With the incidence of new COVID-19 cases expanding by the day, those in healthcare are accelerating their search for any available tools or medications that could stem the outbreak.
Modern medical organizations have used technology to track and treat viruses in the outbreaks that have occurred over the last few decades. The current COVID-19 crisis makes innovative virtual care solutions an indispensable tool as the virus spreads across communities.
The Rise of Virtual Care During the
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2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners Announced
What You Should Know:
- MedTech Breakthrough announces 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners that recognizes the top companies, people, platforms, and products in the health, fitness, and medical technology industries today.
- The 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Awards program is open to all individuals, companies, and organizations involved in producing digital health and medical technology products and services.
MedTech
Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization that
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Microsoft Unveils New Cloud Offering for Healthcare Organizations
What You Should Know
Today, Microsoft announced its first industry-specific
cloud offering, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, which builds upon
Microsoft’s core cloud capabilities to meet the most important needs for
healthcare organizations.
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare brings together trusted and integrated capabilities for healthcare organizations to improve collaboration, decision-making, and operational efficiencies to enhance patient engagement, connect health teams, and support
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COVID-19 and Its Global Impact on Primary Care Virtual Consultations
Last week saw Teladoc Health release its 1Q20 financial results giving the US telehealth industry a first glimpse of how COVID-19 is impacting the ambulatory virtual care market. Discussion around the crisis and its impact on telehealth has been rife since early March and the data published by Teladoc Health highlights that this was justified.
The company reported that the number of virtual care consults in the quarter had passed the 2 million mark, up approximately 60% from the 1.24M
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AiCure Launches Platform to Remotely Capture Digital Biomarkers in Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- AiCure launches digital biomarker platform to remotely detect subtle changes in a patient's condition, leverages computer vision and AI to gather and analyze visual and auditory cues directly through the patient's smartphone camera.
- AiCure appoints Ed Ikeguchi, M.D. as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to advance AiCure's commitment to improving holistic health through an understanding of the science behind human responses to illness and
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Report: How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Changing Patient Communications
What You Should Know:
- Data from Luma Health reveals stark gaps in the volume and cadence of COVID-19-related messages sent between doctors and patients.
- California, one of the states hit early and hard by COVID-19, increased patient communications more than 91x over, with 206,000 messages broadcast between late January and March; New York saw a 16x increase over the same period (both states with approximately the same number of cases in early March).
- During the month of
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COVID-19 Outbreak: The Opportunity & Importance of Health Informatics
Never before has health informatics played a greater role in public health than during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Health IT industry is certainly challenged due to the overall disruption to the healthcare system, the pandemic undoubtedly underscores the opportunity and importance of health informatics, such as telehealth, remote patient monitoring, patient engagement, AI-based drug discovery, precision medicine, and clinical decision support, but nowhere more pressing than the fields of
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Deploying a Telehealth Strategy to Mitigate the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dr. Betty Rabinowitz, Chief Medical Officer of NextGen Healthcare
Only weeks ago, American doctors’ waiting rooms were bustling with patients of all ages. This was no surprise as it is estimated that in an average year the U.S. healthcare system provided an estimated 278 office-based physician visits per 100 persons, for a total of approximately 883 million visits per year. Chronic conditions were the major reason for 37% of all office-based physician visits, and visits for chronic
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athenahealth Launches COVID-19 Dashboards Tracking Lab Test Orders & High-Risk Patients
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth launches two real-time COVID-19 dashboards for the healthcare community that enable users to track and predict which hospitals may need more support based on the number of tests being performed and the number of people at risk of developing severe illness from COVID-19.
- athenahealth’s COVID-19 high-risk populations dashboard identifies concentrated areas of high-risk patients, enabling local hospitals and clinicians to prepare for the
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Luma Health Launches Patient-Centric Telehealth Solution with No App, Login or Portal Required
What You Should Know:
- Luma Health launches new telehealth offering for providers that need to deliver care to patients virtually, quickly and seamlessly and patients need to get that care with one click.
- Luma Health Telehealth supports real-time EHR integration to enable providers to connect virtually with, and provide care for, their patients with just one click.
Luma Health launches Luma Health Telehealth as part of its Total Patient Engagement platform. The telehealth
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