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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Methodist Family Health Centers Launches Virtual Care Service
Methodist Family Health Centers, a part of Methodist Medical Group and affiliate of Methodist Health System, today announced the launch of Methodist NOW – an online diagnosis and treatment service that enables patients to receive convenient access to care by connecting them virtually with trusted Methodist Family Health Center providers.Methodist NOW is powered by Zipnosis, a virtual care company that enables health systems to provide virtual care services, meeting the needs of patients while
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VA Awards $260M Telehealth Contract to Provide Telehealth Services to Veterans
1Vision LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of HMS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. has been awarded an estimated $260 million contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to deliver home telehealth solutions. As part of the contract, 1Vision has exclusively partnered with AMC Health to implement its virtual health and remote patient monitoring solution. The AMC Health offering enables veterans to automatically transmit information including vital sign measurements such as weight, blood pressure, blood
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American Well Integrates With Philips to Deliver Virtual Care Solutions
American Well and Philips announce a multi-year agreement to integrate American Well’s virtual care capabilities into Philips’ consumer and professional digital health solutions. Through this technology partnership, the two companies will work together to embed American Well's mobile telehealth services into an array of Philips solutions for both healthy consumers and patients with a medical need, spanning personal health & wellness, population health management, and clinical programs. A
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Allianz Pumps $59M In American Well to Develop Digital Solutions for Emerging Markets
Allianz, today announced a $59.2 million investment and strategic partnership with leading telehealth platform American Well to develop digital solutions that will widen access, lower cost and improve quality of healthcare for millions of patients worldwide. The strategic investment was led by Allianz X, the digital investment unit of Allianz and was supported by the Health Innovation Center of Allianz Partners, the B2B2C unit of the Allianz Group dedicated to developing protection and care
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WellCare Health Plans Taps VirtualHealth as its Care Management Platform
VirtualHealth, the leading provider of population health and care management technologies, announced that WellCare Health Plans, Inc. will deploy VirtualHealth’s nationally recognized platform to support millions of members enrolled in its Medicare and Medicaid health plans across 20 states. WellCare will leverage VirtualHealth’s extensive capabilities across care management, including multi-source integration, risk stratification, trigger-based tasking, clinical automation, care planning,
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InTouch Health Acquires TruClinic to Enter Direct-to-Consumer Telehealth Market
InTouch Health, the leading enterprise telehealth platform has acquired TruClinic, a web-based telemedicine provider based in Salt Lake City, Utah, specializing in direct-to-consumer virtual care solutions. Through the acquisition, InTouchHealth expands its existing portfolio to deliver a full range of virtual care programs to healthcare providers, enabling continuity of care between physicians and patients. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.The combined solution
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