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Verily Launches Healthy at Work Program for COVID-19 Screening & Testing

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Verily Launches Healthy at Work Program for COVID-19 Screening & Testing

What You Should Know: - Verily launches Healthy at Work Program providing ongoing COVID-19 screening and testing for a healthy return to work and school to communities across the nation. - The Healthy at Work program combines symptom screening, testing services, and data analytics. Employees, students, or others designated to participate in the program can use the online interface to record health symptoms each day. Today, Verily, an Alphabet company, has announced a new Healthy at
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NYC Hospitals Leverage Taxi App to Transport Frontline Health Workers, Patients During COVID-19

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Taxi App Curb Integrates with Ride Health’s Patient Transportation Platform

What You Should Know: - Curb, a taxi platform that connects two-thirds of the city’s yellow and green taxis, has partnered with organizations like NY Langone, Mount Sinai, American Cancer Society, and the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene to provide frontline workers with a safe alternative to public transit and rideshares like Uber. - Launched during the pandemic, the partnership has enabled Curb to power more than 100,000 taxi rides for doctors,
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careMESH Raises $5M to Scale Healthcare Communications Platform

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careMESH Raises $5M to Scale Healthcare Communications Platform

What You Should Know: - careMESH raises $5M in seed funding to scale the adoption of its first-of-a-kind healthcare communications platform. - careMESH is a single service for hospitals, health systems, and other healthcare delivery organizations which offers a National Provider Directory, patient event notifications, secure communications, and transition of care workflows.  careMESH, a Reston, VA-based healthcare communications platform announced it has raised $5M in seed funding
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Walmart Acquires Medication Management Platform CareZone for $200M to Enhance Digital Health & Wellness Capabilities

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Walmart Acquires Medication Management Platform CareZone for $200M to Enhance Digital Health & Wellness Capabilities

What You Should Know: - Walmart acquires app-based patient medication management platform CareZone for reportedly $200M to enhance its digital health and wellness capabilities. - CareZone’s technology and team members will join Walmart to augment their current Health & Wellness capabilities and support its focus on digital health care solutions. CareZone will remain a separate company unrelated to Walmart. Walmart announced it has acquired CareZone, a San Francisco,
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Unite Us Acquires SDoH Data Analytics Company Staple Health to Expand Capabilities

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Unite Us Acquires SDoH Data Analytics Company Staple Health to Expand Data Analytics

What You Should Know: - Unite Us acquires social determinants of health (SDoH) analytics company Staple Health to greatly expand its valuable predictive data analytics capabilities. - Predictive analytics and outcome data are essential as Unite Us supports local communities, addressing needs and providing proactive social care infrastructure where it is lacking. - The acquisition of Staple Health brings 10 years of data experience and a database of 270M individuals, with notable
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FDA Clears ICU Device That Predicts Respiratory Failure to Support COVID-19

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FDA Clears ICU Device That Predicts Respiratory Failure to Support COVID-19

What You Should Know: - CLEW is awarded FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its predictive analytics platform in support of COVID-19 patients. - CLEW is the only device authorized by the FDA to provide early identification of patients who are likely to experience respiratory failure of hemodynamic instability—both significant complications associated with COVID-19. - CLEW is already implemented in coronavirus units in two Israeli hospitals, and being tested by several US
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MD Anderson, Philips Partner on Personalized Oncology Treatments, Clinical Trial Matching

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Philips and MD Anderson collaborate to facilitate personalized oncology treatments and clinical trial matching based on genomic markers

What You Should Know: - Philips and MD Anderson collaborate to facilitate personalized oncology treatments and clinical trial matching based on genomic markers. - Philips connects oncologists and pathologists around the world to MD Anderson’s Precision Oncology Decision Support (PODS) system of actionable clinical information Philips and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center today announced a collaboration to provide oncologists with evidence-based therapy and clinical
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Augmedics Lands $15M for FDA-Cleared Augmented Reality Guidance System for Surgery

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Augmedics Lands $15M for FDA-Cleared Augmented Reality Guidance System for Surgery

What You Should Know: - Augmented reality surgical image guidance startup Augmedics raises $15M in Series B funding led by its U.S. staff in an effort to secure and successfully launch the company as venture capital (VC) all but evaporated during the COVID-19 pandemic. - The xvision system, the first augmented reality guidance system for surgery, allows surgeons to see the patient’s anatomy through skin and tissue as if they have “x-ray vision,” and to accurately guide instruments and
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Using HIEs to Prepopulate Forms Improves Public Health Disease Reporting, Study Finds

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Using HIEs to Prepopulate Forms Improves Public Health Disease Reporting, Study Finds

What You Should Know: - A new study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University shows that using electronic health information exchanges (HIE) to prepopulate forms for notifiable disease reports increases reporting and completeness of information. - The system extracts data from the Indiana Health Information Exchange and fills in the information fields on the official state reporting form. - The form is delivered to an ambulatory care clinic using the HIE network, acting as a
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Redox, Curative Partner to Connect COVID-19 Test Results to Public Health Depts.

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Redox Launches Rapid Deployment Telehealth Model for Providers to Go-Live in Less Than 2 Weeks

What You Should Know: - Curative and Redox have found a way to easily send COVID-19 test results to state officials for reporting, contact tracing programs, and to inform policies as regions move through phases for re-opening the economy. - Since formalizing the partnership in May, the duo has kicked off projects with 24 states, with two, Illinois and Delaware, now fully live. - In this novel use case, Curative uses the Redox API to allow for a secure, efficient flow of data between
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