With the incidence of new COVID-19 cases expanding by the day, those in healthcare are accelerating their search for any available tools or medications that could stem the outbreak.
Modern medical organizations have used technology to track and treat viruses in the outbreaks that have occurred over the last few decades. The current COVID-19 crisis makes innovative virtual care solutions an indispensable tool as the virus spreads across communities.
The Rise of Virtual Care During the
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Amwell Raises $194M to Expand Telehealth Platform to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- Telehealth leader American Well (Amwell) raises $194 million in Series C funding in an effort to expand to better serve patients and healthcare providers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
- As COVID-19 swept across the United States, Amwell has seen a significant expansion in the usage of its core Amwell Platform.
American Well® (Amwell), a
national telehealth technology
and services company announced it has raised $194 million in Series C funding
with
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Eko Launches AI-Powered Telehealth Platform for Virtual Pulmonary and Cardiac Exam
What You Should Know:
Eko launches first AI-Powered telehealth platform for virtual
pulmonary and cardiac exams, providing clinicians with in-person level exam capabilities
during video visits.
Already deployed by more than 200 health systems for telehealth, platform goes beyond standard video conferencing to facilitate stethoscope audio, ECG live-streaming, and FDA-cleared identification of atrial fibrillation (AFib) and heart murmurs.
Eko today
announced Eko Telehealth, an
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FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Programs Surpasses $50M in Funding
What You Should Know:
- To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program, which was authorized by the CARES Act, has approved funding for 132 healthcare providers across 33 states plus Washington, DC for a total of just over $50M in funding.
The Federal Communications
Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved an additional 43
funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth
Program. The seventh set of healthcare providers in both urban and
rural areas of the
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Tava Health Lands $3M to Expand Mental Telehealth Platform for Employees
What You Should Know:
- Tava Health just secured $3 million in seed funding to increase employee access to mental health resources.
- Since its founding in 2019, Tavahealth’s platform has driven 10 times more utilization of mental health resources than traditional mental health benefits and this funding will enable them to expand those services.
Tava Health,
a Salt Lake City, UT-based convenient and accessible mental telehealth platform
for employers, today announced the close of a
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Doctor On Demand Becomes First Telehealth Provider to Support 33M Medicare Part B Beneficiaries
What You Should Know:
- Doctor on Demand becomes the first nationwide, telehealth provider to expand its medical services to Medicare Part B coverage in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Through Doctor On Demand, beneficiaries are now able to easily connect with a board-certified physician of their choice over secure live video from home, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Doctor On Demand,
a San Francisco, CA-based virtual care provider, announced it is the first
nationwide,
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COVID-19 and Its Global Impact on Primary Care Virtual Consultations
Last week saw Teladoc Health release its 1Q20 financial results giving the US telehealth industry a first glimpse of how COVID-19 is impacting the ambulatory virtual care market. Discussion around the crisis and its impact on telehealth has been rife since early March and the data published by Teladoc Health highlights that this was justified.
The company reported that the number of virtual care consults in the quarter had passed the 2 million mark, up approximately 60% from the 1.24M
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KLAS: COVID-19 Guide to Telehealth Virtual Care & Remote Care Platforms
What You Should Know:
- New KLAS telehealth reports aims to aims to provide high-level COVID-19 guidance helpful to healthcare organizations on the virtual care and remote care platform vendor landscape.
- Includes high-level overviews of validated vendors’ current customer satisfaction, key questions to consider in building a strategy, and a consolidated view of KLAS’ previously published telehealth reports.
Telehealth
adoption in healthcare until recently had been increasing at a
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COVID-19 Sparks Consumer Fears of Seeking In-Person Medical Care
What You Should Know:
- Consumer fears of seeking in-person medical care is rising as states begin reopening from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from Black Book Research and Sage Growth Partners.
- The data reveals that while some may delay care due to concerns about potential exposure to COVID-19, others are willing to leverage telehealth – though this is not a one-size-fits-all solution.
As states begin reopening businesses and the number of coronavirus
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COVID-19 Pandemic: The Surprise Catalyst for Telemedicine Adoption
It is no secret that technology adoption in healthcare often lags adoption in other sectors. Often, the slow pace of adoption makes sense. While technology can drastically improve both cost and quality in healthcare when implemented correctly, it can also cause physician burnout, increased administrative workload, and worsen patient outcomes if a new technology fails to live up to the hype.
Historically, the slow pace of IT adoption in healthcare was nowhere more apparent than in the
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