Telehealth provider Teladoc is expanding its telehealth offerings in Texas as a result of the new landmark telemedicine bill. Once Senate Bill 1107 is signed into law, Texas will be established as a national leader in telemedicine, which marks the ending of Teladoc’s six-year legal dispute in the state regarding the proper scope and use of telemedicine. Senate Bill 1107 OverviewUnder this new law a patient-physician relationship can be established without an in-person visit, protecting all
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Cerner, Truman Medical Center Partner to Launch Remote Patient Monitoring Program for Chronic Conditions
Cerner and Truman Medical Centers (TMC) have teamed up to launch comprehensive disease management programs to engage patients in their health and improve outcomes for groups of individuals with high-risk chronic conditions. Through the initiative, Algorithms configured in Cerner’s HealtheIntent population health management platform identified select groups of TMC’s patient population with conditions like diabetes and chronic heart failure that could benefit from enhanced health monitoring.To
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Southcoast Health to Deploy Video Remote Interpretation for Patients
Stratus Video announced that its mobile video interpretation solution is now being utilized at all of Southcoast Health’s Southeastern Massachusetts hospitals. Stratus Video’s video remote interpretation (VRI) technology lets Southcoast Health easily provide improved care for LEP and Deaf patients, while ensuring compliance with ADA regulations.Ever-expanding language diversity, coupled with evolving federal regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has brought on-demand
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Doctor On Demand Integrates With LabCorp & Quest Diagnostics for Patient Lab Results
On-demand telehealth provider Doctor On Demand has partnered with LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics to offer fully integrated laboratory services to its more than one million patients. By electronically integrating the lab experience into its platform, Doctor On Demand gives doctors direct access to a comprehensive array of tests without having to go through separate lab provider platforms, while offering patients a seamless, paperless experience.“Our mission is to improve the world’s health through
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American Well Unveils AW10 to Minimize Time between In-Person and Telehealth Visits for Physicians
Telehealth provider AmericanWell has rolled out its newest enterprise telehealth platform, AW10 this week at the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Annual Meeting. The new telehealth platform focuses on minimizing the time a doctor operates telehealth technology while maximizing the time a doctor interacts directly with the patient during a live visit.AW10 aims to simplify the provider telehealth experience across four critical areas, bringing them closer to interchangeably seeing patients
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Philips Unveils New teleICU Platform for Seamless Integration Between teleICU and Bedside Care Teams
Philips has announced the debut of its eCareManager 4.1 enterprise telehealth software that allows intensivists to provide more efficient care across a larger patient population, allowing for greater scale and potentially reducing operating costs. The new platform builds on Philips success in delivering population health management solutions to help combat shortages of critical care teams by providing actionable insights to help improve outcomes in the most complex patient cases.Designed to be
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Zoom Launches Epic EHR Integration Enabled Telehealth Platform
Zoom Video Communication, a San Jose, CA-based provider of enterprise video and web communications technology has launched its Epic EHR-integration enabled cloud-based video telehealth platform. The platform named Zoom for Health offers a standard feature set for healthcare enterprises and providers, enabling reliable, HIPAA-compliant communications between organizations, care teams, and patients.The Epic EHR integration incorporates Zoom into Epic record and communications workflows.
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KPMG Survey: One-third of Healthcare Providers Have Virtual Care Initiatives in Place
Three-quarters of providers have some form of virtual care initiatives in place, but only a fraction call their program "advanced, according to a survey commissioned by KPMG LLP, the U.S. tax, audit and advisory firm. The KPMG survey, conducted by HIMSS Analytics from Feb. 15 - March 17, 2017, asked 147 healthcare executives about the state of adoption for virtual care services and explored the top challenges hospitals and healthcare systems face in digital health. Respondents were comprised
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Siemens Healthineers Acquires Medicalis to Expands Its Population Health Portfolio
Siemens Healthineers, today announced the acquisition of Medicalis Corporation, a provider of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Solutions at the point of order entry, Imaging Workflow (IW) management, and Referral Management (RM). Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.For Siemens Healthineers—the separately managed healthcare business of Siemens AG— the acquisition will expand its Population Health Management (PHM) portfolio to enable healthcare providers to effectively bridge
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Highmark Partners With Best Doctors to Provide Virtual Second Opinions for Members
Highmark, the nation's fourth-largest Blue Cross and Blue Shield-affiliated organization is partnering with Best Doctors to provide virtual expert second opinions for Highmark members and their physicians dealing with rare or complex medical conditions. Best Doctors provides access to more than 53,000 of the world’s brightest minds in over 450 medical specialties, without the need for patients to travel far from home. Data from Best Doctors show that consultation with its experts results in
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