Cogito welcomes Skyler Place to the team as a Senior Research Scientist. Skyler has led extensive research projects on honest signals, social influence, decision making and behavioral trace data. At Cogito, he will be working on the Reality Analysis project. Prior to Cogito, Skyler was a Post Doctoral…
Cogito selected as a Finalist for Best New Product Award by Edison Awards 2012
Cogito Corporation is honored to be chosen as a Best New Product Finalist for the Edison Awards 2012. The Edison Awards are known as America’s innovation awards, recognizing and honoring some of the most innovative products, services and business leaders in the world.
Thank you to our Team, Customers…
Medicare Sees Positive ROI in Annual Screening for Depression
Medicare recently announced that it would cover annual screening for depression.
“The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has determined that the evidence is adequate to conclude that screening for depression in adults, is reasonable and necessary for the prevention or early detection of illness or disability…
Predicting Engagement and First Call Resolution Will Drive Significant Payments from CMS
Five Medicare Advantage plans who received five stars will split $4 billion in bonuses from CMS under the first pay fay for results program. In January, plans with three or more stars will start receiving bonuses of 3-5 percent — a significant opportunity given the competitive pricing and reduced…
Cogito Featured at Humana C3 (Connect, Collaborate, Create) Innovations in Healthcare Conference
Cogito Health, a Humana innovation partner, presented at the Humana C3 (Connect, Collaborate, Create) 2011 Innovation conference. The conference brings together academics, industry leaders and VCs who are bringing disruptive solutions to unmet needs in the health care industry. Joshua Feast, Cogito’s CEO, presented our Social Signal Processing (SSP)…
Using Inexpensive, Readily Accessible Technology to Address Shortages of Staff Clinical Psychologists
Simple technologies are available which can dramatically improve the productivity of clinical psychologists while improving customer service. While the supply of clinician in urban areas is sufficient, rural areas in the US often suffer significant shortages in access to all types of clinicians. The result is often that patients…
Why not a short, inexpensive voice test delivered by telephone, internet or IVR to validate the need for an anti-depressant?
Last week the WSJ reported in an article that “Nearly three-quarters of antidepressants in the U.S. were prescribed by non-psychiatrists in 2007, up from 60% a decade earlier, according to the analysis of a national sample of 233,144 doctor office visits, the latest data available. The percentage of…
Depressed Smokers Significantly Less Likely to Stay Tobacco Free
A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine concludes that people in a quit smoking program who are depressed are about half as likely to succeed than people who are not depressed. The study, conducted through the California Smokers Hotline, found that 24% of callers…
American Psychiatry Association: Depression Increases Early Re hospitalization Risk
Recent changes to Medicare reimbursement include major financial incentives and penalties for high re hospitalizations rates. The American Psychiatry Association posted a study which concludes that Depression appears to increase short-term risk of hospitalization for geriatric home care patients immediately after starting home care. While the overall hospitalization…
Depressed Chronic Kidney Disease Patients More Likely to Face Complications
In a study published in JAMA, patients with chronic kidney disease who have been diagnosed with depression are twice as likely to be hospitalized, progress to long-term dialysis treatments or die within a year as those who are not depressed, UT Southwestern Medical Center and VA researchers have…
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