I’m not sure what the relevant analogy might be, but I’ll take a shot, nonetheless. Let’s say we poured billions of dollars into improving highways and city streets, but the local commute for residents continued to get longer, more frustrating, less effective. Or, maybe we also dumped billions into school systems, but student test scores only got worse. I ask if these comparisons are relevant after reading about a recent study published in the Lancet, which suggests that poor
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Canadian Virtual Care Startup OnCall Health Raises $1.5M to Expand Operations in North America
OnCall Health, a Toronto, CA-based platform that provides simple, secure virtual care technology and services for healthcare providers, today announced it has raised $2 million CAD ($1.5M USD) in seed funding led by Ripple Ventures with participation from Panache Ventures, Stout Street Capital, and Maple Leaf Angels.OnCall Health BackgroundFounded in 2016, OnCall’s secure virtual care (telemedicine) technology facilitates video or text-based consultations for healthcare practices and streamlines
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The Four Cs: A Call to Action for Digital Health Tools
The United States spends more of their GDP on healthcare than any other developed nation, and yet it produces some of the poorest outcomes — notably in the field of maternal and infant health. The advent of digital health has presented the opportunity for a paradigm shift in the delivery of care, and support from investors and policy-makers shows that as far as they’re concerned, digital health is not a new frontier for healthcare, but the current playing field.
A staggering $14.6B in funding
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2 in 3 Physicians Plan to Use Remote Patient Monitoring in the Future
According to a new study from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), 68 percent of physician strongly intend to use remote patient monitoring technology in the future. The study, Connected Health and Remote Patient Monitoring: Consumer and Industry Use asked 2,004 U.S. adults about their use of remote patient monitoring technologies in addition to healthcare providers that included 100 primary care physicians, 60 endocrinologists and 40 nurses. CTA also surveyed reimbursement stakeholders
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Cityblock Raises $65M to Address Social Determinants of Health in Underserved Communities
Cityblock, a Brooklyn, NY-based company building sustainable, scalable systems that provide high-quality, cost-effective care for underserved populations with complex health needs has raised $65 million in Series B funding. The funding was led by Redpoint Ventures, 8VC (affiliate venture fund with Cambia Health Solutions and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina), Echo Health Ventures and StartUp Health including existing investors Sidewalk Labs, Thrive Capital, Maverick Ventures, Town
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ATA Unveils ATA19 Annual Conference Award Winners
The ATA, the nation’s leading telehealth association has unveiled the winners of this year’s annual awards that recognize exemplary achievements and individuals in the telehealth field. The annual conference awards will be presented at the ATA19 Annual Conference and Expo in New Orleans on April 14-16, 2019. “The winners of this year’s awards are doing amazing work and it’s wonderful to see the innovation and transformation that is happening in the Telehealth field,” said Laurie Poole, Vice
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Atrium Health, Wake Forest Baptist Health and Wake Forest University Announce Mega-Merger: 5 Things to Know
Atrium Health, Wake Forest Baptist Health and Wake Forest University today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to merge that will establish a next-generation academic healthcare system. If approved, the mega-merger will enable three leading healthcare organizations to invest in the health and well-being of people throughout the region, as well as contribute ground-breaking research and innovation to the world. The organizations have agreed to start a period of exclusive
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Telemedicine: A Potential Remedy to Rural Healthcare Ills?
Mary Tolan, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Chicago Pacific Founders The symptoms are innocuous enough at first. They begin with simple fatigue; readily explainable by a day spent working under the hot sun. The thirst sets in next, then the persistent hunger. The farmer brushes his symptoms off as simple work-caused exhaustion, and rationalizes that anyone would be tired, hungry, and thirsty after a long day in the field - he's getting older, after all. He thinks little of it until his
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DrChrono EHR Integrates with Beam to Power Telehealth Video Consults
DrChrono, an electronic health record (EHR) platform for medical practices announced an integration partnership with telemedicine network Beam Health Group. The integration with Beam’s mobile app available on Google Play and the App Store will enable physicians the ability to upgrade their practices with the ability to have patient appointments via smartphone.Integration Benefits for Medical Practices and PatientsStarting now, the physician practices using DrChrono’s EHR platform can download
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HIMSS19 Day 2 Announcements & Summary
Accenture: Millenials & Gen Z Are Shifting to Virtual, Retail, Clinic, Digital CareMillennial and Gen Z consumers in the U.S. are rapidly adopting non-traditional care models, such as retail clinics, virtual and digital services, according to results of an Accenture survey of 2,000 consumers.Key findings of the survey study include:- When considering traditional in-person care, millennials (ages 22 to 38 in 2019) were two to three times more likely than baby boomers (ages 55 to 73) to be
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