What You Need to Know:
- Vivify Health has announced that availability today of new COVID-19 Screening, Self-Isolation and Monitoring Pathways for Vivify+Go mobile solution to providers at non-cost.
- This enables low-risk patients or those with mild symptoms to use their mobile devices to self-screen for COVID-19 by answering a series of questions that follow the current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.
- The self-screening helps providers scale their
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CTA Releases Virtual Care Guiding Principles, Led by Livongo, Validic, Others
What You Need to Know:
- Consumer Technology Association (CTA) released a new set of industry-led guidelines on virtual care, convening health tech leaders like Doctor on Demand, Livongo, Validic, and BioIntelliSense.
- The virtual care principles offer core guidelines and practices across patient engagement, standards of care, quality, continuity of care, prescribing and privacy and security.
- While virtual care is not a panacea, in the midst of an outbreak, evaluation, triage and
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RubiconMD Lands $18M to Expand eConsult Platform for Primary Care Clinicians
What You Need to Know:
- Leading eConsult platform RubiconMD raises $18M in Series C funding led by Deerfield Management Company to expand its product offerings to better serve primary care clinicians.
- RubiconMD’s eConsult platform enables primary care clinicians to easily and quickly discuss their eConsults with top specialists, so they can provide better care–improving the patient experience and reducing costs.
RubiconMD, an NYC-based eConsult platform providing access to
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Maryland’s Doctors Urge State to Adopt Telehealth to Prevent Spread of Coronavirus
What You Need to Know:
- The Maryland State Medical Society (MedChi), which represents 22,000 doctors, today urged the state of Maryland to help protect healthcare workers and others from the novel coronavirus by keeping sick people AWAY from doctors’ offices and instead assess and treat patients through virtual visits.
- MedChi has provided doctors with telehealth capabilities enabled by DrFirst’s Backline care collaboration tool. Backline enables physicians to conduct
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CareFirst Will Cover Medically Necessary Diagnostic Tests for COVID-19
What You Need to Know:
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield announces steps to expand access to coronavirus (COVID-19) care for its members
- CareFirst will waive prior authorizations for diagnostic tests and for covered services that are medically necessary for any members that are diagnosed with COVID-19.
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) announced it is taking action to ensure that its members seeking testing and treatment for coronavirus can swiftly access the right care in
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Amwell Launches National Coronavirus (COVID-19) Telehealth Response Program
What You Need to Know:
- Amwell launches a national Coronavirus (COVID-19) telehealth response program to help hospitals, health systems, and health plans manage and mitigate coronavirus spread.
- Telehealth can serve as a force multiplier in the public health response to the COVID-19 outbreak, improving access to care directly from the home.
- Amwell has established an always-on-call infection control officer, COVID-19 specific workflows to guide clinical operations and quality, and
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AMA, Nuance to Pilot Innovations to Reduce Physician Documentation Overload
- Today, Nuance and the American Medical Association announced a partnership to pilot innovations preventing physician burnout from documentation overload.
- This partnership is a step forward in solving physician burnout and the associated costs by piloting the combination of each organization’s technologies to reduce distractions from patient care caused by increasing administrative demands.
Nuance®
Communications, Inc and the American Medical Association (AMA)
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WELL Health Launches VirtualClinic to Deliver Telehealth Across Canada
- WELL Health launches VirtualClinic+ by WELL Health that gives Canadians across the country convenient access to telehealth services.
- VirtualClinic+ provides physicians a platform to add telehealth consultations as a convenient enhancement to their existing family practice. It also allows physicians to offer primary care for unattached patients. There are an estimated 4.8 million Canadians1 who are currently without a family doctor.
- Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, WELL plans to rapidly
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Benefits of Store and Forward, or Asynchronous Telehealth Solutions
An introduction to asynchronous, or store-and-forward, as a modality of telehealth
As our healthcare system continues to innovate in order to meet demands and improve the delivery of value, various telehealth solutions have emerged and been implemented to increase efficiency, access to, and quality of care. Telehealth is a broad term encompassing “a collection of technology-based means or methods to enhance healthcare delivery and education.” As defined by the National Telehealth
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Taxi App Curb Integrates with Ride Health’s Patient Transportation Platform
- Curb and Ride Health partner to coordinate smarter transportation for every patient need, to power non-emergency medical transportation via licensed taxis.
- Uber and Lyft provide healthcare organizations with patient transportation services, but hospitals and health plans will soon be able to tap licensed taxis across the country to transport patients to and from medical appointments.
Curb, a New-York City-based leading mobility platform for licensed taxi and for-hire rides in North
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