What You Should Know:
- Nationwide, the seven-day moving average for COVID-19
cases is up 148% from June 7th to July 7th. In many states across the country,
the “curve” never flattened. Since June there hasn’t been a flattening effect,
but rather a significant spike in the number of COVID-19 cases.
- States hit hardest with new waves of COVID-19 cases
like Arizona, California, Texas and Florida have the highest percentage of
hospital beds occupied by patients with COVID-19. If there are
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eConsult Platform AristaMD Raises Additional $6M to Close $24M Series B Round
What You Should Know:
- AristaMD, a digital health company that provides a platform to connect primary care providers with timely and documented specialist insights through eConsults, has secured an additional $6M in investments to top off the company’s Series B funding round at $24 million.
- With non-emergency, proactive care and elective
procedures being canceled during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a backlog of
appointments. eConsults will continue to be an effective triage tool now
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Change Healthcare Offers Providers Free Access to Lab Orders/Results for COVID-19 Tests
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare offers healthcare providers free
access to lab orders and results for COVID-19 tests through one of the nation’s
largest lab networks and adds in-home testing.
- The Change Healthcare Clinical Network expands test
ordering through one of the nation’s largest lab networks and adds in-home
testing.
- Providers can choose labs from one of the nation’s
largest lab networks, with over 1,400 lab testing sites, of which over more
than 100 are
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UnitedHealth Group Launches New Digital Health Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes
What You Should Know:
- UnitedHealth Group launches a new pilot for digital health therapy for Type 2 Diabetes to nearly a quarter-million members at no additional cost to more than 230,000 employer-sponsored, fully insured UnitedHealthcare members in 27 states and Washington, D.C.
- The therapy, known as Level2, helps participants gain
real-time insights about their condition and, for some, successfully reduces
spikes in blood sugar levels or achieves Type 2 Diabetes remission.
- The
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Paige Lands Additional $20M for AI-Native Digital Pathology Ecosystem
What You Should Know:
- Paige secures an additional $15M from Goldman Sachs totaling $20M to close out a total Series B funding round of $70M for its AI-native digital pathology ecosystem.
- The company’s continued product portfolio of innovation in telepathology and digital diagnostics accelerated by further investment.
Paige, an NYC-based leader in computational pathology transforming the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, today announced it received an additional $15M from
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Allscripts, Microsoft Ink 5-Year Partnership to Support Cloud-based Sunrise EHR, Drive Co-Innovation
What You Should Know:
- Allscripts and Microsoft sign a five-year partnership extension to support Allscripts’ cloud-based Sunrise electronic health record and drive co-innovation.
- The alliance will enable Allscripts to harness the power of Microsoft’s platform and tools, including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, and Power BI, creating a more seamless and highly productive user experience.
Today Allscripts and
Microsoft Corp. announced the
extension of their long-standing
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Scripps Research, Repurpose.AI Partner to Develop COVID-19 Therapeutics
What You Should Know:
- Repurpose.AI, has partnered with Scripps Research to
discover drug candidates that may be repurposed to treat COVID-19.
- The partnership will leverage Repurpose.AI's ActivPred
AI Drug Discovery Platform, an unbiased drug, target, and disease agnostic
digital chemistry engine, to discover drug candidates to treat COVID-19.
Scripps Research is
teaming up with Repurpose.AI, an AI
drug discovery company to develop COVID-19 therapeutics. The
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Cleveland Clinic Florida Opens Florida Research and Innovation Center
What You Should Know:
- Cleveland Clinic Florida opens Florida Research and
Innovation Center that will advance innovative translational research, focused
on immuno-oncology and infectious diseases, including COVID-19.
- The 107,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art research facility features modern laboratory space, biosafety level 3 facilities for work with infectious agents, and office space for support services on eight acres of land.
Cleveland
Clinic Florida announced
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New CVS Pharmacy App Feature Can Read Prescription Labels Out Loud for Visually Impaired
What You Should Know:
- CVS introduced Spoken Rx™, a new feature of the
CVS Pharmacy app that can read important prescription information out loud. It
is vitally important for patient safety and adherence that prescription labels
are clear and visible, but for patients with visual impairments or those who
can’t read standard print labels, that’s not always the case.
- Spoken Rx provides an audible label option that reads
important info such as patient name, medication name,
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Philips and BioIntelliSense Integrate to Enhance Remote Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Philips integrates the BioIntelliSense FDA-cleared
BioSticker™ sensor as part of its remote patient monitoring solutions for
patients outside the hospital.
- Multi-parameter sensors aid monitoring across multiple chronic conditions with medical-grade vital signs for physicians to remotely track core symptoms, including COVID-19.
- Healthcare Highways is the first to leverage the BioSticker sensor as a part of Philips’ RPM program in the U.S.
Philips,
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