HealthSpot, a provider of enclosed telemedicine kiosks, unveiled the telehealth industry's first integrated lab test with Samsung Electronics' rapid lab testing device at NACDS Expo in Denver on Monday. Samsung's latest medical innovation, the Samsung LABGEO PT10 is a smart, compact clinical chemistry analyzer that will quickly analyze patient blood samples while they wait with just a drop of blood from a finger stick. Pending FDA approval, both patients who visit a HealthSpot station, and their
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Capital BlueCross To Offer Telehealth Visits to Members via Amell
Capital BlueCross, a Harrisburg, Pa-based healthcare solutions and insurance company announced it will now offer telehealth visits its health plan members beginning Jan. 1, 2016. To deliver telehealth visits for its health plan members, Capital BlueCross has partnered with American Well to deliver Amwell, the nation's largest telehealth service, to members. Amwell's model contrasts with its competitors in that patients are connected face-to-face with a doctor in less than two minutes, instead of
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What Is The Future Impact of Population Health Management?
Editor's Note: Erdem Asma MSM, PMP is a healthcare executive with more than 15 years of healthcare technology implementations experience supporting business requirements for both HIS vendors and healthcare organizations globally.
“Awareness of a problem does not mean much, particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The term population health is how new medicine should be able to identify a population and predicting what
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Children’s Health Deploys Telehealth to 57 North Texas Schools
After a successful telemedicine program pilot in 27 schools last year, Children’s Health will soon deploy telehealth in 57 schools across Dallas, Grayson, Collin and Tarrant counties, Dallas Business Journal reports. The school-based telehealth program will include lab consultations, providing nurses the ability to conduct strep and flu tests. The program makes Children’s Health the only North Texas health care system providing telemedicine to local schools.
How It Works
The program was
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4 Types of Telehealth Solutions
Telehealth represents the next frontier in medical care, and it's something healthcare providers are already feeling the pressure from their digitally connected patients to provide. How much pressure? According to Logicalis Healthcare Solutions, the healthcare-focused arm of Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, that depends on the generation of patient being served.
While traditional communication channels remain popular among older patients, the next
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CHRISTUS Health Expands Partnership with Wellcentive to Manage Population Health in 4 States
CHRISTUS Health, an international, Catholic, not-for-profit health system has announced a significant expansion of its partnership with Wellcentive, which will now deliver solutions and services for value-based care and population health management (PHM) across the majority of its U.S. operations. One of the 10 largest Catholic Health systems in the U.S.
CHRISTUS Health initially contracted with Wellcentive in 2014 to manage risk for its newly launched health plan, enable
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Report: Global Telehealth Market to Reach $34B by 2020
The global telehealth market is expected to be worth US$ 34.27 billion by the end of 2020, with North America being the largest market globally accounting for more than 40% of the global market size. According to a new market research report, 'Global Telemedicine Market - Growth, Trends & Forecasts (2015-2020)', published by Mordor Intelligence, the largest segments of the telemedicine markets are telepathology,teleradiology, teledermatology abd telepsychology.
Telehealth is a broader
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Virtua Selets Teladoc to Offer Telehealth Visits In Southern New Jersey
Dallas-based telehealth provider, Teladoc has been selected by Virtua, the largest health care provider in southern New Jersey, to provide telemedicine services to its employees and residents of the communities it serves. As part of the agreement, board-certified primary care physicians employed by Virtua will join Teladoc’s clinical network, which offers 24/7/365 access to state-licensed, board-certified physicians via phone, internet, secure online video and mobile
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Tyto Care Raises $11M for Home Telehealth Platform
TytoCare Ltd., an emerging Israel-based telehealth company has closed $11 million in Series B funding led by Cambia Health Solutions. Other participants in the round include OrbiMed Advisors, Walgreens, Fosum Pharma and LionBird.
Founded in 2012, Tyto Care's advanced cloud telehealth platform and handheld device allows for accurate remote diagnosis of various types of ailments. Equipped with innovative guidance and navigation technology, the device will allow individuals to perform full
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1DocWay Raises $1.7M to Expand Telepsychiatry Network
1DocWay, Inc., a NYC-based leading telepsychiatry network operator announced that its psychiatry delivery network has treated over 20,000 patients in 11 states during the first half of 2015. To accelerate its growth, 1DocWay has raised $1.7M in its seed round, led by iSeedVC, with participation from Rock Health, Asset Management, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Waterline Ventures and others. 1DocWay has experienced rapid growth in recent months as awareness and demand for psychiatric services have
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