What You Should Know:
- Fifty-nine percent of alternate site providers have expanded their use of telehealth, according to recent findings from Premier Inc.
- Alternate site providers – which include nursing homes
and long-term care facilities account for 40 percent of COVID-19 deaths.
- Premier’s survey was conducted from May 20-June 10, 2020, and sent to a representative portion of non-acute care providers in the Premier membership.
Premier Inc., a healthcare improvement
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Zimmer & Apple Watch Transform Joint Replacement Virtual Care w/ App New Features
What You Should Know:
- Zimmer Biomet announced new features of mymobility with
Apple Watch® - bringing remote patient care to life for patients who receive
hip and knee joint replacement at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
- Available later this year, mymobility with Apple Watch
will now use gait metrics (the stride of a person as s/he moves limbs) to
passively collect walking speed and double support time when walking on flat
level surfaces without GPS. These measurements
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90% of Consumers Believe Remote Health Monitoring Device Helps Better Manage Chronic Conditions
What You Should Know:
- Nearly 90 percent of those consumers believe they could
better manage chronic conditions with a specialized remote health monitoring
device, according to Sony’s mSafety Wearable Platform Division.
- The mSafety study found that managing chronic
conditions remains “stressful” and “difficult” despite advances in technology —
particularly remote health monitoring devices and platforms.
- The mSafety study also found more than half of those
surveyed would consider
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AbleTo Unveils Integrated Suite of Mental Health Solutions for Payers
What You Should Know:
- AbleTo, a provider of virtual mental health
services unveils an expanded suite of mental health solutions for payers to
address growing needs across America.
- The new solution set was specifically engineered
to establish an elevated standard of teletherapy through a combined approach
that is highly personalized, data-driven, and evidence-based.
AbleTo, Inc., a
leading provider of virtual mental health services proven to improve clinical
outcomes and lower
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DrChrono Integrates with Rioch to Streamline Patient Onboarding & Reconciliation for Medical Practices
What You Should Know:
- DrChrono integrates with Ricoh’s Smart Integration
Healthcare add-on to enable a medical practice to easily scan a patient’s
driver license to auto-populate the corresponding fields into their EHR/PMS
system.
- The Healthcare add on also includes the ability to directly scan documents, such as referrals, patient history forms, or consent forms. This goes right into the patient record in the EHR, replacing the multiple steps of scanning, saving, and uploading
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ACO to Deploy Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform Across Medicare Population
What You Should Know:
- MultiCare Connected Care announced it will leverage Innovaccer's FHIR®-enabled Data Activation Platform for the Medicare Track 1+ population.
- MultiCare Connected Care is an Accountable Care Organization and a wholly-owned subsidiary of MultiCare Health System based in the state of Washington, one of the largest, not-for-profit health systems.
MultiCare
Connected Care (MCC), one of the leading clinically integrated care
networks in the state of Washington,
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DrFirst, MARQUIS Med Rec Partner to Help Hospitals Improve Patient Safety Through Better Medication Reconciliation
What You Should Know:
- DrFirst and the Society for Hospital Medicine, through its MARQUIS Med Rec Collaborative forms partnership, to work with hospitals to reduce these discrepancies in the medication reconciliation process—one of the most important steps to improve patient safety during transitions of care.
- DrFirst will customize The Collaborative’s current
toolkit, illustrating how its MedHx solution—the healthcare industry’s broadest
source of medication history data available,
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MTBC Acquires RCM Vendor Meridian Medical Management
What You Should Know:
- MTBC acquires Meridian Medical Management, a former GE
Healthcare IT company to enhance its cloud-based healthcare IT solutions and
services.
- Meridian Medical Management has been providing revenue cycle
management solutions to the ambulatory medical practice management marketplace
for over 20 years.
MTBC, Inc., a Somerset,
NJ-based provider of cloud-based
healthcare IT solutions and services announced it has acquired
Meridian Medical Management
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Fitbit Launches Ready for Work Program to Help Employers Manage Workplace Health During COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Fitbit launches new Ready for Work program to help
organizations with the unprecedented challenge of returning to the workplace
during the COVID-19 health crisis.
- The program combines key health biometrics from Fitbit devices along with symptom and temperature tracking into an easy-to-use daily check-in that provides employees with a recommendation on whether to go to work or stay home and seek medical care.
- Early research shows that resting heart rate data
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Abacus Insights Nabs $35M for Interoperability Platform to Help Health Plans Liberate Data
What You Should Know:
- Abacus Insights raises $35M in Series B funding for its data integration platform that enables health insurers to reconcile thousands of unique attributes to create a more personalized healthcare experience in everything from diabetes care and wellness programs to managing the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Abacus Insights’ data platform standardizes, curates, and enriches valuable healthcare data that is currently sitting idle, moving it out of restrictive silos, and
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