What You Should Know:
- Philips provides healthcare institutions with telehealth solution to process high volume coronavirus-related healthcare requests via online screening and supports healthcare providers in the use of external call centers to offer the correct care to patients
- If medically justified, patients infected with COVID-19 can be remotely monitored via automated questionnaires about their home situation and state of health
Royal Philips announced
that it can help
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Technology
SyTrue Offers Free AI-based Solutions to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- SyTrue offers its free AI-based solutions free of charge to qualified global public health organizations to help researchers and governments battling the COVID-19 pandemic
- SyTrue has developed solutions that enable identification of disease trends, early detection, and interventions, safety-monitoring of medicinal therapies, COVID-19 knowledge extraction, and accelerated identification of patient cohorts.
The solution will support efforts to identify
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Luma Health Launches Patient-Centric Telehealth Solution with No App, Login or Portal Required
What You Should Know:
- Luma Health launches new telehealth offering for providers that need to deliver care to patients virtually, quickly and seamlessly and patients need to get that care with one click.
- Luma Health Telehealth supports real-time EHR integration to enable providers to connect virtually with, and provide care for, their patients with just one click.
Luma Health launches Luma Health Telehealth as part of its Total Patient Engagement platform. The telehealth
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FCC Chairman Unveils $200 Million COVID-19 Telehealth Program
- FCC new program would provide immediate support to healthcare facilities and patients across the country; separate connected care pilot program would study long-term role of telehealth.
- The $200 million Program would immediately support healthcare providers responding to the pandemic by providing eligible healthcare providers support to purchase telecommunications services, information services.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai today announced his plan for a
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Providence Uses Remote Patient Monitoring For 700+ COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Providence is monitoring patients suffering from COVID-19 symptoms using Xealth’s digital health platform to deliver Twistle’s care automation and remote patient monitoring platform.
- So far, more than 700 positive or presumptive positive COVID-19 patients are already being helped with this solution at home, keeping patients safe while reducing additional stress on hospitals, emergency rooms, and front-line health care teams.
- Patients who are exhibiting
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6 Benefits of Telemedicine in Managing the Diabetes Epidemic
The American Diabetes Association reveals that 9.4% of the American population has diabetes, and with numbers that high nearly all Americans have a friend or family member with the disease. However, many Americans are not aware that telehealth can enable diabetic patients to manage their condition—treatment that would have otherwise been difficult to come by for rural patients with limited access to care.
With such a high prevalence among the population, providing care regardless of proximity
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Bright.md Raises $8M to Expand AI-Powered, Asynchronous Virtual Care
What You Should Know:
Bright.md announced the close of an $8 million series C
to deliver critical capacity to support patient care in the midst of a COVID-19
pandemic and to help flatten the curve.
The funding will be used for a massive expansion effort
to bring non-video telehealth to aid frontline healthcare workers and the
patients they are treating.
Over six years, Bright.md has stretched $12.5 million to
advance its AI-powered automation platform for primary and urgent
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COVID-19 Spikes Deaconess Health Adoption of Remote Medical Exams
What You Should Know:
Tyto Care and Deaconess Health System announced its expanded integration partnership to help stem the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
Tyto Care’s TytoHome telehealth device enables
Deaconess patients to perform comprehensive physical examinations with a
Deaconess Care Provider from the comfort of home reducing the risk of spreading
the coronavirus and limiting the pressures facing emergency rooms and clinics.
Since the COVID-19
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Uniper Launches Cross-Platform Service to Address Social Isolation for Older Adults
What You Should Know:
- Uniper-Care Technologies announced its new cross-platform service that enables older adults and at-risk individuals in isolation to connect and engage with healthcare professionals, access live and interactive health and wellness programs, and communicate with family and friends.
- The service is designed to help the at-risk, older adult population and healthcare systems cope and adhere with the new world order of extensive social isolation due to the
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New COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Map Uses Social Determinants of Health to Identify Populations At Greater Risk
What You Should Know:
- Jvion Launches COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Map to identify the social determinants of health (SDOH) that put populations at greater risk, informing community planning and resource allocation to proactively mitigate the risk to vulnerable populations.
- The Community Vulnerability Map allows users to search and drill down into communities to view populations most vulnerable for severe outcomes if infected with a COVID-like virus and the socioeconomic
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