Zipnosis, the first virtual care telehealth solution that empowers health systems to launch their own branded virtual care platform, has appointed medtech industry veteran John Jordan to Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Under his leadership, Jordan will focus his time on enhancing Zipnosis’ current efforts to stimulate additional growth for the company. He has more than 25 years of experience working with rapid growth healthcare information technology companies and most recently,
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Tribridge, Microsoft Collaborate to Accelerate Population Health Management
Tribridge has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft Corp. that will allow healthcare providers to accelerate the implementation of transformational population health management (PHM) delivery models. Tribridge Health360's PHM cloud solution addresses the massive changes required as healthcare providers rapidly shift to value-based healthcare delivery. While Health360 is delivered on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online platform, providers using Health360 are going beyond better
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UCSF, Cipher Health to Launch Customized Population Health Platform
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and healthcare technology firm CipherHealth LLC have launched a customizable population health management platform called View that aims to improve the quality of care for patients with complex health conditions. The platform, which helps engage patients and facilitate more efficient team coordination among providers, was developed in collaboration between the two entities.
View integrates CipherHealth's patient engagement software platforms
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American Well Releases First-Ever Telehealth Mobile SDK, Embeds In-App Telehealth
Telehealth provider American Well today unveiled the first-ever mobile Telehealth Software Development Kit (SDK). The telehealth mobile software development kit (SDK) lets hospitals, retailers, health plans, or medical publishers embed telehealth directly into their own apps, under their brand, making online care easier to access than ever before
Limitless Use Cases for In-App Telehealth
There are endless examples of how having an immediate doctor's visit available in-app helps consumers
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Transcend Insights Unveils Unified Solution to Redefine Population Health
Transcend Insights®, a population health health-focused subsidiary of Humana, today announced the launch of a unified solution suite, built on its technology platform HealthLogix™. The new offering, which expands upon Transcend Insights’ population health platform for community-wide interoperability and real-time analytics, will provide health system executives, care teams and patients with a full suite of solutions designed to help them transition from episodic to proactive care for long-term
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Adventist HealthCare Selects Wellcentive for Population Health Management
Adventist HealthCare, a faith-based, not-for-profit, integrated healthcare delivery system based has selected Wellcentive for population health management technology. As part of the agreement, Wellcentive will develop the ability to integrate privacy-sensitive aspects of social determinants of health into patient data, sharable throughout care teams as part of data aggregation and translation.
"For our patient population, and really for every patient population in America,
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Dr Now Delivers World’s First In-Flight Telehealth Consultation
UK-based telehealth company Dr Now / Now GP has made history by delivering a cloud-based telehealth consultation during a flight to deliver meds to the patient's hotel within hours of diagnosis. During a recent long flight from London Heathrow to Dubai, businessman Marcus Dolan was suffering from a chest infection when he realized three hours into the seven hour flight that he forgot to pack his medicine, impacting his stay in Dubai.
Using the free WiFi connection offered on the Emirates
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Zipnosis Launches The “Boarding Pass” of Healthcare
Zipnosis, which provides health systems with a white-labeled, fully integrated and comprehensive virtual care platform that utilizes an adaptive online interview, as well as phone and video when appropriate, is expanding its offering with ZipTicket™ – a healthcare “boarding pass” that gives patients front-of-the-line access to routine lab tests such as a rapid strep test.
Evidence-based Quality Care Regardless of Access Point
By using Zipnosis’s virtual care solution, health
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Telemedicine Bill Could Save $1.8B Over 10 Years
The American Medical Association (AMA) today supported the bipartisan Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act to expand the use of telemedicine to achieve quality care for patients. The CONNECT for Health Act would:
- Create a bridge program to help providers transition to the goals of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) through using telehealth and RPM without
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Doctor on Demand Adds Nationwide Psychiatric Telehealth Visits
San Francisco, CA-based Doctor On Demand has expanded its behavioral health services to include psychiatrists telehealth video visits now available nationwide. The company began offering mental health care services in December 2014 with the addition of psychologists to its provider network.
The new addition of psychiatrists video visits represents a significant expansion of access to mental health care through Doctor On Demand. Now, patients can receive both therapy from a doctorate-level
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