Kaiser Permanente Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Kaiser Permanente has invested $10 million in high quality visual communications Vidyo for telehealth and video collaboration. The Vidyo funding round also includes $5M from existing investors, for a total of $15M follow-on round of funding. The company will use the funds to accelerate growth in vertical markets.
The VidyoWorks platform has a FIPS 140-2 certified crypto-kernel, providing HIPAA-compliant encryption, and a rich
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Georgia’s Piedmont First to Offer On-Demand Virtual Visits
Starting today, consumers in Georgia can see a board-certified physician via virtual visit from their smart phone or tablet thanks to the new app Piedmont On Call.
Powered by Alii Healthcare, Piedmont On Call app is the first of its kind in Georgia allowing consumers physician consultants via Piedmont On Call from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day of the week for $100 per virtual visit.
The app is specifically designed to help consumers receive faster treatment for low-acuity, urgent healthcare
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Teladoc’s CEO Talks What Telehealth Means for the Future of Healthcare
What if access to quality healthcare services was just a click, tap, or phone call away? That was the premise that telehealth services were founded on. But beyond the appeal and consumer convenience, telehealth stands to create efficiencies for healthcare systems that are desperately in need of it.
Telehealth isn’t just about taking healthcare to the future—it’s about creating a better future for the patients and providers than can benefit from its use, especially in the wake of the
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AbilTo Launches Tele-Behavioral Health Program for Veterans Returning to Civilian Life
AbilTo, Inc., a provider of tele-behavioral health programs, today launched its Military Transitions Program, designed specifically to help veterans address the personal, interpersonal and emotional challenges that often accompany return from service at any point during the readjustment period.
Military Transitions Program Overview
The goal of the Military Transitions Program is to improve mood management and practice action-oriented behavior that is goal and values driven. To achieve this, an
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Startup Launches First-Ever Medical Marijuana Telehealth App
On-demand medical marijuana technology startup Eaze has released the first of its kind medical marijuana telehealth app, EazeMD in both the iTunes and Google Play stores to make on-demand physician evaluations possible from any mobile device. For only $30, EazeMD's proprietary mobile technology platform enables new and renewing patients to connect with independent, board-certified physicians via video teleconferencing for medical marijuana evaluations.
Once evaluations are approved,
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Consortium Unveils ‘Cookbook’ for Large-Scale Telehealth Deployments
A Philips-led consortium of leading companies, universities, hospitals and healthcare authorities has unveiled a 'cookbook' for large-scale deployment of coordinated care and telehealth. The cookbook is the result from a two-and-a-half year scientific evaluation of data from different connected health programs in five European regions. It provides new insights that apply across the EU on why certain telehealth programs are more successful than others.
Connected care is seen by many
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TeleHealth Startup HealthiestYou Raises $30M to Help Consumers Avoid Expensive Visits
HealthiestYou, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based telehealth company focused on engagement and utilization has raised $30 million in growth investment from Charlotte, North Carolina-based Frontier Capital. The company will use the investment to accelerate sales and marketing efforts, technology enhancements and leadership to increase its share of the large and rapidly growing telehealth market.
HealthiestYou Telehealth App
Available to individuals and employers, HealthiestYou can be
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Walgreens/MDLive Expands Telehealth Visits to Consumers in 20 States
Pharmacy retail giant Walgreens is expanding its partnership with MDLive to offer consumers in 20 additional states 24/7 access to MDLIVE's telehealth visits via Walgreens mobile app. The latest expansion brings the total number of states to 25.
As part of today’s expansion, patients in the following states will now have access to MDLIVE telehealth services through the Walgreens mobile app: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
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Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield to Offer Telehealth Therapy Services via AbilTo
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is collaborating with behavioral health company AbilTo, Inc. to offer telehealth therapy services by a licensed therapist and behavior coach -- via telephone or secure on-line video – at no cost to certain Horizon BCBNSNJ members. Starting this month, the remote telehealth therapy will be offered as an eight-week program in which therapist and behavior coach teams help members make sustainable lifestyle changes that improve their physical health,
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4 Consumer Groups Most Interested in Digital Health Tools
Today, Americans manage much of their lives through digital and electronic tools, except when it comes to healthcare. According to a new Nielsen survey released this week by the Council of Accountable Physician Practices and the Bipartisan Policy Center reveals a majority of Americans are unaware of or don’t have access to the digital health tools they could use to communicate with their doctors for better quality health care. Digital health tools could save primary care $10 billion annually,
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