What You Should Know:
- Researchers at NuraLogix, a global pioneer of contactless health monitoring through its patented Transdermal Optical Imaging (TOI™) technology, have announced that it is adding the ability to perform metabolic and blood biomarker health risk assessments for various chronic conditions to its AnuraTM platform.
- As a first for video-based contactless health monitoring, the new capabilities add to the existing health and wellness measurements* Anura™ can assess from a
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Healthcare Industry Least Likely to Increase Funding for Supply Chain Defense
- While supply chain security impacts nearly every industry, new research from BlueVoyant hones in on the unique challenges impacting the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector
- BlueVoyant, the leader in supply chain defense, found thatcompared to other verticals like energy and manufacturing, the healthcare sector was least likely to increase budget for external resources to bolster supply chain cybersecurity.
Key Insights from. The State of Supply Chain Defense: Annual Global Insights
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Sprinter Health Partners with Firefly Health to Close Care Gap
What You Should Know:
- Sprinter Health, an on-demand mobile health and diagnostics company bringing personalized and affordable healthcare services to the home, today announced a partnership with Firefly Health, a health plan and virtual-first care innovator with a mission of delivering half-priced health care that’s twice as good, clinically and emotionally.
- The partnership aims to improve access to care while saving downstream costs by integrating Sprinter Health’s in-home clinical
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VA Expands Partnership with Get Well to Now Include 70 Medical Centers
What You Should Know:
- Get Well, the global leader in digital patient engagement, today announced it has expanded its work with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to include 70 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMC), a 130% increase over three years. Most recently, a fifth Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISNs) selected Get Well’s digital engagement solution to be installed in all nine of its healthcare facilities. Now successfully installed in nearly 13,000 VHA inpatient
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TytoCare Launches the Home Smart Clinic, the First Remote Primary Care Offering for the Entire Family
What You Should Know:
- TytoCare, a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, today announced the launch of the Home Smart Clinic, a multi-pronged offering delivering health plans and providers a comprehensive range of elements required to launch a truly successful virtual care program without compromises.
- The Home Smart Clinic is proven to reduce the total cost of care (TCC) for health plans by 10% on average, to deliver 59% more accurate diagnoses
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Rock Health Reveals 4 2022 Digital Health M&A Trends to Watch
What You Should Know:
- The choppy waters of this year’s market have forced a significant slowdown in digital health investment, but buyers and builders alike are seizing the moment to consider mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as strategic opportunities.
- In their latest report, Rock Health explores the sell-side and buy-side dynamics that are making conditions ripe for M&A activity and dig into four M&A approaches being pursued by acquirers in this market moment.
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Greenway Health and Voyce Partner to Boost Health Equity
What You Should Know:
- Greenway Health, a leading health information technology services provider, announced its partnership with Voyce, a virtual, on-demand language interpretation service, to integrate seamlessly, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act) compliant communication between patients and staff to improve patient outcomes, maintain compliance, and increase patient satisfaction.
- Through this partnership, Voyce will provide Greenway’s healthcare provider
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Willingness to Use Video Telehealth Increased During Pandemic, Study Finds
What You Should Know:
- Americans’ use and willingness to use video telehealth has increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, rising most sharply among Black Americans and people with less education, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
- Following a representative survey panel of Americans from March 2019 through March 2021, researchers found that the willingness to use video telehealth increased overall from 51% in February 2019 to 62% in March 2021.
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Rising Healthcare Costs Tops Reason Patients Defer Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Cost concerns increasingly outweighed worries about the pandemic as the top reason Americans deferred healthcare, according to a new study by Qualtrics, the leader and creator of the experience management category.
- Between 2020 and 2022 the share of consumers deferring care because of pandemic-related health concerns decreased by 11 percentage points from 28% to 17% while the share of consumers deferring care because of cost concerns grew by four percentage
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KLAS Report Reveals EMR Functionality & Value Top of Mind for Small Practices
What You Should Know:
- A new report by KLAS provides the latest view on how the major vendors in this market perform and which ones stand out in the areas that small practices (2–10 physicians) care about most.
- Small practices provide a significant amount of outpatient care in the US, and their needs differ from those of their larger counterparts. When it comes to EMR/PM technology, these practices expect up-to-date functionality, steady product performance, solid implementation and
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