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Amazon Launches Pilot Virtual Primary Care Clinic in Seattle for its Employees

by Fred Pennic 09/24/2019 Leave a Comment

Amazon launches Amazon Care, a pilot virtual primary care clinic in Seattle for its Amazon employees and in-person healthcare services from Oasis Medical. Oasis Medical. Amazon Care offers employees access to video care, care chat, mobile care, and a care courier available Monday to Friday, 8am to 9pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 8am to 6pm. Eligible Amazon employees and their families can request to enroll at any time during the year. Today, Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Care, a new pilot virtual primary care clinic and in-person healthcare services for employees and their families in Seattle. To power Amazon Care, the company has partnered with Oasis Medical Group, P.C., a medical practice licensed in Washington state, to provide care through the Amazon Care app and in-person services. Oasis Medical's clinicians are all trained in primary and urgent care. Amazon Care: The Best of Both Virtual and In-Person Care Amazon Care provides a mobile application that allows you to access virtual and in-person healthcare services from Oasis Medical. Oasis Medical provides the following services: Video Care: Have an in-app video visit with a doctor, nurse practitioner, or registered nurse (“clinicians”) for advice, answers, diagnoses, treatment, or referrals Care Chat: In-app text chat connects you to a clinician in moments for health advice and answers Mobile Care: Your Video Care provider may recommend an in-person assessment or treatment by a registered nurse (a “Mobile Care nurse”). With your approval, the provider will send a Mobile Care nurse to your home, a designated room on the Amazon campus, or any other location in our service area that you request. The Mobile Care nurse may collect lab samples, perform some onsite testing (such as strep tests), administer common vaccines, or perform physical examinations. Care Courier: During a Video Care visit, you may be prescribed medications consistent with our current scope of services. Many prescriptions can be delivered to you within two hours. Others can be sent to your preferred pharmacy for pick up. Amazon Care Eligibility Interested Amazon employees and their families can request to enroll in the pilot program at any time during the year based on meeting all of the following requirements: Amazon employee age 18+ (or spouse/partner/other dependent of one). Currently enrolled in an Amazon health insurance plan. Currently live and work within Amazon Care current service locations. Why It Matters “We’re currently piloting a healthcare benefit designed to help Amazon employees get fast access to healthcare without an appointment, at the convenience of their schedules, at their preferred location (home, office, or virtual). Amazon Care eliminates travel and wait time, connecting employees and their family members to a physician or nurse practitioner through live chat or video, with the option for in-person follow up services from a registered nurse ranging from immunizations to instant strep throat detection,” said a company spokesman in a statement provided to CNBC reporter Christina Farr. Amazon Care’s hours of operation are Monday to Friday, 8am to 9pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 8am to 6pm.

- Amazon launches Amazon Care, a pilot virtual primary care clinic in Seattle for its Amazon employees and in-person healthcare services from Oasis Medical. Oasis Medical. - Amazon Care offers employees access to video care, care chat, mobile care, and a care courier available Monday to Friday, 8 am to 9 pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 8 am to 6 pm. - Eligible Amazon employees and their families can request to enroll at any time during the year. Today, Amazon announced the launch of
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Blue Shield of California, Lyft Launches Pilot Program to Provide Rides to Members in Sacramento

by Fred Pennic 09/19/2019 Leave a Comment

Blue Shield of California, Lyft Launches Pilot Program to Provide NEMT Rides to Members in Sacramento

- Blue Shield of California and Lyft launches a pilot program to provide convenient rides to its eligible members in the Sacramento area at no additional cost. - To participate in the program, eligible Blue Shield members need an SMS capable mobile phone. Once they call to self-enroll online and agree to the program's terms and conditions, they can receive rideQSM rides to and from pre-approved healthcare appointments as patients of Associated Family Physicians, Inc.Blue Shield of California, in
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Baptist Health Offers Free Virtual Urgent Visits to All South Florida Residents

by Fred Pennic 09/18/2019 Leave a Comment

Baptist Health Offers Free Virtual Urgent Visits to All South Florida Residents

- Baptist Health South Florida CEO offers all South Florida residents to experience Baptist Health’s Care On Demand urgent care service for free. - South Florida residents can simply use the code FREEURGENTCARE when launching the Care On Demand app for their first virtual visit. Brian E. Keeley, President & CEO of Baptist Health South Florida has invited all South Florida residents to experience Baptist Health’s Care On Demand urgent care service for free in a letter
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Healthy.io Nabs $60M for FDA-cleared Smartphone-Based Urinalysis for Chronic Kidney Disease

by Jasmine Pennic 09/12/2019 Leave a Comment

Healthy.io Nabs $60M for FDA-cleared Smartphone-Based Urinalysis for Chronic Kidney Disease

- Healthy.io raises $60M led by Corner Ventures for its FDA 510(k) cleared smartphone-based ACR test to be used in the aid of diagnosing chronic kidney disease (CKD). - The funding round will be used to accelerate Healthy.io’s global expansion and product development. - Healthy.io’s solution allows immediate electronic medical record (EMR) connectivity through the automated smartphone scan.  Healthy.io, the fast-growing Israeli digital health company that has turned the
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TrialCard Acquires Digital Medication & Adherence Platform Mango Health

by Fred Pennic 09/12/2019 Leave a Comment

TrialCard Acquires Digital Medication & Adherence Platform Mango Health

- TrialCard acquires digital medication management platform Mango Health to offer a best-in-class engagement and adherence solution to patients. - The announcement marks the third acquisition for TrialCard in the past year. - TrialCard Incorporated provides patient affordability, medication access and adherence, and patient support connecting over 30 million patients with nearly $12B in branded drug savings to date. TrialCard Incorporated announced it has entered an agreement to
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Cognoa, EVERSANA Partner to Advance the Commercialization Standard for Prescription Digital Medicines

by Jasmine Pennic 09/11/2019 Leave a Comment

Cognoa, EVERSANA Partner to Advance the Commercialization Standard for Prescription Digital Medicines

- Cognoa and EVERSANA form a partnership that will enable prescription, dispensation, and reimbursement of Cognoa’s behavioral health products. - Cognoa is developing digital medicine solutions to change the standard of care in pediatric behavioral health to improve the lifelong outcomes for children. - Cognoa selected EVERSANA, a fully integrated and independent commercial services platform, to develop and manage a go-to-market strategy that ensures comprehensive market
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Life Image Launches Real World Imaging for RWE Programs

by Jasmine Pennic 09/05/2019 Leave a Comment

Life Image Launches Real World Imaging for RWE Programs

- Life Image launches Real World Imaging (RWI) offering to respond to researcher needs for maturing insights and accelerating drug development decisions.  - Imaging data, especially for Real World Evidence (RWE), has historically been difficult, if not impossible, to access, retrieve, view, de-identify and normalize at-scale, even though it provides clinically material insights for a growing number of therapies. - Life Image represents the only company providing large, heterogeneous,
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Capital Rx Launches Clearinghouse Model to Bring Price Visibility to Prescription Drug Costs

by Fred Pennic 09/04/2019 Leave a Comment

Capital Rx Brings Price Visibility to Prescription Drug Costs With The Launch of Industry First Clearinghouse Model

Quick Glance- Capital Rx launches new innovative Clearinghouse Model, a new pricing framework that will itemize the actual unit cost for all drugs for the first time- The Clearinghouse Model will eliminate price variability for customers, ensuring that drug costs are the same for all customers.- Pharmacies in its retail network, which includes chains, like Walmart, Walgreens, to grocers and independent pharmacies, will be able to deliver the lowest prescription prices to customers.- While rising
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Helping VA to Combat Infectious Disease Across the Full Continuum of Care

by Diane Ratner, Senior Product Line Manager of TheraDoc, DSS, Inc. 09/04/2019 Leave a Comment

1Vision and AMC Health Lands VA Contract to Provide Telehealth Solutions to Veterans

VA hospitals and clinicians face challenges not present in commercial hospitals, which is that they provide Veterans with 100 percent of care services throughout their lifetimes. With a focus on the full continuum of care, this includes specialty care at VA clinics for chronic conditions, acute hospital admissions and/or ER visits, all prescriptions filled at VA pharmacies, and end-of-life care in a VA community living centers/nursing homes. In VISN4, there are nine VA Medical Centers serving
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Telehealth Adoption: Convenience & Cost Drive Adoption For Consumers

by Fred Pennic 08/27/2019 Leave a Comment

Telehealth Adoption: Convenience & Cost Drive Adoption For Consumers

Convenience and cost are the key drivers of telehealth adoption for American consumers, but lack of awareness is an issue, according to recent findings from American Well’s Telehealth Index: 2019 Consumer Survey. Telehealth leader American Well commissioned Harris Poll to conduct an online study among over 2,000 adults to measure usage and sentiment toward telehealth. The results are weighted to be representative of the American adult population across standard demographics.Majority of Consumers
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