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Teladoc Health Completes Merger with Livongo

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Teladoc Health Completes Merger with Livongo in Under 3 Months

Telehealth leader Teladoc Health today announced it has completed its merger with Livongo in just under three months. Here are things to know about the completion: Under the terms of the merger, Livongo shareholders will receive 0.5920x shares of Teladoc Health plus cash of $11.33 for each Livongo share (including the special dividend declared by Livongo). The company expects to directly deliver more than 10 million virtual visits this year and has reported an additional three million
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Fern Health Taps 10M Mass General De-Identified Patient Records for Pain Management

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What You Should Know: - Fern Health will reveal a first-of-its-kind collaboration with Mass General Hospital where it will inform existing and future digitally-delivered pain management programs through the marriage of AI + predictive analytics with 10 million de-identified Mass General patient records. - MGH will validate emerging Fern Health products and pilot new products in clinical environments, setting the stage for Fern expansion into all aspects of non-invasive multimodal pain
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Mammoth Lands 2 Major Partnerships to Use CRISPR to Solve COVID19 Testing Shortage, At Scale

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Mammoth Lands 2 Partnerships to Use CRISPR to Solve COVID19 Testing Shortage

What You Should Know: - Mammoth Biosciences signs agreements with MilliporeSigma and Hamilton company targeting commercialization of high-throughput CRISPR-based SARS CoV-2 Test. - These partnerships will help Mammoth bring a turnkey CRISPR-based sample-to-answer solution for commercial laboratories to enable a multi-fold increase in a testing capacity. Mammoth Biosciences, Inc., announced that it has signed agreements with MilliporeSigma and Hamilton Company targeting
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Redox Integrates Voluntis’ Digital Therapeutics Within EHR

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Redox Integrates Voluntis’ Digital Therapeutics Within EHR

What You Should Know: - Voluntis forms a strategic partnership with Redox to integrate Voluntis' digital therapeutics within existing clinical workflows and EHRs. - Integration of Voluntis’ Theraxium platform with the Redox Engine used by more than 900 healthcare organizations using 55 EHRs across the country. - The first area of this application will be in oncology, with future extensions in other therapeutic areas. As a result, clinical staff will be better equipped to serve each
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Epic Expects More Than 190 Health Systems to Go-Live on EHR This Fall

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What You Should Know: - Epic Systems announces that more than 190 health systems across nine counties are expected to go-live on Epic, marking this fall as the busiest install season in Epic’s 41+ year history. - Healthcare organizations in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States are transitioning more than 123,000 doctors, nurses, and support staff to Epic’s EHR between September and the end of the
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Fitbit Receives $2.5M Award from Army for COVID-19 Early Detection

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Fitbit Receives $2.5M Award to Validate COVID-19 Early Detection Algorithm

What You Should Know: - The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command selects Fitbit to advance the development of a wearable diagnostic capability for the early detection of COVID-19 infection. - Fitbit plans to initiate a prospective study with Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research to validate its COVID-19 early detection algorithm. Fitbit announced today it has been selected by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) to
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HHS Extends Compliance Dates for Information Blocking Requirements

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What You Should Know: - HHS released an interim final rule to extend compliance dates and timeframes to meet information blocking beyond those identified in April 21, 2020, enforcement discretion announcement and establishes new future applicability dates for information blocking provisions. - The interim final rule also adopts updated standards and makes technical corrections and clarifications to the ONC Cures Act Final Rule. Today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’
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CVS Health Adds 1,000 COVID-19 Rapid-Result Testing at Retail Pharmacy Locations

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CVS Health Adds 1,000 COVID-19 Rapid-Result Testing at Retail Pharmacy Locations

What You Should Know: - CVS Health announced plans to expand COVID-19 testing services by offering rapid-result testing at select CVS Pharmacy locations and through the company’s return to work COVID-19 testing solution, Return Ready. - Rapid-result tests can help to slow the spread of the virus, especially when combined with other preventive measures including social distancing and “mask-wearing” because it provides patients with the opportunity for a quick diagnosis, appropriate
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XRHealth to Launch Virtual Reality Telehealth Clinic in Israel In November

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XRHealth Launches Virtual Reality Telehealth Clinic in Israel

What You Should Know: - XRHealth announce it will launch a new virtual reality telehealth clinic in Israel, slated to open on November 1st. - The VR-driven telehealth clinic treats patients in Israel for symptoms related to Stress & Anxiety, ADHD, Motor & Cognitive Rehabilitation, post-COVID-19, Parkinson’s, Brain Injury, and more. XRHealth, a Boston, MA-based provider of extended reality therapeutic applications, today announced a new virtual reality
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Northwestern to Deploy FDA-Cleared Deploy AI-Guided Cardiac Ultrasounds

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What You Should Know: - Northwestern Memorial Hospital is the first in the nation to deploy FDA-cleared AI-guided ultrasound by Caption Health, including measurement of ejection fraction – the most widely used measurement to assess cardiac function. - Caption Health's AI-guided cardiac ultrasound enables clinicians – including those without experience – to accurately perform diagnostic-quality exams -- accelerating the availability of information and saving lives. - Caption AI has been
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