As the Biden administration ramps up its efforts to increase the access of COVID-19 vaccines to more Americans, there are a large number of Americans who are skeptical about of the COVID-19 vaccine. About 1 in 3 Americans stated they definitely or probably won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a recent poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The poll reveals while 67% of Americans plan to get vaccinated or have already done so, 15% are certain they
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DispatchHealth Reaches $1.7B Valuation, Raises $200M for In-Home Care Model
What You Should Know:
- DispatchHealth has secured an additional $200 million in a Series D round of funding led by Tiger Global. The additional financing brings DispatchHealth into the “unicorn” category and solidifies its valuation at more than $1.7 billion.
- DispatchHealth’s new round of financing will allow the company to bring it’s model of in-home medical care to more than 100 markets across the country
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Best Buy Health Now Offers Lively Health & Safety Services On Apple Watch For First Time
What You Should Know:
- Best Buy Health, today announced it is offering a full array of health and safety services available on the Apple Watch to help to make it easier for older adults to stay safe, healthy, and connected.
- Now Apple Watch users with the Lively app can get help from highly trained Lively Urgent Response Agents to get help in an emergency and non-emergency situations, from medical emergencies to car trouble and more.
How to Access Lively Health & Safety Services
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Cipher Skin Lands $5M for Mesh Network of Sensors to Capture Movement
What You Should Know:
- Denver-based data startup, Cipher Skin, today announced its $5 million Series A, led by the Boyett Group with participation from Draper Capital, Tribe Capital and TKC Capital to grow its product line and expand into new markets.
- Founded in 2017, Cipher Skin’s first-of-its-kind, patented, sensor technology, Cipher Mesh, wraps around patients’ body parts—allowing doctors, PTs, and human performance professionals to collect detailed data of the body in motion
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Highmark Health Taps Verily to Build Digital Health Tools for Living Health Model
What You Should Know:
- Highmark Health has engaged Verily to build out digital health tools for patients and analytics solutions for Highmark’s clinicians as part of its Living Health model. This marks the first collaboration of its kind for Verily, Google Cloud and a partner.
- Highmark Health is a Blue Cross Blue Shield health plan based in Western PA with 4.5 million members and an integrated delivery system (Allegheny) with 9
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ObvioHealth, RedHill Biopharma Launches First in Kind Remote COVID-19 Therapy Trial
What You Should Know:
- RedHill Biopharma, a specialty biopharmaceutical company, and ObvioHealth, a global virtual research organization, have partnered on the largest remote clinical study for a new at-home COVID-19 treatment, Upamostat.
- The trial is being performed completely remotely in patients’ homes using ObvioHealth’s clinical trial ecosystem including digital devices, a patient-centric smartphone application and home healthcare visits.
- The randomized, double-blind,
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Emory Healthcare Taps Rimidi to Create FHIR-Based Apps for Orthopedic Surgery and Deep Brain Stimulation
What You Should Know:
- Rimidi, a cloud-based software platform that enables personalized management of health conditions across populations, today announced a strategic collaboration with Emory Healthcare to develop new patient and provider-facing FHIR apps.
- Specifically, the apps will create a more collaborative and transparent experience for patients undergoing orthopedic surgery, as well as for those referred to the deep brain stimulation (DBS) program for Parkinson’s and other
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CVS Launches Community-Based Strategy to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Education and Equity
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- CVS Health unveils community-based strategy increase access to COVID-19 vaccinations for vulnerable communities and advance vaccine education while combating hesitancy.
- The strategy includes a strategic partnership with Lyft to help underserved communities access vaccination appointments by providing free or discounted rides for those in need.
CVS Health unveils its community-based strategy to address potential inequities related to COVID-19 vaccine access in
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Amwell Launches Smart TV Carepoint Device to Increase Telehealth Use in Patient Rooms
What You Should Know:
- Amwell launches new smart tv Carepoint device that enables hospitals to use televisions for telehealth in an effort to help hospitals scale and simplify access to telehealth by using devices that already exist in patient rooms. Intermountain Healthcare has already successfully deployed more than 1,200 units across nearly 50 locations.
- Designed to further expand integrated telehealth connectivity via the Amwell platform, the new
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UK Launches World’s First COVID-19 Human Challenge Study
What You Should Know:
- This week, the United Kingdom (UK) will be the first country in the world to run a COVID-19 human challenge study, following approval from the UK’s clinical trials ethics body.
- First Covid-19 human challenge study will begin within a month, after receiving ethics approval in the same week the UK hits target of offering first dose to 15 million people.
- Researchers call on healthy young people to volunteer for the study, which will play a key role in developing
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