MediSprout, a provider of healthcare and telehealth solutions, has announced that its V2MD telehealth platform that connects physicians with their patients through video conferencing will integrate with Amazon Alexa for patient scheduling and Withings for integration with its Withings Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor. These integrations allow patients to seamlessly schedule video appointments with their physician’s office through simple voice commands via Amazon Alexa from a patient’s home, and
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Teladoc Launches New Virtual Care Offering, Teladoc Global Care Services
Virtual care provider Teladoc Health, today announced the launch of Teladoc Global Care, a virtual care offering designed to meet the needs of globally mobile individuals in need of general medical care. The goal of Teladoc Global Care services will enable multinational organizations to provide expats and travelers with a single solution for convenient and easy-to-navigate access to quality care, regardless of geographic location. Teladoc Global Care is now commercially available for large
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SnapMD Raises $7.1M to Expand Virtual Care Management Platform
SnapMD, a Los Angeles, CA-based full-service enterprise telehealth technology innovator, and solutions provider, today announced it has raised $7.1 million in Series B funding. This brings the LA-based startup’s total capital raised to date to $16.3 million. Participating investors included the original syndicate. The company will use the latest funding to further advance its telemedicine platform and accelerate its sales and marketing efforts.SnapMD Virtual Care Management Platform
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Partners HeatlhCare, Neighborhood Health Plan to Offer Telehealth
Partners HealthCare, today announced it has recently deployed a new telehealth initiative called Partners HealthCare On Demand. Working in conjunction with Teladoc Health, Partners HealthCare is offering a new solution for urgent care video visits, providing high-quality urgent care services from Partners HealthCare clinicians for minor illnesses and injuries.Partners HealthCare On Demand will first be exclusively offered to commercial members of the system’s health plan, Neighborhood Health
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Reflexion Health Brings Virtual Rehab Platform to Employer Market with BevCap Management
Reflexion Health, a San Diego, CA-based virtual physical therapy company, today announced that it is entering the employer market through a strategic partnership with BevCap Management LLC, a program manager for captive insurance companies. As part of the partnership with BevCap, Reflexion Health's FDA-cleared Virtual Exercise Rehabilitation Assistant (VERA™), a digital platform that enables clinicians to remotely monitor patients, will be made available to BevCap's clients nationwide.VERA is
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Teladoc Rebrands as Teladoc Health to Reflect Broad Virtual Care Service Offerings
Virtual care provider Teladoc, today announced it will be changing its corporate name to Teladoc Health in order to better reflect its broad portfolio of virtual care services and mission to transform how people access healthcare around the world. Teladoc currently offers the only comprehensive virtual care solution spanning traditional telehealth, expert medical, and licensed platform and program services. As such, the Teladoc Health corporate brand will unify the combined capabilities and
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Anthem, Samsung, American Well Partner to Provide Plan Members Access to Telehealth Services
Collaboration leverages both Samsung Health and American Well apps to easily connect consumers to high-quality telehealth servicesSamsung, Anthem, and American Well, today announced a new partnership to provide consumers access to a broad array of telehealth services through the Samsung Health app and American Well’s LiveHealth Online app. Starting today, consumers with an Anthem-affiliated health plan and the updated Samsung Health app on their Samsung Galaxy device can now access LiveHealth
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Bright.md Integrates with GOeVisit, Enters Canadian Market with Virtual Care Platform
This week, Bright.md announced a new and unique customer deployment with Vancouver-based MyCare MedTech, marking its initial expansion into the global marketplace. Until now, the company’s SmartExam platform has been implemented exclusively by traditional brick and mortar healthcare systems like Providence Health & Services, Presbyterian Health Systems and Rush University. However MyCare MedTech tapped Bright.md to enhance its own existing virtual platform, dubbed GOeVisit.SmartExam enables
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The Telehealth Movement – Access, Value, Convenience
Healthcare, like all other industries, is experiencing a phase of rapid transformation due to the increased use of technology.“We’re entering a second wave of health innovation, where new business models, exciting technologies, and exciting leaders will emerge,” said Unity Stoakes, Co-Founder & President, StartUp Health in the company’s 2017 Year End Report. Telehealth, or the provision of healthcare via telecommunication networks, is not new – but it’s now becoming a hot suite of
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1Vision and AMC Health Lands VA Contract to Provide Telehealth Solutions to Veterans
1Vision LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of HMS TECHNOLOGIES, INC., and AMC Health, the leading provider of proven real-time virtual care solutions, have been awarded the Authority to Operate (ATO) and provide telehealth solutions to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).As part of the agreement, 1Vision’s and AMC Health’s telehealth solutions will be made available to enrolled Veterans and their family members. Earlier this year, 1Vision and AMC Health announced their participation in an
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