Peer-Reviewed Journal Validate Disruptive Power of Doctor House CallsHeal, a provider of doctor house calls, today announced the results of its 2019 first-time patient user survey. Having delivered more than 110K house calls since February 2015, Heal shared a voluntary survey with more than 6K patients who used Heal for the first time in 2018. Key findings from the survey reveal a substantial reduction in ER and urgent care overuse and pointed to a corresponding increase in timely care
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Philips, DispatchHealth Launch On-Demand Home Care Pilot Program for Arizona Seniors
Philips is joining forces on a pilot study with DispatchHealth, a provider of mobile urgent care that delivers convenient, affordable care within one’s home to help enhance care for select Arizona members of Mercy Care. DispatchHealth supports seniors wishing to stay in their homes longer by providing a preventative and proactive treatment where and when seniors need it to help avoid elevating health situations to costly emergency medical services (EMS) and to avoid unnecessary trips to
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PeaceHealth to Acquire On-Demand Healthcare Provider ZOOM+Care
PeaceHealth to acquire ZOOM+Care to expand access to on-demand primary and specialty care for patients across the Pacific Northwest. PeaceHealth, a Vancouver, WA-based nonprofit Catholic health system serving the Pacific Northwest community, today announced it will acquire ZOOM+Care, a provider of on-demand retail and digital healthcare services including telemedicine. The acquisition increases access to a continuum of care that offers consumers in Oregon and Washington with more choice and
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Utilizing Blockchain in Healthcare: 3 Lessons Learned from Abroad
According to the Edelman Trust Barometer, America is suffering from a serious trust issue, and one of the areas which Americans seem to have the least faith in is their healthcare system. According to a recent New York Times article, in 1966, more than three-fourths of Americans had great confidence in medical practitioners, compared to as little as 34 percent today.Many argue that the US healthcare system is deeply flawed and is designed to benefit medical providers and insurance carriers
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IntelyCare Nabs $10.8M to Expand On-Demand Nurse Staffing Management Platform
IntelyCare raises $10.8M to cure nationwide nursing shortage with Intelligent Workforce Management to streamline administration and improve care.Solving the nursing shortage that’s expected to reach 1.2 million RN vacancies by 2022 (according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics) will take a multi-faceted approach. Part of the solution will be better allocating nursing professionals in a way that considers the needs of both nurses and local facilities. IntelyCare, a digital health startup announced
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Partners Healthcare Taps Circulation to Bring On-Demand Medical Transportation to Patients
Circulation Health, a on-demand medical transportation exchange that coordinates transportation logistics for health organizations, today announced an agreement with Partners Healthcare, an integrated, not-for-profit health system with facilities in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.As part of the collaboration, Partners will utilize Circulation's on-demand ride technology, which interfaces with Lyft, to move patients to and from their appointments. The relationship also allows for expansion to
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Circulation Raises $10.5M to Expand On-Demand Medical Transportation
Circulation, a Boston, MA-based on-demand provider of non-emergency healthcare transportation has raised $10.5 million in Series A funding co-led by Flare Capital Partners and The Providence Service Corporation. The round also includes participation from Boston Children’s Hospital, Echo Health Ventures (a strategic collaboration of Cambia Health Solutions and Mosaic Health Solutions), Intermountain Healthcare Innovation Fund (a strategic investment vehicle of Intermountain Healthcare, managed by
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5 Forces Driving the Investments in On-Demand Healthcare
US funding for on-demand healthcare companies – those providing location-based offerings with near-real-time and 24/7 services – will quadruple from over $200 million in 2014 to $1 billion by the end of 2017, according to new research from Accenture. Since 2000, the top 230 on-demand companies have raised more than $12.5 billion, distributed across six main sectors: auto and transportation (76 percent); food and drink (10 percent); health (6 percent); household chores (3 percent); logistics (3
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