What You Need to Know:
- Amwell launches a national Coronavirus (COVID-19) telehealth response program to help hospitals, health systems, and health plans manage and mitigate coronavirus spread.
- Telehealth can serve as a force multiplier in the public health response to the COVID-19 outbreak, improving access to care directly from the home.
- Amwell has established an always-on-call infection control officer, COVID-19 specific workflows to guide clinical operations and quality, and
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Clarify Health to use LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Socioeconomic Data
What You Need to Know:
- LexisNexis Risk Solutions, that it has partnered with Clarify Health to evaluate the predictive capability of social determinants of health and clinical data.
- The collaboration’s approach will integrate individual-level SDOH data into Clarify Health’s clinical analytical models to evaluate the quality and efficacy of the data at the point of care to help drive care management decision-making.
- Clarify Health’s analytical models help identify population
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Due to Coronavirus Outbreak, Medicomp Systems Pulls Out of HIMSS20
What You
Need to Know:
Medicomp Systems cancels its participation in the HIMSS 2020 conference due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak posing an unacceptable health risk for its staff.
Medicomp Systems, a Washington, D.C.-based provider
of clinician-driven, point-of-care solutions that fix EHRs, announced today that the company is
canceling its participation in the 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference &
Exhibition, March 9–13, 2020 in Orlando to protect the health and safety of
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Emory Healthcare, Verizon Opens Nation’s First 5G Healthcare Innovation Lab
- The Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband network is now live at the Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub (EHIH) in Atlanta, becoming the nation’s first 5G healthcare innovation lab.
- The 5G healthcare innovation lab at EHIH will test how 5G could enhance augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications for medical training, enable telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, and provide a point of care diagnostic and imaging systems from the ambulance to the ER.
- Verizon joins EHIH’s partner
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Fitbit, FibriCheck Expand Partnership to Deliver CE-Marked Heart Health Detection App in Europe
- Fitbit and FibriCheck have expanded their partnership to enable users in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain to monitor their heart rhythm for irregularities, such as Atrial Fibrillation (AFib), directly from their Fitbit smartwatch.
- The partnership was first announced in September 2019, when the FibriCheck app was made available to Fitbit smartwatch users in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Since the app launched on Fitbit OS, more than 150,000 heart rhythm measurements have
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Wolters Kluwer, SAS Integrate to Power Real-World Evidence (RWE) Analytics
- SAS to leverage Wolters Kluwer’s Health Language portfolio of data quality solutions to power real-world evidence (RWE) analytics within SAS Health.
- Through a disease-centric approach, Health Language will enable SAS Health’s clients to more effectively manage reference data, such as ICD-10, CPT® and SNOMED CT, establish relationships between clinical and claims data and extract value from unstructured text within the medical record–providing a comprehensive view of a patient’s clinical
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Catholic Medical Partners Taps Innovaccer to Deliver Value-Based Care to IPA
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with Catholic Medical Partners (CMP), the largest Independent Physician Association (IPA) in Buffalo, New York to empower the IPA to deliver value-based care and help healthcare care as one.
- CMP is the largest network of physicians in the entire region, comprised of nearly 1,000 primary and specialty care providers in Erie and Niagara counties.
- With Innovaccer as their latest partner, CMP will have new access to unique, longitudinal patient 360
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MedBridge Partners with Redox to Expand Its Network of EMR Integrations
- MedBridge partners with healthcare integration platform Redox that will allow MedBridge users to quickly create and assign Home Exercise Programs, and more easily document within their EMR, without interrupting their workflow.
- MedBridge EMR integrated clients have already achieved savings of over $4,500 per clinician per year, by reducing five minutes of documentation time per patient.
MedBridge, the industry-leading continuing education and patient engagement solution that enables
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WELL Health Launches VirtualClinic to Deliver Telehealth Across Canada
- WELL Health launches VirtualClinic+ by WELL Health that gives Canadians across the country convenient access to telehealth services.
- VirtualClinic+ provides physicians a platform to add telehealth consultations as a convenient enhancement to their existing family practice. It also allows physicians to offer primary care for unattached patients. There are an estimated 4.8 million Canadians1 who are currently without a family doctor.
- Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, WELL plans to rapidly
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Pager Goes International, Expands Virtual Care Model to Latin America
- Virtual care companion Pager announces its international expansion in Latin America with Seguros SURA Colombia.
- As part of Seguros SURA Colombia´s virtual healthcare model, Pager will deliver a virtual doctor into the family healthcare experience so that patients can seamlessly interact with their care team anytime, anywhere, via chat, voice, and video.
Pager, a virtual care companion that provides a personalized, connected care experience throughout your healthcare journey has
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