Healthcare providers are seeing between 50 and 175 times (1) more patients via telehealth than before. Telehealth platforms* offer solutions for a wide array of different healthcare issues. An estimated 20 percent of all emergency room visits and 24 percent of routine office visits and outpatient volume could be delivered virtually via telehealth.
Telehealth is a win-win for providers and patients. It both increases the availability of care while also reducing costs. However, telemedicine
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Technology
GoodRx Expands Telehealth Service Nationwide Across All 50 States
What You Should Know:
- GoodRx today announced it has expanded the reach of
HeyDoctor by GoodRx and it is now available across all 50 states and Washington
D.C.
- HeyDoctor provides affordable access to online medical visits from US-licensed providers to treat a wide range of conditions — regardless of insurance status. Treatment and services include routine doctor visits starting at $20, prescription refills, and mail delivery.
GoodRx announced that its telehealth
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Healthify, Ride Health Partner to Offer SDOH-Driven Transportation to Vulnerable Populations
What You Should Know:
Healthify, a social determinants of health company
(SDOH), announced a national partnership with Ride Health to offer
transportation to medical and non-medical services for people faced with
transportation barriers.
- Each year, an estimated 3.6 million Americans do not
obtain medical care due to transportation issues such as cost, lack of access
to vehicles and inadequate public transportation. These barriers are
particularly prevalent among poor communities,
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7 Day Moving Average for COVID-19 Cases Is Up 148% Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- Nationwide, the seven-day moving average for COVID-19
cases is up 148% from June 7th to July 7th. In many states across the country,
the “curve” never flattened. Since June there hasn’t been a flattening effect,
but rather a significant spike in the number of COVID-19 cases.
- States hit hardest with new waves of COVID-19 cases
like Arizona, California, Texas and Florida have the highest percentage of
hospital beds occupied by patients with COVID-19. If there are
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eConsult Platform AristaMD Raises Additional $6M to Close $24M Series B Round
What You Should Know:
- AristaMD, a digital health company that provides a platform to connect primary care providers with timely and documented specialist insights through eConsults, has secured an additional $6M in investments to top off the company’s Series B funding round at $24 million.
- With non-emergency, proactive care and elective
procedures being canceled during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a backlog of
appointments. eConsults will continue to be an effective triage tool now
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Change Healthcare Offers Providers Free Access to Lab Orders/Results for COVID-19 Tests
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare offers healthcare providers free
access to lab orders and results for COVID-19 tests through one of the nation’s
largest lab networks and adds in-home testing.
- The Change Healthcare Clinical Network expands test
ordering through one of the nation’s largest lab networks and adds in-home
testing.
- Providers can choose labs from one of the nation’s
largest lab networks, with over 1,400 lab testing sites, of which over more
than 100 are
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Emtiro Health Taps Innovaccer to Leverage the FHIR-Enabled Data Activation Platform
What You Should Know:
- Emtiro Health, an
innovative population health company in North Carolina has selected Innovaccer
to deliver data-powered solutions to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness
of care delivery.
- Powered by Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation
Platform, Emtiro Health will create unified patient records that drive
comprehensive, whole-person care management, no matter where they are on the
care continuum. The FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform will also
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8 in 10 Consumers Stated COVID-19 Made Telehealth “Indispensable” in Healthcare Delivery
What You Should Know:
- 8 in 10 consumers said COVID-19 made telehealth “an indispensable part of the healthcare system, according to a new study commissioned by Change Healthcare.
- 2020 Change Healthcare - Harris Poll Consumer
Experience Index reveals 65% said they plan to use telehealth more after the
pandemic, and 78% said COVID-19 has shown how badly the U.S. needs more
telehealth options.
A majority of consumers agreed COVID-19 will
fundamentally change healthcare delivery
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Philips and BioIntelliSense Integrate to Enhance Remote Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Philips integrates the BioIntelliSense FDA-cleared
BioSticker™ sensor as part of its remote patient monitoring solutions for
patients outside the hospital.
- Multi-parameter sensors aid monitoring across multiple chronic conditions with medical-grade vital signs for physicians to remotely track core symptoms, including COVID-19.
- Healthcare Highways is the first to leverage the BioSticker sensor as a part of Philips’ RPM program in the U.S.
Philips,
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Walgreens to Invest $1B in VillageMD to Open 500 to 700 Full-Service Doctor Offices
- Walgreens will invest $1 billion in
equity and convertible debt in VillageMD to open 500 physician-led primary care
clinics in more than 30 U.S. markets in the next five years.
- VillageMD and Walgreens also recently announced the
availability of Village Medical telehealth providers on Walgreens Find Care™,
which is an online platform that connects patients with a wide range of health
services.
Walgreens
Boots Alliance, Inc. and VillageMD
announced today that Walgreens will be the
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