What You Should Know:
- Direct-to-consumer telehealth company Thirty Madison raises
$47M in Series B round from Johnson & Johnson and Polaris Partners.
- Thirty Madison's three portfolio brands — Keeps, Cove,
and Evens — enables patients to easily access specialist-level care
combined with the convenience of telemedicine and treatment delivery.
Thirty
Madison, a New York City-based digital health
company reinventing the patient experience
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Multi-Vital Ambulatory Monitor for COVID-19 Patients Launches in the U.S.
What You Should Know:
- VivaLink launches a new multi-vital ambulatory monitoring solution for infectious respiratory diseases is being debuted in America and Western Europe. This monitoring solution is currently deployed in Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East to help monitor COVID-19 patients.
- Built upon VivaLink’s proprietary ambulatory medical wearable sensor platform, the solution can easily be set up and scaled in hospitals, nursing homes, and remote environments. Even pop-up
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Greenway Health to Launch EHR-Integrated Telehealth Solution to Support Virtual Care
What You Should Know:
- Greenway announced the company will be developing and
launching Greenway Telehealth, a secure, HIPAA-compliant solution designed with
an easy-to-use interface for both providers and patients.
- Powered by Twilio, the EHR integrated solution is among
the first in Greenway’s larger virtual care portfolio.
Greenway Health, a health information technology, and services provider, today announced the company is also working to develop innovative virtual care
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Philips Launches Virtual Care Station to Deliver Personalized Telehealth
What You Should Know:
- Philips announced the launch of Virtual Care Station, a
telehealth environment delivering virtual care services to patients in
convenient neighborhood locations, such as retail settings, libraries, town
halls and universities.
- Using proven Philips technology developed for the ATLAS
program (Accessing Telehealth through Local Area Stations), which was created
to serve healthcare needs of U.S. Veterans, Virtual Care Station provides all
patients, including those
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Improving the Patient Experience by Optimizing Telehealth Through COVID-19 and Beyond
We are facing a global healthcare crisis unlike any in our recent history. Within the span of a few short weeks, we saw our lives and practices drastically change. COVID-19 has fundamentally altered how medical care is delivered today and possibly for many years to come. We as clinicians need to rise to the challenge to provide the best possible care in this time of change and uncertainty. This includes adjusting the way we communicate with patients, adapting to the evolving landscape of
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Teladoc Health and Livongo Merge in $18.5B Deal: 5 Things to Know
What You Should Know:
- Teladoc Health to merge with Livongo for $18.5B in cash
and stock to create a powerhouse leader in consumer-centered virtual care.
- Teladoc Health shareholders will own approximately 58
percent and existing Livongo shareholders will own approximately 42 percent of
the combined company.
- Jason Gorevic, current CEO of Teladoc Health, will be
the CEO of the combined company.
Teladoc Health
(TDOC) and Livongo (LVGO), today
announced that they have entered
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Amwell Appoints Amazon Exec Serkan Kutan as Chief Technology Officer
Amwell,
a national telehealth
provider, announced today that Serkan Kutan has joined the company as
Chief Technology Officer. As part of his new role as CTO, Serkan will lead
building upon and further scaling Amwell’s national telehealth platform to
serve the needs of hospitals and health systems, health plans, innovators, and
patients.
“Serkan’s experience in innovating, building and maturing transformative healthcare technologies will play a significant role as we scale Amwell to meet
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Innovaccer, CareSignal Partner to Enable Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with CareSignal to
address healthcare’s urgent need amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: to create and
maintain solid, clinically actionable relationships with patients in a new set
of predominantly virtual care.
- CareSignal offers evidence-based end-to-end support services for chronic medical conditions such as asthma, CHF, COPD, diabetes, depression, hypertension, and hospital discharge support, and maternal health monitoring.
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Lemonaid Health Raises $33M to Expand On-Demand Consumer Telehealth Platform
What You Should Know:
- Lemonaid Health, a direct to consumer telehealth company raises $33M in Series B funding to expand the company’s medical team and number of services being offered to patients.
- To date, the company has treated more than a million patients
online for a variety of medical conditions ranging from erectile dysfunction to sinus infections
to depression and anxiety for roughly $25/visit (less than a typical co-pay).
Lemonaid Health,
a convenient, affordable,
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The Adoption of Telehealth During the Pandemic will Shape Healthcare’s New Normal
COVID-19 has presented healthcare with a challenge like no other, with nearly nine million cases all over the world and over 470,000 lives lost. The speed of the outbreak and the disruption caused by it has created unforeseen challenges for communities and economies, and it’s especially apparent in healthcare delivery. Healthcare systems in nations around the globe have dedicated substantial resources to respond to the pandemic and the growth has only somewhat stymied.
While the U.S.
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