Duane DiFranco, MD, Senior Medical Director for Utilization Management at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Joins Harvard MedTech's Medical Advisory Board - Business Wire

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Duane DiFranco, MD, Senior Medical Director for Utilization Management astatine Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, has joined the Medical Advisory Board of Harvard MedTech.

“Dr. DiFranco’s expertise successful psychiatry and his passionateness for tackling substance maltreatment successful this state marque him an invaluable summation to our Medical Advisory Board,” said Gerry Stanley, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Harvard MedTech. “His enactment connected Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Opioid Abuse Task Force gives him unsocial penetration into the standard of this epidemic, particularly among injured workers. Dr. DiFranco’s behavioral wellness inheritance volition beryllium invaluable for processing adjacent much effectual ways of applying Vx Therapy during counseling sessions.”

Harvard MedTech is simply a disruptive innovator harnessing the caller subject of however the encephalon works to code symptom and trauma. Vx® Therapy combines specially designed virtual world experiences, psychosocial support, behavioral wellness coaching, integer engagement, and proprietary AI algorithms to retrain neural pathways and alleviate the effects of trauma, including pain, PTSD, anxiety, slump and slumber disorders.

Dr. DiFranco has been progressive wrong managed attraction for the past 23 years, having joined the module of the Department of Psychiatry astatine the University of Michigan Heath System aboriginal successful his career. There, helium led the University’s Managed Behavioral Health Care Division astatine M-CARE portion besides teaching psychiatry residents and providing objective attraction to patients. He near the University successful 2007 to articulation Blue Care Network arsenic Medical Director for Behavioral Health. Dr. DiFranco is simply a Past President of the Michigan Psychiatric Society. His nonrecreational accomplishments see the plan and implementation of a web-based diligent portal—the M-STRIDES system—at the University of Michigan Depression Center and the implementation of a smoking cessation run astatine Blue Care Network that resulted successful the largest alteration successful baccy usage among Michigan wellness plans successful 2016. Dr. DiFranco serves connected the Board of Directors for Emmaus Health Partners and Board of Trustees for Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan.

The intent of the Harvard MedTech Medical Advisory Board is to foster industry-wide innovation astir Vx® Therapy successful the attraction of workplace trauma. Vx Therapy is simply a disruptive attack that uses virtual reality, behavioral coaching and artificial quality to change the brain’s acquisition of pain, without drugs oregon unnecessary surgery. Each member’s circumstantial expertise lends a peculiar lens connected symptom absorption which has been determined to person important strategical importance, arsenic Harvard MedTech works to marque the satellite a amended spot by alleviating quality suffering.

"I americium looking guardant to applying my expertise successful addiction absorption to exploring however behavioral wellness tin play an adjacent bigger relation successful the carnal and intelligence betterment of injured workers,” Dr. DiFranco said. “The possibilities for applying this modality to each patients suffering from addiction are enormous.”

About Harvard MedTech

The company’s Vx® Therapy exemplary is the archetypal to comprehensively integrate this unsocial operation of integer technologies with behavioral wellness interventions, successful a virtual exertion delivered to patients successful the privateness of their home. This virtual engagement drives precocious compliance, enhanced diligent restitution and optimal outcomes. It besides allows the solution to beryllium affordable and scalable astatine a colonisation wellness level. This non-invasive and non-pharmacological attack besides provides information that is trackable for a wide appraisal of its worth to patients and wellness attraction providers. Visit www.harvardmedtech.com for much information.

Dr. Duane DiFranco:

Senior Medical Director for Utilization Management astatine Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan with implicit 20 years of acquisition successful the aesculapian field. Serves connected the Board of Directors for Emmaus Health Partners and Board of Trustees for Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan