What You Should Know:
- Intelligent medical optimization company Arine has been awarded has been selected for Amazon Web Services' (AWS) $40M global program supporting organizations that are developing solutions to reduce health inequities. The latest funding will be used to support NotiSphere's hiring to expand adoption across the industry and enable scalability to support the rapidly growing number of users.
- Arine’s proprietary tech platform analyzes comprehensive data from across the
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Northwell Health Selects Teladoc Health to Improve Virtual Care Across Enterprise
What You Should Know:
- Northwell Health, New York’s largest healthcare provider has signed a partnership agreement with virtual care provider Teladoc Health to deliver connected virtual care and expand care delivery to patients both inside and outside the four walls of the health system. The new enterprise strategy will leverage Teladoc Health’s collaboration with Microsoft, improving clinical teamwork and communication among Northwell clinicians.
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mPharma & TytoCare Integrate to Offer Telehealth to Pharmacies in Africa
What You Should Know:
- TytoCare, an all-in-one modular device and examination solution for AI-powered, on-demand, remote medical exams partners with mPharma, a technology-driven healthcare company building Africa's largest health management organization with a focus on making medications affordable and accessible to every African.
-The integration of the TytoCare solution into mPharma’s telehealth offerings enables pharmacies to provide patients with enhanced
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Analysis: The Role of Compact Systems in Today’s Ultrasound Market
Much of the focus in the ultrasound market in the last few years has been on the handheld market. This is justified, considering its role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the spate of innovation in the sector, both in terms of new product releases and partnerships. As a result, there is less mention of the other ultrasound product segments, especially the compact market. However, the compact market has also been active, with the release of Fujifilm SonoSite’s SonoSite LX in February
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Blue Spark Technologies Raises $40M for AI-Based Remote Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Blue Spark Technologies, Inc., a Cleveland, OH-based provider of wearable remote patient monitoring solutions, announced that it has raised $40 million in growth funding led by Ghost Tree Partners with support from Aon.
- The funding will go towards scaling the company’s sales and marketing functions and the continued advancement of Blue Spark’s wearable remote patient monitoring solutions.
Continuous, Real-Time Body Temperature Monitoring System
TempTraq®,
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Vital Start Health Launches Virtual Reality-Enabled Telemedicine Platform for Maternal Mental Health
What You Should Know:
- Vital Start Health, a University of Pennsylvania startup and a member of Microsoft for Startups, has launched COURAGE as the next-generation, virtual reality, multi-lingual coaching and psychotherapy telehealth platform for maternal well-being support across the pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and postpartum stages.
- The platform empowers patients with experiential practice and immersive psychoeducation, with the goal of driving better diagnoses, and
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At-Home Testing Is The Future, But Lab APIs Are Stuck In The Past
The rise of telemedicine and virtual care options have primed at-home testing to make a significant impact on the future of healthcare. 70% of today’s medical decisions depend on laboratory test results, but lagging lab APIs hinder the widespread launch of remote diagnostics.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a major increase in telemedicine usage, including a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020 alone. Both patients and doctors
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MemorialCare Taps TytoCare to Offer Virtual Exam Kits for Enhanced Telehealth
What You Should Know:
- TytoCare, a provider of AI-powered, on-demand, remote medical exams has inked a partnership with MemorialCare, a health system in Orange and Los Angeles Counties, to bring patients diverse telehealth options and allow them to pursue comprehensive primary care options from home.
- The integration of the TytoCare solution into MemorialCare’s current telehealth appointments enhances the health system’s ability
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The Need and Value for Connected Virtual Care
Patients today have more options than ever for accessing care outside of their traditional health systems and physician practices. While access to care has no doubt improved, the addition of new channels has
created new problems and exacerbated longstanding ones, notably with care coordination, consistency and continuity of care, patient and clinician satisfaction, and ensuring both HIPAA compliance and organizational privacy and security policies.
Telehealth is meeting the need for
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Reema Health Secures $8M for Personalized, Community-Based Health Platform
What You Should Know:
- Reema Health, a Minneapolis, MN-based community-based health technology platform raises $8M in seed funding led by MaC Venture Capital and DNA Capital. Combined with a previous $1.25 million pre-seed round and earlier preliminary investments, Reema’s has raised over $10 million to date.
- Reema uses technology to power human relationships with the goal of improving health outcomes for people who are hardest to reach. Reema’s breakthrough health
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