Avizia, a provider of end-to-end telehealth solutions has unveiled a new software development kit (SDK) that enables health systems to integrate Avizia's premier telehealth capabilities into their own mobile apps . A solution for providers looking to improve the consumer health experience, the Avizia Virtual Care SDK adds valuable features to mobile apps while connecting to the Avizia ONE telehealth platform to effectively and efficiently scale and manage telehealth services.As a part of this
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Stratus Video Launches Telehealth Division, Partners with Adventist Health
Stratus Video, a provider of language service and video technology has announced its expansion into the telehealth market with a next generation communication platform. Stratus Telehealth solutions are built with intelligent call routing which engages the right people, at the right time. Healthcare providers, patients, and interpreters will be able to use their own devices to communicate with each other via video, SMS text messaging and email. For Stratus, these expanded capabilities position
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WEDI Issues Brief on Introduction to Telehealth Codes
WEDI, a leading authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange has issued an educational issue brief on an Introduction to Telehealth Codes. This issue brief was developed by the WEDI Innovative Encounters Workgroup with the intention to provide introductory information on codes for telehealth services by individual health care providers. The Innovative Encounters Workgroup is planning to develop a separate issue brief on the payer perspective of
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Arcadia Healthcare Solutions Raises $30M to Expand Data Analytics Platform
Burlington-based Arcadia Healthcare Solutions has raised $30 million in capital growth from the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, GE Ventures, and existing investors Peloton Equity, Zaffre Investments, and Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners. The EHR data aggregation/analytics company will utilize the funding to to accelerate its robust product development plans in the core Arcadia Analytics platform and expand population heath management market activities.Founded in 2002, the
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Health Network of Missouri to Deploy Cerner’s Population Health Platform Enterprise-wide
The University of Missouri Health Care announced it will extend Cerner's HealtheIntentSM population health management platform across the Health Network of Missouri (HNM) to coordinate and manage care for residents of rural Missouri communities. HNM is a collaborative of six independent health care organizations that use different EHR systems. The HNM network, which includes an academic medical center, state employer and a group of hospitals, serves patients throughout central, northeast and
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Northwell Health Taps Avizia to Develop Robust, Direct-to-Consumer Telehealth Platform
Northwell Health has a new partnership with Avizia, an end-to-end telehealth provider to develop a robust, direct-to-consumer telehealth platform to enable seamless care in its 21 hospitals and more than 550 outpatient practices throughout New York. In addition to becoming a strategic channel partner, Northwell Ventures, the health system’s corporate venture arm has made a direct-equity investment in Avizia The investment and partnership also marks the close of Avizia’s funding round, bringing
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EarlySense, American Well Partner to Power Telehealth Access via Smart Sensors
EarlySense, a provider of contact-free continuous monitoring solutions has teamed up with telehealth provider American Well to connect users with clinical experts at the click of a button. As part of the partnership, EarlySense users located in the United States will gain access to an extensive pool of clinical experts and be able to initiate consultation sessions with doctors practicing on Amwell whenever users have questions or see opportunities to improve their sleep or general health. This
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Cleveland Clinic, IBM Ink 5-Year Collaboration to Establish Model for Cognitive Population Health
Cleveland Clinic and IBM has inked a five-year agreement to establish a model for a health system transition to value-based care and population health, and to uncover potential standards that could be replicated by providers nationwide. The agreement reflects the parties' intention to expand the use of IBMs secured cloud, social, mobile and Watson cognitive computing technologies across clinical and administrative operations. The collaboration is also being designed to better capture the value
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CHRISTUS Health Expands Population Health Agreement with Philips Wellcentive
CHRISTUS Health, an international, Catholic, not-for profit health system has expanded the scope and duration of their alliance with Philips Wellcentive to aggregate and analyze data across all CHRISTUS Health through 2020. The expanded relationship now includes domestic population health management initiatives offering health plans to its total staff of 40,000 associates, and manages plan offerings on state exchanges.. Additionally, the the collaboration with Philips Wellcentive will explore
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Teladoc CMO Henry DePhillips Appointed to National Quality Forum Telehealth Committee
Teladoc Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Henry DePhillips has been named to the National Quality Forum (NQF) Telehealth Multi-stakeholder Committee. As part of member of NQF, DePhillips will work closely with the multi-stakeholder NQF committee to establish a structure for measuring the quality of telehealth encounters and to identify existing and potential metrics that could be used to evaluate the quality of telehealth services.The NQF Committee will assess the best means of measuring the quality
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