As the novel coronavirus outbreak continues, the federal government and commercial health insurers have taken significant steps to increase Americans’ access to treatment and testing. In the past week, the federal government and private insurers have issued a number of guidance documents expanding coverage and payment requirements in an effort to minimize the spread of the virus.
As with any changes in coverage and reimbursement, healthcare providers offering telehealth services should
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Jvion Launches AI-Powered Social Determinants of Health Solution
What You Need to Know:
- Jvion launches Social Determinants of Health solution enabling healthcare organizations to align community resources to identify gaps and social barriers to care.
- Jvion’s Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) solution is an analytics layer, featuring an interactive map built on Microsoft Azure.
- Requiring only demographic data, healthcare organizations can drill down from zip code to census tract, block, and individual-level risk to better understand the
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RubiconMD Lands $18M to Expand eConsult Platform for Primary Care Clinicians
What You Need to Know:
- Leading eConsult platform RubiconMD raises $18M in Series C funding led by Deerfield Management Company to expand its product offerings to better serve primary care clinicians.
- RubiconMD’s eConsult platform enables primary care clinicians to easily and quickly discuss their eConsults with top specialists, so they can provide better care–improving the patient experience and reducing costs.
RubiconMD, an NYC-based eConsult platform providing access to
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Maryland’s Doctors Urge State to Adopt Telehealth to Prevent Spread of Coronavirus
What You Need to Know:
- The Maryland State Medical Society (MedChi), which represents 22,000 doctors, today urged the state of Maryland to help protect healthcare workers and others from the novel coronavirus by keeping sick people AWAY from doctors’ offices and instead assess and treat patients through virtual visits.
- MedChi has provided doctors with telehealth capabilities enabled by DrFirst’s Backline care collaboration tool. Backline enables physicians to conduct
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Cloudbreak Health Launches Free Telehealth App to Fight Coronavirus
What You Need to Know:
- Today, telemedicine leader Cloudbreak Health launched a free app with free service for hospitals to help fight the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
- Cloudbreak’s devices have already been used with suspected COVID-19 patients whose primary language was something other than English, including at the University of California at San Diego’s dedicated coronavirus clinic.
Cloudbreak Health (“Cloudbreak”), unified telemedicine and video medical
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Amwell Launches National Coronavirus (COVID-19) Telehealth Response Program
What You Need to Know:
- Amwell launches a national Coronavirus (COVID-19) telehealth response program to help hospitals, health systems, and health plans manage and mitigate coronavirus spread.
- Telehealth can serve as a force multiplier in the public health response to the COVID-19 outbreak, improving access to care directly from the home.
- Amwell has established an always-on-call infection control officer, COVID-19 specific workflows to guide clinical operations and quality, and
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Clarify Health to use LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Socioeconomic Data
What You Need to Know:
- LexisNexis Risk Solutions, that it has partnered with Clarify Health to evaluate the predictive capability of social determinants of health and clinical data.
- The collaboration’s approach will integrate individual-level SDOH data into Clarify Health’s clinical analytical models to evaluate the quality and efficacy of the data at the point of care to help drive care management decision-making.
- Clarify Health’s analytical models help identify population
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XRHealth to Deliver VR Therapy to Coronavirus Patients in Quarantine in Israel
- XRHealth announced it will provide Israel’s Sheba Medical Center’s Coronavirus patients in quarantine with virtual reality telehealth services.
- The XRHealth platform will provide relief from isolation, stress, and anxiety for those quarantined at Sheba for possible Coronavirus exposure.
XRHealth, a Boston, MA-based provider of extended reality and therapeutic applications, today announced it will be providing virtual reality (VR) telehealth services to the Sheba Medical Center in
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Catholic Medical Partners Taps Innovaccer to Deliver Value-Based Care to IPA
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with Catholic Medical Partners (CMP), the largest Independent Physician Association (IPA) in Buffalo, New York to empower the IPA to deliver value-based care and help healthcare care as one.
- CMP is the largest network of physicians in the entire region, comprised of nearly 1,000 primary and specialty care providers in Erie and Niagara counties.
- With Innovaccer as their latest partner, CMP will have new access to unique, longitudinal patient 360
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WELL Health Launches VirtualClinic to Deliver Telehealth Across Canada
- WELL Health launches VirtualClinic+ by WELL Health that gives Canadians across the country convenient access to telehealth services.
- VirtualClinic+ provides physicians a platform to add telehealth consultations as a convenient enhancement to their existing family practice. It also allows physicians to offer primary care for unattached patients. There are an estimated 4.8 million Canadians1 who are currently without a family doctor.
- Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, WELL plans to rapidly
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