Banner University Health Plans Reduces Hospital & Emergency Department Utilization Using Pyx Health’s Platform to Address Loneliness
For Immediate ReleaseContact: Colleen Cutshaw520-906-4876 TUCSON, Ariz. (March 29, 2021) – A white paper reveals that Banner University Health Plans’ use of a novel interactive platform-plus-support center with members after discharge from emergency room or inpatient care resulted in a substantial reduction in subsequent inpatient costs and emergency department use. Analyzing the experiences of 1,170 members aged 18-103 years […]
From food robots to an app for loneliness, COVID drives technological research
While much of the technology being created around COVID-19 focuses on physical health, Pyx Health in Tucson is exploring some of the mental health issues that have surfaced, specifically loneliness and social isolation. Its mobile app features Pyxir, a “carebot” that provides 24/7 companionship…
Entrepreneur Cindy Jordan Tackles Loneliness with New App
Cindy Jordan loves her iPad, rides a Peloton and develops healthcare technology for a living, but she doesn’t consider herself a techie. “I hire tech people, but I am a problem solver,” Jordan said. “When I was 21, I was a police officer in a suburb of Washington, D.C. I learned a lot about solving problems and seeing through stuff to get to a resolution, and that is what I do.”…
Mental Health Champions: How Cindy Jordan of Pyx Health Is Helping To Address The Loneliness Epidemic
Embracing family and human connections are the most critical keys to staying well — and that includes the Pyx family. The connection I have to my staff cannot really be explained because it goes so far beyond the fact that we work together…
Managed Healthcare Executive: Defeating Loneliness
It is well documented that loneliness—the discrepancy between the number and quality of relationships that one desires and those one actually has—dramatically increases the risk for mental and physical disease. Loneliness contributes to a wide range of conditions, including dementia, heart disease and stroke…
Local company develops app to combat loneliness
When COVID-19 swept across the country earlier this year, it exacerbated an ongoing epidemic growing in recent years: isolation. Sociologists and public health experts have tracked a “loneliness epidemic” affecting the mental and physical health of a wide range of Americans…
‘Loneliness company’ tackles isolation with timely human-linked app
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered people in their homes, Tucson entrepreneurs Cindy and Anne Jordan launched a tech startup in 2017 to address health problems stemming from loneliness and isolation…
Feeling lonely? There’s an app for that!
The COVID-19 Pandemic has not only brought on physical issues but emotional and mental problems as well. One-third of adults are chronically lonely. It is hard to identify members who are suffering – unlike diabetes, there is no “test” for loneliness.
Pyx Health Joins Coalition to End Social Isolation Loneliness.
Working to reform a health system that “leaves the lonely behind” Contact: Matt RussellRussell Public Communications(520) [email protected] Tucson, AZ (September 2, 2020) — Pyx Health, a health care IT company targeting the surging loneliness and social isolation epidemic, announced that it is joining the Coalition to End Social Isolation & Loneliness to address this public health challenge through public awareness, […]
A Tucson Startup Tackles The Loneliness Epidemic
Cindy Jordan is neither a psychologist nor a techie, but she founded a company in 2017 that blends elements of both: Pyx Health. Based in Tucson, Arizona, the startup contracts with insurers to identify and alleviate loneliness among at-risk members through an app and a call center. “To me, this is just about the straight line between…