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Capital BlueCross To Offer Telehealth Visits to Members via Amell

by Jasmine Pennic 08/25/2015 Leave a Comment

Capital BlueCross, a Harrisburg, Pa-based healthcare solutions and insurance company announced it will now offer telehealth visits its health plan members beginning Jan. 1, 2016. To deliver telehealth visits for its health plan members, Capital BlueCross has partnered with American Well to deliver Amwell, the nation's largest telehealth service, to members. Amwell's model contrasts with its competitors in that patients are connected face-to-face with a doctor in less than two minutes, instead of
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Google’s Alphabet Launches Life Sciences Company

by Jasmine Pennic 08/24/2015 Leave a Comment

7 Google Ventures Poised to Revolutionize Healthcare_Google's Alphabet Launches Life Sciences Company

After Google's announcement to restructure into Alphabet, Google has launched a Life Sciences company as the first new company under the Alphabet umbrella. "3 years ago we embarked on a project to put computing inside a contact lens -- an immensely challenging technical problem with an important application to health.  While I am delighted at the progress that project has made, I could not have imagined the potential of the initiative it has grown into -- a life sciences team with the mission to
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Intel Leverages IoT, Big Data with Open-Source Cancer Cloud

by Jasmine Pennic 08/21/2015 Leave a Comment

This week at the Intel Devleoper Forum, Intel announced a collaboration with Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University called the Collaborative Cancer Cloud that uses analytics to advance cancer care via genomics analysis and targeted treatment plans. The precision medicine analytics platform allows institutions to securely share patient genomic, imaging and clinical data for potentially lifesaving discoveries. It will also enable large amounts of data from sites all
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Cerner, CoverMyMeds Integrate to Accelerate Electronic Prior Authorization Process

by Jasmine Pennic 08/20/2015 Leave a Comment

CoverMyMeds

Cerner and CoverMyMeds are announcing this morning an agreement to integrate CoverMyMeds’ ePA within Cerner’s Millennium EHR. The advanced functionality will provide more than 350,000 e-prescribing end-users the ability to accelerate the prescription review process by removing manual processes and helping to reduce transaction costs. CoverMyMeds will provide Cerner physicians the capability to process requests electronically in seconds and receive notification of a patient’s authorization status
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Grand Rounds Nabs $55M for Connecting Patients to Expert Physicians

by Jasmine Pennic 08/20/2015 Leave a Comment

Grand Rounds, a care coordination startup that provides employees and their families expedited access to top physicians so they can achieve better health outcomes, has raised $55 million in Series C funding. The latest round includes global mutual fund investor, Greylock, Venrock, Harrison Metal and David Ebersman. The funding will be used to add additional staff, care team and accelerate its care coordination platform to improve hospitals’ contact with patients between visits. Evidence-based
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Medisafe Integrates with Human API Enabling Users to Import Their Medication Lists

by Jasmine Pennic 08/18/2015 Leave a Comment

 Medisafe, a mHealth platform for medication management with 1.9 million active users has announced integration with Human API data platform to import their medication lists from thousands of top hospitals and medical facilities. Starting now, users have the option to bring in their exact medication, with specifics including medication shape, color, dosage and frequency. Medisafe initially launched the medication import functionality via Human API on its iOS app, with Android to follow in a
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Children’s Health Deploys Telehealth to 57 North Texas Schools

by Jasmine Pennic 08/17/2015 Leave a Comment

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After a successful telemedicine program pilot  in 27 schools last year, Children’s Health will soon deploy telehealth in 57 schools across Dallas, Grayson, Collin and Tarrant counties, Dallas Business Journal reports. The school-based telehealth program will include lab consultations, providing nurses the ability to conduct strep and flu tests. The program makes Children’s Health the only North Texas health care system providing telemedicine to local schools. How It Works The program was
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Fitbit Launches Windows 10 App to Personalize Fitness Journey Across Windows Devices

by Jasmine Pennic 08/14/2015 Leave a Comment

Digital Health Startup Fitbit Raises $43 Million in Funding

  Wearable fitness leader, Fitbit has launched  Fitbit for Windows 10 app designed to provide a more engaging and fluid app design that lets users personalize the way they interact with key pieces of their health and fitness journey across all their Windows devices. Through new Windows 10 app features, people at all fitness levels can now more easily access and log their most important personalized data in real-time. Fitbit helps users track their steps, activity, exercise, food, weight
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Healthcare Natural Language Processing Market to Reach $2.67B by 2020

by Jasmine Pennic 08/13/2015 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Analytics Market Market, Healthcare Natural Language Processing Market

The global healthcare Natural Language Processing (NLP) market is expected to grow from $1.10 billion in 2015 to $2.67 billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 19.2%. According to a new market research report, "Natural Language Processing Market for Health Care and Life Sciences Industry by Type (Rule-Based, Statistical, and Hybrid NLP Solutions) - Worldwide Forecast and Analysis to 2015 - 2020", published by MarketsandMarkets, NLP technologies are gaining traction in healthcare and life sciences industry
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4 Types of Telehealth Solutions

by Jasmine Pennic 08/13/2015 Leave a Comment

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Telehealth represents the next frontier in medical care, and it's something healthcare providers are already feeling the pressure from their digitally connected patients to provide.  How much pressure? According to Logicalis Healthcare Solutions, the healthcare-focused arm of Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, that depends on the generation of patient being served. While traditional communication channels remain popular among older patients, the next
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