What You Should Know:
- Press Ganey advances the healthcare consumerism movement with acquisitions of Doctor.com and a majority stake in Binary Fountain.
- Expanded technology platform enables industry-leading
management of providers’ online brand and seamless Web-wide patient acquisition
and loyalty strategies.
Press Ganey today
announced the expansion of its market-leading health care consumerism platform
with the acquisitions
of Doctor.com and a majority equity stake
in Binary
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LabCorp + CommonHealth Integrate to Give Patients Secure Access to Test Results
What You Should Know:
- The Commons Project, a non-profit public trust, today
announced a strategic partnership with LabCorp that allows patients to securely
access test results, including COVID-19 screening, via CommonHealth, the
privacy-preserving Android app.
- This is the first partnership major commercial lab
integration for CommonHealth.
LabCorp and The Commons Project, a non-profit
public trust dedicated to building global digital services and platforms for
the common good,
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3 Telemedicine Security and Compliance Best Practices
Gerry Miller, Founder & CEO at Cloudticity
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
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Why Remote Medical Solutions Are More Than Just A Pandemic Response
Eran Atlas, Co-Founder & CEO of DreaMed Diabetes
The health industry has increasingly emphasized convenience these past few decades, with methods developed to seamlessly integrate health management into our daily routines. Gone are the days in which people needed an entire day off just to see the doctor. This same focus has taken on extra meaning as of late, with the pandemic creating a need for treatment options that work around the constraints of social distancing. As a result, a host of
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AmWell IPO and Google Deal – Five Key Takeaways to Know
1) COVID-19 Has Driven Revenue Up 77%
The headline revenue data (summarised below) provides very positive news for AmWell and its new investor, Google. Notably:
- Even prior to COVID-19, the company was growing well with revenues increasing by 31% in 2019 compared to 2018.
- This rate of growth has accelerated in 1H20, with overall revenue up 77% in the same period in 2019.
- The 2019 growth was partly driven by a small increase in the number of health plan subscription customers and
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Analysis: August 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 August 2020.
M&A is back and the velocity of the rebound has outpaced all expectations. The recovery quickly worked its way across the spectrum from large to small-cap, beginning with the larger cap NASDAQ rally of nearly 80% from lows in late March (only to soften in recent days), followed by multi-billion
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New Voice-Based App Enables Behavioral Health Measurement Anytime, Anywhere
What You Should Know:
- Ellipsis Health launches new voice-based Rising
Higher app, enabling behavioral health measurement anytime, anywhere.
- The
HIPAA-compliant platform facilitates longitudinal visibility into behavioral health symptoms
for enhanced clinical decision support.
Ellipsis Health,
pioneer of the first commercial-grade voice-based vital signs to
quantify and manage depression and anxiety symptoms at scale, has announced
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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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52% of Households Willing to Share Smartphone Data to aid in COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Over 50% of US broadband households are willing to share smartphone data to aid in COVID-19 contact tracing, while another 20% could be convinced provided privacy protections are in place, according to Parks Associates' new research, COVID-19: Impact on Telehealth Use and Perspectives. The research tracks changes in consumer attitudes and adoption of telehealth services as a result of COVID-19 and measure future interest in telehealth services beyond the pandemic.
Parks Associates' COVID-19:
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Same-Day Pharmacy Delivery NowRx Raises $20M to Expand into Additional Territories
What You Should Know:
- Same day
pharmacy delivery startup NowRx raises $20 Million in Series B funding to expand
into new U.S. territories and accelerate its technology roadmap, transforming
the way consumers get their prescriptions.
-
NowRx’s competitive
advantage is its proprietary pharmacy management system, which leverages AI and
robotics to fill and deliver prescriptions in record time, including
interfacing with insurance, checking for drug
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