What You Should Know:
- Physicians at the University of California, San Diego
(UCSD) School of Medicine and Cofactor Genomics ink a partnership to improve a
physician’s ability to predict tumor response to immunotherapy, specifically in
recurrent and metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.
- The data generated in this collaboration will further
expand clinical evidence presented by Washington University physicians, where
Cofactor’s technology showed superiority over the
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Samsung, Centene to Bring Telehealth to 13k Patients in Rural, Underserved Communities
What You Should Know:
- Today, Centene announced that it is teaming up with Samsung Electronics America to expand critical virtual care for 13,000 patients in underserved and rural communities who may have limited access to technology, including seniors and low-income individuals.
- Amid the rapid digital transformation in healthcare,
the digital divide has exposed disparities in access to technology amid the
pandemic. With telehealth emerging as the preferred method of
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Medisafe Launches New Platform for Medication Management to Improve Patient Journey
What You Should Know:
- Medisafe launches a new Medisafe Maestro platform that brings precision and speed to patient journeys.
- The new platform aims to revolutionize digital health platforms by combining a host of resources to help patients through any hurdle in their journey and updates and monitoring happen in real-time to meet patients in their moments.
Medisafe, a Boston,
MA-based digital therapeutics companion platform, announced the immediate
deployment of its new Medisafe
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Monument Health Selects Nuance’s ACI Solution to Transform Physician-Patient Encounters
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications, Inc. announced that Monument
Health added another Nuance solution to their tech stack: Dragon Ambient
eXperience (DAX).
- This new solution will further enable the healthcare
facility’s physicians to focus on caring for patients and not on their
computers.
Nuance
Communications, Inc. announced that Monument
Health has chosen the Nuance®
Dragon Ambient eXperience™ (DAX™) ambient clinical intelligence (ACI)
solution to securely capture,
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Equality Health Launches Social Determinants Program to Tackle Health Disparities
What You Should Know:
- Equality Health launches Social
and Cultural Risk Assessment (SCRA™) program to address social determinants of health
(SDoH)
- With Equality Health’s SCRA program, social determinants act as any other quality metric, with a far less
burdensome reporting process.
Equality Health, a whole-health delivery
system, has pioneered a comprehensive cultural care program that enables
providers to identify and
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Magellan Health and Livongo to Co-Market Behavioral Health Services
What You Should Know:
- Magellan Health announced a strategic relationship with
Livongo, making Livongo for Behavioral Health the new digital entry point to a
wide range of solutions for Magellan Health customers and their members.
- As part of the strategic relationship, Magellan and
Livongo will co-market behavioral health services and collaborate on product
innovations.
Magellan Health,
Inc., today announced a strategic relationship with Livongo the leading Applied Health
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DrChrono EHR Adds Live Chat, PDMP, Inline Charting, Vital Flowsheet Features
What You Should Know:
- DrChrono continues to modernize EHR platform with the
addition of new features live chat and prescription drug monitoring program.
- As doctors continue to work remotely due to COVID-19,
new features allow for more efficiency and seamless patient data processing via
the platform.
DrChrono Inc.,
the company developing the essential platform and services for modern medical
practices, announced today the availability of its newest features, Live Chat,
which
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AI Collaboration Saves Pharmacies 5.5 Hours Monthly on Critical Administrative Tasks
What You Should Know:
- DrFirst partners with a Kansas-based pharmacy management system (PMS) provider to improve safety and efficiency in hundreds of pharmacies across the country.
- Speed Script is integrating DrFirst’s SmartSig technology into its suite of pharmacy management solutions (PMS) used by the community and long-term care pharmacies countrywide.
- Using the two technologies could save pharmacies processing
more than 250 prescriptions a day
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U.S. Telemedicine App Downloads Spikes During COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- US telemedicine app downloads see dramatic increases during the COVID-19 pandemic, with some seeing an 8,270% rise YoY.
Downloads of U.S. Telemedicine apps from leading telehealth companies have reported dramatic increases in demand for their services in the US since the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to GlobalData, a leading data, and analytics company. Some of the biggest benefiters have been the Synzi Virtual Care app for physicians, which saw a whole
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2020 Virtual Care: Navigating Patient Care In A Post-COVID-19 World
Updox, the only place to
manage healthcare communications across both in-person and virtual care, today
released its 2020
Virtual Care Report: Patient Care in a Post-COVID World that details the
rapid transformation telehealth saw during COVID-19, how it is currently being
used, physician and patient expectations for telehealth post-COVID -- and how
virtual care spanning the entire patient experience will become the new
precedent.
At the start of the COVID-19
pandemic, telehealth
became the
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