Nomad Health, a NYC-based freelance platform for doctors and nurses today announced that it is broadening its innovative technology to connect doctors directly with telehealth employers - making it the first online marketplace for telemedicine jobs. Starting today, doctors nationwide can now apply to telemedicine jobs, which are digitally transforming healthcare delivery and helping to solve doctor shortages in the United States.Telemedicine is an increasingly important mechanism to increase
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SnapMD Expands Telehealth Platform with Spanish-Language Capabilities
SnapMD, a full-service telehealth technology innovator and solutions provider, announced new Spanish-language patient support services to its Virtual Care Management (VCM) telemedicine platform to extend and strenghten health system care capabilities. The patient support for Spanish-language needs increases patient access to care from the comfort of their own home through the user-friendly patient portal.As an enterprise-software telemedicine platform that reaches across the care continuum,
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Texas HIE Selects Innovaccer to Advance Data-Driven Valued-based Care Initiatives
The Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange, PHIX, an El Paso, TX-based health information exchange (HIE) has selected Innovaccer, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare platform company, to leverage its technology for data-driven value-based initiatives. As a Health Information Exchange, PHIX will provide access to patient's longitudinal health record from across the care continuum. PHIX’s goal is to improve efficiency, increase quality of care, and improve patient safety.To realize their
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Report Reveals 2017 A Challenging Year for PHM Vendor Market
The first half of 2017 proved a challenging period for some North American population health management (PHM) vendors, according to recent data from Signify’s Research report “Population Health Management IT – Q3 2017.” The report reveals that after consistent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) market growth over the past eight quarters, Q1 17 saw theNorth American PHM market decline for the first time since Signify Research started tracking themarket. Q1 2017 revenues were estimated to be down 7.1%
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HealthPartners Taps AMC Health For Telemonitoring Hypertension Study
AMC Health, a provider of real-time virtual care solutions has been selected as the telemonitoring provider for HealthPartners Institute for its high blood pressure study, Hyperlink. Recently, HealthPartners was awarded $6 million to expand this study to determine if telemonitoring can improve a patient’s health and decrease blood pressure more than traditional clinic-based care. In the second phase of research, AMC Health and HealthPartners will work together to monitor patients’ blood
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Henry Ford Deploys Integrated Virtual Visits Within Epic MyChart Workflow
Henry Ford Health System has deployed integrated virtual visits within the Epic MyChart workflow to provide simplified access to care via Vidyo’s video collaboration platform. IDSolutions Healthcare, Vidyo’s premier Epic telehealth deployment partner, has established telehealth ecosystems throughout healthcare institutions across the United States.For care providers, the ability to launch a video consultation within the same interface makes telemedicine simple to use. Having to launch a separate
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Texas Tech University Launches Telemedicine Pilot Project in Rural West Texas
swyMed announced today that it has joined forces with the Commission on State Emergency Communications and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center on a telemedicine pilot project to implement between EMS providers and a select group of trauma centers in rural West Texas. TTUHSC service area covers 108 counties and 131,459 sq. miles, which is larger than New York, New England, and the District of Columbia combined. The objective of the project, funded by Texas House Bill 479, is to improve
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HMC HealthWorks Taps Medecision to Enhance Clinical Workflows
HMC HealthWorks has selected Medecision, population health management solutions for risk-bearing entities to deploy new, automated clinical workflows, including utilization management. The implementation will significantly enhance the care of HMC HealthWorks’ participants and plan sponsors and improve operational efficiencies.Targeting meaningful behavior change through patient-centered care management workflows will help HMC HealthWorks strengthen clinical integration across its network,
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Catholic Medical Center to Implement Allscripts Population Health Platform
Catholic Medical Center, a Manchester, NH-based 330-bed not-for-profit, full-service acute care hospital has selected Allscripts to implement its population health management platform, CareInMotion. The agreement includes the purchase of Allscripts Care Management, Allscripts Care Director, CarePort Guide, CarePort Connect and CarePort Insight that will allow the provider to focus on population health and transitions to a new model of integrated care.Allscripts CareInMotion is a comprehensive,
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Medtronic, American Well Partner to Integrate Telehealh Services and Enable Bi-Directional Data Flow
Medtronic has announced an integration partnership with telehealth provider American Well to enable a more complete telehealth solution focused on the unique needs of the complex, chronic, co-morbid patient population. The goal of the partnership is to provide greater patient access to their care team, while improving clinician access to the critical information needed when making care decisions - especially as they evaluate opportunities for early intervention.As part of the integration
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