Teladoc, a provider of virtual care delivery services, today announced that amid the most severe flu outbreak in a decade, the company has provided a record number of visits as telehealth emerges as a trusted clinical solution to provide relief for an overburdened health system. Having provided more than 300,000 total patient visits in the past five weeks alone, and as widespread flu stretches across 48 states, Teladoc continues to help patients from California to Texas, and Alabama to New York
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Penn Medicine Launches Telemedicine Hub with Center for Connected Care
Penn Medicine has announced the launch of their new telemedicine hub, Penn Medicine Center for Connected Care that centralizes the health system’s telemedicine activities. The center also includes its almost 15-year-old Penn E-lert eICU for the critically ill, a tele-homecare service for the chronically ill, as well as a telemedicine service linking obstetricians to trauma surgeons caring for critically injured pregnant women, and a tele-urgent care service which eliminates the need for physical
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Israeli Telehealth Startup TytoCare Lands $25M to Penetrate International Markets
TytoCare, an Israeli-based telehealth company has raised $25 million led by Ping An Global Voyager Fund with participation from new and existing investors. The growth round also includes new participants like Qure, Israel’s first exclusively-focused digital health fund, established with Johns Hopkins University. As part of the oversubscribed round, Tyto Care has the option to expand funding to $28 million in the next few months. The company plans to use the funds to help TytoCare fulfill the
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Fruit Street Health Joins StartUp Health Moonshot Academy
Fruit Street Health, a NYC-based provider of HIPAA-Compliant telehealth software for lifestyle and obesity medicine has been selected to join StartUp Health and its exclusive Moonshot Academy for digital health entrepreneurs. Through the StartUp Health Moonshot Academy, Fruit Street Health will gain access to coaching, community, connections to industry stakeholders and promotion aimed at successfully navigating the complicated healthcare industry. Founded in 2014, Fruit Street
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InTouch Health, Mission Health, Jefferson Health Partner to Develop New Virtual Care Models
InTouch Health, an enterprise telehealth platform has announced a five year partnership agreement with North Carolina-based Mission Health and Pennsylvania-based Jefferson Health to jointly develop new telehealth solutions to improve patient access and quality of care while reducing overall healthcare costs. Over five years, the partners will continue their commercial relationships and identify new areas – primarily within acute care and outpatient care – where providers can use telehealth
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SnapMD Launches First-of-Its-Kind Rules Engine for Telehealth Interface
SnapMD, a full-service telehealth technology innovator and solutions provider, announced they have strengthened their Virtual Care Management programming interface with a first-of-its-kind rules engine. The exclusive administrative interface advancements make SnapMD the only telehealth platform to offer compound rules functions for hospital and health system intelligent processes.The bleeding-edge upgrades enhance the platform’s intelligent workflow system. Specifically, they add more options
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Florida Hospital New Smyrna Launches Tele-ICU with Advanced ICU Care
Florida Hospital New Smyrna has announced its partnership with Advanced ICU Care to provide tele-ICU clinical services to its critically ill patient population. The partnership extends Advanced ICU Care’s growing, multi-state relationship with Adventist Health System hospitals for collaborative ICU patient care via telemedicine.Working collaboratively, Advanced ICU Care will help support New Smyrna’s bedside clinicians to deliver 24/7 care by U.S. board-certified intensivists and standardized
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Novartis Foundation, Ghana Health Integrates Telemedicine Services Across Ghana
Today the Novartis Foundation and Ghana Health Service are announcing the successful integration and scale-up of telemedicine services across Ghana. The telemedicine service started as a pilot model in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region in 2011, covering 30 communities of around 35,000 people. The Novartis Foundation worked with local and international partners to make the pilot a success.Partners included Millennium Promise at Columbia University; the Ghana Ministry of Health,
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GlobalMed Lands DoD Contract for Telemedicine Care
This week, GlobalMed announced it has been awarded the authority to operate on U.S. DoD networks, providing telehealth and telemedicine services globally to active duty military personnel, veterans, their families – and when there is a need as part of a disaster recovery operation. GlobalMed is the first provider of HIPAA-compliant clinical video collaboration to obtain an ATO. This much coveted certification enables GlobalMed to put their virtual health applications, hardware and software
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Stratus Video Spin Off Launches Virtual Care Platform to Enhance Telehealth Marketplace
Synzi announced today a new investment from Kinderhook Industries forming a new virtual care spin-off entity from language services company, Stratus Video's language services division. Synzi offers healthcare organizations — from providers to payers to biotech and pharma — a multi-channel communication platform that goes beyond the traditional telehealth model to support some of the industry’s biggest goals, such as enhancing patient engagement, facilitating complex care management, streamlining
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