What You Should Know:
- Nearly three-quarters of hospital leaders are either
moderately (52%) or extremely (22%) concerned about the financial viability of
their organizations without an effective treatment or vaccine for COVID-19,
according to a new report from Kaufman Hall entitled, “2020 State of Healthcare
Performance Improvement Report: The Impact of COVID-19”
- One-third of respondents saw operating margin declines
in excess of 100% in the second quarter of 2020 compared with the
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Were We Mentally Ready for COVID-19? Why It’s Time to Take Behavioral Health Seriously
Dr. Jacob Lazarovic M.D., IMCS Group
As you read this, over 200,000 American deaths have been attributed to the virus. The influx of cases continues, while state and local economies are experiencing hardship, children are shuttered in their homes learning remotely, grown children are moving back home and the “new normal” disrupts nearly all of life’s plans.
Yet, these issues don’t reveal all the traumas that Americans are experiencing 10 months into the pandemic. The pandemic's impact
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Bouncing Back Stronger: A Playbook for Reopening Medical Practices
Bret Connor, Senior Vice President, Chief Customer Officer at athenahealth
It is a grim irony that the greatest health crisis of our generation separated most Americans from their healthcare providers. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, most medical practices that responsibly followed social-distancing guidelines drastically limited in-person visits or were shuttered entirely. But as doctors start to open their doors to patients again, one thing should be clear: We cannot go
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Digital Behavioral Health: Addressing The COVID-19 Behavioral Health Crisis
Victor Siclovan, Director of Medicaid Transformation Project at AVIA
Living through a pandemic is stressful and anxiety-inducing. Stay-at-home measures are compounding this stress, resulting in social isolation and unprecedented economic hardship, including mass layoffs and loss of health coverage. Fully understanding the impact of these pernicious trends on overall mental health will take time. However, precedents like the Great Recession suggest that these trends are likely to worsen the
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Why Hasn’t A More Holistic Approach to Patient Care Become The Norm?
When food production technology made it possible, wheat flour processors started to eliminate the tough exterior (bran) and nutrient-rich core (germ) of the kernel to get at the large, starchy part (the endosperm) only. The bread produced from this process is white and fluffy, and it makes great PB&Js and takes forever to grow mold, but it is almost totally lacking nutritional value.
Nutrition experts eventually pointed this out, of course, after which commercial bakers tried fortifying
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Anthem Expands Relationship with doc.ai to Power Digital Health Offerings
What You Should Know:
- Anthem extends the use of doc.ai's platform and portfolio of privacy-first technologies and artificial intelligence software services to drive the personalization of Anthem’s digital assets and create improved value for users.
- doc.ai’s product offerings are deployed on its cloud-agnostic and zero-trust infrastructure that lets clients like Anthem launch products faster and at lower costs.
Anthem, today announced it is extending its partnership with doc.ai,
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U.S. Airforce Awards $1.5M Contract to NeuroFlow to Increase Mental Healthcare Access
Senior Airman Mario Fajardo stands guard while on duty Jan. 25 at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. 355th Security Force squadron is responsible for the worldwide force protection and security of seven flying squadrons and 4,400 tactical and stored aircraft on Davis-Monthan AFB worth more than 32.3 billion dollars. Airman Fajardo is with the 355th Security Forces Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Melissa Copeland)
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Air Force has awarded
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Ready Raises $54M to Become The Uber of On-Demand Healthcare Services
What You Should Know:
- Ready, a company described as the “Uber” of on-demand health
service, just raised $54 million in its Series C funding round.
- Ready’s on-demand care model is evolving the healthcare
industry with customer service and mobility, just like Uber did for ride
sharing and Postmates for food delivery.
Ready, an New Orleans,
LA-based on-demand healthcare service, today announced that it closed $54
million of new funding to finance the expansion of its operations and
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Canadian Telehealth Startup OnCall Health Lands $6M for Virtual Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- OnCall Health Raises $6M Series A to Enable Virtual
Care Programs for Healthcare Brands
- Funding will be used by OnCall Health to expand its
reach and build out its software that enables healthcare brands, systems, and
startups to launch and scale their telehealth operations.
- OnCall enables healthcare enterprises to rapidly launch
their own virtual care platform that is highly configurable to their brand and
workflow.
OnCall Health, a
Toronto, CA-based
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How the Simple Telehealth Visit Will Revolutionize Care Delivery and Disease Management
Anthony Pannozzo, Chief Design Officer and Global Healthcare Lead at frog
The impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare industry’s ability to innovate has been stunning. We have seen FDA emergency authorizations and relaxed regulatory guidelines enable the development of radical new ventilator ideas, accelerated timelines for vaccine development, and an extraordinary transition to telehealth services. Many of these actions were a response to the exposure of weak spots in our healthcare system, but
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