What You Should Know: - Walmart acquires app-based patient medication management platform CareZone for reportedly $200M to enhance its digital health and wellness capabilities. - CareZone’s technology and team members will join Walmart to augment their current Health & Wellness capabilities and support its focus on digital health care solutions. CareZone will remain a separate company unrelated to Walmart. Walmart announced it has acquired CareZone, a San Francisco,
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Osso VR Brings Film Industry Level Quality VR Surgical Training to OR
What You Need to Know: - Osso VR rolls out new immersive training experience that has taken a new leap forward in its realism, from the anatomical details of the “patient” to the medical tools and OR environment. - The training platform is designed for surgeons, sales teams and surgical team trainees to address complexities in learning common procedures and to use new medical devices by providing realistic, haptic-enhanced interactions in an immersive training environment that is
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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 Crisis Makes Complying with Data Interoperability a Priority
With healthcare organizations focused on battling COVID-19, the recent federal healthcare regulation requiring data interoperability may have become an afterthought. However, compliance with this rule will create a powerful tool for fighting COVID-19 recurrences and future pandemics. If interoperability had gone into effect earlier this year as originally scheduled, many insurance companies and the federal government would now be able to securely share the data they have for most of the
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Apple, Google Partner on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Tech: 5 things to Know
What You Should Know: - Apple and Google announce a joint partnership to enable the use of Bluetooth-enabled contact tracing technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus. - Apple and Google will be launching a comprehensive solution that includes application programming interfaces (APIs) and operating system-level technology to assist in enabling contact tracing. Apple and Google announce a joint partnership to enable the use of Bluetooth
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COVID-19 Patient Registry Launches to Monitor Symptomatic and Asymptomatic COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know: - Recruitment for the first comprehensive COVID-19 national patient registry opens today for symptomatic and asymptomatic patients in the six-months following diagnosis. - Patient data will be collected remotely for a clinical study using a blood test and a new mobile app, Obvio-19 from ObvioHealth. ObvioHealth, a digital research company, announces the launch of a COVID-19 patient registry named Obvio-19 to monitor COVID-19 prevalence, symptoms and immune
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Scripps Launches App-Based Study Using Wearable Data to Predict Virus Outbreaks
What You Should Know: - The Scripps Research Translational Institute launched DETECT, an app-based research study that will analyze wearable data shared by users with the goal of being able to more quickly detect fast-spreading viral illnesses, like flu and coronavirus. - Early detection is critical for effective public health response to infectious disease outbreaks and for improving treatments. DETECT connects with smartwatches and activity trackers, including Fitbit devices,
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HealthStream Acquires Mobile Nurse App NurseGrid for $25M
What We Need to Know: - Healthstream acquires NurseGrid, a mobile health app for nurses and nurse managers for approximately $25M in cash. - NurseGrid Mobile is among the top downloaded apps for nurses and has a highly engaged audience of monthly active users, of which over 40 percent use the app daily (i.e. daily active users). - NurseGrid’s operations are based in Portland, Oregon and include approximately 20 employees. HealthStream, a Nashville, TN-based provider of workforce
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Cloudbreak Health Launches Free Telehealth App to Fight Coronavirus
What You Need to Know: - Today, telemedicine leader Cloudbreak Health launched a free app with free service for hospitals to help fight the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. - Cloudbreak’s devices have already been used with suspected COVID-19 patients whose primary language was something other than English, including at the University of California at San Diego’s dedicated coronavirus clinic. Cloudbreak Health (“Cloudbreak”), unified telemedicine and video medical
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The Hard Truth About Boosting Patient Acquisition
Technology giants and other non-traditional players are moving into the healthcare market, giving consumers a host of new options for how and where they obtain services. Everyone from Apple and Amazon to G.E. and Berkshire Hathaway are disrupting the market by introducing new delivery models that emphasize simplicity, transparency and positive digital experiences. Traditional players will need to recalibrate how they build market share due to this new consumerism threat. In fact, a
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