For most of history, cutting-edge technology and affluence have gone hand-in-hand. The healthcare industry is no exception to the rule. The wealthiest hospitals have the ability to invest in the newest machinery and the best digital infrastructure. Meanwhile, low-income populations ― whose health needs are often the most urgent ― are less likely to be able to access the tools that might mean the difference between life and death.
The dawning era of telehealth represents a welcome
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Building A Telemedicine Company – Challenges and Best Practices
In the last few years, the healthcare industry has witnessed an explosion in both popularity and profits in a new sector of business. Thanks to the conditions brought about by the pandemic, telemedicine is now an increasingly popular format for diagnosing and treating a variety of conditions.
Just a few years ago, the telemedicine market had a size of about $42 billion. However, the industry’s growth rate experienced a remarkable surge, and the market size is now projected to reach a
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UnitedHealthcare Donates $2.85M for Direct Service Workers in Indiana
What You Should Know:
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Indiana has provided $2.85M to four organizations working to advance the direct service health workforce in the state. Direct service workers (DSWs) are essential in providing care to long-term services and support recipients who choose to age and live in their homes, especially those in underserved communities and rural areas. DSWs include certified nursing assistants, home health aides, direct support professionals,
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ZeOmega Integrates SDOH Platform w/ Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare
What You Should Know:
ZeOmega announced it has integrated its Jiva Population Health Enterprise Management Platform’s SDOH Social Care solution with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare built for Microsoft Azure. The integration empowers healthcare organizations with Azure to achieve increased access, seamless compatibility, and unmatched administrative efficiency, enabling smoother processes and freeing healthcare professionals to prioritize exceptional patient care. SDOH takes center
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Virgin Pulse Launches Global Loneliness Challenge for Employers
What You Should Know:
Virgin Pulse launches a five-week global loneliness challenge for employers and health plans designed to foster social connections and reverse costly adverse health risks.Social isolation and loneliness is a worldwide problem and is clinically proven to be detrimental to individual and population health. The Striding for Connection challenge is being offered to all current clients worldwide to empower members to foster new connections while strengthening
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FemTech: Amazon Offers Free Virtual Fertility & Family-Building Support to Employees Globally
What You Should Know:
Amazon announced that it is providing free virtual fertility & family-building as a benefit through Maven Clinic to its employees in 50 countries across Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Through this femtech benefit, all full-time, part-time and hourly employees in these countries and their partners have free access to Maven Clinic’s virtual fertility and family-building platform spanning preconception, egg freezing, IUI and IVF,
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Amazon Clinic Expands Virtual Health Nationwide
What You Should Know:
Today, Amazon Clinic announced it is now available to customers in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., offering more people easy access to licensed clinicians for virtual care.Amazon Clinic is a virtual health care marketplace available to adults 18-64, that connects customers to third-party, licensed clinicians to help manage common health conditions like urinary tract infections, pink eye, and erectile dysfunction.
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Customers can select
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Henry Schein Medical & Medpod Launches Portable Telediagnostic Solution
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Henry Schein Medical, the U.S. medical business of Henry Schein, Inc., and Medpod Inc. launches Medpac – a lightweight, portable telediagnostic solution that allows health care providers to offer comprehensive professional care regardless of location, helping to bridge the gap between remote telemedicine consultations and in-person office visits. Exclusively distributed by Henry Schein Medical, Medpac is suitable for a range of applications, including
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UnitedHealthcare Awards $11.1M in Grants to Expand Care Access
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UnitedHealthcare, today announced it is awarding $11.1 million in grants to 66 nonprofit organizations across 12 states through its Empowering Health program. These grants address social determinants of health (SDoH) and help uninsured individuals and underserved communities. Since launching its Empowering Health commitment in 2018, UnitedHealthcare has invested more than $62 million in Empowering Health grants reaching more than 11 million people through
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How the VA Uses Synthetic Data to Predict Veterans’ Suicide Risk
Suicide is a major public health crisis in America, resulting in one death every 11 minutes, on average.
In 2020, suicide was among the top 9 leading causes of death for people between 10 and 64 years of age. Each year, suicide and nonfatal self-harm cost the nation nearly $490 billion in medical costs, work-loss costs, the value of statistical life, and quality-of-life costs, according to statistics cited by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
For America’s
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