Telehealth delivery provider GlobalMed has acquired TreatMD, a Miami, FL-based telehealth startup for an undisclosed sum. TreatMD first introduced the first International platform for Telemedicine referred to as an "On-demand Healthcare Platform" that also combines the management of office visits, in-home visits, insurance reimbursement, E-Prescribing, and mHealth devices and monitoring.Upon completion of the acquisition, GlobalMed plans to integrate TreatMD's platform with its existing
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RegimenMD, SkyMD Partner to Create End-to-End Telehealth, Dispensing Platform
RegimenMD and SkyMD announced that they established a strategic alliance to integrate their technologies and create an end-to-end platform to blend telehealth, dispensing and patient education. This integration provides both doctors and their patients an integrated telehealth experience. This includes everything from online consultation, diagnosis, treatment, dispensing of skincare products and continuity of care.The RegimenMD – SkyMD alliance empowers doctors to see patients on a more
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Teladoc Integrates Telehealth App With Kinsa Smart Thermometer
Teladoc and Kinsa has expanded their partnership by integrating Teladoc’s app with the Kinsa Smart Thermometer to further drive engagement, quality and value in telehealth. With this integration, the Teladoc app automatically detects the Kinsa app on a user’s mobile phone, guides the user to Kinsa, and offers the option to import up to 10 days of temperature readings into the Teladoc platform.Upon opt-in, the data is integrated into the Teladoc physician’s view of the health record, supporting
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Humana’s Transcend Insights Unveils Analytics-as-a-Service for Population Health
Transcend Insights announced a new, cloud-enabled version of its enterprise analytics offering for population health: the Anvita Engine. The new offering will be one the industry’s first solutions available to health systems through a flexible, analytics-as-a-service model, providing health organizations with a more flexible and cost-effective way to deploy advanced analytics for population health.This service is powered by the proven Anvita Engine™, which is optimized for the cloud and
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Iron Bow Technologies, Vivify Health Lands $258M VA Home Telehealth Contract
Iron Bow Technologies, a provider of technology solutions and services has partnered with remote patient monitoring platform provider Vivify Health to deliver scalable in-home telehealth services. As part of the partnership, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded the company a $258M VA Home Telehealth contract to improve Veterans access to quality remote healthcare.Iron Bow is one of the four companies awarded the contract which also include Care Innovations, LLC, Medtronic
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CHIME Survey: EHR Optimization, Population Health Named Top Investment Priorities for Healthcare CIOs
EHR optimization and population health has been named the top investment priorities for healthcare CIOs over the next three years, according to a survey of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) members conducted by KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm. Other investment priorities for healthcare CIOs over the next three years include:• Consumer/clinical and operational analytics (16 percent)• Virtual/telehealth technology enhancements (13 percent)• Revenue
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CareSkore Unveils Population Health Management as a Service App (PHMaaS )
CareSkore, a provider of end-to-end personalized population health management, announced today the release of its Population Health Management as a ServiceTM (PHMaaSTM), providing direct access to its extensive machine-learning analytics engine to 3rd-party applications through an API.“PHMaaS completely changes the game for how organizations adopt population health management,” said Jaspinder Grewal, CEO of CareSkore. “We have too many proprietary application interfaces in health care. PHMaaS
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Accenture: 78% of Consumers Are Interested in Receiving Virtual Healthcare Services
More than three-quarters (78 percent) of consumers say they’d be interested in receiving virtual healthcare services, but only one in five (21 percent) have had the opportunity to receive services in this way, according to a new survey from Accenture. The Accenture survey of 1,501 U.S. consumers reveals that growing consumer demand for virtual healthcare services is putting increasing pressure on providers and payers to expand delivery options for on-demand health services. The research
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Black Book Rankings: Allscripts Named Top EHR Vendor with Population Health Solution
Black Book Rankings has named Allscripts as the top EHR vendor with a comprehensive population health management solution earning the highest rank in 10 of the 18 individual criteria.For Black Book Ranking 2017, Black Book crowd-sourced nearly 7,000 responses on eighteen key performance, satisfaction and usability indicators from physicians practice, hospitals, health systems and chains, ACOs, IDNs and IPAs in the first quarter of 2017.Allscripts CareInMotion is a population health management
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KLAS: Population Health Vendors Lack Robust Solutions, but Agree with Providers on Roadmap for Progress
Editor's Note: Bradley Hunter is the Research Director of Population Health at KLAS Research. As population health management goes mainstream, providers need robust, integrated software solutions to aggregate and analyze data, coordinate care, engage patients and clinicians, and provide full administrative and financial functionality. Providers report that vendors fall short of what they need, according to the recently published KLAS Research 2016 Population Health Management Perception Report.
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