Today’s youth understand the role SDoH plays in their health outcomes. But health systems are woefully ill-equipped to meet this growing demand. That needs to change. And with the right technology, it can.
A true social revolution began on August 1, 1981. That’s the day teens and tweens everywhere started telling their parents, “I want my MTV!”
Music Television (MTV)—streamed via satellite and a proprietary set-top box 14 years before the Internet was a glimmer in the consumer’s
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Caregility and Eko Integrate to Address Gap in Telehealth
What You Should Know:
- Caregility, an enterprise telehealth platform company, and Eko, the market leader in stethoscopes for telehealth, today announced an integration partnership.
- Caregility’s cloud platform now seamlessly integrates with Eko’s smart stethoscopes and software, enabling users of Caregility’s iConsult application to perform high-quality auscultation (heart, lung, and other body sounds) on patients during a virtual physical exam.
Addressing Virtual Care Gaps to Improve
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UnitedHealthcare Awards $11M in Grants to Address Social Determinants of Health
What You Should Know:
- Health insurer UnitedHealthcare has donated $11M in grants to nonprofit organizations across 11 states.
- These grants are part of our Empowering Health program focused on expanding access to care and addressing the social determinants of health (SDoH) for people in underserved communities. These grants assist individuals and families experiencing challenges from food insecurity, social isolation and behavioral health issues, and support local health
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Telehealth Utilization Grew 10.2% Nationally in May 2022
What You Should Know:
- In May 2022, for the second straight month, telehealth utilization, as measured by telehealth's share of all medical claim lines, grew nationally and in every US census region (Midwest, Northeast, South, West), according to FAIR Health's Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker.
- FAIR Health reports national telehealth utilization increased 10.2 percent, from 4.9 percent of medical claim lines in April to 5.4 percent in May. Regionally, the greatest increase
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Velatura Services Selected for Amazon Web Services Health Equity Initiative
What You Should Know:
- Velatura Services (Velatura) today announced that it has been selected as part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Health Equity Initiative, a $40M, three-year commitment supporting organizations that are developing solutions to advance health equity.
- Participation in the initiative will enhance Velatura’s efforts to provide essential data management infrastructure, advance data exchange, improve well-being, and reduce disparities.
Amazon Web
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KLAS Report: State of Virtual Visit Technology in the Middle East
What You Should Know:
- The latest KLAS report examines how non-EMR-affiliated virtual visit solutions in the Middle East differ across key metrics (including product usability, implementation and training, and vendor partnership) and also summarizes common EMR vendors and their approaches to virtual visits.
- KLAS reports high satisfaction with their virtual visit technology (either virtual care or video conferencing platforms), though specifics of the customer experience do vary across
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Adventist HealthCare to Deploy Innovaccer Health Cloud for Value-Based Whole-Person Care
What You Should Know:
- Adventist HealthCare has selected Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company to be their next-generation population health management and value-based care partner.
- Innovaccer will help Advent HealthCare create a unified data platform to help deliver deeper insights into community health and network operations.
Supporting Value-Based Whole-Person Care
One of the longest-serving health systems in the Washington, D.C. region, and one of
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Brave Health & MedArrive Partner to Power Virtual Mental Health
- Brave Health, a virtual-first behavioral health provider focused on serving Medicaid and Medicare populations, today announced an innovative referral partnership with MedArrive.
- Through this collaboration, if MedArrive identifies an eligible health plan member in need of mental health support, MedArrive’s field providers can immediately refer that member to Brave Health’s behavioral health providers in real time and schedule care within 72 hours. Conversely, if Brave Health identifies an
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RxLive Raises $5M for Population Health Telepharmacy Solutions
What You Should Know:
- RxLive, a provider of population health pharmacy solutions, today announced a $5 million Series A funding round led by SpringTide with participation by Cardinal Health. RxLive has raised a total of $8 million to date.
- As value-based pharmacy care models expand beyond the retail pharmacy setting RxLive will use the funding to expand its engineering, analytics, and sales and marketing teams, with particular investment in the continuous improvement of its AI and the
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Impact of Applying Law of Small Numbers to the Telehealth Industry & Why Its Unsustainable
Driven by headlines and incomplete, misleading data that favor a telehealth narrative, health systems and healthcare investors must start asking "who" is actually supporting waning demand.
The healthcare industry is no stranger to the 80/20 rule. The principle says 80% of an effect is driven by 20% of a cause, and in healthcare, it usually refers to there being a specific cohort of the population (e.g., the chronically ill) driving the majority of care utilization and costs.
More recently,
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