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DrChrono Launches fully integrated telemedicine app exclusively
to its network of providers and is the one of the first EHRs to build a telemedicine
physician marketplace for patients.
Over 10,000 medical providers on the DrChrono platform
will have access to more telehealth options and receive more inbound requests
to provide virtual care visits to patients, especially during COVID-19.
DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical
practice of the
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The Rise of Teledentistry: Benefits, Use Cases & Adoption Challenges
Teledentistry is a relatively new practice on the rise for dentists. If you have oral health or dental problems, it can take a while to get an appointment that fits in with your schedule. So, with this new concept, you can quickly connect with a dental professional remotely, and receive access to advice and information.About TeledentistryTeledentistry falls under telehealth, which is a broad concept within professional healthcare delivery. Essentially, telehealth aims to provide patients with a
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Vida Health Nabs $25M to Expand Virtual Health Platform for Personalized Mental and Physical Care
What You Should Know:
- Virtual healthcare platform, Vida Health, announced today that it raised $25 million in new funding to meet the increased demand for mental and physical virtual care.
- Since launching in 2014, Vida has fine-tuned its approach to mental health. Participants working with Vida’s nationwide therapy coverage in all 50 states have shown an average reduction of anxiety and depression by more than 50%.
Vida Health, a
personalized virtual care platform
for
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Arcadia Acquires Selected Assets of Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative
What You Should Know:
- Arcadia acquires selected assets of Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit services firm delivering strategic guidance, project management, data warehousing and analytics services, and hands-on implementation support.
- The acquisition enhances Arcadia’s capabilities in the areas of strategic guidance, project management, data warehousing, and analytics services, and hands-on implementation support to help providers improve clinical and
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COVID-19 Heat Map Offers County-by-County Picture of Community Risk & Health Disparities
What You Should Know:
- COVID-19 Community Risk & Health Disparities Map reveals proactive identification of emerging hot spots of vulnerable populations at risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19.
- The publicly available tool provided by EXL Healthcare pinpoints where to focus and scale resources, inform proactive scenario planning, and develop community COVID-19 initiatives.
Governors across the U.S. are considering whether to extend stay-at-home orders or allow businesses,
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FCC Approves $4.2M for 13 COVID-19 Telehealth Program Providers
What You Need to Know:
– FCC approves the fourth set of 13 COVID-19 telehealth program providers, totaling $4.2M in funding.
– To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program has funded 30 health care providers in 16 states for a total of $13.7 million in funding.
The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau approved an additional 13 funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, totaling $4.2M in funding. The third set of providers will support some
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COVID-19 Trend Report Reveals Which States Have Reached or Passed their Peaks
What You Should Know:
- New COVID-19 Trend Report created by Sermo displays states/regions that have reached or passed the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic based on physician reports.
- The COVID-19 Real Time Barometer Study provides exclusive access into the perspectives and expertise of over 20,000 total physicians across 30 countries, tracked over time.
- Majority of physicians in many COVID-19 Hotspots including Korea, Spain, China and Italy believe their countries have passed or
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Geisinger Expands Telehealth Services to Assess, Monitor and Triage COVID Patients At-Home
What You Should Know:
- Geisinger Health expands long-term telehealth services partnership with AMC Health to help assess, monitor, and triage COVID-19 patients at-home.
- The expanded agreement includes IVR (interactive voice response) and patient Bluetooth peripheral kits, etc.
Healthcare provider Geisinger, today announced it is expanding its relationship with AMC Health, the leading provider in telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology. As part of the expansion,
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New COVID-19 Tracker Predicts Future Hot Spots Over Next 7-10 Days
What You Should Know:
- Cotiviti unveiled its COVID-19 Outbreak Tracker to map future infection “hot spots” that may emerge over the next seven to ten days across the U.S.
- The COVID-19 Outbreak Tracker identifies potentially hidden outbreak areas by analyzing COVID screening trends across the millions of medical claims processed through the company’s Caspian Insights platform.
- Forecasting future surges of infection is critical for flattening the curve now, especially considering
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Report: How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Changing Patient Communications
What You Should Know:
- Data from Luma Health reveals stark gaps in the volume and cadence of COVID-19-related messages sent between doctors and patients.
- California, one of the states hit early and hard by COVID-19, increased patient communications more than 91x over, with 206,000 messages broadcast between late January and March; New York saw a 16x increase over the same period (both states with approximately the same number of cases in early March).
- During the month of
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