What You Should Know:
- Today Teladoc Health announced a first-of-its-kind Virtual Care Transformation Model for employers.
- The model offers a comprehensive roadmap to move virtual care forward based on an organization's resources, priorities and goals.
Virtual Care Transformation Model: Roadmap to Evolve Virtual Healthcare Benefits
Recent data shows that 80% of large employers believe virtual care will have a significant effect on how healthcare is delivered
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Health Equity
Crisis in the U.S. Healthcare Workforce: Why It’s Time to introduce AI
One of the many acute challenges during the pandemic has been the departure of approximately 18% of the U.S. healthcare workforce,4 resulting in staffing shortages in hospitals. This has impacted the well-being of the remaining healthcare practitioners 5 as well as their patients – many of whom are deferring care that is vital to disease management and overall maintenance of health,6,7 or who do not have access to timely emergency care.1 Though such challenges may be perceived as insurmountable
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Medtronic, AWS to Provide Underserved Communities with AI-Assisted Colon Cancer Screening
What You Should Know:
- Medtronic and AWS, today announced a partnership to provide underserved communities with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted colonoscopy technology through AWS’s $40M Health Equity Assistance Program for colon cancer screening.
- Amazon Web Services will support the effort to provide Medtronic GI Genius™ intelligent endoscopy modules to facilities that primarily serve communities with low screening rates or where access to this technology is not currently
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Connecting the Dots – Building Data Bridges for a Better Healthcare Future
Healthcare data is increasing at an exponential rate. Approximately one-third of the world’s data volume is being generated by the healthcare industry. By 2025, the compound annual growth rate of healthcare data will reach 36% – that’s 6% faster than manufacturing, 10% faster than financial services, and 11% faster than media and entertainment.
In addition to information captured during visits with healthcare professionals, personal health information is being created by an increasingly
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NourishedRx Raises $6M to Accelerate Intelligent Food-for-Health Platform
What You Should Know:
- NourishedRx, a digital health company raises $6M in seed funding led by S2G Ventures with additional investors Route 66 Ventures, Connecticut Innovations, Primetime Partners, and other individual investors.
- The company will utilize the funding to expand its high-tech, a high-touch platform to provide personalized, culturally relevant food solutions to health plan members nationwide.
Personalized Nutrition
Founded in 2019, with the support of the Mailman
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3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Can be Used to Improve Health Equity
When I graduated from medical school and took the Hippocratic Oath, I vowed to not just treat the illness on a patient’s medical history form but to treat the person behind the diagnosis. To do this well, clinicians need to understand the whole person and the context in which they live — their race, gender identity, native language, socioeconomic status, or zip code, among other things — to ensure equitable care. According to the CDC, health equity is reached when every person has the
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CVS Health, Uber Health Collaborate to Advance Health Equity in Communities Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) announced a collaboration with Uber Health, Uber's healthcare arm, to provide free transportation through a new Health Zones initiative to people who need it most when seeking access to medical care, work, or educational programs.
- CVS Health and Uber Health will help eliminate a critical barrier to care and overall well-being transportation which can limit a person's ability to receive medical care, to get to work or to job training and can
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UC Davis Health, AWS Launches Cloud Innovation Center for Health Equity
What You Should Know:
- Today, UC Davis Health launched a Cloud Innovation Center (CIC), powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), making the renowned academic medical center one of America's leaders in digital medicine.
- Focused on digital health equity, the UC Davis Health CIC will allow clinicians, patients, developers, and students to exchange ideas, as well as design and prototype solutions focused on making digital health more equitable and accessible
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VP Harris Unveils $1.5B Investment to Bolster Health Equity, Diversity Health Workforce
What You Should Know:
VP Kamala Harris unveils a $1.5B investment in national health service corps and nurse corps will expand and diversify the health workforce and improve critical clinical care in underserved communities.
On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced a $1.5 billion investment to help grow and diversify the nation’s health care workforce, and bolster health equity in the communities that need it most during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Fitbit Awards 6 Researchers $300k to Drive Health Equity
What You Should Know:
- Fitbit, today announced it has awarded six researchers more than a total of $300,000 in Fitbit devices and services to support their research projects working to address health disparities in communities. Over the past decade, researchers have used Fitbit devices in over 900 health studies, in areas like diabetes, heart disease, oncology, mental health, infectious disease and more.
- Additionally, Fitbit’s long-time partner, Fitabase, will provide all projects
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