What You Should Know:
- Collaboration with Adobe and Microsoft creates a unique, scalable, and more secure consumer solution to address rising demand for more transparent and streamlined healthcare experience.
- The Connected Consumer Health™ suite is delivered in a software-as-a-service model, with speedy deployment, no hardware to procure, and minimal IT resources required for customers to access and use the platform.
Today Change Healthcare unveiled the
Connected Consumer Health
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Telehealth Claim Lines Increase 4,347% Nationally from March 2019 to March 2020
What You Should Know:
- Telehealth claim lines increased 4,347 percent
nationally from 0.17 percent of medical claim lines in March 2019 to 7.52
percent in March 2020, according to new data from FAIR Health's Monthly
Telehealth Regional Tracker.
- The data represent the privately insured population,
excluding Medicare and Medicaid. In an indication that the growth was related
to the COVID-19 pandemic, the increase was even greater in the Northeast, where
the pandemic hit
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Intravacc, EpiVax Team Up in Development of COVID-19 Emerging Vaccine
What You Should Know:
- Combines Intravacc's unique OMV delivery platform with
synthetically produced COVID-19 epitopes from EpiVax' immunoinformatics toolbox
- Goal is to generate safe and effective adaptive
immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and related coronaviruses
- Clinical studies anticipated to start in Q4 2020
Intravacc, one
of the world's leading translational research and development vaccine
institutes, with an extensive track record in developing viral and
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Upstate NY County Deploys COVID-19 Remote Monitoring & Support for Over 1K Patients
What You Should Know:
With New York suffering the brunt of the ongoing
pandemic, the Datos COVID-19 solution is providing remote care for
patients suspected of having or diagnosed with coronavirus, by monitoring their
recovery progression while under home quarantine.
The solution simultaneously helps prevent the spread of disease while ensuring that emergency rooms do not become overwhelmed, by improving communication with and remote care for home hospitalized patients through
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Oncologists Believe Social Determinants of Health Impacts Outcomes for Cancer Patients
What You Should Know:
- Oncologists state social determinants of health (SDOH) significantly impact outcomes for cancer patients, according to new research from Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions.
- The findings illustrate certain disconnects between physician perceptions and the increasing body of evidence on the significance of SDOH.
- Appropriately, 91 percent of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that SDOH directly impact cancer treatment outcomes.
More than 90% of
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Benchling Raises $50M to Scale Life Sciences R&D Platform & Fuel Biotech Innovations
What You Should Know:
- Today, life sciences R&D cloud platform Benchling announced a $50M Series D raise led by Alkeon and joined by new investors Spark Capital, Lux Capital and ICONIQ Partners, as well as existing investors Thrive Capital and Benchmark.
- This funding will help Benchling expand its product suite, providing vital collaboration tools for life science researchers to help embrace the complexity of biology and find breakthroughs faster.
Benchling, the leading
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Care Automation Platform Bright.md Closes $16.7M Series C Round
What You Should Know:
Bright.md closes oversubscribed $16.7 million Series C
funding, co-led by B Capital, Seven Peaks Ventures and Concord Health Partners bringing
in strategic investors including Philips Health Technology Ventures, UnityPoint
Health Ventures and Concord Health Partners.
Bright.md will use the funds to accelerate market and
technology expansion of its suite of care-automation solutions, including
SmartExam.
Bright.md,
the leading healthcare automation company,
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ONC, The Sequoia Project Continue RCE Efforts to Support Nationwide HIE
The Sequoia Project, selected by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) as the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) to support the implementation of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), today celebrated program achievements and ONC’s announcement of the availability of approximately $1.1M of funding to continue the public-private engagement for a second year.Progress to DateIn 2019, ONC chose non-profit The Sequoia Project, to be the RCE following a
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Propeller to Connect AstraZeneca’s Inhaler Symbicort Users to Propeller Platform
What You Should Know:
Propeller Health has been awarded FDA 510(k) clearance to
connect patients using AstraZeneca’s Symbicort Inhaler to Propeller, enhancing medication
coverage and respiratory digital health.
The sensor for Symbicort, a controller medication for
asthma and COPD, was developed in partnership with AstraZeneca. With this new
medication on our roster, Propeller now connects to 90 percent of the inhaled
medications for asthma and COPD on the U.S. market.
Propeller
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Solve.Care Launches Blockchain-Powered Global Telehealth Exchange
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare platform Solve.Care has announced the launch of the Global Telehealth Exchange (GTHE), a first-of-its-kind landmark deployment of blockchain and digital currency aimed at tackling the challenges facing the global healthcare system today.
- The GTHE, a decentralized care network, removes the physical and geographical barriers associated with accessing healthcare services while also providing administrative, payment, and care coordination for
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