What You Should Know:
- After two months in the top five telehealth diagnoses nationally and in every US census region, COVID-19 fell out of that ranking nationally and in every region in February 2022, according to FAIR Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.
- The change coincided with a sharp decline in new cases of COVID-19, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, following the January
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Mental Health Awareness is Everywhere. Why Shouldn’t Virtual Care Be Standard?
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, which for years has been a platform to increase understanding about mental illness and advocate for better mental health care. Now more than ever, you don’t have to look too hard to see that mental health is a daily fixture in the national conversation. Unfortunately, mental health issues have become far too common for people of all ages and in all walks of life.
An Influx of Demand from Pediatrics to Geriatrics
We know that children are in dire
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Axuall’s CEO Talks Why Health Administrators Should Adopt Robotic Process Automation
Axuall’s CEO & Founder, Charlie Lougheed shares why health administration teams should embrace the power of robotic process automation (RPA).
Built with leading healthcare systems, Axuall is a workforce intelligence company powered by a national real-time practitioner data network. The technology enables healthcare systems, staffing firms, telehealth, and health plans to dramatically reduce onboarding and enrollment time while also providing unique, powerful data insights for network
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StimScience Launches Wearable Sleep Aid That Actually Improves Sleep
What You Should Know:
- StimScience, the company using personalized neuroscience to improve sleep, today announces its new consumer sleep product, Somnee. Somnee is the first-ever electronic sleep aid headband to use personalized non-invasive brain stimulation to improve the wearer’s sleep quality.
- In a 1,500-night home pilot study, Somnee cut the time it took beta users to fall asleep in half, and it reduced the amount of overnight tossing and turning by more than one-third.
As
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Vivalink Launches Multi-Vital Blood Pressure Patch for Remote Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Vivalink, a leading provider of digital healthcare solutions launches a multi-vital blood pressure patch for remote patient monitoring is now available for research and development.
- The advanced multimodal continuous signal processing patch captures ECG trace, heart rate, respiratory rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure on a single device.
Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitor
Cuffless blood pressure is still in its infancy, but new research is exploring
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Serenity Engage Integrates with Amazon Alexa Senior Living
What You Should Know:
- Serenity Engage announces new, innovative technology integrated with Amazon's Senior Living solution from Alexa Smart Properties.
- By marrying Amazon's Alexa voice AI and video technology with Serenity's platform, Serenity's custom Alexa deployment serve as a personalized, digital concierge - bringing simplicity and connection to an otherwise complex, siloed system.
Bringing Simplicity to the Complex Senior Care Ecosystem
Senior care providers and
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Element5 Secures $30M to Expand Automation for Post-Acute Care
What You Should Know:
- Element5, the world’s first Automation-as-a-Service solution purpose-built for post-acute care, today announced that it has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners. With the closing of the Series B funding round, Element5 has raised $48.5M in total capital to date.
- This investment will strengthen Element5’s position and enable the company to continue the disruption of the health care industry’s $400B post-acute
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How the Life Sciences Industry Can Boost Diversity and Inclusion Efforts
Although it is well established that diversity improves outcomes and drives excellence, implementing diversity lags behind in many industries, including life sciences and healthcare.
Diversity is lacking across the entire field, from academic research to clinical work, composition of the workforce, and medical practice. This leads to worse health outcomes and fewer professional opportunities for underserved demographics, such as racial and ethnic minorities, women, and people with
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Hello Heart Raises $70M to Expand Heart Health Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Hello Heart, the only digital therapeutics company focused exclusively on heart disease, announced a $70M Series D funding round led by Stripes to support its rapid growth in the employer market
- The funding round will specifically support the increase in employer market demand for Hello Heart’s technology as a focus on heart health sharpens. The company has experienced massive growth in the employer market, doubling the number of clients in the last three
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Withings Health Solutions Launches Enhanced Remote Patient Monitoring Solution
What You Should Know:
- Withings Health Solutions unveils its RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) Solution, designed to place the patient experience back at the heart of telehealth. Benefitting both the patient and the provider, Withings RPM solution tackles the challenges that are causing friction for care teams and patients when it comes to long-term medical requirements.
- Led by Antoine Robilard, Withings Health Solutions is delivering a dual approach for patients and providers, by
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