Ride-sharing company Lyft, today announced it has been approved to become an enrolled Medicaid provider in Arizona, following new state regulations for non-emergency medical transportation. Lyft is now a covered transportation option to get eligible patients to and from medical appointments. Exploring Medicaid Opportunities in Florida and TexasThe approval makes Lyft the first national ridesharing company to bring our transportation solution to millions of Medicaid beneficiaries in Arizona. In
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Best Buy Expands TytoCare’s On-Demand Medical Exam to Select Stores in CA, OH, ND, SD
Tyto Care, an Israeli-based telehealth platform for on-demand, remote medical exams, today announced the expanded availability of TytoHome at select Best Buy stores in California, Ohio, North Dakota and South Dakota. TytoHome is already available for all U.S. customers on BestBuy.com and in select Minnesota Best Buy locations. The expansion into the four additional states brings Tyto Care’s telehealth solution to a total of 30 Best Buy locations nationwide to date.TytoHome: How It WorksTytoHome,
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Can Artifical Intelligence Solve The Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic?
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing epidemic worldwide. Currently, there are 850 million individuals suffering from CKD globally, with 40 million in the United States alone. Of these individuals, 96 percent are not aware of having CKD, as kidney disease often exhibits no symptoms until it has progressed to a late stage.
As this epidemic continues to grow, healthcare providers and organizations are working to determine how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to analyze electronic
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UnitedHealth Group Acquires Personalized Health Network PatientsLikeMe
UnitedHealth Group has acquired PatientsLikeMe, a personalized health network, according to an email confirmation from CNBC. The acquisition comes off the reports in April that PatientsLikeMe was being forced by Trump administration’s Committee of Foreign investment over its Chinese majority owner Tencent.Founded in 2004, PatientsLikeMe is the world’s largest personalized health network, helps people find new options for treatments, connect with others, and take action to improve their outcomes.
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Olive, Clinc Partner to Add Conversational AI to Digital Healthcare Employee for Hospitals
Olive, the company that introduced healthcare’s AI-driven digital employee has joined forces with Clinc, another trailblazer in Artificial Intelligence (AI), to free up time and resources by adding conversational AI capabilities to its existing technology. The combined offering allows Olive’s digital healthcare employee to bring hospitals and health systems broader applications across revenue cycle, supply chain and other financial and operational departments.
While new technologies
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Lucid Diagnostics Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for EsoCheck
PAVmed Inc. (the “Company” or “PAVmed”), a highly differentiated, multi-product medical device company, today announced that its majority owned subsidiary, Lucid Diagnostics Inc. (“Lucid”), has received 510(k) marketing clearance for its EsoCheck Cell Collection Device™ (“EsoCheck”) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
EsoCheck is a non-invasive cell collection device that is designed to sample cells from a targeted region of the esophagus in a five-minute office-based
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AHN to Implement Mercy Virtual’s ICU Program to Enhance Critical Care
Allegheny Health Network (AHN) and Highmark Health has signed a partnership agreement with Mercy Virtual to establish an innovative telehealth model that will enhance the delivery of critical care services in communities across western Pennsylvania. A subsidiary of the St. Louis-based health system Mercy, Mercy Virtual is a leader in the development and delivery of telehealth solutions to hospitals around the country.24/7 ICU Patient Care SupportThrough state-of-the-art telecommunication and
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Reaching the Healthcare Mainstream: Wearables and Remote Patient Monitoring Market Map
Even though 2014 was supposed to be the “year of the wearable” according to Forbes, five years later we are now seeing the wearable reach maturity and mass-adoption. This increase in adoption has largely been driven by software and hardware stability which is now allowing these devices to be used with confidence to manage an individual’s health and wellness, including chronic condition management. The graphic below from Accenture shows the increase in technology usage across consumers to manage
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Medable Launches Telemedicine Solution to Improve Data-Driven Virtual Clinical Trials
Medable Inc., a Silicon Valley-based provider of data driven and digitally enabled clinical trials has announced the launch of their global Trial-Fit™ Telemedicine Solution designed to address critical trial barriers of low patient retention and lack of access. Medable’s Trial-Fit Telemedicine enables sites all over the world to conduct secure, HIPAA-compliant video consultations with clinical study participants in an integrated eCOA solution. Medable telemedicine is the only integrated,
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Konica Minolta, Novo Nordisk, Philips, Stryker Join Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub
The Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub today announced Konica Minolta Healthcare, Novo Nordisk, Philips, and Stryker as its newest strategic partners committed to improving patient care and provider experience by using health IT to solve the most pressing problems facing healthcare.Demand-Driven InnovationFounded in 2018, the Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub is a healthcare innovation and commercialization program bringing together all the pieces of the healthcare innovation continuum to validate
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