What You Should Know:- AdhereHealth launches COVID-19 Adherence Solution to help protect high-risk populations and reduce unnecessary hospitalizations during COVID-19 pandemic.- The new solution combines predictive analytics, proactive outreach and home-delivered pharmacy services to help high-risk patients overcome SDOH challenges and continue taking their prescribed medications throughout the COVID-19 crisis. Nashville, TN-based AdhereHealth today announced the immediate availability of its
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Change Healthcare Buys Back Pharmacy Network for $213M in Cash
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare buys back pharmacy network eRx Network (eRx) for $212.9 million-plus cash on the balance sheet.
- eRx Network runs a network connected to about 59,000 pharmacies that process more than 1.5 billion transactions annually and also markets insurance verification, e-prescribing, and claims billing services, among others.
Change
Healthcare buys
back pharmacy unit eRx Network (“eRx”),
a leading provider of comprehensive, innovative,
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Medable Lands $25M to Expand Platform for Decentralized Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- Medable raises $25M in funding to expand global platform for decentralized clinical trials led by GSR Ventures, with additional investment from existing investor PPD, Inc.
- Founded in 2015, Medable’s global decentralized trial platform streamlines design, recruitment, retention and data quality, replacing siloed systems with integrated digital tools, data and interfaces to accelerate trial execution.
Medable, Inc., a Palo
Alto, CA-based global platform for
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Janssen Pharmaceuticals Collaborates with Alveo on Rapid At-Home COVID-19 Test
What You Should Know:
- Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals company announced it is working with Alveo Technologies, an innovative diagnostic testing company, to help bring its COVID-19 rapid at-home self-testing platform for viral infectious diseases to market.
- Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals company will work with and fund Alveo to accelerate research and development of be.well .
- Alveo will
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CareCentrix Acquires Palliative Care Solution Turn-Key Health
What You Should Know:
- Home care leader CareCentrix announced its acquisition palliative care solution for health plans Turn-Key Health, a move that will help more vulnerable patients heal at home.
- The acquisition fully integrates Turn-Key’s palliative care solution into the CareCentrix platform and supports the company’s mission to meet patient needs through an entire episode of care.
- With Turn-Key’s data analytics and artificial intelligence, CareCentrix patients will
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The Rise of Teledentistry: Benefits, Use Cases & Adoption Challenges
Teledentistry is a relatively new practice on the rise for dentists. If you have oral health or dental problems, it can take a while to get an appointment that fits in with your schedule. So, with this new concept, you can quickly connect with a dental professional remotely, and receive access to advice and information.About TeledentistryTeledentistry falls under telehealth, which is a broad concept within professional healthcare delivery. Essentially, telehealth aims to provide patients with a
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Report: How COVID-19 is a Blue Moon Moment for Mental Health Technology
What You Should Know:
- Oxford VR publishes a new position paper ‘The Big Reset: Why COVID-19 presents a blue moon moment for mental health technology.’
- The white paper highlights how the coronavirus crisis has been a greater catalyst for the implementation of telecare in practice, than two decades of many brilliant, but many failed attempts too.
Oxford VR, a provider
of evidence-based automated VR therapy has published a new position paper ‘The
Big Reset:
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Stanford Medicine Awarded $2.5M Grant to Research Digital Health Tools for Hypertension
What You Should Know:
- American Heart Association awards Stanford Medicine a $2.5M grant for a digital health and clinical trial for treating hypertension in black and Hispanic participants and in drivers for ride-hailing companies.
- The award is part of a $14M grant to several institutions including Stanford School of Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Michigan for research on reducing healthcare disparities through digital health
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Seattle Children’s Develops Nation’s First Opioid-Free” Surgery Center
What You Should Know:
- Seattle Children’s Hospital and its Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center (BCSC) leveraged AI-based technology from Seattle-based MDmetrix to develop the nation’s first “opioid-free” surgery center.
- The MDmetrix Mission Control platform was used to visualize and evaluate outcomes data so that physicians could quickly adapt their surgical protocols, incorporating evidence-based best practices, to effectively manage surgical pain while reducing
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COVID-19 Trend Report Reveals Which States Have Reached or Passed their Peaks
What You Should Know:
- New COVID-19 Trend Report created by Sermo displays states/regions that have reached or passed the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic based on physician reports.
- The COVID-19 Real Time Barometer Study provides exclusive access into the perspectives and expertise of over 20,000 total physicians across 30 countries, tracked over time.
- Majority of physicians in many COVID-19 Hotspots including Korea, Spain, China and Italy believe their countries have passed or
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