What You Should Know:
- Current Health has partnered with Dexcom to add continuous
glucose monitoring (CGM) capabilities to its remote patient monitoring (RPM)
platform – enhancing care and improving outcomes for diabetics.
- Dexcom CGM data will transmit directly into the Current
Health wearable and platform for review by the care management and clinical
teams, improving post-discharge and chronic care of diabetes patients outside
the hospital.
- Through this partnership, Current
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Call to Action: Restrictions Around Virtual Health Can’t Go Back to “Normal”
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government has passed several stimulus packages with the goal of helping employers keep their business in operation while office volume is down and, in some cases, practices are physically closed. The CARES Act, which included the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Provider Relief Fund, for example, has provided some relief to eligible healthcare providers, including low-interest rate loans to help providers pay staff salaries, rent, and other
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Virtually or In-Person, Automation Improves The Healthcare Experience
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented shift in the way consumers view and access a variety of goods and services—and healthcare is no exception. Recent studies show that many patients, including vulnerable populations like those living with cancer, are delaying recommended care and procedures—and will continue to do so for at least several months amid fears over the safety of in-person visits. In response, reports of providers adapting to offer care virtually are all the more
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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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Noteworth Lands $5M to Expand All-in-One Care Delivery Platform
What You Should Know:
- Noteworth, a first-of-its-kind Digital Healthcare
platform for modernizing Digital Medicine delivery operations, secured a $5
million oversubscribed seed funding round led by Laconia Capital Group
- With this investment, the company will continue to
build upon the delivery of Noteworth’s first-of-its-kind Digital Healthcare
platform.
Noteworth,
a Hoboken, NJ-based all-in-one-care delivery platform for modernizing digital medicine
delivery
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Philips and BioIntelliSense Integrate to Enhance Remote Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Philips integrates the BioIntelliSense FDA-cleared
BioSticker™ sensor as part of its remote patient monitoring solutions for
patients outside the hospital.
- Multi-parameter sensors aid monitoring across multiple chronic conditions with medical-grade vital signs for physicians to remotely track core symptoms, including COVID-19.
- Healthcare Highways is the first to leverage the BioSticker sensor as a part of Philips’ RPM program in the U.S.
Philips,
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Lenovo Launches Virtual Care Solution with Voice Activated Digital Assistant
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 individual daily care plan aided by biometric devices and
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90% of Consumers Believe Remote Health Monitoring Device Helps Better Manage Chronic Conditions
What You Should Know:
- Nearly 90 percent of those consumers believe they could
better manage chronic conditions with a specialized remote health monitoring
device, according to Sony’s mSafety Wearable Platform Division.
- The mSafety study found that managing chronic
conditions remains “stressful” and “difficult” despite advances in technology —
particularly remote health monitoring devices and platforms.
- The mSafety study also found more than half of those
surveyed would consider
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SynsorMed, Charles Barkley Foundation Partner to Combat Health Disparities for Black Americans Impacted by COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Charles Barkley Foundation forms a partnership with health IT company SynsoMed to combat health disparities for Black Americans impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Launches Save Our Selves (S.O.S) Council, comprised of Black influencers, technologists, healthcare professionals, and policymakers concerned about the health of Black Americans.
SynsorMed, a Birmingham, AL-based provider of remote patient monitoring (RPM) and chronic care management (CCM)
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