What You Should Know: - To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program, which was authorized by the CARES Act, has approved funding for 132 healthcare providers across 33 states plus Washington, DC for a total of just over $50M in funding. The Federal Communications
Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved an additional 43
funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth
Program. The seventh set of healthcare providers in both urban and
rural areas of the
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Orbita Expands COVID-19 Chatbot Screener to Support Front-Line Response Demands
What You Should Know: - Orbita expands COVID-19 bot solutions to support new front-line response demands, reaching millions in need. - Deployed to your website as a text chatbot, educates patients and screens symptoms seamlessly across web browsers with content from the CDC and other clinically vetted sources. - In addition to the screener and knowledge base, the navigator tool directs patients to custom endpoints such as virtual visits, appointment scheduling, a live chat agent, or
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Babyscripts Lowers Prenatal In-Person Visits During COVID-19 Outbreak
What You Should Know: - Babyscripts, a virtual care platform for obstetrics is helping to lower the amount of prenatal in-person visits to 4-6 appointments during the COVID-19 outbreak due to increased demand. - The standard amount of in-person prenatal care visits is 12-14. With the help of mobile health and their remote patient monitoring platform, which connects patients directly with their providers, Babyscripts is safely transitioning prenatal care outside the clinic. As
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IBM Watson Health, EBSCO Information Services Launch Integrated Clinical Decision Support Solution
What You to Need to Know: IBM Watson Health and EBSCO Health Resources will
announce the merging of their respective platforms – DynaMed and IBM Micromedex
– into a single, high-value global solution called DynaMed and Micromedex with
Watson. By combining the real-world evidence available on these
platforms, with AI and natural language processing, this new solution will
enable care providers to easily access information to inform both diagnostic
and operational decisions. IBM
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Xealth Joins Epic App Orchard for EHR-Driven Digital Health Engagement
What You Need to Know: - Xealth announces it has joined the Epic App Orchard Marketplace to drive digital health engagement for health systems using Epic EHR by optimizing the ordering, delivery, and monitoring of your digital health apps, content, products, and services across the enterprise. - Through the secure Xealth platform, clinicians can find and order the right digital health tools and programs for patients direct from the EHR workflow, send these digital health orders to the
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Optum Acquires Remote Patient Monitoring Company Vivify Health
- UnitedHealth Group’s Optum division has acquired remote patient monitoring company Vivify Health. - Vivify Health delivers a cloud-based, device-agnostic, and ecosystem-connected remote care management platform. - Terms of the deal were not disclosed and both companies decline to comment on the acquisition.UnitedHealthGroup’s Optum division has acquired Vivify Health, a Plano, TX-based remote patient monitoring platform, CNBC first reports. Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is an increasingly
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Twistle Raises $16M to Expand Patient Engagement Platform
- Seattle-based health IT innovator Twistle raises $16M in Series A funding from two major healthcare investors: Health Enterprise Partners (HEP) and MemorialCare Innovation Fund (MCIF). - The funding investors are healthcare-centric: MCIF is a strategic healthcare investment fund wholly-owned by a healthcare system and HEP is a private equity firm that invests exclusively in healthcare services and IT companies.- The funding will accelerate the delivery of personalized care guidance through
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HP Rolls Out Expanded Healthcare Portfolio to Address Patient Safety, Care Coordination, Data Security
- HP expands its healthcare portfolio of end-to-end print and PC products to address patient safety, care coordination, clinical efficiency, and security. - HP’s new innovations assist with three critical areas of patient safety: Health-care associated infections, electromagnetic interference, and patient identification. - HP Healthcare Edition MFPs also include the Biscom for Healthcare app, which is completely integrated with the Epic and Cerner EHR platform. Today at the
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6 Health System Barriers to Digital Health Transformation
- When CIOs were asked about “significant” barriers to their Digital Health efforts, the top four responses pertained to issues with sponsorship and/or leadership.- Currently, the health delivery industry as a whole is still in the earliest stages of what will prove to be a digital transformation. - 40.4% of surveyed CIOs believe enterprise EHR vendors will play the biggest role in their facility's digital health journey in the next two years. The concept of digital health information was
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OSF HealthCare Integrates CancerIQ with Epic EHR to Expand Genetics to Primary Care
- OSF HealthCare integrates CancerIQ’s genetic cancer risk assessment program with Epic’s EHR platform to reduce cancer disparities and deaths. - OSF has screened nearly 70k patients using CancerIQ’s platform and will be deployed to primary care practices throughout the system. OSF HealthCare, an integrated healthcare network with locations in Illinois and Michigan, has integrated CancerIQ’s genetic cancer risk assessment program with Epic’s EHR platform as part of a system-wide population
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