What You Should Know:
- According to a new report from Accenture, 2 out of 3 patients are likely to switch to a new healthcare provider if their expectations for managing COVID-19 are not met, including sanitary and safety protocols, access to up-to-date information, and the availability of virtual care options.
- Accenture identified four ways to improve the patient experience, and therefore your path to recovery, during, and after the pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced
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Everlywell Secures $175M to Expand Position in At-Home Testing Market
What You Should Know:
- Everlywell secures $175M in Series D funding to expand
its virtual care offerings, scale its testing and infrastructure, drive
clinical research and disease management through testing, and grow its national
leadership position in the at-home testing market.
- Since launching in 2016, more than one million people have used Everlywell's tests and digital platform to manage their health and wellness. As more people turn toward digital platforms for their health
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MEDITECH Launches New Subscription-Based Cloud Platform Built on Google Cloud
What You Should Know:
- Today, MEDITECH announced MEDITECH Cloud Platform—a
suite of solutions available to healthcare organizations of all sizes that
further extend the possibilities of the Expanse EHR.
- This offering includes: Expanse NOW, High Availability
SnapShot, and Virtual Care solutions, all created to work naturally in the
cloud, and available through a subscription model.
Today MEDITECH
introduced MEDITECH Cloud Platform—a suite of solutions available to
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Virtual Engagement During COVID Pushes Paradigm Shift for Physician Training and Patient Care
The dominant presence of COVID-19 has not meant the absence of cancer, ear infections, heart attacks, chronic pain, or other illnesses that need attention and care. Physicians have continued treatment for all types of maladies, and physician training has continued as well. But this treatment and this training look much different these days. Despite the challenges that came with major COVID shutdowns and changing requirements, the healthcare system and patients have been both creative and
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M&A: CarepathRx Acquires Pharmacy Operations of Chartwell from UPMC for $400M
What You Should Know:
- CarepathRx will
acquire the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s pharmacy operations in a
$400M deal.
- The company fully
integrates pharmacy operations, expands healthcare services, improves
ambulatory access, minimizes clinical variation and creates new health system
revenue streams.
- CarepathRx serves more than 15 health systems and 600
hospitals, with more than 1,500 employees nationwide, 400 payor contracts.
Already CarepathRx has treated more than
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M&A: CompuGroup Medical Acquires eMDs for $240M
What You Should Know:
- CompuGroup Medical (CGM) acquires eMDs, Inc. (eMDs), a
leading provider of healthcare IT with a focus on doctors' practices in the US,
reaching an attractive size in the biggest healthcare market worldwide.
- CGM is building an attractive platform for future
growth through complementary product portfolios and the ability to provide
comprehensive solutions for doctors' practices.
CompuGroup
Holding USA, Inc., a 100 % subsidiary of CompuGroup Medical SE
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3 Key Solutions to Fighting Stress In the Medical Field
As you read this, doctors are on the frontlines fighting a global pandemic. Lives depend on their skills and expertise, but what often gets overlooked is the fact that doctors are still prone to stress. Sure enough, according to a report by Medscape, more than 42% of physicians across various specialties say they are burned out.
Burnout is still a common occurrence among physicians and it's a matter that practitioners and healthcare institutions should take seriously. After all, doctors are
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Gates Foundation Awards Caption Health $4.95M Grant to Develop AI-Guided Lung Ultrasound System
What You Should Know:
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards Caption
Health a $4.5M grant to support the development of an AI-guided lung ultrasound
system.
- The grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
will be leveraged to create new AI technology that allows medical professionals
without prior ultrasound experience to perform lung ultrasounds, expanding
access to quality medical care.
Caption Health, a leading medical
artificial intelligence (AI) company, today
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Providence Taps Nuance to Develop AI-Powered Integrated Clinical Intelligence
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications, Inc. and one of the country’s
largest health systems, Providence, announced a strategic collaboration,
supported by Microsoft, dedicated to creating better patient experiences and ease
clinician burden.
- The collaboration centers around Providence harnessing
Nuance’s AI-powered solutions to securely and automatically capture
patient-clinician conversations.
- As part of the expanded partnership, Nuance and
Providence will jointly
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Amwell Launches New Offerings to Increase Doctor-to-Patient Virtual Connectivity
What You Should Know:
- Amwell just announced some new offerings Amwell Now, Touchpoint
Tablet software, and C500 to help increase doctor-to-patient virtual
connections as patient and doctor preferences change in light of the pandemic.
- The new solutions (a quick-to-deploy video visit offering, new tablet software, and a telemedicine cart) are designed to be easy-to-use but fully integrated in the provider’s systems and secure.
Amwell, a
national telehealth
leader, today announced
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