What You Should Know:
- IBM has launched Rapid Supplier Connect, a blockchain-based solution to help battle medical supply chain shortages due to COVID-19. - The network will help government agencies and healthcare organizations identify new, non-traditional suppliers who have pivoted to address the shortage of equipment, devices, and supplies needed for COVID-19 relief efforts.
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Boston Medical, Rimidi Partner to Tackle High-Risk Pregnancy During COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- To help overcome the challenges of high-risk pregnancies, Boston Medical Center announced a partnership with Rimidi, a cloud-based software platform, to enable physicians to remotely collect and analyze patient-generated data to better treat patients remotely.
- Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, the adoption of Rimidi’s platform will ease fears and provide an extra layer of medical support by leveraging remote monitoring capabilities.
Boston
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New Survey Underscores Importance of Social Determinants of Health Amid COVID-19 Crisis
What You Should Know:
- Welltok survey reveals social determinants of health (SDOH) are becoming increasingly valuable during the COVID-19 pandemic for providers and health plans. It’s important they know what kind of lifestyle and environmental factors consumers are up against during social distancing and preventing the spread of the virus
- Welltok survey of more than 2,000 adults finds consumers don’t know what SDOH to share with their provider for optimal care
As the COVID-19
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Alliance to Distribute 7,500 Smart Thermometers to CBO Workers, Underserved Individuals in New York
What You Need to Know:- Alliance for Better (Alliance) to distribute 7,500 Kinsa Health smart thermometers to community-based organizations to protect CBO workers and underserved individuals in New York's Capital District.- By using this simple tool to detect potential signs of the coronavirus, those social services workers can then be isolated to reduce the potential spread of the virus to their co-workers, and to the community members they serve.- Kinsa Health’s smart thermometers include a
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FCC Approves Third Set of 6 COVID-19 Telehealth Program Providers
What
You Need to Know:
– FCC approves the third set of six COVID-19 telehealth program providers, totaling $2.56M in funding.
– To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program has funded 17 health care providers in 10 states for a total of $9.5 million in funding.
The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau approved an additional six funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, totaling $2.56M in funding. The third set of providers
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Healthcare Data Platform H1 Raises $12.9M to Fuel Growth
What You Should Know:
- H1, the biggest database in the world connecting healthcare, life science professionals, and companies raises $12.9M in funding.
- Its healthcare data platform provides comprehensive in-depth profiles of more than 8 million healthcare professionals and 16,000 institutions in 70+ countries, all of which are kept up-to-date weekly. The platform enables users to understand and analyze any healthcare professional’s full profile, including expertise, interests,
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XRHealth Lands $7M to Expand Telehealth VR/AR Platform
What You Should Know:
XRHealth raises $7M in funding to expand its telehatlh virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR) platform for clinicians and patients.
XRHealth is the first certified Extended Reality medical
company in the world; their Medical Applications are FDA & CE
Registered.
XRHealth created the first virtual reality telehealth
clinic in the world that is currently certified in 17 states.
XRHealth, formerly known as VRHealth a provider of extended
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VA, DoD Launches Joint Health Information Exchange to Securely Exchange Records
What You Should Know:
- VA and DoD launch joint health information exchange (HIE), allowing bidirectional sharing of health records with community healthcare partners.
- The benefits of the new joint HIE capability are currently available to all VA and DOD care providers and to all participating community partners.
- The joint HIE capability honors patient consent so that health records of patients who opt out of sharing will not be exchanged through the HIE.
On April 18, the
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Aledade Raises $64M for Value-Based Care Network of Physician-Led ACOs
What You Should Know:
- Aledade raises $64M in Series C funding led by OMERS Growth Equity to expand its national network of more than 500 physician-driven accountable care organizations (ACOs) across 27 states.
- To date, Aledade’s ACOs care for more than 840,000 patients and manage more than $7.5 billion in health care spending through 38 Medicare and 42 other value-based contracts.
Today, Aledade announced
it has closed a $64 million Series C funding round following the
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CVS Health, UCLA Health Partner to Bolster Hospital Capacity for COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- CVS Health announced it is working with hospitals and providers, including major systems like UCLA Health, to support their solutions for creating much-needed hospital bed capacity during the pandemic.
- Hospitals around the country are expanding their capacity to meet the anticipated needs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Current estimates project that hospitals nationwide need to increase capacity by more than 36,000 hospital beds.
- In addition,
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