What You Should Know:
- The American Medical Association adds two new CPT codes
to streamline the reporting of innovative tools and services now available to
help reduce the COVID-19 disease burden.
- The two new codes 99072 and 86413 have been approved for immediate use.
The American Medical Association (AMA) published
an update to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set that
includes two code additions for reporting medical services sparked by the
public
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Philips Launches Future Health Index Exploring COVID-19 Perceptions Among Younger Doctors
What You Should Know:
- Philips releases new Future Health Index report that
explores how the COVID-19 pandemic is driving changes in how younger doctors
view their profession.
- The new research captures feedback from 500 doctors under the age of 40 in five countries: the United States of America, China, Singapore, France, and Germany.
Royal Philips, today
announced the release of the Future Health
Index Insights: COVID-19 and younger healthcare professionals report. The
main
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Optimize.health Raises $15.6M for Remote Patient Monitoring Platform
What You Should Know:
- Optimize.health raises $15.6M in Series A funding to accelerate access to and adoption of its remote patient monitoring platform.
- Optimize.Health enables improved access to care, more
favorable health outcomes, and contained healthcare costs through the
combination of high-quality monitoring devices and a user-friendly,
HIPAA-compliant digital platform that supports two-way video calls and text
conversations between patients and their
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Uniphore CEO Talks Call Centers & Why Contact Tracing is Failing
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, all call centers have now been asked to play a vital role, acting as the hubs for contact tracing to help track and contain the spread of the virus. It’s estimated that the U.S. needs to employ 100,000 to 300,000 contact tracers for this to be an effective program. However, call center representatives that have a healthcare background and are trained to handle these sensitive calls are in short supply, so states have had to get “creative about finding the workforce.”
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Keck Medicine of USC Deploys Virtual Check-Ins to Reduce Risk of COVID-19 Exposure
What You Should Know:
- Keck Medicine of USC, a world-class academic medical
center in Los Angeles, has deployed Lumeon’s SMS-based virtual check-in
solution to support physical distancing and reduce the risk of COVID-19
exposure at its facilities.
- Keck Medicine is now more safely managing check-ins for more than 80,000 patients per month. During the first ten days of system operation, 67% of eligible patients checked-in virtually for their appointments.
To support physical
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Israeli Startup Deploys AI-based Solution for Prostate Cancer Detection
What You Should Know:
- Ibex Medical Analytics announces the first U.S.
deployment of its AI-powered solution for cancer detection in pathology, at the
CorePlus Servicios Clínicos y Patológicos, LLC, a leading clinical and anatomic
pathology lab in Puerto Rico.
- The deployment will improve cancer care in the U.S.,
where the number of pathologists decreased by nearly 20% in the past decade.
This comes shortly after the first implementation of such technology in both
France and the UK.
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Humana Taps Salesforce to Power its Enterprise Clinical Operating Model
What You Should Know:
Health insurer Humana has selected Salesforce to deliver
a more connected, personalized healthcare experience for its members.
- Through a new multi-year agreement, Humana will
capitalize on infrastructure and capabilities offered by Salesforce Health
Cloud to create an integrated health experience for its members.
Health insurer Humana has inked a new multi-year agreement with Salesforce to deploy Salesforce Health Cloud to help power its Enterprise Clinical
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ENvizion Raises $18M for “Waze”-Like Tool for Human Digestive Tract
What You Should Know:
- ENvizion, the FDA 510(k) cleared leader for enteral feeding
tube (EFT) navigation technology, has raised $18M for the ENvue
system, its “Waze”-like tool for the human digestive tract.
- ENvizion’s device enables nurses to navigate the
feeding tube with the help of a real-time 3D map of the patient’s actual body,
and its sensor warns if the tube has veered towards the lungs.
- The company is also partnering with one of the largest private
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Biofourmis Lands $100M to Expand AI-Powered Digital Therapeutics Platform
What You Should Know:
- Boston-based digital therapeutics leader Biofourmis
just closed a $100 million Series C funding round led by SoftBank,
bringing its total funding to $145M.
- Biofourmis will be using the funding to develop, validate and commercialize several released and unreleased digital therapeutics solutions across cardiology, oncology, respiratory, and pain, with a focus on the United States and key Asian markets, including Asia Pacific, China, and
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IBM Watson Health, OrbitalRX Launches Solution to Combat U.S. Drug Shortage
What You Should Know:
- IBM Watson Health and OrbitalRX launches an integrated solution to assist hospital pharmacy providers in managing drug shortages.
- Joint offering pairs pharmacy supply chain management
capabilities with evidence-based drug content, designed to help hospital pharmacy
teams manage drug shortages.
- OrbitalRX with Micromedex will create a single source
for healthcare providers and pharmacists to access the latest evidence-based
clinical information alongside a
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