What You Should Know:
- Amazon, CVS Health, Thermo Fisher Scientific join forces to
promote employer-based testing As part of a comprehensive COVID-19 testing strategy.
- The coalition, named Workplace Employers Alliance for
COVID-19 Testing (WE ACT), believes
that employer-based testing programs are essential to keeping employees safe
during the current public health emergency.
- WE ACT aims to
advance a comprehensive national testing strategy that includes clear guidance
for the
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Scanwell Health’s FDA-Cleared, Smartphone-Enabled UTI Test Kit Now Available at Amazon
What You Should Know:
- LA-based Scanwell Health announced today that its at-home UTI test kits - featuring the first FDA-cleared urinalysis app that lets people test for a UTI without having to visit a lab or doctor - is now available on Amazon.com.
- The kits are priced at 3 for $15. Happy to send a graphic or answer any questions you have. Until now, the kits have been available only directly through the Scanwell Health web site.
- Scanwell enables clinical-grade testing, instant
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Amazon Launches HealthLake for Healthcare Orgs to Aggregate & Structure Health Data
What You Should Know:
- Amazon today announced the launch of Amazon HealthLake,
a new HIPAA-eligible service enables healthcare organizations to store, tag,
index, standardize, query, and apply machine learning to analyze data at
petabyte scale in the cloud.
- Cerner, Ciox Health, Konica Minolta Precision Medicine,
and Orion Health among customers using Amazon HealthLake.
Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon
Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company today announced Amazon
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Amazon Launches Digital Pharmacy Store: 6 Key Things to Know
Amazon.com, Inc. today announced the expansion of its foothold into the pharmacy business with two new pharmacy offerings to help customers conveniently purchase their prescription medications. Amazon Pharmacy, a new store on Amazon, allows customers to complete an entire pharmacy transaction on their desktop or mobile device through the Amazon App.
Here are six key things to know about this landmark
announcement:
1. Using a secure pharmacy profile, customers can add their insurance
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The Future of Patient Access: From Appointment Reminders to Automated Patient Journeys
The concept of 'Patient Access' has evolved significantly. We all remember the good old days when patient access was an inbound responsive model – patients dialed into a call center phone number and were connected "round-robin" to the next available staff member with their call script. Then outbound voice and email messages and patient appointment reminders became common, and now access centers have begun to deploy more advanced communication channels such as natural language voice response,
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3 Telemedicine Security and Compliance Best Practices
The coronavirus pandemic accelerated telemedicine exponentially as patients and doctors switched from in-person visits to remote consultations. Health providers rapidly scaled virtual offerings in March and April and traffic volumes soared to unprecedented levels, with practices “seeing 50 to 175 times the number of patients by telehealth than before the outbreak,” according to McKinsey. By early August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expanded the list of
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AWS, PHDA Collaborate to Develop Breast Cancer Screening and Depression Machine Learning Models
What You Should Know:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) announce a collaboration to produce more accurate machine learning models for breast cancer screening and depression.
- In work funded through the PHDA-AWS collaboration, a research team led by Shandong Wu, an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Radiology, is using deep-learning systems to analyze mammograms in order to predict the short‐term risk of developing
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Best Buy Health Launches Phone for Seniors w/ Amazon Alexa Voice Services
What You Should Know:
- GreatCall, a division of Best Buy Health launches Lively Flip phone for seniors, with new voice capabilities via Amazon Alexa.
- The Lively Flip is the next evolution of the Jitterbug, designed to help older adults stay connected to family, friends, and health services – at a time when staying connected is especially important.
- Lively Voice services with Amazon Alexa is an all-new, enhanced feature that gives users the option to use their voice to make calls,
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Amazon Alexa, Sharecare Integrate to Answer More than 80k Health & Wellness Questions
What You Should Know:
- Sharecare integrates with Amazon Alexa’s voice service
to answer more than 80,000 health and wellness questions.
- And now, when Alexa responds to customers’ questions
about health topics, Sharecare is among the roster of trusted health
information sources to which the voice service attributes answers.
Sharecare, the digital health
company that helps people manage all their health in one place through its
comprehensive and data-driven virtual
heath
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Redox Interoperability Platform Now Available in AWS Marketplace
What You Should Know:
- Today, Redox announced the availability of the Redox
EHR Integration in AWS Marketplace. Now, healthcare providers and vendors can
access the largest package of pre-built EHR integrations and achieve value from
applications more quickly and easily.
- The digital transformation of healthcare has gained
momentum this year, and AWS is one of many tech giants working to spur
innovation in healthcare. AWS Marketplace is a platform that helps healthcare
organizations
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