What You Should Know:
- HHS launches an initiative to measure how office-based
physicians use health IT, including key measures on interoperability and
burden.
- ONC awards a three-year cooperative agreement to the American Board of Family Medicine to develop key measures related to health IT use and the interoperability of health information, etc.
Today, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched an initiative to
measure health
information technology (health
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After COVID-19, Healthcare’s Next Big Challenge: Reforming Surgery
Dr. Tamir Wolf, CEO and co-founder, Theator
Nearly six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, many hard-hit healthcare systems have begun resuming elective surgeries and redeploying surgeons, residents, and fellows back to their home departments after enlisting them in COVID wards and ICUs.
These practitioners are returning physically exhausted and emotionally strained from the harrowing experience of serving on the front lines of the COVID
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Bridge Connector Lands $25.5M to Expand Healthcare Integration Platform
What You Should Know:
- Bridge Connector raises $25.5 million in Series B funding to advance interoperability layer for healthcare organizations as demand for integrated health data intensifies during COVID-19 pandemic.
- The investment will support the growth of Destinations,
the company’s new integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) that connects
health data systems using use-case-based interoperability blueprints to speed
integrations with major vendors.
Bridge Connector,
a
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Analysis: July Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of July 2020.
While a pandemic ravages the country, technology valuations are soaring. The Nasdaq hit an all-time high during the month of July, sailing through the 10,000 mark to post YTD gains of nearly 20%, representing a 56% increase off the low water mark on March 23. More notably, the Nasdaq has
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Talis Awarded $25M NIH Contract for Point-of-Care COVID-19 Testing
What You Should Know:
- Today, Talis Biomedical Corporation announced it has
been awarded a $25M contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as
part of Phase 2 of its Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative as
well as another $100 million in additional financing.
- The new funding will be used to scale manufacturing for
the launch of the Talis One™ diagnostic platform that provides rapid and highly
accurate detection of COVID-19 at points-of-care in 30 minutes
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Walgreens to Invest $1B in VillageMD to Open 500 to 700 Full-Service Doctor Offices
- Walgreens will invest $1 billion in
equity and convertible debt in VillageMD to open 500 physician-led primary care
clinics in more than 30 U.S. markets in the next five years.
- VillageMD and Walgreens also recently announced the
availability of Village Medical telehealth providers on Walgreens Find Care™,
which is an online platform that connects patients with a wide range of health
services.
Walgreens
Boots Alliance, Inc. and VillageMD
announced today that Walgreens will be the
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HHS Awards Morehouse $40M to Combat COVID-19, Advance Health Equity in Minority Communities
Source: Morehouse School of Medicine
What You Should Know:
- Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) partners with the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on a three-year project to combat
COVID-19 and advance health equity in minority communities.
- The
initiative – the National Infrastructure for Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19
within Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities – is a three-year project
designed to work with community-based organizations across the nation
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What Therapists Need to Know about Telehealth Technology
Benjamin E. Caldwell, PsyD
Thousands of therapists who never intended to engage in telehealth are now doing exactly that – they are providing services to clients in lockdown using video-enabled platforms. While the technological landscape for psychotherapy is dramatically improved from even a few years ago, therapists rapidly transitioning to online services need to hold a few things in mind.
It’s not the same as in-person therapy
While online psychotherapy has been shown to be just
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Evidation Health and HHS to Develop Predictive Algorithm for COVID-19 Detection
What You Should Know:
- HHS’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is partnering with Evidation Health on research to develop a predictive algorithm for symptoms of COVID-19 by monitoring first responders to understand susceptibility to infection.
- The research will use de-indentifed data self-reported from survey participants and collected from wearable devices to track symptoms of COVID-19 in high-risk individuals.
- The goal is to better understand their
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Telehealth Could Be The Solution for a Pandemic, But Are We Too Late?
Juan Pablo Segura, Co-founder of Babyscripts
In the past several months, Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has risen from humble beginnings in a Wuhan farmer’s market to international status: dominating the news cycle, exhausting the world’s hand sanitizer resources, and generally monopolizing the mental real estate of the developed world.
As new cases continue to be identified in the U.S., politicians are giving coronavirus the attention it deserves, responding to initial accusations of
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