What You Should Know:
- AVIA announces that Centene Corporation has become the first payer to join the Medicaid Transformation Project (MTP), which aims to transform healthcare and related social needs for vulnerable populations through digitally-enabled care models and new technology solutions
- Led by AVIA and
former CMS chief Andy Slavitt. Collaboration among Centene, 30 health systems,
and provider-sponsored health plans in MTP will enable these stakeholders to
improve outcomes
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Microsoft Teams, Epic Integrate to Power EHR-Connected Virtual Visits
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft Teams joins Epic App Orchard
Marketplace to enable clinicians to launch a virtual patient visit or
consultation with another provider in Teams directly from the EHR system.
- By integrating Epic’s context-aware linking, this solution helps clinicians embed Microsoft Teams' meeting capabilities directly into the EHR.
Microsoft
Teams has joined Epic’s
App Orchard marketplace to power telehealth workflows within a provider’s
organizations through
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Best Buy Health Launches Phone for Seniors w/ Amazon Alexa Voice Services
What You Should Know:
- GreatCall, a division of Best Buy Health launches Lively Flip phone for seniors, with new voice capabilities via Amazon Alexa.
- The Lively Flip is the next evolution of the Jitterbug, designed to help older adults stay connected to family, friends, and health services – at a time when staying connected is especially important.
- Lively Voice services with Amazon Alexa is an all-new, enhanced feature that gives users the option to use their voice to make calls,
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New Medical-Grade UV Device Can Kill COVID Virus in 2 Seconds
What You Should Know:
- Innovators’ “NuvaWave™” launches a medical-grade,
intelligent handheld UVC device that can kill the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that
causes COVID-19 in two seconds.
- Initially, the founders created it for hospitals but it's going on the market for commercial use - offices, gyms, hotels, airlines, voting booths - everywhere it's needed so we can get back to life.
UV Innovators, an ultraviolet technology company has unveiled NuvaWave, one of the most advanced
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Healthcare VC Firm Longitude Capital Closes $585M Fund
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare venture capital firm Longitude Capital announces the close of its $585M Longitude Venture Partners IV, L.P. (“LVP4”) fund to invest in transformative healthcare companies.
- LVP4 will invest opportunistically across all stages of
a company’s development through a variety of approaches that include
traditional venture capital investing and special situations such as spin-outs,
equity-linked transactions, and private investments in public
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Clarius Unveils Ultra-High Frequency Handheld Ultrasound Scanner
What You Should Know:
- A pioneer in high definition ultrasound
miniaturization, Clarius is announcing the new high-frequency handheld
ultrasound scanner Clarius L20 HD featuring the highest definition wireless
imaging for superficial applications.
- Designed to provide extremely high image quality in the near field (skin line to 4cm), the Clarius L20 HD is ideal for a variety of clinical settings including MSK, rheumatology, podiatry, plastic surgery, microsurgery, pediatric
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PreferredOne Becomes First Health Plan to Cover Prescription Digital Therapeutics
What You Should Know:
- PreferredOne teams with Pear to provide its members
with covered access to two prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) for the
treatment of substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD)
- PDTs are a new therapeutic class that uses software to
directly treat disease. Like traditional medicines, PDTs are tested in
randomized controlled trials demonstrating safety and effectiveness, evaluated
and authorized by regulators like FDA, and used under the
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Beyond Limits Nabs $133M to Drive Global Expansion of AI Technology
What You Should Know:
- Beyond Limits, an AI provider that uniquely uses 45
technologies developed at Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to provide
business intelligence for healthcare raises $133M in funding.
- Beyond Limits’ AI predictive model is helping
healthcare professionals fight against COVID-19 including determining the
percentage of patients that may need ventilators and ECMO in the ICU and
dialysis units.
Beyond Limits, an LA-based industrial and enterprise-grade AI
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Dept. of Defense and Philips Partner on AI Tech to Contain COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Today, Philips, in partnership with the U.S.
Department of Defense, announced plans to expand their research on an AI-based
early warning system for infectious disease, opening new possibilities in the
battle to contain COVID-19.
- An application of their joint Rapid Analysis of Threat
Exposure (RATE) project, the technology aims to provide early alerts
of potential infection, ensuring troop readiness and protection against
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FDA Launches Digital Health Center of Excellence: 5 Things to Know
What You Should Know:
- FDA launches the Digital Health Center of Excellence within
the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) focused on mobile health
devices, Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), wearables when used as a medical
device, and technologies used to study medical products.
- The Digital Health Center of Excellence is part of an effort to modernize digital health policies and regulatory approaches and provide efficient access to highly specialized expertise,
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