What You Should Know: - Omada’s diabetes prevention program will be available
to Intermountain’s at-risk patient population as part of a limited engagement
in 2020 and 2021. - Omada’s diabetes prevention program is personalized to
meet each participant’s unique needs as they evolve, ranging from diabetes
prevention, type 2 diabetes management, hypertension, behavioral health, and
musculoskeletal issues. Deepening a collaboration that began in 2016, Omada
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How RPA Can Help Get COVID-19 Vaccines to High-Risk Patients First
While most of the public’s attention is focused on the horse race for an approved COVID-19 vaccine, another major hurdle lies just around the corner: the distribution of hundreds of millions of vaccine doses. In today’s highly complex and disconnected health data landscape, technologies like AI, Machine Learning, and robotic process automation (RPA) will be essential to making sure that the highest-risk patients receive the vaccine first. Why identifying at-risk patients is
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AI Leads Way to Less False Positives on Remote Cardiac Monitoring Devices, Improved Results
What You Should Know: - Cardiac patients and their cardiologists are
experiencing a high number of false positives with remote patient monitoring
devices as a result of signal artifact providing inaccurate data, which can
lead to many complications—other than medical, such as unnecessary tests and
increased medical costs. - Ambulatory cardiac monitoring provider InfoBionic has devised a way to decrease false positives and increase efficiency. Remote cardiac monitoring’s false
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Innovaccer Unveils Risk Adjustment Solution For Improved Coding Accuracy
What You Should Know: - Innovaccer unveils new risk adjustment solution to help providers better segment their population to refine the risk scoring process and improve coding accuracy and efficiency, thereby improving performance on risk-based contracts. - The solution utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
Natural Language Processing (NLP) to make risk predictions. Innovaccer, Inc., a
leading healthcare
technology company, has launched its Risk Adjustment
Solution. Leveraging
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The Coronavirus Crisis’ Silent Death Toll: Chronically Ill Patients
The impact of the coronavirus crisis is shining a bright light on many of the challenges facing the U.S. healthcare system. So much more than a lack of primary care physicians and hospital beds, the all-hands-on-deck approach to combating the spread of COVID-19 has forced patients fearful of engaging with the healthcare system for needs unrelated to the virus to put elective procedures, routine care and timely treatment for chronic or critical conditions on the back burner. Compounding
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CancerIQ Raises $5M to Expand Genetic Cancer Risk Assessment Platform
What You Should Know: - CancerIQ raises $5M in Series A funding led by HealthXVentures to accelerate the growth of its genetic cancer risk assessment platform to identify and manage patients at high risk of cancer. - CancerIQ’s technology enables hospitals to use genomics
to personalize the prevention and early detection of cancer. - Two new hires recently joined CancerIQ’s newly formed
Integrated Products team from Epic, with the goal of advancing CancerIQ’s
integration with leading
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Doctor On Demand Raises $75M to Expand Comprehensive Virtual Care Platform
What You Should Know - Doctor On Demand raises $75M in Series D
funding led by General Atlantic to expand comprehensive virtual care. - Doctor On Demand is seeing record usage
this year – up 139% - for COVID-19 screenings, routine health issues, chronic
conditions and behavioral health. San Francisco, CA-based Doctor On Demand, today announced it
has raised $75 million in Series D funding led by General Atlantic, a leading
global growth equity firm,
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ACO to Deploy Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform Across Medicare Population
What You Should Know: - MultiCare Connected Care announced it will leverage Innovaccer's FHIR®-enabled Data Activation Platform for the Medicare Track 1+ population. - MultiCare Connected Care is an Accountable Care Organization and a wholly-owned subsidiary of MultiCare Health System based in the state of Washington, one of the largest, not-for-profit health systems. MultiCare
Connected Care (MCC), one of the leading clinically integrated care
networks in the state of Washington,
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FCC Surpasses $100M in Approved COVID-19 Telehealth Program Applications
What You Should Know: - FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program, which was authorized by the CARES Act, has approved funding for 305 healthcare providers in 42 states plus Washington, D.C. for a total of $105M in funding. The Federal Communications
Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved an additional 67 funding applications
for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Healthcare
providers in both urban and rural areas of the country will use this $16.87M in
funding to
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COVID-19 Chronic Condition Patient Population Report
What You Should Know: Wellframe report finds patients want access to virtual
solutions to help manage their chronic conditions amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a
significant effect on the chronic condition population by delaying access to
care and exacerbating mental health challenges. Wellframe, a
provider of Digital Health Management solutions, announced the findings of its COVID-19
Chronic Condition Patient Population Report
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