What You Should Know: - Cerner and Xealth announce a collaboration to foster tighter physician-patient relationships by giving patients easier access to digital health tools. - These assets will be prescribed directly within the physician’s EHR workflow to manage conditions including chronic diseases, behavioral health, maternity care, and surgery preparation. - Cerner and LRVHealth have together invested $6 million in Xealth as part of this agreement, with Cerner and Xealth planning
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Redox Adds Access to More Than 500k Carequality-Enabled Physicians
What You Should Know: - As a Carequality Implementer, Redox has added access to more than 500,000 Carequality-enabled physicians to its already extensive network. - Redox members can use the same patient search query to search all the participants in the Carequality framework as they would if they used a direct patient search API provided by an electronic health record (EHR) vendor. Redox Inc., the leading interoperability platform for healthcare data exchange, today announced that
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Virtual Behavioral Health Could Reduce Costs, Improve Patient Outcomes, Report Finds
What You Should Know: - A new Accenture report called “Breakthrough Behavioral Health Access: Think Virtual” finds that the use of virtual behavioral health could expand care for more than 53 million Americans facing these conditions. - Demand for behavioral health specialists significantly outweighs current availability; in addition to severe wait times of 25 days for first clinical appointments, we are projected to have a shortage of 250,000 behavioral health and mental health
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Provider Pilot Uses Video Games as Therapy for Children with Autism
What You Should Know: - Magellan Health launches a pilot program for a group of providers that will begin using video games as therapy for children with autism and other behavioral health conditions. - As part of the pilot program, patients will be given access to the video platform developed by Mightier, a digital health company born out of Boston Children’s' Hospital and Harvard. - The games include a wearable heart rate monitor & tablet loaded with 25 different
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Emtiro Health Taps Innovaccer to Leverage the FHIR-Enabled Data Activation Platform
What You Should Know: - Emtiro Health, an innovative population health company in North Carolina has selected Innovaccer to deliver data-powered solutions to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of care delivery. - Powered by Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform, Emtiro Health will create unified patient records that drive comprehensive, whole-person care management, no matter where they are on the care continuum. The FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform will also
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Doctor On Demand Raises $75M to Expand Comprehensive Virtual Care Platform
What You Should Know - Doctor On Demand raises $75M in Series D funding led by General Atlantic to expand comprehensive virtual care. - Doctor On Demand is seeing record usage this year – up 139% - for COVID-19 screenings, routine health issues, chronic conditions and behavioral health. San Francisco, CA-based Doctor On Demand, today announced it has raised $75 million in Series D funding led by General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm,
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AbleTo Unveils Integrated Suite of Mental Health Solutions for Payers
What You Should Know: - AbleTo, a provider of virtual mental health services unveils an expanded suite of mental health solutions for payers to address growing needs across America. - The new solution set was specifically engineered to establish an elevated standard of teletherapy through a combined approach that is highly personalized, data-driven, and evidence-based. AbleTo, Inc., a leading provider of virtual mental health services proven to improve clinical outcomes and lower
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Unite Us Acquires SDoH Data Analytics Company Staple Health to Expand Capabilities
What You Should Know: - Unite Us acquires social determinants of health (SDoH) analytics company Staple Health to greatly expand its valuable predictive data analytics capabilities. - Predictive analytics and outcome data are essential as Unite Us supports local communities, addressing needs and providing proactive social care infrastructure where it is lacking. - The acquisition of Staple Health brings 10 years of data experience and a database of 270M individuals, with notable
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FCC Surpasses $100M in Approved COVID-19 Telehealth Program Applications
What You Should Know: - FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program, which was authorized by the CARES Act, has approved funding for 305 healthcare providers in 42 states plus Washington, D.C. for a total of $105M in funding. The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved an additional 67 funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Healthcare providers in both urban and rural areas of the country will use this $16.87M in funding to
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Big Data Takes on the Silent Epidemic of Undiagnosed Behavioral Health Conditions
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, a study found that almost half of Americans will experience an episode of mental illness in their lives, but may never get the diagnosis and treatment they need. In a more recent finding, over 25% of American adults now meet the criteria for a diagnosis of severe mental distress. The looming impact on our collective mental health is concerning enough, but there are also serious implications for physical health. Left unaddressed, behavioral health issues
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