CirrusMD, a Denver, CO-based telehealth startup has raised $7M in Series A funding led by Colorado Impact Fund. The round also included participation from Bootstrap Incubation, Three Leaf Ventures, Rockies Venture Fund, Service Provider Capital, Sand Hill Angels, and New York Angels. The telehealth startup works with large health systems, integrated delivery networks, and health plans, particularly those focused on value-based care models. CirrusMD plans to utilize the funding to expand its
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Keeping Telemedicine HIPAA Compliant
Editor's Note: Brady Ranum is VP of Products and Strategy at Dizzion, a cloud delivered desktop and end user computing solutions provider. The healthcare industry is currently experiencing two major trends that are on a potentially dangerous collision course: the rise of telemedicine (and the corresponding increase in remote workers) and a spike in healthcare data breaches.As early as 2014, a telemedicine survey by Foley & Lardner found that an astonishing 90 percent of healthcare
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Teladoc to Acquire Best Doctors for $440M in Cash and Stock
Telehealth provider Teladoc, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Best Doctors, an expert medical consultant company. For Teladoc, the acquisition will expand its international footprint and breadth of healthcare solutions. . By leveraging the proven portfolio of healthcare solutions from both Best Doctors and Teladoc, members will have one simple, virtual, patient-centric way to resolve their healthcare issues, improving outcomes and reducing costs.Under the terms of the
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UK Telehealth Startup Now Healthcare Group Lands £4M to Develop Artificial Intelligence Solutions
Now Healthcare Group, a UK-based telehealth provider has secured a £4 million ($5M USD) investment from leading health cash plan provider Medicash. The investment from Medicash will enable the NHG to further develop its artificial intelligence and machine learning offering through its mobile app products and its online pharmacy, enabling the faster development of auto diagnoses and medicine adherence solutions.Founded in 2015 by Lee Dentith, NHG provides digital healthcare services through its
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eClinicalWorks Adds TeleVisits Functionality to EHR-Integrated App Healow
eClinicalWorks’ TeleVisits is now live on the company’s healow mobile app. This feature is integrated within the eClinicalWorks comprehensive EHR system and supports workflow, clinical research and improves patient satisfaction with access to care whenever and wherever it’s needed.Available on Android or Apple, healow is a fully integrated solution that closes the loop between providers and their patients when they are away from their physician offices. healow Hub brings patient-recorded data
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Russian Digital Health Startup DOC+ Lands $5M for On-Demand Doctor Visits
DOC+, a Russian digital health startup has raised $5 million in funding from existing investors - Yandex Internet Company and Baring Vostok venture fund. The new capital will be used to develop advanced digital health services, as well as to expand the core business of on-demand visits and telemedicine consultations. The latest round makes it the largest funded digital health company in Russia.Founded in 2015, DOC+ provides on-demand doctor services in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, with another
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eVisit Raises $2M to Expand Telemedicine SaaS Platform for Doctors
eVisit, a Mesa, AZ-based telemedicine patient engagement platform for SMB healthcare practices has raised $2 million in funding from Kickstart Seed Fund , Arizona Founders Fund , and angel investor Jeremy Andrus , former CEO of Traeger Grills. The company plans to use the funds to accelerate its sales, marketing, and support teams to keep pace with the market demand.Founded in 2013, eVisit is a web app that connects primary care providers with their patients by webcam or phone for the remote
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How Live Video Technology is Impacting the Medical Field
Technological innovation is at the heart of medicine and the healthcare industry. Technology has enabled humanity to extend lives by years, if not decades. It has allowed us to conduct complex surgeries that would otherwise be impossible. It has even allowed doctors to provide amputees with new limbs. Technology has empowered the blind, deaf, or immobile to regain some of their impaired qualities.And while some innovations – such as video technology – don’t seem nearly as groundbreaking, they
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Intermountain Healthcare Goes Live on the American Well’s Telehealth Exchange Marketplace
American Well, today announced that its award-winning online care marketplace, the Exchange, has continued to expand with the addition of providers from Intermountain Healthcare. Intermountain Healthcare already serves its existing patients and communities through Intermountain Connect Care for on-demand telehealth visits 24/7/365.Through the Exchange, Intermountain will make its nurse practitioners and physician assistants available to patients living in Utah, and soon Idaho, for live,
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Lemonaid Health Raises $11M for $15 On-Demand Virtual Doctor Visits
Lemonaid Health, a San Francisco, CA-based telehealth startup, has raised $11 million in Series A funding led by Novartis Venture Fund and Hikma Ventures and joined by Correlation Ventures, Adaptive Healthcare Fund, Vega Ventures and 415 Ventures.Founded in 2013 by Co-Founders Ian Van Every and Paul Johnson, Lemonaid Health leverages evidence-based guidelines to get a doctor’s prescription for certain conditions like acid reflux, acne, flu, sinus infection, urinary tract infections, hair loss,
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