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Spectrum Health Taps TytoCare to Expand Telehealth Offerings

by Fred Pennic 03/15/2021 Leave a Comment

Spectrum Health Taps TytoCare to Expand Telehealth Offerings

What You Should Know: - Spectrum Health, a not-for-profit, integrated health system based in West Michigan has announced a partnership with TytoCare to expand their telehealth offerings. - The integration of TytoCare into Spectrum Health’s virtual care offering will enhance the health system’s ability to diagnose and treat patients remotely with in-depth, physical examinations during video visits. In an initial pilot with Spectrum Health employees
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Yale New Haven Health Deploys Virtual Clinic for Pediatric Patients with Diabetes

by Fred Pennic 03/15/2021 Leave a Comment

Yale New Haven Health Deploys Virtual Clinic for Pediatric Patients with Diabetes

What You Should Know: - After taking part in proving the clinical benefit of using AI-based decision support tools, as was recently published in Nature Medicine, Yale New Haven Health System and DreaMed Diabetes announced a collaboration that will explore what it would take to adopt such a solution into a real-world health system. - As part of the collaboration, Yale New Haven will utilize DreaMed’s Advisor Pro platform to create a virtual clinic, this real-world evaluation will assess the
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Ambulatory Considerations for Remote Patient Monitoring Technologies

by Jiang Li, CEO of VivaLNK 03/15/2021 Leave a Comment

Ambulatory Considerations for Remote Patient Monitoring Technologies

The use of healthcare technology solutions in clinical settings is a time-tested conventional practice, and it’s becoming more commonplace in remote patient monitoring (RPM) as supporting technologies drive more innovation. With the broad range of care encompassed by the term “RPM,” there are a number of factors that can impact the overall effectiveness of monitoring patient vitals and other physiological parameters in remote, non-clinical situations. When a patient transitions from a
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Untapping the Potential for Virtual Care in a Pandemic and Beyond

by Dr. Sonny Kohli, Practicing Physician in Internal Medicine and Critical Care and Faculty at SingularityU Canada 02/25/2021 Leave a Comment

Untapping the Potential for Virtual Care in a Pandemic and Beyond

Virtual care is everywhere and ubiquitous. But at a time when the world is amid a global pandemic, virtual care is also being underutilized. The technology exists today to help our healthcare system not only more effectively and efficiently manage care during COVID-19, but also exponentially scale capacity in the face of future outbreaks.  Virtual care defined Virtual care is a broad term. It encompasses all the ways healthcare practitioners provide for care remotely. This can mean
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Amwell Launches Smart TV Carepoint Device to Increase Telehealth Use in Patient Rooms

by Fred Pennic 02/18/2021 Leave a Comment

Amwell Launches Smart TV Carepoint Device to Increase Telehealth Use in Patient Rooms

What You Should Know: - Amwell launches new smart tv Carepoint device that enables hospitals to use televisions for telehealth in an effort to help hospitals scale and simplify access to telehealth by using devices that already exist in patient rooms. Intermountain Healthcare has already successfully deployed more than 1,200 units across nearly 50 locations.   - Designed to further expand integrated telehealth connectivity via the Amwell platform, the new
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98point6 Launches New Virtual Behavioral Health Offering

by Jasmine Pennic 02/17/2021 Leave a Comment

98point6 Launches New Virtual Behavioral Health Offering

What You Should Know: - 98point6 announces the launch of its new virtual behavioral health service. - With primary care at the center, 98point6’s new single-stop virtual care solution helps ensure that every patient is fully supported in their mental health treatment journey. - Currently available to commercial customers, 98point6 provides employers, health plans and health systems access to integrated, behavioral health care for their employees and members from a collaborative team of
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Telehealth Helped Me Beat COVID-19, But It’s Just A Start

by Lisa Romano, MSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer at CipherHealth 02/05/2021 Leave a Comment

Telehealth Helped Me Beat COVID-19, But it’s Just A Start

I was the voice of social distancing, a proponent of mask-wearing from the very start. Still, after months of keeping distance from loved ones, the idea of a quick, safe, outdoor family gathering on a beautiful fall day, even if we weren’t going to be wearing masks, was too good to pass up.  A week later, I was sequestered in my bed, with a 103-degree-fever that didn’t break for 12 days, unrelenting migraines and aches, and what felt like an impossibly heavy weight on my chest, making
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ATA, Hims & Hers, Others Form Telehealth Equity Coalition to Improve Access to Telehealth Among Underserved Populations

by Fred Pennic 02/02/2021 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know: - . Together with nonprofit, academic, and industry partners, the Telehealth Equity Coalition (TEC) has formed to improve access to quality and affordable healthcare by increasing adoption of telehealth, especially among those who have been left out or left behind. - Founding members of the TEC include: Adaptation Health, American Telemedicine Association, BlackDoctor.org, Foley & Lardner, Grapevine Health, Hims & Hers, Howard University Dept. of Community
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Treat in Place: Protecting Nursing Home Patients From Hospital Readmission

by Waseem Ghannam, MD, President, Telehealth Solution 02/02/2021 Leave a Comment

Treat in Place: Protecting Nursing Home Patients From Hospital Readmission

A night doctor’s dilemma Five years ago, I was practicing medicine in a rural hospital in North Carolina as a nocturnist, when I received a call from an Emergency Room (ER) doctor. “Hey, it’s Blake. Room 7. Demented. UTI,” he says, and hangs up. I was struck by the abrupt and sparse communication—no detailed report. Not even a name. Charged with admitting and caring for patients, I head downstairs and find myself in room 7 where an elderly woman with a blown IV and no family around is
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Concentra Transitions Telemed Offering from Amwell to eVisit Virtual Care Platform

by Fred Pennic 01/26/2021 Leave a Comment

Concentra Transitions Telemed Offering from Amwell to eVisit Virtual Care Platform

What You Should Know: -  Concentra recently transitioned their three-year-old Concentra Telemed® offering from Amwell to the eVisit Virtual Care platform. - The eVisit Virtual Care platform is supporting all of Concentra’s telemedicine requirements, including its industry-leading 24/7/365 Concentra Telemed offering and Concentra Telerehab®, conducting more than 8,000 virtual visits a month. - eVisit was founded six years ago and is already in use at more than 100
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