Kaiser Permanente Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Kaiser Permanente has invested $10 million in high quality visual communications Vidyo for telehealth and video collaboration. The Vidyo funding round also includes $5M from existing investors, for a total of $15M follow-on round of funding. The company will use the funds to accelerate growth in vertical markets.
The VidyoWorks platform has a FIPS 140-2 certified crypto-kernel, providing HIPAA-compliant encryption, and a rich
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Georgia’s Piedmont First to Offer On-Demand Virtual Visits
Starting today, consumers in Georgia can see a board-certified physician via virtual visit from their smart phone or tablet thanks to the new app Piedmont On Call.
Powered by Alii Healthcare, Piedmont On Call app is the first of its kind in Georgia allowing consumers physician consultants via Piedmont On Call from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day of the week for $100 per virtual visit.
The app is specifically designed to help consumers receive faster treatment for low-acuity, urgent healthcare
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Teladoc’s CEO Talks What Telehealth Means for the Future of Healthcare
What if access to quality healthcare services was just a click, tap, or phone call away? That was the premise that telehealth services were founded on. But beyond the appeal and consumer convenience, telehealth stands to create efficiencies for healthcare systems that are desperately in need of it.
Telehealth isn’t just about taking healthcare to the future—it’s about creating a better future for the patients and providers than can benefit from its use, especially in the wake of the
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AbilTo Launches Tele-Behavioral Health Program for Veterans Returning to Civilian Life
AbilTo, Inc., a provider of tele-behavioral health programs, today launched its Military Transitions Program, designed specifically to help veterans address the personal, interpersonal and emotional challenges that often accompany return from service at any point during the readjustment period.
Military Transitions Program Overview
The goal of the Military Transitions Program is to improve mood management and practice action-oriented behavior that is goal and values driven. To achieve this, an
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Geisinger to Utilize Cerner’s Population Health Management Platform
Geisinger Health System is collaborating with Cerner to utilize Cerner's HealtheIntent population health management platform to further extend Geisinger’s data-driven population health capabilities.
Geisinger leveraged HealtheIntent, a system-agnostic, near real-time platform that normalizes data from any source, to aggregate clinical and financial data from its core EHR and other sources, such as its insurance company, in a proof-of-concept project. Given the positive outcome of the
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Startup Launches First-Ever Medical Marijuana Telehealth App
On-demand medical marijuana technology startup Eaze has released the first of its kind medical marijuana telehealth app, EazeMD in both the iTunes and Google Play stores to make on-demand physician evaluations possible from any mobile device. For only $30, EazeMD's proprietary mobile technology platform enables new and renewing patients to connect with independent, board-certified physicians via video teleconferencing for medical marijuana evaluations.
Once evaluations are approved,
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Population Health Management Market Set to Top $32B by 2020
According to a new report from Tractica, the global market for population health management market is expected to more than double in size during the next 5 years, increasing from $14.0 billion in 2015 to $31.9 billion by 2020. The report, “Population Health Management Software and Services”, focuses on the main apps for PHM software, including care coordination and patient interaction, care plan development and management, analytics, and data management, along with PHM services such as
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Indegene Acquires Population Health Analytics Platform SmartCare
Indegene, a global healthcare solutions for life sciences companies, payers and providers, today announced it has acquired SmartCare®, a population health analytics platform from Connecticut-based Vantage Point, Inc. This acquisition further strengthens Indegene’s ATOM (analytics, technology, operations and medical) offering which is designed to support U.S. companies in navigating changes associated with the Affordable Care Act. Financial terms of the acquisition were not
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Consortium Unveils ‘Cookbook’ for Large-Scale Telehealth Deployments
A Philips-led consortium of leading companies, universities, hospitals and healthcare authorities has unveiled a 'cookbook' for large-scale deployment of coordinated care and telehealth. The cookbook is the result from a two-and-a-half year scientific evaluation of data from different connected health programs in five European regions. It provides new insights that apply across the EU on why certain telehealth programs are more successful than others.
Connected care is seen by many
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TeleHealth Startup HealthiestYou Raises $30M to Help Consumers Avoid Expensive Visits
HealthiestYou, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based telehealth company focused on engagement and utilization has raised $30 million in growth investment from Charlotte, North Carolina-based Frontier Capital. The company will use the investment to accelerate sales and marketing efforts, technology enhancements and leadership to increase its share of the large and rapidly growing telehealth market.
HealthiestYou Telehealth App
Available to individuals and employers, HealthiestYou can be
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