SeeChange Health, a leader in clinically driven health improvement as an enterprise service, announced that it is integrating Doctor On Demand, a healthcare service that provides Video Visits with board-certified physicians via smartphones, tablets or desktop computers, into its FlyWheel health improvement platform.
Employers will now easily be able to offer the convenient and affordable Doctor On Demand telemedicine service to their members with a single sign on through the FlyWheel portal.
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Philips Telehealth Apps Receives 510(k) Clearance for New Digital Health Platform
Royal Philips has announced its telehealth apps eCareCoordinator and eCareCompanion have received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A part of Philips Hospital to Home's suite of telehealth programs, eCareCoordinator and eCareCompanion are focused on patient care within the home and are the first clinical applications to be available through the cloud-based digital health platform, which Philips announced in collaboration with Salesforce.com earlier this summer.
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Telehealth Provider Teladoc Raises $50M in Equity Funding
Telehealth provider Teladoc has announced it has secured a $50 million round of equity funding led by Palo Alto-based Jafco Ventures, a leading technology venture capital firm. This cash fusion will further reinforce Teladoc’s leadership position and support the acceleration of its robust growth strategy.
Teladoc will continue to pursue growth organically and through additional strategic partnerships and targeted acquisitions. The company is anticipating record-setting growth in January 2015
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Geneia Partners with Covidien to Enter $21B Remote Patient Monitoring Market
Geneia today announced a multi-year, strategic partnership with Covidien to help improve the health of and reduce the costs for chronically ill patients. The partnership with Covidien has agreed to provide Geneia with rights to sell its ZephyrLIFE remote patient monitoring solutions in designated markets to monitor patients with heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses in the home setting.
Geneia’s @home product combines Covidien’s ZephyrLIFE remote monitoring technology with
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AirStrip and Dignity Health Launch Innovative Population Health and Telehealth Initiatives
AirStrip and Dignity Health announced that the next phase of their mobile interoperability plan will center on enabling population health and telehealth initiatives in Dignity Health’s Central Coast region of California.
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Reports Finds Population Health Market Still Very Immature
Chilmark Research's latest report reveals the population health market is still in its infancy despite increasingly interest from healthcare organizations.
As the healthcare delivery model shifts towards value based healthcare, the need for effective population health management solutions continues to grow. Despite the surge in interest from healthcare organizations, the newest report from Chilmark Research, their 2014 Analytics for Population Health Management Market Trends Report, reveals the
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Collain Healthcare Debuts All-In-One Telehealth & Remote Patient Monitoring Platform
Collain Healthcare, an LG CNS Company, debuts Interactive Virtual Care Team™, a revolutionary, all-in-one telehealth & remote patient monitoring Platform enabling truly-coordinated care.
Today, Collain Healthcare, an LG CNS Company, announced that Interactive Virtual Care Team™ (IVC Team™), an incredibly flexible, rapidly deployable, and massively scalable next-generation population health management suite of applications, is now available. The launch marks the first time in healthcare
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Telehealth Companies Have Raised $433M Across 79 Deals Since 2007
Telehealth companies have raised $433M across 79 deals since since the start of 2007, according to CB Insights Data. The venture capital database and angel investment database company stated in a recent blog post that 2014 YTD funding has already reached record breaking levels with the highest amount of telehealth funding on record, up 130 percent from 2013. The chart shown below illustrates the funding trend to telehealth companies since 2007. For more information on telehealth funding deals,
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What Is The Role of the Payer in Advancing Population Health?
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“Healthcare organizations must prepare for an environment where doctors and other healthcare professionals will be compensated based on the value, not just the volume, of the services they provide. The push toward value-based compensation is getting stronger, so healthcare professionals must devise a strategy for their journey to a value-based role in the future and find a partner who supports their vision and principles,” advises Renee H.
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Acupera Raises Additional $4M to Scale Its Population Health Platform
Acupera, a provider of population health and workflow technology for health systems has secured an additional $4 million in financing from Lightspeed Venture Partners joined by The Whittemore Collection, Ltd, which supported the Series A funding. Acupera will use this latest funding round to scale its product development team and add to its customer implementation group.
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