Today, Salesforce announced a multi-year global partnership with Quintiles, a leading provider of information, technology services and contract research to the life sciences industry. This partnership will take advantage of built-in cloud, mobile, social and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. These solutions — in addition to other products built on the Salesforce Marketing Cloud — will help life science companies drive patient recruitment, better manage clinical trials and, marketing
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American Well Unveils AW10 to Minimize Time between In-Person and Telehealth Visits for Physicians
Telehealth provider AmericanWell has rolled out its newest enterprise telehealth platform, AW10 this week at the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Annual Meeting. The new telehealth platform focuses on minimizing the time a doctor operates telehealth technology while maximizing the time a doctor interacts directly with the patient during a live visit.AW10 aims to simplify the provider telehealth experience across four critical areas, bringing them closer to interchangeably seeing patients
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Zoom Launches Epic EHR Integration Enabled Telehealth Platform
Zoom Video Communication, a San Jose, CA-based provider of enterprise video and web communications technology has launched its Epic EHR-integration enabled cloud-based video telehealth platform. The platform named Zoom for Health offers a standard feature set for healthcare enterprises and providers, enabling reliable, HIPAA-compliant communications between organizations, care teams, and patients.The Epic EHR integration incorporates Zoom into Epic record and communications workflows.
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Zillion Health Integrates with Vidyo’s Video Collaboration Platform to Help Doctors Engage with Patients
Zillion® Health, an integrated patient engagement platform for care providers and health systems has announced an integration partnership with video collaboration technology provider Vidyo. The integration will allow Zillion to power its the face-to-face video communications component of their platform through the Vidyo.io API platform-as-a-service.As part of the integration, Zillion will embed Vidyo APIs into their engagement platform to let medical professionals and patients easily connect
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Vivify Health Awarded Digital Health Patent for Extending EMRs to Digital Health Ecosystem
Vivify Health, a provider of remote care via mobile devices, has been awarded a very significant patent for the advancement of healthcare delivery from episodic care via EMRs to continual care via digital health. For Vivify, the new patent will provide the company with broad protection of key intellectual property and help further cement Vivify's position as a major leader in remote care. "We are thrilled to be awarded this extensive digital health patent. It is the most important in our
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Solv Raises $6.25M to Expand Same-Day Urgent Care Booking App
Solv, a San Francisco-based digital health startup has raised $6.25 million in Series A funding led by Benchmark Capital for its same-day urgent care booking app platform. The round included participation from Theresia Gouw of Aspect Ventures and Malay Gandhi of Ensemble Labs, formerly CEO of Rock Health. Solv plans to utilize the funding to open up its private beta to more patients and providers in Dallas Fort Worth, Texas, as well as expand to more cities and grow its team.Since launching its
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PlushCare Launches Fully Comprehensive EMR for Telehealth
PlushCare, a direct-to-consumer online urgent care provider, today announced the launch of Lemur, a EMR platform specifically for the telehealth industry. Lemur - the cloud-based and HIPAA compliant EMR platform - allows PlushCare doctors to diagnose, treat, prescribe and provide ongoing treatment throughout the course of a medical issue directly from the platform itself.Lemur requires the fewest clicks in the industry to complete tasks such as writing a note, sending a prescription (eRx),
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Google’s Verily Launches 10,000-Person Research Project to Map Human Health
On Wednesday, Verily, the health tech division that Google's parent company Alphabet established in 2015 announced the launch of research project to create a map of human health. The project known as Project Baseline will work with Duke and Stanford Universities to study 10,000 paid volunteers for four years using sensors, wearables, physical checkups, genetic testing, and more.Project Baseline DetailsThe research project is seeking around 10,000 people at least 18 years old to represent
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ZappRx Raises $25M for Specialty Pharmaceutical Management Platform
ZappRx, a Boston, MA-based provider of specialty pharmaceutical management platform has raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Qiming US Healthcare Fund. The round includes participation from SR One, who led ZappRx's Series A round in 2014, and GV (formerly Google Ventures). The company plans to utilize to expand its product's launch into this growing market in dire need of innovative IT solutions.Founded in 2012, ZappRx relieves administrative challenges for healthcare providers and
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Siemens Healthineers Acquires Medicalis to Expands Its Population Health Portfolio
Siemens Healthineers, today announced the acquisition of Medicalis Corporation, a provider of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Solutions at the point of order entry, Imaging Workflow (IW) management, and Referral Management (RM). Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.For Siemens Healthineers—the separately managed healthcare business of Siemens AG— the acquisition will expand its Population Health Management (PHM) portfolio to enable healthcare providers to effectively bridge
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