms can optimize the life insurance distribution process and deliver an experience that meets modern consumer expectations.

Many Americans remain uninsured or lack sufficient life insurance coverage to meet their needs, and antiquated, lengthy, and often intrusive underwriting processes involved in buying life insurance are big contributing factors to this coverage gap. "We recognize that a large part of our industry's growth will depend on creating a better experience for the consumer," says Marc Verbos, Executive Vice President at AIMCOR Group. "As a trusted innovation partner to carriers and agencies, we're continuously looking for ways to optimize processes, create differentiation for our member firms, and leverage technology that can enhance the consumer buying experience. We see the Human API platform as a natural step in reducing dependency on time-intensive requirements such as attending physician statements and in-person medical exams. We're very excited to offer this new competitive advantage to all our firms in an effort to move the industry forward."

Through this partnership, AIMCOR Group aims to streamline the process for both formal and informal applications to carriers. By having access to electronic health records in minutes, firms can quickly determine the best product fit for a client. In addition, firms can also share this rich medical data directly with carriers so it can be used to expedite the underwriting process on formal applications.

With structured EHR data from Human API, carriers can make faster underwriting decisions by creating new risk modeling solutions and automated rules engines that can analyze the structured data they receive, improving the throughput of accelerated underwriting programs. The industry is moving toward a future where carriers no longer have to manually review scanned medical documents, but instead can rely on technology and automation to identify risk and issue policies.

"Structured EHR data has massive potential to accelerate innovation and drive the insurance industry forward," said Christian Wieland, Senior VP of Growth at Human API. "Our consumer-controlled health data platform allows AIMCOR firms to digitally collect the medical data they need and seamlessly send it to carriers. We believe this data will make it easier for carriers to figure out the best products for each consumer, and drive new business opportunities across the entire industry. We're glad to be working with a forward-looking NMO such as AIMCOR that is helping to spearhead digital transformation. This is the beginning of a worthwhile journey to leverage EHR data to help more Americans get the coverage they need, so they can protect their families." 

For more information, please contact:    

Mike English  

Sales Ops & Implementation Manager  

AIMCOR Group, LLC

(610) 300.0343

Mike.english@aimcorgroup.com

Nick Zambruno

Business Development

Human API

(209) 613.8432

nick@humanapi.co  

About AIMCOR Group
AIMCOR Group, LLC, is a National Insurance Marketing Organization that distributes and services life, disability, LTC and annuity products through a variety of channels and platforms. Since its inception in 2011, and in conjunction with its internal and external partners, AIMCOR has embarked on a shared vision of industry business transformation by enabling new distribution, engaging consumers and delivering financial security to American families across all ages, income levels and cultural backgrounds.

About Human API
Human API is on a mission to radically accelerate the pace of health innovation by giving consumers the easiest way to connect and share health data - no matter where or how it was stored. The company has built the first consumer-controlled health data platform that connects, normalizes, and structures data from 90% of acute care and critical access hospitals, along with pharmacies, labs, and 300+ wearable devices and fitness apps. Human API empowers insurance, corporate wellness, health plans, digital therapeutics and clinical research organizations to build and deliver consumer-centric apps and services with electronic health records (EHR) and personal device data from everywhere. For additional information, visit https://www.humanapi.co     

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John Hancock and Human API Join Forces to Transform the Life Insurance Purchase Process

New Initiative Enables Consumers to Share Medical Information in Real Time

BOSTON, Jan. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - Today, John Hancock announces a major step forward in significantly streamlining the life insurance buying experience through a strategic collaboration with Human API, a leading health data platform, offering a simple, digital way for consumers to share access to their electronic health records (EHR) in real time.

Human API's capabilities allow for EHR data collection from over 85 percent of US healthcare providers (e.g., health systems, hospitals, clinics and physician offices). With the instant access to critical medical information such as lab results, medications, vital measurements and conditions this collaboration enables, John Hancock can further its efforts to build a simple and convenient buying experience that exceeds the expectations of today's consumers and puts them in control of their personal information.

Human API will help John Hancock improve the speed, efficiency and ease of purchasing life insurance by enabling customers to share their current and historical medical information via a digital, HIPAA-compliant authorization process. John Hancock will in turn shift toward a more personalized review process for each of its applicants.

"We recognize some prospective customers are deterred by the time and effort involved in the traditional life insurance purchase process. Radically simplifying that process and reducing the time from application to issue is a top priority for John Hancock," said Brooks Tingle, president and CEO of John Hancock Insurance. "We are reinventing the life insurance buying process and working in lock-step with like-minded distribution partners and innovative technology companies to make it happen." 

"By joining forces with Human API, we can embed a simple digital authorization into our new, electronic application process, enabling customers to share their medical information instantly," added Susan Ghalili, VP, Underwriting Transformation and Chief Underwriter of John Hancock Insurance. "This is the level of service today's consumers demand and we are excited to provide it, improving the overall experience for consumers, distributors and producers."

This advance is possible because of Human API's ability to harness the power of EHR in a way that simultaneously makes it easier for the customer to share his/her information while knowing their personal data is being transmitted securely.

"Consumers today have higher expectations for how they purchase goods and services," said Andrei Pop, CEO at Human API. "Human API data allows insurers to reimagine the customer experience and holds the potential to transform the industry. We're thrilled to be working with a bold carrier like John Hancock that is pushing innovation ahead in an industry that has not been keeping up with consumers' expectations."

To learn more visit johnhancockinsurance.com.

About John Hancock and Manulife
John Hancock is a unit of Manulife Financial Corporation, a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. We operate primarily as John Hancock in the United States, and Manulife globally, including in Canada, Asia and Europe. We provide financial advice, insurance and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. Assets under management and administration by Manulife and its subsidiaries were over CAD$1.2 trillion (US$$881 billion) as of September 30, 2019. Manulife Financial Corporation trades as MFC on the TSX, NYSE, and PSE, and under 945 on the SEHK. Manulife can be found at manulife.com.

One of the largest life insurers in the United States, John Hancock supports more than 10 million Americans with a broad range of financial products, including life insurance, annuities, investments, 401(k) plans and college savings plans. Additional information about John Hancock may be found at johnhancock.com.

About Human API
Human API is on a mission to radically accelerate the pace of health innovation by giving consumers the easiest way to connect and share health data. The company has built a real-time health data network that connects, normalizes, and structures data from 85% of acute care and critical access hospitals, along with pharmacies, labs, and 300+ wearable devices and fitness apps. Human API empowers insurance, corporate wellness, health plans, digital therapeutics and clinical research organizations to build and deliver consumer-centric apps and services with electronic health records (EHR) and personal device data from everywhere. For additional information, visit humanapi.co.

Insurance products are issued by: John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.), Boston, MA 02116 (not licensed in New York) and John Hancock Life Insurance Company of New York, Valhalla, NY 10595.

SubjectWell, Human API Partner to Provide Free Patient Medical Record Retrieval

– Risk-free clinical trial marketplace, SubjectWell partners with data-sharing platform Human API to provide free record retrieval to clinical trial sites and sponsors.

– The risk-free clinical trials marketplace will use Human API’s platform to simplify patient-approved health data collection and speed up the randomization process.

SubjectWell, the risk-free clinical trial marketplace has partnered with data-sharing platform Human API to provide free medical record retrieval to clinical trial sites and sponsors. Through this partnership, SubjectWell seeks to increase the speed of the randomization process and further bolster its risk-free offerings for sponsors.

Partnership Benefits

Medical record retrieval remains a pain point today for clinical trial sites, as considerable time and resources are dedicated to manually obtaining medical records before sites can confirm a diagnosis and enroll a patient into a study. With the Human API platform, SubjectWell can now give prospective participants a simple way to share their medical records – no matter where or how it was stored – in just a few minutes. SubjectWell can then send the electronic patient records along with their pre-screened at no additional cost beyond the per-randomized-patient price.

“We’re proud to be the first in the industry to provide free medical record retrieval for sites and sponsors as part of our risk-free randomization model,” said Ivor Clarke, CEO, SubjectWell. “We’re focused on delivering game-changing services to help ease the burden of patient recruitment felt across the pharmaceutical industry. By working with Human API, we are continuing to help sites and sponsors cut their workloads and streamline the path to last patient in (LPI).”

About Human API

Human API has built a consumer-centric health-data network that connects, normalizes, and structures data from 85% of acute care and critical access hospitals, along with pharmacies, labs, and 300+ wearable devices and fitness apps. Human API empowers insurance, corporate wellness, health plans, digital therapeutics, and clinical research organizations to build and deliver consumer-centric apps and services with electronic health records (EHR) and personal device data from everywhere.

Human API joins the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program to Accelerate the Pace of Healthcare Innovation

SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Human API - a real-time consumer health data platform - today announced that it has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program to further engage consumers to connect and share their health data, no matter where or how it was stored.

The California-based health technology company has built a comprehensive network that centralizes fragmented health data sources across the U.S. to provide:

Human API and Google Cloud is simplifying how companies build consumer-centric health apps and services.

• One Clinical API that connects to 85% of acute care and critical access hospitals

• One Wearable API that connects to 300+ devices and fitness apps

Human API's new collaboration with Google Cloud is aimed at accelerating innovation in healthcare, life sciences and wellness through democratized access to health data, as users of applications developed on Google Cloud will have the ability to connect and share their health data from anywhere. Google Cloud customers can now leverage the Human API platform to gather health data required to deliver multi-channel, digital, and personalized experiences that consumers are already enjoying in other major industries such as banking, travel, and media.

Human API's platform is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace which ensures that customers running applications in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) can integrate consumer data from across the healthcare ecosystem into their products and solutions. The Google Cloud Marketplace supports ready-to-go technology stacks to accelerate development. Deploying Human API into any GCP environment is fast and easy, and billing is simplified because Human API shows up as a line item in the customer's monthly GCP bill.

As health consumerism continues to rise in the US, collaborations like this will be pivotal in disrupting the status quo and driving the creation of a modern healthcare ecosystem. Google Cloud's commitment to supporting open standards, empowering health data sharing, and driving digital transformation in healthcare aligns with Human API's mission to put every consumer in full control of their own health data. By joining the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program, Human API will be able to offer its platform to more developers building next-generation healthcare technologies.

"Google Cloud is a market leader that understands how to build and deliver great enterprise technologies and experiences," says Christian Wieland, Senior Vice President of Growth at Human API. "We're very excited to be working with a company that is committed to driving healthcare transformation forward. Our collaboration will help more companies engage their customers and provide digital experiences characteristic of a modern healthcare system - one that puts people first."

About Human API
Human API is on a mission to radically accelerate the pace of health innovation by giving consumers the easiest way to connect and share health data with any company. The company has built a real-time health data network that connects, normalizes, and structures data from 85% of acute care and critical access hospitals, along with pharmacies, labs, and 300+ wearable devices and fitness apps. Human API empowers corporate wellness, insurance, health plans, digital therapeutics and clinical research organizations to build consumer-centric health apps and services. For additional information, visit www.humanapi.co

Access Granted: Human API expands their consumer driven health data network to 85% coverage of U.S. Hospitals

In an era when medical records are still largely scattered, offline, and difficult to access, health tech startup Human API has vastly expanded their provider data network to drive the consumer health revolution forward.  This first ubiquitous consumer health data network in the U.S. will allow people to securely share their data from anywhere with any company.   

In their ambitious quest to make health data use and sharing simple and centralized, Human API now boasts a real-time, consumer-centric data network with over 20,0000 unique integrations that include 4,000 hospitals and 600,000 individual healthcare providers.  The unparalleled integrations include major health systems, stand-alone hospitals, pharmacies, labs, family practices, and individual medical doctors and nurse practitioners. Human API’s proprietary ProviderGraph technology maps over 1.2 million distinct relationships between health entities and doctors to help patients easily find, access and share their health data while ensuring their security, transparency and fluid user experiences. 

”When evaluating data vendors, we prioritized those with strong reach in the provider community, and were happy to select Human API. The company's products are easy to use, and it's exciting to see them grow their network. The winning combination of strong patient data sets, and an intuitive interface, demonstrates Human API is moving in the right direction as it expands."  Says Sean Duffy, Co-Founder & CEO of Omada. 

With an expanded provider network, Human API empowers more consumers to take control of their own health data in a secure, HIPAA-compliant way to create value when sharing with enterprise businesses.  Whether someone is using a new digital health application, participating in a clinical trial, applying for insurance, onboarding with a new doctor, or enrolling in a new wellness program, the Human API provider data network can digitally power those transactions in minutes (an otherwise manual process filled with phone calls, faxes and physical letters that could take weeks and even months to complete).    

These sentiments are reflected by actual Human API user feedback: “I was blown away by how easily you got EHRs, and I come from the health industry...It was a shockingly complete health record delivered lightning fast...easily within 60 seconds.” 

“We made it our mission to dramatically expand our provider network, so it’s really exciting for us to share this news.” says Nate Seaman, the VP of Product at Human API.   “Being integrated with 85% of hospitals in the nation means more people will be able to find their doctors within our network and share their health information digitally with the companies they want. This is a huge step for us in powering a consumer-centric health economy that puts humans first.” 

To learn more about the consumer driven health revolution visit www.humanapi.info/revolution

About Human API

Human API is on a mission to create health data liquidity valued by customers and controlled by consumers, to radically accelerate the pace of health innovation. The company has built a consumer-centric health data network that connects, normalizes, and structures data from a network of over 20,000 unique integrations spanning more than 250 wearable devices and 600,000 individual medical providers in the US. Human API gives a simple way for people to access and share their health data on-demand and empowers companies to build consumer-centric health apps for corporate wellness, insurance, digital therapeutics and clinical research.  For additional information, visit www.humanapi.co

About Omada

Omada is a digital care program that empowers people to achieve their health goals through sustainable lifestyle change. Working primarily through health plans, employers, and integrated health systems, the company delivers personalized interventions for individuals at risk for, or dealing with, type 2 diabetes and hypertension, as well as anxiety and depression. Combining data-powered human coaching, connected devices, proprietary technology platform, and curriculum tailored to an individual's specific conditions and circumstances, Omada has enrolled more than 250,000 participants to date. Omada partners include Cigna, Kaiser Permanente, Health Care Services Corporation (HCSC), Blue Cross Blue Shield Minnesota, and other leading health plans. For additional information, please visit www.omadahealth.com.

Human API and Complete Wellness Solutions combine forces to power “bring-your-own-device” Employee Wellness Programs

Human API, the nation’s largest consumer-centric health data network, has announced a partnership with Complete Wellness Solutions (CWS), to enable fitness tracking and wellness programs for their employer customers. Utilizing the Human API platform, CWS can now connect data from a network of hundreds of wearable devices, activity trackers and health apps through one simple consumer experience. With Human API embedded into the CWS corporate wellness portal, employees at companies across the Midwest can connect their own wearable devices and apps, including Fitbit, Apple, Garmin, Strava, GoogleFit, MyFitnessPal and many others.

Chuck Zumbrun, the Chief Information Officer at Complete Wellness Solutions, explained the value of the Human API partnership. “Human API enables us to offer a frictionless bring-your-own-device approach to employee wellness. Instead of building and maintaining integrations with multiple activity trackers, we can now access hundreds of devices through a single relationship.  We embedded Human API into our wellness platform in less than two weeks and started collecting real-time data immediately.”

“CWS is an ideal partner for Human API; they modeled data across their client base to confirm that verified activity - via device integration - yields statistically significant results in core areas of health improvement, like Blood Pressure and Weight Loss,” said Christian Wieland, SVP of Growth at Human API.  “We are excited to be part of the equation with CWS to truly impact the lives of their end consumers.”

In addition to tracking key metrics such as steps, activities, sleep, and weight, Human API now offers detailed heart rate data and blood pressure information through a standardized API. As employers and health plans push beyond wellness programs into population health management, Human API enables the integration of clinical data into the same platform, empowering consumers to connect and share their medical data from a rapidly expanding network of electronic health records (EHR), labs, and pharmacies in order to see their achievements in addition to their activity.

About Human API

Human API is the nation’s largest consumer-centric health data network. The Human API platform connects health data from our network of over 20,000 unique integrations spanning more than 100 wearable devices and 600,000 medical providers. They empower industry-leading applications built by fast-growing startups and Fortune 500 companies in corporate wellness, insurance, digital therapeutics and clinical research. To learn more, visit www.humanapi.co

About Complete Wellness Solutions

Complete Wellness solutions is a corporate wellness company, helping people and businesses thrive through wellness programs and software. CWS delivers comprehensive, interactive and secure online wellness software providing resources for employers, wellness clinics, hospital systems, fitness centers and more. CWS is based in Fort Wayne, Indiana and can be found on the web at www.completewellnesssolutions.com

Verisk Announces Plans to Leverage Electronic Health Record Data from Human API for New Life Insurance Underwriting and Portfolio Tools

JERSEY CITY, N.J., and SAN MATEO, Calif., April 25, 2019 - Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK), a leading data analytics provider, and Human API, the nation's largest health data network, announced today plans to work together on Verisk's new InsurTech tools. Leveraging electronic health record (EHR) data collected by Human API, Verisk's solutions will help revolutionize how life insurers underwrite coverage and manage in-force portfolios.

As part of the effort, Verisk will analyze EHR data obtained by Human API and produce risk scoring and benchmarking information for life insurers. Insurers will be able to use Verisk's analytic tools to help underwrite policies and manage portfolio risk with greater speed and accuracy and improve service for the growing number of consumers who choose to share their electronic health data.  

"The underwriting process for life insurance is often time-consuming and invasive for consumers seeking coverage," said Andrei Pop, CEO of Human API. "But access to electronic health record data can dramatically enhance the experience for insurers and their potential customers. We're excited to work with Verisk on solutions that will provide more actionable information that life insurers need to make underwriting decisions faster than ever." 

"The growth of electronic health records and patient portals has increased significantly in recent years, opening the door for innovative data-driven approaches to life insurance underwriting and a potentially faster and simpler buying experience for consumers," said Nick Irwin, director of life insurance solutions at Verisk. "We look forward to working with Human API in connection with our efforts to develop a new model for life insurers that will leverage artificial intelligence and help them refine risk estimation, improve underwriting assessment, and enhance their portfolios."

About Verisk 
Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) is a leading data analytics provider serving customers in insurance, energy and specialized markets, and financial services. Using advanced technologies to collect and analyze billions of records, Verisk draws on unique data assets and deep domain expertise to provide first-to-market innovations that are integrated into customer workflows. Verisk offers predictive analytics and decision support solutions to customers in rating, underwriting, claims, catastrophe and weather risk, global risk analytics, natural resources intelligence, economic forecasting, and many other fields. Around the world, Verisk helps customers protect people, property, and financial assets.Headquartered in Jersey City, N.J., Verisk operates in 30 countries and is a member of Standard & Poor's S&P 500® Index. In 2018, Forbes magazine named Verisk to its World's Best Employers list. For more information, please visit www.verisk.com.

About Human API
Human API is the largest consumer-centric health data network. The Human API platform retrieves, normalizes, and delivers clinical data and wellness information on consumers from a network of over 35,000 unique integrations spanning 250 million-plus consumers. Human API is currently powering industry-leading applications built by life insurance, clinical research, health insurance, pharmaceutical, and digital health companies. To learn more, visit www.humanapi.co.

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Human API announces new investors, $10M in funding, to grow consumer health data network

SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Human API, the nation's largest health data network, has announced $10M in new funding to accelerate product development and market expansion. The round includes strong support from new investors Guardian Life Insurance Company and SCOR Life and Health Ventures, as well as returning backers BlueRun Ventures and Max Levchin's SciFi VC.

Human API's data platform allows users to access, centralize and share their health data from a rapidly expanding network of the nation's leading electronic health record (EHR) vendors, labs, pharmacies, wearable devices and health apps. By using the Human API platform, enterprises can access rich clinical data, securely permissioned, to deliver a superior experience for their customers, users, members, and patients.

"We have bold plans for the next 24 months, and are thrilled to welcome our new investors," said Andrei Pop, Founder and Chief Executive. "Over the past 12 months we've significantly grown our clinical data network and launched our new enterprise data suite to streamline insurance underwriting and clinical research. This new investment will help us further expand our data infrastructure and machine learning capabilities, grow our market reach, and advance our mission to put consumers in control of their own health information."

"Human API's bold mission of organizing and exchanging real time health data on every human being on the planet is exciting," said Max Levchin of SciFi VC, "The growth of the company over the past year has been excellent, and we are excited to support Andrei and the team's ambitious plans going forward."

"We are excited to support Human API's vision of making health data sharing simple and consumer oriented," said Chris Dyrhaug, Executive Vice President at Guardian Life Insurance Company, one of the nation's largest mutual life insurers. "We began working with Human API in 2018 and soon realized the potential impact their solution could have on our business, as evidenced by our investment. Their approach aligns with our interest in streamlining our underwriting process and engaging our customers as they improve their health and wellness."

"SCOR Global Life seeks to extend protection and peace of mind and to make insurance more accessible, relevant and desirable to consumers. We look to build solutions with our insurance clients that enable them to provide their customers with a simpler and faster buying experience," said Brona Magee, Deputy CEO of SCOR Global Life. "This partnership with Human API supports our efforts to accelerate the underwriting process through electronic health data and automated decision making. Human API is in a unique position to transform health data exchange and create innovation opportunities across the healthcare and insurance ecosystem."

About Human API
Human API is the nation's largest consumer-centric health data network. The Human API platform retrieves, analyzes, normalizes, and delivers unique clinical data and wellness information on consumers from our network of over 20,000 unique integrations spanning more than 600,000 healthcare providers and 230 million consumers. Today we're powering industry-leading applications built by fast-growing startups and Fortune 500 companies in insurance, clinical research, pharmaceutical, and digital health. To learn more, visit www.humanapi.co

About SciFi VC
SciFi VC is an early stage venture capital firm started by PayPal and Affirm co-founder Max Levchin. SciFi invests in high potential companies within fields such as frontier tech, fintech, healthcare, and marketplaces.

About Guardian
Guardian is a Fortune 250 mutual company and a leading provider of life, disability and other benefits for individuals, at the workplace and through government sponsored programs.

About SCOR Global Life
SCOR, one of the world's largest reinsurers, provides insurance companies with a diversified and innovative range of solutions and services to control and manage risk.

About BlueRun Ventures
BlueRun Ventures (BRV) is an early stage venture firm focused on opportunities in mobile software, fintech, digital health and real time data systems. BlueRun invests as the first institutional investor and has led investments in PayPal, Coupa Software, Waze, Ganji, and Kabbage. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.