- Denver Film Festival showcases how Starlight Children’s Foundation leverages Lenovo’s Mirage™ Solo VR headset in its Virtual Reality program as a procedural tool for critically ill young patients, primarily to reduce anxiety during mild to moderately painful procedures.
- Since 2018, Starlight Children's Foundation has placed over 1,300 Virtual Reality headsets in over 300 healthcare facilities transforming the hospital experience for more than 18,000 seriously ill kids.
This week,
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Heal
Heal Acquires Doctors on Call, Expands House Call Service to NYC
- Doctor house calls provider Heal expands to New York City with the acquisition of Doctors on Call.
- With the acquisition of Doctors on Call, Heal’s service footprint expands to more than 75 million Americans nationwide throughout Atlanta, GA, California, New York, Northern Virginia and D.C.
- Doctors On Call, founded in 1968 by Paul R. Rosenstock, MD., and now owned and operated by Heal, offers medical house calls for elderly and homebound patients throughout New York’s five
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Healium Partners with XRHealth to Power VR With Emotions
XRHealth, formerly known as VRHealth, a provider of extended reality and therapeutic applications announced it is opening their platform to third-party developers to create robust VR healthcare experiences. A noteworthy partnership created through the open platform is Healium that enables patients to “see” and power VR technology through their emotions.Healium: Powering VR With EmotionsApproximately 75% to 90% of all doctor visits are due to stress-related issues. Healium developed a
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Misonix Acquires Regenerative Wound Healing Product Theraskin for $97M
Misonix, Inc., a provider
of minimally invasive therapeutic ultrasonic medical devices announced it has
entered into a definitive agreement to acquire
Solsys Medical, LLC, a privately
held regenerative medical company in an all-stock transaction valued at
approximately $97 million. The acquisition of Solsys substantially broadens
Misonix’s addressable market through wound care solutions that are complementary
to its existing products.
Theraskin:
Real Skin from One Human to Another
Solsys
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How Can Health System Command Centers Reduce Cost Growth?
Scott Newton, DNP, RN, MHA, EMT-P, VP of Care Model Solutions at Teletracking In our decentralized care landscape, health system command centers (HSCC) are coordinating high-quality care through complex and integrated delivery networks (IDN). Recently, command centers were recognized by KLAS and Gartner as a new model of care delivery with the potential to impact clinical, financial, and operational outcomes. That means in addition to improving routine health system operations—and increasing
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Heal Expands On-Demand Doctor Calls to Atlanta Metro Area for Aetna Members
On-demand doctor house call service provider Heal today announced it has joined Aetna’s robust network of high-quality providers in the metro Atlanta area, including Gwinnett, Forsyth, Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb, and Clayton counties. Effective immediately, Aetna Commercial members can schedule house calls with pediatricians, internists and family practice physicians for the same co-pay as a primary care doctor’s office visit.Between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., seven days a week, 365 days a year, a
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Heal Brings Apple Unified Health Records to Doctor House Calls
Heal, the market-leader in house calls, today supports Health Records on iPhone, which brings together hospitals, clinics, and the existing Apple Health app to make it easy for patients to see their available medical data from multiple providers whenever they choose. Heal is in-network with all major PPO insurance plans in California, Washington D.C., and Northern Virginia, and is expanding to other locations across the country. Previously, patients’ medical records were held in multiple
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Heal Nabs $14.8M to Expand On-Demand Doctor House Calls
On-demand doctor house call service provider Heal has raised $14.8 million in Series B funding from Fidelity Management and Research Company. The latest round will allow Heal to further expand its geographical footprint, broaden the range of medical services it offers and increase patient reach. Last month, the company announced that it raised $26.9 million in its Series A round led by Thomas Tull’s Tull Investment Group.In addition to the latest funding, Heal has appointed former House
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Heal Lands $26.9M for Mobile On-Demand Doctor House Calls
On-demand doctor house call service provider Heal has raised $26.9 million in Series A funding led by the Tull Investment Group. The round also includes participation from Breyer Capital, Qualcomm executive chairman Paul Jaobs, and Skydance Media chief executive David Ellison, along with early investors Hashtag One and Slow Ventures.Heal plans to utilize the funding to improve its back-end technology and expand its marketing efforts to reach more patients and to bolster its roster of
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Is Primary Care Dead?
There are close to a quarter million primary care physicians in the U.S., more than any other individual specialty, and about half the total number of all specialists combined. Yet, somehow, primary care seems to lack the power and social influence necessary to chart its own professional course. As the availability and granularity of specialist physicians increased, the value proposition of a generalist primary care doctor seems to have become unclear to those who pay for medical services and to
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