The COVID-19 pandemic made healthcare visits over video or phone the norm, likely turning telehealth into a permanent fixture within the U.S. healthcare system. In fact, the majority of patient access leaders at large hospitals believe 20-30 percent of appointments will happen over video in 2021, according to recent research. Further, an overwhelming portion of those leaders – 95 percent of them – believe the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should continue to reimburse for video
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Archives for 2021
Spectrum Health Taps TytoCare to Expand Telehealth Offerings
What You Should Know:
- Spectrum Health, a not-for-profit, integrated health system based in West Michigan has announced a partnership with TytoCare to expand their telehealth offerings.
- The integration of TytoCare into Spectrum Health’s virtual care offering will enhance the health system’s ability to diagnose and treat patients remotely with in-depth, physical examinations during video visits. In an initial pilot with Spectrum Health employees
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AI-Powered COVID-19 Solution Reduces Report Turnaround Times by 30%, Study Finds
What You Should Know:
- The Moscow Center for Diagnostics & Telemedicine found that the introduction of RADLogics’ AI-Powered solution into radiology workflow to analyze Chest-CT scans during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced report turnaround time by an average of 30 percent, which is equivalent to 7 minutes per case.
- The study was conducted over two separate phases with the first taking place between April 30, 2020 to June 18, 2020 and the second taking place between June 18, 2020 to
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Yale New Haven Health Deploys Virtual Clinic for Pediatric Patients with Diabetes
What You Should Know:
- After taking part in proving the clinical benefit of using AI-based decision support tools, as was recently published in Nature Medicine, Yale New Haven Health System and DreaMed Diabetes announced a collaboration that will explore what it would take to adopt such a solution into a real-world health system.
- As part of the collaboration, Yale New Haven will utilize DreaMed’s Advisor Pro platform to create a virtual clinic, this real-world evaluation will assess the
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Variantyx Lands $20M for Whole Genome Sequencing Methodology
What You Should Know:
- Variantyx, a Boston-based provider of high complexity hereditary disease testing, today announced that they secured $20M in funding for their Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)-based testing methodology, an advanced genetic testing method currently used to diagnose rare inherited and neurological disorders. The series C funding round was led by GHS Fund (Quark Venture LP and GF Securities) and includes new investor, IBM Ventures and current investors, Pitango
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Ambulatory Considerations for Remote Patient Monitoring Technologies
The use of healthcare technology solutions in clinical settings is a time-tested conventional practice, and it’s becoming more commonplace in remote patient monitoring (RPM) as supporting technologies drive more innovation. With the broad range of care encompassed by the term “RPM,” there are a number of factors that can impact the overall effectiveness of monitoring patient vitals and other physiological parameters in remote, non-clinical situations.
When a patient transitions from a
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Achieving Financial Sustainability: A Connected Community of Care’s #1 Goal
“Show me the money!” No one old enough to have seen the 1996 movie, Jerry Maguire, will ever forget that memorable phrase. That simple but powerful phrase could apply to every person who punches a clock for a living and just about every business, including community-based organizations (CBOs) and Connected Communities of Care (CCC). For CCCs and other non-profits, a parallel but no less powerful phrase, “No margin, no mission,” also rings true― just ask Sister Irene Kraus of the Daughters
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100Plus Raises $25M for Remote Patient Monitoring Platform
What You Should Know:
- 100Plus, a Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) platform for doctors and their patients, announced series seed investments totaling $25M, led by Henry Kravis, George Roberts, and other super angel investors.
- 100Plus is an RPM solution that helps physicians remotely monitor patients and provides data that informs clinical decisions throughout their course of care, which can lead to better outcomes and cost avoidance. 100Plus is the only RPM product to utilize
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Why A Smart Command Center Requires A Health Cloud Platform
Aviation, military, NASA, or even utilities like the New York Power Authority—almost all high-consequence, complex organizations have one thing in common: a command center. The concept of a command center or a ‘war room,’ or ‘air traffic control’ has been around for a while. Command centers help counter logistical challenges, enable cross-collaboration and guide decision-making with state-of-the-art technology and communications. With them it seems there is absolutely nothing that cannot be
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Waystar Launches Price Transparency Solutions to Meet Consumer Demand
What You Should Know:
- Waystar, a provider of healthcare payments software, today announced the addition of the Text Statements feature to its suite of payment tools. This new solution enables patients to easily view and pay medical bills directly from their smartphone, bringing transparency and convenience to the patient financial experience – a long-standing focus for Waystar.
- Patients frequently don’t know what they’ll owe weeks, if not months after the point of care, If
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