National telehealth provider American Well, today has unveiled its newest enterprise telehealth service called the Exchange allowing healthcare organizations the ability to redistribute their services online to new patient populations. Here are six key things to know about the new Exchange: 1. With the Exchange, the virtual barriers between the supply and demand generators and their distinct telehealth services are lifted. Now, these organizations can connect and exchange their services with
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ARC Devices, VSee Partner to Create Remote Patient Monitoring Kit
ARC Devices Ltd., a provider of digital, non-touch thermometry has announced a partnership with telehealth platform provider, VSee, to design a wireless connected thermometer embedded into a remote patient monitoring kit. With this integration, ARC's thermometer will provide real-time temperature data to power a new generation of video and data-driven telehealth connectivity.Clinicians around the world agree that an accurate temperature reading is one of the most important elements of any
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Tactio Taps Redox for EHR Integration With App-Enabled Remote Patient Monitoring
Tactio Health Group and API EHR integration provider Redox are teaming up to add EHR integration connectivity to its TactioRPM app-enabled remote patient monitoring (RPM) solution. The partnership will enable providers using TactioRPM to integrate app-enabled monitoring and patient engagement to their existing EHR system. Leveraging Redox's capability to integrate EHRs such as Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, McKesson, and GE allows for simplified monitoring for providers.This partnership also aligns
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Fitango Health Add Telemedicine Visits to Platform
Fitango Health, an patient centric platform for chronic care management has unveiled its new telemedicine module to facilitate telehealth visits, extending its population health platform. With Fitango Health, care providers can receive real-time clinical data when patients report on vital measurements, and may opt to receive alerts between appointments. This enables remote providers to intervene as necessary and address health issues before they escalate.How It WorksDuring a telemedicine
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38% of Executives Want to Implement Telehealth Through EMR/EHR
38% of executives most want their organizations to implement telehealth video visits through the EMR/EHR, and adopt mobile apps for provider-to-provider and patient-to-provider communications, according to recent findings from a national telehealth survey conducted by Avizia. The report, “Closing the Telehealth Gap,” surveyed more than 280 healthcare leaders from U.S. hospitals, physician groups, ambulatory centers and other healthcare groups, and exposed a major disconnect between how
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Study: Virtual Care Outperforms Video/Phone-based Telemedicine
Recent data from more than 1,700 virtual care encounters at two large U.S. health systems demonstrates that the use of an evidence-based, best practices-driven virtual health platform can overcome major issues with the consistent delivery of guideline-adherent care that were identified in a recent, widely referenced study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.The data from customers using Zipnosis' virtual care platform reveals that patients who took part in online, adaptive interviews to seek
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Cost Savings, Disaster Recovery, Need for Scalability Named Top 3 Healthcare Cloud Drivers
The top three healthcare cloud drivers are cost savings, more robust disaster recovery solutions and the need for scalable platforms to support internal requirements, according to a new Level 3 Communications, Inc. The study, conducted by HIMSS Analytics and designed to understand cloud use, trends and preferred vendors among healthcare organizations, was released today.The 2016 Cloud Survey is a blinded, web-based quantitative study that includes perspective from more than 100 IT decision
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TigerText Unveils Chat Bot to Streamline Care Coordination, Patient Experience
TigerText, maker of TigerConnect, a secure communications platform, today announced the availability of HealthBot, an encrypted, custom-branded, HIPAA-compliant messaging chat bot app that can be embedded into a web page or mobile application to help automate a range of tasks, driving organizational efficiencies and lowering overall costs. How It Works Through a simple chat window, patients can interact with HealthBot to schedule appointments, inquire about a drug’s side effects, or receive
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42% of Consumers Using Digital Health Data Say Data Goes Nowhere
42% of digital health users say the data gathered by these tools goes nowhere, according to survey of 500 people who use digital health tools. The survey reveals a “disconnect” between where consumers would like their self-collected health data to go, and how easy it is to share it. The results are now available in the HealthMine Digital Health Report: The State and Impact of Digital Health Tools.Three quarters of consumers who use mobile/internetconnected health apps are willing to share the
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Ardent Taps Epic for Integrated EHR across Hospitals & Clinics
Nashville, TN-based Ardent Health Services has selected Epic as its strategic partner for a single, integrated EHR across all of its hospitals and clinics. The move will replace 80 information systems currently in use across all facilities in an effort to streamline its registration, billing, clinical applications, ehealth and population health initiatives. In doing so, Epic's EHR will provide caregivers with more time at the bedside to offer consistent, high quality health services and a
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