What You Should Know:
- Agencies sign a memorandum of understanding to establish an interagency Rural Telehealth Initiative Task Force comprised of representatives from each agency to keep rural Americans connected to vital health services.
The Federal Communications Commission
(FCC), U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), and U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) today announced that they have signed a Memorandum
of Understanding to work together on the Rural Telehealth
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Carrum Health Adds Mayo Clinic to COE Platform for Cost-Effective Surgical Care
What You Should Know:
- Carrum Health, a digital health company that connects
employers and employees with hospital Centers of Excellence (COEs) to provide
more cost-effective surgical care announces the addition of Mayo Clinic to
Carrum's COE platform.
- As part of the collaboration, employees and covered
dependents at self-insured companies offering the Carrum Health surgery benefit
will now have access to Mayo Clinic providers with little or no cost.
- Self-insured employers,
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Elevate Health Taps Innovaccer to Automate Care Management Processes
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with Elevate Health
to strengthen care management in Washington. Innovaccer’s solution set will be
part of a broader population health stratification toolkit Elevate Health is
fashioning to achieve a comprehensive and data-agnostic ecosystem supporting
improved health outcomes.
- Elevate Health’s partnered care coordinators, in both
clinical and social services settings, will be able to use InCare, Innocaccer’s
automated care
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Patientco’s IVR Integration Joins Epic App Orchard, Selected by Baptist Memorial Health Care
Patientco, a
next-generation patient payment technology company, today announced that its
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) integration is now available in the Epic App
Orchard marketplace and has been selected by Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist
Memorial Health Care.
As providers have cited a surge in patient calls resulting
from COVID-19
and billing concerns, Baptist Memorial wanted to lift the burden from its revenue cycle
management (RCM) team while also improving patient service and the
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Techstars’ UnitedHealthcare Accelerator Launches 2020 Class of 10 Startups
What You Should Know:
- Techstars announces the second class of 10 startups for
the UnitedHealthcare Accelerator Powered by Techstars.
- This year’s class represents a diversity of ideas, geographies, capabilities, and technologies and are tackling challenges in areas such as health equity, care delivery model innovation, telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, mental health, behavioral economics, and more.
Today, Techstars announce the 10 startups joining the second class of
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HHS Appoints Perryn Ashmore Acting CIO After Arrieta Resignation
On Friday, August 28, the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that Perryn Ashmore, currently
Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer, will begin serving as Acting Chief Information
Officer (CIO) following the resignation of Jose Arrieta. Arrieta served as CIO after
serving the department since 2019 and following more than 15 years in federal
service including chief technology officer of
the General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Acquisition
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Validic Launches New Remote Patient Monitoring Solution, Requires No EHR Integration
What You Should Know:
- Validic launches the newest version of its remote
patient monitoring (RPM) offerings, Validic Impact: Rapid Deployment.
- This new standalone version of Validic Impact requires
no EHR integration and can be used as a fully standalone solution.
Validic, a Durham,
NC-based provider of health data platforms and solutions for scaling remote
patient monitoring (RPM), has announced the release of a major update to its
remote patient monitoring
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Lyra Health Reaches $1.1B Valuation After $110M Series D to Meet Demand for Teletherapy
What You Should Know:
- Mental health benefits provider Lyra Health raises $110M
in Series D funding, bringing its valuation to $1.1 billion.
- Lyra has grown significantly in 2020. So far this year,
the company has added more than 800,000 new members to the population eligible
to receive Lyra benefits, bringing its total member population to more than 1.5
million.
- Amid, the COVID-19 pandemic, Lyra is focused on
expanding its enhanced teletherapy offering — Lyra Blended Care —
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Sonde Health Acquires NeuroLex Lab’s Voice-Based Survey Platform
What You Should Know:
- Sonde Health acquires NeuroLex Laboratories, Inc. to forms
one of the world’s preeminent biobanks focused on vocal biomarkers.
- NeuroLex’s core product, SurveyLex, makes it easy to
create and distribute voice surveys in less than a minute as URL links through
web browsers.
Sonde Health, a
Boston-based digital vocal biomarker technology platform announced it has acquired
NeuroLex Laboratories, Inc., a leading
voice-enabled survey and data acquisition platform.
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VA Announces First Go-Live of the VA Electronic Health Record Modernization Program
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced
its first go-live of the VA Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM)
program – launching the new Centralized Scheduling Solution (CSS) at the VA
Central Ohio Healthcare System in Columbus, OH to make medical visits more
efficient for care providers and Veterans.
- CSS streamlines patient scheduling by coordinating clinician availability and resources in a single system, allowing VA schedulers to identify
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