What You Should Know: - New KeyCare survey finds nearly 7 in 10 (68%) of consumers who needed minor but urgent medical services while traveling in the prior year received care via telehealth visits with their regular physicians or affiliated members of their physicians’ care teams, outpacing all other care-delivery options. - Results are based on a survey of 400 consumers who have previously scheduled and
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From Telemedicine to Complete Virtual Care and Beyond
Telemedicine has helped improve the quality of life of patients in every corner of the world and has been successfully utilized to provide convenient care to people with limited or no access to health services. Today, worldwide digital interconnectivity is growing, enabling telehealth to advance health equity, bring access to care for underserved regions and meet the urgent, primary and behavioral healthcare needs of an exploding global population. It has been a remarkable journey for the
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TytoCare and Overlake Partner to Expand Virtual Care Offerings
What You Should Know: - Virtual care company TytoCare has partnered with Overlake Medical Center & Clinics, a nonprofit regional medical center offering a full range of advanced medical services to the Puget Sound region, to enhance their virtual care offerings. - Overlake Clinics is introducing the TytoHome device into its Concierge Care medical service to enhance the care providers’ ability to diagnose and treat patients with comprehensive physical exams during virtual visits. -
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M&A: ReviveHealth Acquires Telehealth Company SwiftMD
What You Should Know: ReviveHealth, a whole health and integrated care company, has acquired SwiftMD, a virtual care services company with a strong physician network. - The acquisition was facilitated by Eir Partners, a Miami based private equity firm that invests in high growth healthcare companies. Eir Partners took a majority interest in ReviveHealth as a part of the transaction. SwiftMD Background SwiftMD is a digital virtual health company with the highest utilization rate
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M&A: OpenLoop Acquires Reliant.MD’s Practice Group
What You Should Know: - OpenLoop Health, a leader in white-label telehealth support services powering virtual and hybrid care across the country, today announced its acquisition of Reliant.MD's practice group. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. - The acquisition enables OpenLoop to continue to expand the depth of its clinical services and further confirms its place as a leader in digital and hybrid healthcare delivery. - For Reliant Immune Diagnostics, Inc. the
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90% of Americans Used Telehealth in The Past Year, Survey Finds
What You Should Know: - Independa, an award-winning TV-based platform providing remote engagement, education and care, recently announced the results of their latest commissioned survey examining behaviors and attitudes of smart TV users and their experiences surrounding telehealth - Results from the November 2022 study found that over 90% of Americans used telehealth services in the last year, and that 90% enjoyed their experience. Some of these services included doctors appointments,
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Teladoc Health Launches Fully Integrated Whole-Person Care Experience App
What You Should Know: - Teladoc Health launches a fully integrated healthcare experience through a new comprehensive digital application enabling personalized whole-person care to individuals. - The app will enable consumers to seamlessly access Teladoc Health’s full range of services, including primary care, mental health and chronic condition management from one place and under a single portable account. - In addition, Teladoc Health’s full suite of services will be available in
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To Truly Address Behavioral Health Worker Shortages, We Need Telemedicine
In late September, the Senate Finance Committee released a bipartisan discussion draft bill that aims to address the nation’s crippling behavioral healthcare crisis by providing funding for 4,000 Medicare Graduate Medical Education psychiatry residencies over the next decade. Four thousand more psychiatrists are certainly a step in the right direction, but there is still much work to be done in light of projections that we will be short between 14,280
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Brightside Health Launches Telehealth Program to Combat Suicide Epidemic
What You Should Know: - Brightside Health today announced Crisis Care, a telehealth program treating individuals with elevated suicide risk. With the addition of Crisis Care, the company will expand its services to individuals experiencing acute suicidal thoughts and behaviors. - While telehealth has improved access to mental healthcare, the majority of virtual mental health services only treat patients with low-to-moderately severe conditions. This
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Baptist Health Taps TytoCare to Enhance Virtual Care to Patients
What You Should Know: - TytoCare has partnered with Baptist Health, a full-spectrum health system, to bring Tytocare’s virtual care solutions to patients in Kentucky and Indiana. - As part of the partnership, Baptist Health will integrate TytoCare’s Home Smart Clinic solution into its current telehealth offering, enhancing the health system’s ability to diagnose and treat patients with in-depth, remote physical examinations during virtual visits, including urgent
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