What You Should Know:
- Tava Health just secured $3 million in seed funding to increase employee access to mental health resources.
- Since its founding in 2019, Tavahealth’s platform has driven 10 times more utilization of mental health resources than traditional mental health benefits and this funding will enable them to expand those services.
Tava Health,
a Salt Lake City, UT-based convenient and accessible mental telehealth platform
for employers, today announced the close of a
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Mental Health
KLAS: COVID-19 Guide to Telehealth Virtual Care & Remote Care Platforms
What You Should Know:
- New KLAS telehealth reports aims to aims to provide high-level COVID-19 guidance helpful to healthcare organizations on the virtual care and remote care platform vendor landscape.
- Includes high-level overviews of validated vendors’ current customer satisfaction, key questions to consider in building a strategy, and a consolidated view of KLAS’ previously published telehealth reports.
Telehealth
adoption in healthcare until recently had been increasing at a
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COVID-19 Sparks Consumer Fears of Seeking In-Person Medical Care
What You Should Know:
- Consumer fears of seeking in-person medical care is rising as states begin reopening from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from Black Book Research and Sage Growth Partners.
- The data reveals that while some may delay care due to concerns about potential exposure to COVID-19, others are willing to leverage telehealth – though this is not a one-size-fits-all solution.
As states begin reopening businesses and the number of coronavirus
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COVID-19 Crisis: Only 27% of Nurses Have Enough PPE for May
What You Should Know:
- New survey data From NurseFly reveals more than 50% Of nurses are dissatisfied with the level of resources and training from hospitals battling the COVID-19 crisis.
- Only 27% of nurses noted that their hospital has an adequate amount of PPE for them to conduct their job for the next month.
NurseFly, a temporary
healthcare staffing technology platform, released a new round of findings from
a national survey of 1,380+ nurses
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DrChrono Launches Fully Integrated Telemedicine App & Marketplace for Patients
What You Should Know:
DrChrono Launches fully integrated telemedicine app exclusively
to its network of providers and is the one of the first EHRs to build a telemedicine
physician marketplace for patients.
Over 10,000 medical providers on the DrChrono platform
will have access to more telehealth options and receive more inbound requests
to provide virtual care visits to patients, especially during COVID-19.
DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical
practice of the
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Vida Health Nabs $25M to Expand Virtual Health Platform for Personalized Mental and Physical Care
What You Should Know:
- Virtual healthcare platform, Vida Health, announced today that it raised $25 million in new funding to meet the increased demand for mental and physical virtual care.
- Since launching in 2014, Vida has fine-tuned its approach to mental health. Participants working with Vida’s nationwide therapy coverage in all 50 states have shown an average reduction of anxiety and depression by more than 50%.
Vida Health, a
personalized virtual care platform
for
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Report: How COVID-19 is a Blue Moon Moment for Mental Health Technology
What You Should Know:
- Oxford VR publishes a new position paper ‘The Big Reset: Why COVID-19 presents a blue moon moment for mental health technology.’
- The white paper highlights how the coronavirus crisis has been a greater catalyst for the implementation of telecare in practice, than two decades of many brilliant, but many failed attempts too.
Oxford VR, a provider
of evidence-based automated VR therapy has published a new position paper ‘The
Big Reset:
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FCC Approves $4.2M for 13 COVID-19 Telehealth Program Providers
What You Need to Know:
– FCC approves the fourth set of 13 COVID-19 telehealth program providers, totaling $4.2M in funding.
– To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program has funded 30 health care providers in 16 states for a total of $13.7 million in funding.
The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau approved an additional 13 funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, totaling $4.2M in funding. The third set of providers will support some
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SonderMind Raises $27M to Expand Behavioral Health Marketplace
What You Should Know:
- Today, SonderMind, a 500-strong integrated network of community behavioral health professionals announced a $27 million Series B financing.
- With a goal of making behavioral health more accessible, available and utilized, SonderMind is very active easing the minds of the worried well and enabling a value proposition for therapists (to the benefit of patients) that is pushing therapy beyond the better-heeled patient that can afford self-pay to the bulk of the
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Why Patients Need to Control Their Own Data
We’re in throes of a global pandemic. Healthcare providers must focus on fighting COVID-19, but we can’t afford to ignore the reason we’re going into this fight blind. Our best weapon is our own healthcare data. We are going to learn many things from this pandemic, not least of which is that the way we thought about data ownership over the previous decade needs to change.
Pandemics represent a system-wide attack on healthcare. Our best responses rely on social distancing, telemedicine, and
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