The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday took action to promote telehealth in rural America through reforms to the Rural Health Care Program that ensure limited program funds are disbursed efficiently and equitably, promote transparency and predictability in the program’s administration, and strengthen safeguards against waste, fraud, and abuse.
The announcement revises the rules governing the Telecom Program to simplify calculation of the urban rate—the amount health care
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75% of Americans Lack Access or Unaware of Telehealth Options, Survey Finds
Nearly 75% of Americans say they either don't have access or are unaware of telehealth options, according to a J.D. Power pulse survey tracing telehealth user experience hurdles to adoption and real-world patient concerns. The survey reveals that overall, 39.7% of consumers say their health system or insurance provider does not offer telehealth services, while another 34.6% said they are unaware if any service is offered.J.D. Power U.S. Telehealth Satisfaction Study BackgroundThe J.D. Power U.S.
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Canada’s Largest Children’s Rehab Goes Live on MEDITECH Expanse EHR
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Canada's largest children's rehab hospital based in, Toronto, Ontario has gone LIVE with MEDITECH Expanse EHR platform. The 75-bed research hospital offers a safe, educational environment for children living with a disability, medical complexity, illness, and injury.Why Holland Bloorview Kids Rehab Selected MEDITECH ExpanseThe children’s rehab hospital selected MEDITECH Expanse for its web functionalities to support its clinicians from all care
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OHSU to Implement Kyruus ProviderMatch to Improve Patient Access
OHSU in Portland, Oregon, a nationally distinguished research organization, announced it will implement Kyruus ProviderMatch platform to enhance patient access to providers and services across the OHSU health system.Comprehensive Provider DirectoryOHSU is building a comprehensive provider directory with KyruusOne®, Kyruus’ robust provider data management platform. The platform will enable the health system to unify disparate data sources and develop detailed profiles with direct engagement from
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Google Nest to Provide Up to 100k Google Home Minis to People Living With Paralysis
In celebration of the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Christopher & Dana Reeve
Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to improving quality of life for people
living with paralysis, announced a partnership with Google
Nest to improve independence for the greater paralysis community. As part
of the partnership, Google Nest is providing up to 100,000 free Google
Home Minis through the Reeve Foundation for individuals and families
impacted by paralysis, to enhance
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CMS Launches Pilot to Give Clinicians Direct Access to Claims Data
New CMS Pilot program gives clinicians direct access to claims data, putting patients over paperwork and at the center of their care.Today, at the White House Blue Button Developers Conference (BBDC), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new pilot program for clinicians called “Data at the Point of Care” (DPC). DPC is based on an industry-standard application programming interface (API), and is part of the MyHealthEData Administration-wide initiative that is
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Mayo Clinic to Leverage Viome’s Microbiome Analysis Platform in Study to Help Understand Sleep and Obesity
Mayo Clinic is collaborating on a study with Viome, a company transforming health through personalized nutrition based on individual biology to better understand the role of nutrition in disease and to explore the potential of Viome's AI-driven personalized diets in helping manage sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and obesity.
Understanding Microbiome
A person’s microbiome is the entire collection of microbes living in and on the body. The microbiome forms a living layer over your skin
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Human API Expands Their Consumer Driven Health Data Network to 85% Coverage of U.S. Hospitals
Health tech startup Human API today, announced it has vastly expanded their provider data network to drive the consumer health revolution forward. This first ubiquitous consumer health data network in the U.S. will allow people to securely share their data from anywhere with any company.Mission to Health Data Use & Sharing Simple & CentralizedIn their ambitious quest to make health data use and sharing simple and centralized, Human API now boasts a real-time, consumer-centric data
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Benchling Nabs $34.5M to Power Life Sciences R&D Cloud Platform
Benchling, a San
Francisco, CA-based life sciences R&D cloud platform announced it has raised
$34.5 million in Series C funding led by Menlo Ventures with new investors Lead
Edge Capital and Y Combinator Continuity as well as returning investors
Benchmark and Thrive Capital.
Replacing Outdated Pen and Paper Processes
Life science R&D has become incredibly complex -- from
the molecules to the processes to the multi-dimensional data. Until Benchling, there had been
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Largest Physician-Led Radiology Practice Radiology Partners Lands $700M
Radiology Partners, (RP), the largest physician-led and physician-owned radiology practice in the U.S. with 1400 radiologists supporting more than 1000 hospitals across 21 states, today announced that Starr Investment Holdings (SIH) has invested approximately $700M of long-duration capital in the practice to support its continued growth, including future practice and hospital system partnerships, as well as investments in clinically-focused technology and innovation. RP physicians are also
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