What You Should Know:
- Optimize.health raises $15.6M in Series A funding to accelerate access to and adoption of its remote patient monitoring platform.
- Optimize.Health enables improved access to care, more
favorable health outcomes, and contained healthcare costs through the
combination of high-quality monitoring devices and a user-friendly,
HIPAA-compliant digital platform that supports two-way video calls and text
conversations between patients and their
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Biofourmis Lands $100M to Expand AI-Powered Digital Therapeutics Platform
What You Should Know:
- Boston-based digital therapeutics leader Biofourmis
just closed a $100 million Series C funding round led by SoftBank,
bringing its total funding to $145M.
- Biofourmis will be using the funding to develop, validate and commercialize several released and unreleased digital therapeutics solutions across cardiology, oncology, respiratory, and pain, with a focus on the United States and key Asian markets, including Asia Pacific, China, and
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IBM Watson Health, OrbitalRX Launches Solution to Combat U.S. Drug Shortage
What You Should Know:
- IBM Watson Health and OrbitalRX launches an integrated solution to assist hospital pharmacy providers in managing drug shortages.
- Joint offering pairs pharmacy supply chain management
capabilities with evidence-based drug content, designed to help hospital pharmacy
teams manage drug shortages.
- OrbitalRX with Micromedex will create a single source
for healthcare providers and pharmacists to access the latest evidence-based
clinical information alongside a
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Nuance Advances Virtual Assistant Tech for Customers Using Epic EHR
What You Should Know:
- Nuance advances conversational AI with Dragon Medical virtual
assistant for Hey Epic! virtual assistant in Epic Hyperspace.
- Building upon Nuance’s Dragon Medical solution already
used by more than 550,000 physicians, this integration with Hey Epic! enables
clinicians to conversationally navigate the EHR, search for information, place
orders, and seamlessly switch hands-free between voice assistant and dictation.
Nuance®
Communications, Inc., today
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Brightline Raises $20M for Virtual Pediatric Behavioral Health Platform
What You Should Know:
- Brightline raises $20 million to bring its virtual behavioral
healthcare platform to kids and families across California and beyond.
- Brightline delivers integrated care through innovative
technology, virtual behavioral health services, and a collaborative care team
focused on supporting children across developmental stages and their families.
Brightline, a
Palo Alto, CA-based provider of technology-enabled pediatric behavioral healthcare,
announced it has
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Call to Action: Restrictions Around Virtual Health Can’t Go Back to “Normal”
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government has passed several stimulus packages with the goal of helping employers keep their business in operation while office volume is down and, in some cases, practices are physically closed. The CARES Act, which included the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Provider Relief Fund, for example, has provided some relief to eligible healthcare providers, including low-interest rate loans to help providers pay staff salaries, rent, and other
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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.
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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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Health in Motion Network, Updox Integrate to Improve Pharmacy Care Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- Health in Motion Network announced a partnership with Updox to integrate its HIPAA-compliant virtual health software into the Health in Motion Network’s consumer-direct pharmacy platform, ERxDirect.
- ERxDirect powered by Updox uniquely connects local
health care, community pharmacies and urgent care centers with the innovation
they need to remotely communicate with patients, which has become more
essential than ever due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- By partnering
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Enhancing Patient Care With a Touchscreen EMR Interface
A clinician’s mission is to deliver the best possible care to his or her patients. However, when technology gets in the way of the workflow, clinicians are obligated to spend valuable time making sure data inputs are accurate and complete across disparate systems. Nowhere is this more prevalent than with electronic medical records (EMRs).
Dr. Peter Greene, MD, CMIO, with Johns Hopkins, said, “Efficiency is really at the heart of what troubles us most. Clinicians really want the EMR to make
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New CVS Pharmacy App Feature Can Read Prescription Labels Out Loud for Visually Impaired
What You Should Know:
- CVS introduced Spoken Rx™, a new feature of the
CVS Pharmacy app that can read important prescription information out loud. It
is vitally important for patient safety and adherence that prescription labels
are clear and visible, but for patients with visual impairments or those who
can’t read standard print labels, that’s not always the case.
- Spoken Rx provides an audible label option that reads
important info such as patient name, medication name,
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