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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Israeli Government Adopts Touchless Remote Monitoring to Detect COVID-19 Symptoms
What You Should Know:
- Israeli government adopts Vayyar’s 4D imaging sensor solutions to aid in the fight to slow the spread of COVID-19 in health facilities, transportation and activity hubs, private residences and more.
- Vayyar’s intelligent sensors can be placed in homes, hospitals, factories, airports, public transport, borders and more to provide real-time data, and by minimizing the need for face-to-face contact, reduce the risk of exposure for both medical and non-medical
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DreaMed Launches Virtual Diabetes Clinic to Help Type-1 Diabetics Control Their Condition in Quarantine
What You Should Know:
- As COVID-19 spreads, DreaMed Diabetes unveils virtual diabetes clinic software to treat people with type 1 diabetes remotely.
- The virtual clinic utilizes Dreamed Diabetes’ AI-powered solution, to improve the insulin management treatment by analyzing the patient’s insulin and glucose data in the platform's algorithm and to remotely advise doctors on treatment.
- According to the CDC people with chronic medical conditions, including diabetes, have a higher risk
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TransformativeMed Expands Free COVID-19 EHR App to 10 Additional Health Systems
What You Need to Know:
- Today, TransformativeMed announced that it has expanded its free Cores COVID-19 App to an additional 10 health systems and medical centers across the U.S., as well as King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Saudi Arabia.
- The Cores COVID-19 App is embedded in Cerner’s EHR and allows physicians and clinicians to track patient tests, segment them based on results, monitor symptoms checklists, track lab results, and summarize and react to comments and other information.
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Fitbit, Scripps, Stanford to Study Role of Wearables to Detect, Train, and Contain Infectious Diseases
What You Should Know:
- Fitbit, Scripps Research, and Stanford Medicine are teaming up on new research leveraging Fitbit data to detect, track, and contain infectious diseases like COVID-19.
- There already has been early evidence that wearables, like Fitbit devices, have the potential to help predict the onset of an infectious disease like the flu before symptoms start, and the goal of this consortium is to unlock similar potential via leading research institutions in response to
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