The life of a clinical study relies on data from documentation, meetings, emails and calls; all of which can be overwhelming for patients, clinical trial teams and associates. Although mundane, documenting, executing and collecting data is crucial to move a trial from phase to phase.
Clinical trial teams face a multitude of competing priorities, from evaluating hundreds of potential patients to maintaining compliance and recording patient progress. No aspect or step can be neglected for a
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Unite Us and Metro United Way Invests $1M Towards Financial Efforts in Greater Louisville Area
What You Should Know:
- Enterprise coordinated care network provider, Unite Us, makes a combined $1 million investment with Metro United Way for help towards pandemic struggles and social upheaval in the Greater Louisville metro area.
- Funds will provide housing-related costs and support for Louisville residents impacted both by the COVID-19 pandemic and persistent, historical inequities.
- Financial support will come in the form of both rental/mortgage payments and flexible cash
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Bright.md Expands Solution to Automate Pre-Visit Workflows
What You Should Know:
- Bright.md today announced the launch of its expanded solution to automate pre-visit workflows to drive efficiencies in care delivery
- Bright.md new three offerings include Navigate, Interview, and Treat.
- Navigate: Healthcare systems can now engage their patients and coordinate care delivery through the platform's new offering, Navigate. This product captures the symptoms and chief complaints from patients to instantly route them to the optimal care pathways
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Is Your Community Ready For A Connected Community of Care Model?
This question initially brings to mind many possibilities such as connection to the latest 5G cellular service, a new super-fast internet provider, or maybe one of the many new energy suppliers jockeying for market share from traditional utility companies. While all of these might represent legitimate opportunities to improve one’s community, here we are talking about a different concept; specifically, whether your community is ready to have a Connected Community of Care (CCC) to advance
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Raising the Bar for COVID-19 Data Integrity and Disease Surveillance
Just a few weeks ago, the mood among technologists in the Coronavirus pandemic remained cautiously optimistic about reopening society with the help of testing data, contact tracing apps, and other IT-enabled resources. But the recent spike in illness – 1.9 million new US cases in July, more than double any other month – is a sobering reboot on a crisis we now understand needs far more IT and data coordination than previously recognized.
The emerging consensus among epidemiologists is that
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Genesis Health Taps Bright.md to Power New Telehealth Offering
What You Should Know:
- Genesis Health System has signed a partnership agreement
with Bright.md to offer patients in the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois access
to its Bright.md’s SmartExam solution.
- The new virtual care offering offers an affordable way to get care for hundreds of low-acuity conditions, mental health, urinary tract infections, and upper respiratory infections including the flu and COVID-19.
Genesis Health System, today
announced it has selected Bright.md’s
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Why COVID-19 Underscores The Importance of Social Determinants of Health
Google “Social Determinants of Health” and one will quickly discover a kind of litany of data pointing to a certain definition of “health” defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity,” and socioeconomic barriers, which may prohibit equitable access to good health and wellness (Healthcare) more completely among diverse populations.
Nevertheless, the heart of the matter
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Bright.md Raises $8M to Expand AI-Powered, Asynchronous Virtual Care
What You Should Know:
Bright.md announced the close of an $8 million series C
to deliver critical capacity to support patient care in the midst of a COVID-19
pandemic and to help flatten the curve.
The funding will be used for a massive expansion effort
to bring non-video telehealth to aid frontline healthcare workers and the
patients they are treating.
Over six years, Bright.md has stretched $12.5 million to
advance its AI-powered automation platform for primary and urgent
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Q/A: UnitedHealthcare Executive Talks Investment in Telehealth Innovation
Are
telehealth innovations the future of care delivery? Pat Keran, vice president
of product and innovation for UnitedHealthcare shared his insights and what’s
to come from the integration of telehealth innovations in the healthcare
landscape.
It’s should be of no surprise that in today’s app-fascinated world that telehealth services are becoming increasingly popular both for consumers and employers. According to a recent report from the National Business Group on Health, 39 percent of
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Rock Health: 3 Central Themes Driving Digital Health Consumer Adoption
- Rock Health and the Stanford Center for Digital Health release their findings from the 2019 Consumer Adoption Survey. - In 2019, overall consumer adoption of digital health leveled off in 2019 near the 2018 high water mark. - Findings reveal consumer-clinician dialogue and transparency around data collection and sharing will be central to the growth of digital technology in healthcare.Digital health consumer adoption has leveled off in what appears to a slight moderation of digital health
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