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Bright.md Raises $8M to Expand AI-Powered, Asynchronous Virtual Care

by Fred Pennic 03/27/2020 Leave a Comment

Bright.md Raises $8M to Expand AI-Powered, Asynchronous Virtual Care

What You Should Know: Bright.md announced the close of an $8 million series C to deliver critical capacity to support patient care in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic and to help flatten the curve. The funding will be used for a massive expansion effort to bring non-video telehealth to aid frontline healthcare workers and the patients they are treating.  Over six years, Bright.md has stretched $12.5 million to advance its AI-powered automation platform for primary and urgent
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COVID-19 Spikes Deaconess Health Adoption of Remote Medical Exams

by Fred Pennic 03/26/2020 Leave a Comment

COVID-19 Spikes Deaconess Health Adoption of Remote Medical Exams

What You Should Know: Tyto Care and Deaconess Health System announced its expanded integration partnership to help stem the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Tyto Care’s TytoHome telehealth device enables Deaconess patients to perform comprehensive physical examinations with a Deaconess Care Provider from the comfort of home reducing the risk of spreading the coronavirus and limiting the pressures facing emergency rooms and clinics. Since the COVID-19
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Uniper Launches Cross-Platform Service to Address Social Isolation for Older Adults

by Fred Pennic 03/25/2020 Leave a Comment

Uniper Launches Cross-Platform Service to Address Social Isolation for Older Adults

What You Should Know: - Uniper-Care Technologies announced its new cross-platform service that enables older adults and at-risk individuals in isolation to connect and engage with healthcare professionals, access live and interactive health and wellness programs, and communicate with family and friends.  - The service is designed to help the at-risk, older adult population and healthcare systems cope and adhere with the new world order of extensive social isolation due to the
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Babyscripts Lowers Prenatal In-Person Visits During COVID-19 Outbreak

by Jasmine Pennic 03/24/2020 Leave a Comment

Babyscripts Inks $500k Strategic Partnership with Inova Health

What You Should Know: - Babyscripts, a virtual care platform for obstetrics is helping to lower the amount of prenatal in-person visits to 4-6 appointments during the COVID-19 outbreak due to increased demand. - The standard amount of in-person prenatal care visits is 12-14. With the help of mobile health and their remote patient monitoring platform, which connects patients directly with their providers, Babyscripts is safely transitioning prenatal care outside the clinic.  As
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AMA Launches Virtual Panel Discussion on Telemedicine Amid COVID-19

by Fred Pennic 03/24/2020 Leave a Comment

6 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Considerations for Telehealth Providers

What You Should Know: - The American Medical Association launches a virtual panel discussion today focused on telemedicine and COVID-19. - The discussion is hosted by the AMA’s Physician Innovation Network (PIN), an online networking community of physicians, digital health companies and entrepreneurs. The American Medical Association is helping mobilize a dramatic increase in the nation’s telemedicine capacity through its advocacy on Medicare policy changes
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Validic Launches Real-Time, COVID-19 Remote Symptom Monitoring Tool

by Fred Pennic 03/23/2020 Leave a Comment

Validic Launches Real-Time, COVID-19 Remote Symptom Monitoring Tool

What You Should Know: - Validic launches COVID-19 rapid deployment remote monitoring tool for employers and healthcare organizations to monitor employees, patients, and other individuals at scale for emerging symptoms of COVID-19. - COVID-19 Home Monitoring tracks a person’s body temperature, difficulty breathing, cough frequency, and oxygen saturation. - Triggered alerts will notify program administrators or clinicians as a person’s symptoms worsen, improve, or remain static – or as
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COVID-19: Why Limited HIPAA Waivers from HHS Don’t Do Enough To Address Telehealth

by Alissa Smith, Partner at Dorsey & Whitney and co-chair of its Health Transactions and Regulations Practice Group 03/18/2020 Leave a Comment

COVID-19: Why Limited HIPPA Waivers from HHS Don't Do Enough To Address Telehealth

What You Need to Know: - HHS issued some very limited HIPAA waivers to combat COVID-19999, but experts say it leaves out some very key guidance when it comes to telehealth. - Alissa Smith, Partner at Dorsey & Whitney says the HHS is likely going to have to revisit this issue given the limited waivers issued this week.   The main thing I am hearing from my health care provider clients is that they are seeking HIPAA-related guidance
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Coronavirus Drives Teladoc’s Daily Virtual Medical Visits Up 50%

by Jasmine Pennic 03/16/2020 Leave a Comment

Coronavirus Pandemic Drives Teladoc’s Daily Virtual Medical Visits Up 50% in Past Week

What You Need to Know: - In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Teladoc Health reports that its daily virtual medical visit volume has spiked 50% over the prior week. - Teladoc Health has provided approximately 100,000 virtual medical visits to patients in the United States in the past week. Virtual care provider Teladoc Health announced that the company is experiencing unprecedented daily visit volume in the United States as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues
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Vivify Health Launches COVID-19 Screening, Self-Isolation and Monitoring Pathways

by Fred Pennic 03/16/2020 Leave a Comment

Vivify Health Launches COVID-19 Screening, Self-Isolation and Monitoring Pathways

What You Need to Know: - Vivify Health has announced that availability today of new COVID-19 Screening, Self-Isolation and Monitoring Pathways for Vivify+Go mobile solution to providers at non-cost. - This enables low-risk patients or those with mild symptoms to use their mobile devices to self-screen for COVID-19 by answering a series of questions that follow the current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. - The self-screening helps providers scale their
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CTA Releases Virtual Care Guiding Principles, Led by Livongo, Validic, Others

by Fred Pennic 03/13/2020 Leave a Comment

CTA Releases Virtual Care Guiding Principles, Led by Livongo, Validic, Others

What You Need to Know: - Consumer Technology Association (CTA) released a new set of industry-led guidelines on virtual care, convening health tech leaders like Doctor on Demand, Livongo, Validic, and BioIntelliSense. - The virtual care principles offer core guidelines and practices across patient engagement, standards of care, quality, continuity of care, prescribing and privacy and security. - While virtual care is not a panacea, in the midst of an outbreak, evaluation, triage and
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