What You Should Know:
- Propeller Health announced
it will co-package a new asthma medication from Novartis, which was
approved by the European Commission this week for use in the EU.
- Enerzair®
Breezhaler® plus Propeller Health sensor is the first asthma medication to be
co-packaged and co-prescribed with a digital health platform.
- Propeller’s solution
works by attaching a sensor to the Enerzair® Breezhaler® inhaler, which then
delivers objective data on medication use to the
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Innovaccer Integrates with RubiconMD to Facilitate Primary Care eConsults
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with RubiconMD, a
leading eConsult service, to connect primary care physicians with top tier
medical specialists to enhance care plans.
- Together, RubiconMD and Innovaccer will address major
pain points for healthcare professionals such as high referral leakage rate,
unnecessary referrals, appointment non-adherence, and poor provider match.
- Combined with RubiconMD’s eConsult feature and its
referral management solution
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Sun Genomics Nabs $8.65M to Scale Personalized Probiotic Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Sun Genomics raises $8.65M in Series A funding to scale
direct to consumer personalized probiotic solutions based on whole-genome sequencing
diagnostics.
- Flagship product Floré, a microbiome test, and gut probiotics solution utilizes whole-genome sequencing to evaluate different digestive system data points and ensure that customers receive a completely personalized product that is based on their unique gut profiles.
Sun Genomics, a San
Diego, CA-based
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Intermountain’s Castell Taps Arcadia to Elevate Value-Based Care
What You Should Know:
- Intermountain’s Castell has selected Arcadia Analytics
as the healthcare technology and analytics foundation to support its
comprehensive approach to helping organizations accelerate the transition from
volume- to value-based systems of care.
Castell, the new comprehensive healthcare platform company from Intermountain Healthcare that elevates value-based capabilities for providers, payers, healthcare systems, and accountable care organizations (ACOs) has
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Lenovo Launches Virtual Care Solution with Voice Activated Digital Assistant
What You Should Know:
- Today, Lenovo launches Virtual Care solution to help healthcare
provider organizations remotely monitor, engage with and educate patients with
many of these chronic health conditions, including diabetes, COPD, congestive
heart failure (CHF), and hypertension.
- Easy to use, patients take the kit home, plug it in and
can immediately begin interacting with their care team. Patients are guided
through an individual daily care plan aided by biometric devices and
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2020 Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals List
What You Should
Know:
- Fortune and
IBM Watson Health named the 100 Top Hospitals that are setting new standards
for using technology to improve operational efficiency, quality care and
safety.
- The rapid shift to virtual care amid COVID-19 put a bigger spotlight on the barriers impeding digital transformation, but this year’s top hospitals are leading the way for practical approaches to using telehealth and predictive modeling as well as data as a foundational measure to align
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NexHealth Raises $15M to Expand Patient Experience Management Platform
NexHealth, a San Francisco, CA-based patient experience management platform, announced it has raised $15M in Series A funding from some of Silicon Valley’s best investors, including product-driven founders such as Scott Belsky, founder of Behance and Chief Product Officer at Adobe, and mission-driven founders such as Josh Buckley and Naval Ravikant.
Empowering Doctors to Run Thriving Businesses
Patients today spend more out-of-pocket, shop for care, and
have high expectations from their
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New Report Debunks Belief COVID-19 Increased Healthcare Data Breaches
What You Should
Know:
- Vectra spotlight report on healthcare discredits the
widely held belief that external threats would lead to an increase in data
breaches during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- According to Vectra, although opportunistic attacks against healthcare were up – and some might have succeeded – external activity does not appear to have led to an internal activity normally observed in successful attacks. Healthcare organizations in general are doing a good job of mitigating
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Vonage, Redox Integrate Telehealth Data with EHRs to Support Interoperability
What You Should
Know:
- Vonage and
Redox form partnership where Vonage API users can now leverage Redox APIs to
exchange telehealth data with electronic health records (EHRs).
- Together the
companies enable healthcare providers to connect effectively and privately with
patients via a platform that is fully interoperable with EHRs and other leading
healthcare data source systems.
Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital
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72% of Consumers Had First-Ever Virtual Visit During COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care, a new study published today by Kyruus, reveals 72% of consumers had their first-ever virtual visit during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a vast majority would like to continue using it in the future.
- The survey of 1,000 consumers ages 18-65+ takes an
in-depth look at their use and perceptions of virtual care during COVID-19.
A majority of healthcare consumers had their first-ever virtual visit during the COVID-19 pandemic,
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