Amazon.com, Inc. today announced the expansion of its foothold into the pharmacy business with two new pharmacy offerings to help customers conveniently purchase their prescription medications. Amazon Pharmacy, a new store on Amazon, allows customers to complete an entire pharmacy transaction on their desktop or mobile device through the Amazon App.
Here are six key things to know about this landmark
announcement:
1. Using a secure pharmacy profile, customers can add their insurance
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M&A: Central Logic Acquires Patient Care Transition Platform Ensocare
What You Should Know:
- Central Logic has acquired Omaha-based Ensocare, which
automates the referral process for patients from hospital to post-acute care
(PAC) when they are being discharged.
- This acquisition means that Central Logic’s technology
solution will now expand its reach across the care continuum, from acute to
post-acute care—into, through and out of the health system. This combined
capability is key to increasing patient satisfaction while also increasing
patient census by
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Change Healthcare Unveils Social Determinants of Health Analytics Solution
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare launches national data resource on
social determinants of health (SDoH) for doctors, insurers and life sciences
organizations to better understand the connection between where a person lives
and how they live their life to the care a patient receives and their health
outcome.
- 80% of U.S. health outcomes are tied to a patient’s
social and economic situation, ranging from food, housing, and transportation
insecurity to ethnicity.
Change
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AliveCor Lands $65M to Advance Remote Cardiology Platform Worldwide
What You Should Know:
Today AliveCor, the leader in AI-based, personal ECG
devices and cardiology platforms, announced they closed $65 million in Series E
funding to accelerate its growth.
To date, AliveCor’s FDA-cleared Kardia devices have
recorded more than 85 million ECGs. Since the pandemic began, nearly 15 million
ECGs were taken which is an increase of 70% year-over-year.
AliveCor, a Mountain
View, CA-based provider of AI-based
personal ECG technology and provider of enterprise
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KLAS: Epic, NextGen, Cerner Best at Making Outside Patient Data Usable
What You Should Know:
- New KLAS report finds acute and ambulatory care EMR
vendors Cerner, Epic and NextGen are best at making outside patient data usable
for clinicians (data from outside the clinician's health system).
- KLAS report examines adoption and usability among advanced
users of the main acute and ambulatory care EMR vendors.
The national interoperability networks of Carequality and CommonWell Health Alliance have become some of the primary means by which patient records
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Intermountain Adds Omada’s Diabetes Prevention Program to At-Risk Patients
What You Should Know:
- Omada’s diabetes prevention program will be available
to Intermountain’s at-risk patient population as part of a limited engagement
in 2020 and 2021.
- Omada’s diabetes prevention program is personalized to
meet each participant’s unique needs as they evolve, ranging from diabetes
prevention, type 2 diabetes management, hypertension, behavioral health, and
musculoskeletal issues.
Deepening a collaboration that began in 2016, Omada
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Medtronic Launches Smart Insulin Pen Integrated with Real-Time CGM Data
What You Should Know:
- Medtronic,
the global leader in medical technology, announced the launch of InPen
integrated with real-time Guardian
Connect Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) data.
- InPen is the first and only FDA-cleared smart insulin pen
on the market for people on multiple daily injections (MDI).
- The combined solution now provides real-time glucose
readings alongside insulin dose information giving users everything they need to
manage their diabetes in one view.
-
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Gates Foundation Awards Caption Health $4.95M Grant to Develop AI-Guided Lung Ultrasound System
What You Should Know:
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards Caption
Health a $4.5M grant to support the development of an AI-guided lung ultrasound
system.
- The grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
will be leveraged to create new AI technology that allows medical professionals
without prior ultrasound experience to perform lung ultrasounds, expanding
access to quality medical care.
Caption Health, a leading medical
artificial intelligence (AI) company, today
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Amwell Launches New Offerings to Increase Doctor-to-Patient Virtual Connectivity
What You Should Know:
- Amwell just announced some new offerings Amwell Now, Touchpoint
Tablet software, and C500 to help increase doctor-to-patient virtual
connections as patient and doctor preferences change in light of the pandemic.
- The new solutions (a quick-to-deploy video visit offering, new tablet software, and a telemedicine cart) are designed to be easy-to-use but fully integrated in the provider’s systems and secure.
Amwell, a
national telehealth
leader, today announced
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AMA Unveils 2 Vaccine-Specific CPT Codes for Coronavirus Immunizations
What You Should Know:
- The American Medical Association (AMA) published an
update to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set that includes new
vaccine-specific codes to report immunizations for the novel coronavirus
(SARS-CoV-2).
- The new Category I CPT codes and long descriptors for the vaccine products 91300 and 91301 for better tracking, reporting, and analysis that supports data-driven planning and allocation.
The American Medical Association (AMA) today published an
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