Randy Carpenter, SVP of the Executive Advisory Board at HCTec
The loss of lives and livelihoods from COVID-19 is almost too much to comprehend. And yet, slowly, conversations are emerging about the positives percolating from the pandemic.
It’s human nature to want to look for the positives in even the worst of situations, and I’ve noticed that in both my personal and my professional circles of late, people are talking about the things they hope we don’t lose when things go back to
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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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VA, Philips to Create World’s Largest Tele-Critical Care System for Veterans
What You Should Know:
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs selects Philips to create the world’s largest tele-critical care system, further integrating tele-health and delivering quality care for veterans.
- The ten-year contract, which enables
VA to invest up to $100 million with Philips for
tele-critical care technology and services, leverages Philips history of innovation, including research into
technologies that can better support veterans, telehealth,
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Hospital Wayfinding: The Next Frontier in Healthcare Design
Christopher Thompson, RN, Director of Patient Experience, CenTrak
Healthcare facilities and their sprawling campuses can be overwhelming and challenging to navigate. In fact, facilities lose close to $800 million a year due to missed hospital appointments, and many physicians blame a significant portion of this lost revenue on the problems patients have navigating these facilities.
Figuring out where to park and finding the correct office can be stressful and negatively impact the
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COVID-19: Why Designers Must Play A Larger Role in Healthcare’s Future
Stuart Karten, Principal of Karten Design
The coronavirus outbreak has brought epic casualties as more than 7.3 million cases have been confirmed globally and more than 413,000 people--and counting--are known to have died. In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown flaws in our medical system, from basic preparedness to the coordinated distribution of medical equipment. Within this global tragedy, there are stories of heroism and renewed mind power and energy addressing
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Synapse Medicine Raises $8M to Expand Medication Intelligence Platform to Ensure Prescription Safety
What You Should Know:
- French digital health startup Synapse Medicine raises
$8M in funding led by insurance provider for healthcare professionals MACSF.
- The Synapse Medicine medication intelligence platform
supports companies and healthcare institutions in their decision-making
processes to ensure the safety of prescriptions.
- Synapse Medicine currently works together with
telemedicine companies, public and private insurance providers, hospitals and
care facilities, as well as
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Innovaccer Integrates with RubiconMD to Facilitate Primary Care eConsults
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with RubiconMD, a
leading eConsult service, to connect primary care physicians with top tier
medical specialists to enhance care plans.
- Together, RubiconMD and Innovaccer will address major
pain points for healthcare professionals such as high referral leakage rate,
unnecessary referrals, appointment non-adherence, and poor provider match.
- Combined with RubiconMD’s eConsult feature and its
referral management solution
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Lenovo Launches Virtual Care Solution with Voice Activated Digital Assistant
Lenovo Virtual Care with digital assistant – “Rosie”
What You Should Know:
- Today, Lenovo launches Virtual Care solution to help healthcare
provider organizations remotely monitor, engage with and educate patients with
many of these chronic health conditions, including diabetes, COPD, congestive
heart failure (CHF), and hypertension.
- Easy to use, patients take the kit home, plug it in and
can immediately begin interacting with their care team. Patients are guided
through an
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SwitchPoint Ventures Spins Out AI-Driven Health IT Startup Polaris Health
What You
Should Know:
- SwitchPoint (made up of veteran healthcare leaders with experience at Intermedix/R1 RCM and others) launches a new technology venture, Polaris Health that leverages AI to predict patient demand and create efficient clinician schedules that align with this demand.
- Polaris Health’s solution utilizes
proprietary machine learning algorithms to predict provider demand, distribute clinician resources to meet that
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Eliminating the Long, Cumbersome and Costly Diagnosis of Genetic Diseases
Christine Stanley, Ph.D., Chief Director of Clinical Genomics at Variantyx
The answer to questions about human disease can be found in our genes. The difficulty in the past has been the testing process, a sort of trial and error approach of drilling down into the multitude of variants that can be found within the genes, variants that when analyzed in tandem with detailed clinical histories can actually tell the story and lead to a faster diagnosis.
Human beings carry around 20,000 genes
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