As COVID-19 continues to impact the country, providers across the continuum face new challenges delivering care and ensuring safety for their patients and themselves. During this period, sharing real-time information about patients’ care encounters across provider types and care settings matter more than ever. In particular, hospitals sharing admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) events with COVID-19 patients’ community-based providers is critical to ensure the best treatment course and
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DarioHealth, Williams Medical Partner to Expand Digital Therapeutics Platform Across the UK and Ireland
What You Should Know:
- Dario Health enters strategic partnership with Williams
Medical marking its expansion into the UK remote patient monitoring market across
the UK and Ireland.
- Williams Medical is the leading provider of medical
goods and services to primary care in the UK, and this agreement supports both
companies' commitment to drive growth and deliver innovative solutions to
frontline healthcare.
DarioHealth Corp., a
pioneer in the global digital therapeutics market,
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Microsoft Releases Public Preview of Azure IoT Connector for FHIR to Empower Health Teams
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft released the public preview of Azure IoT
Connector for FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), the latest
update to the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.
- The Azure IoT Connector for FHIR makes it easy for
health developers to set up a pipeline to manage protected health information
(PHI) from IoT devices and enable care teams to view patient data in context
with clinical records in FHIR.
This week, Microsoft released the preview of
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Desert Oasis Healthcare Deploys FHIR-based Tool For COVID-19 Screening to Over 7,500 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Using the EHR-integrated app, Desert Oasis Healthcare efficiently identifies patients with possible Coronavirus symptoms, mitigating the spread, and optimizing treatment.
- Starting in mid-March, DOHC has leveraged Rimidi’s novel, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) based patient-reported outcomes (PROs) tool.
- To date, over 7,400 patients have been screened prior
to their appointments and 831 have been monitored during self-isolation due
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Walgreens to Invest $1B in VillageMD to Open 500 to 700 Full-Service Doctor Offices
- Walgreens will invest $1 billion in
equity and convertible debt in VillageMD to open 500 physician-led primary care
clinics in more than 30 U.S. markets in the next five years.
- VillageMD and Walgreens also recently announced the
availability of Village Medical telehealth providers on Walgreens Find Care™,
which is an online platform that connects patients with a wide range of health
services.
Walgreens
Boots Alliance, Inc. and VillageMD
announced today that Walgreens will be the
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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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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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NexHealth Raises $15M to Expand Patient Experience Management Platform
NexHealth, a San Francisco, CA-based patient experience management platform, announced it has raised $15M in Series A funding from some of Silicon Valley’s best investors, including product-driven founders such as Scott Belsky, founder of Behance and Chief Product Officer at Adobe, and mission-driven founders such as Josh Buckley and Naval Ravikant.
Empowering Doctors to Run Thriving Businesses
Patients today spend more out-of-pocket, shop for care, and
have high expectations from their
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UnitedHealthcare Dental Rolls Out New Teledentistry Option
What You Should Know:
- New offering is part of UnitedHealthcare Dental’s
comprehensive response to COVID-19, which also includes financial support for
customers and enhanced payments for network providers.
- Dental care ranks among the most frequently avoidable
ER visits, with the emergence of teledentistry providing a key resource to help
people make more informed decisions about where to go for care and avoid
potential exposure risks with in-person care facilities.
With
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How Can eConsults Help Clinically Integrated Networks Deliver Better Care and Demonstrate Value?
A Clinically Integrated Network (CIN) strategy that leverages eConsult technology can help physicians and health systems deliver better care at a lower cost.
Physicians increasingly face pressure to deliver high-quality care efficiently while continuing to grow and sustain their practices. But lowering costs while sustaining growth often means giving up autonomy. The percentage of solo physicians in the U.S. fell to 17% in 2014, compared with 41% in 1983. Additionally, hospital ownership of
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