What You Should Know:
- Geisinger Health expands long-term telehealth services partnership with AMC Health to help assess, monitor, and triage COVID-19 patients at-home.
- The expanded agreement includes IVR (interactive voice response) and patient Bluetooth peripheral kits, etc.
Healthcare provider Geisinger, today announced it is expanding its relationship with AMC Health, the leading provider in telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology. As part of the expansion,
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FCC Approves Third Set of 6 COVID-19 Telehealth Program Providers
What
You Need to Know:
– FCC approves the third set of six COVID-19 telehealth program providers, totaling $2.56M in funding.
– To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program has funded 17 health care providers in 10 states for a total of $9.5 million in funding.
The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau approved an additional six funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, totaling $2.56M in funding. The third set of providers
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FCC Approves Second Set of 5 COVID-19 Telehealth Program Providers
What
You Need to Know:
– FCC
approves second set of five COVID-10 telehealth program providers, after
approving the first set of six providers last week.
– To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program has funded 11 health care providers in 8 states for a total of $6.94 million in funding.
The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau approved an additional five funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Healthcare providers in some of the
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COVID-19 Outbreak: The Opportunity & Importance of Health Informatics
Never before has health informatics played a greater role in public health than during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Health IT industry is certainly challenged due to the overall disruption to the healthcare system, the pandemic undoubtedly underscores the opportunity and importance of health informatics, such as telehealth, remote patient monitoring, patient engagement, AI-based drug discovery, precision medicine, and clinical decision support, but nowhere more pressing than the fields of
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FCC Approves First Set of 6 COVID-19 Telehealth Program Providers
What You Need to Know:
- FCC begins approving funding to boost telehealth during coronavirus pandemic just three days after the opening of the application window.
- Congress appropriated $200 million for the FCC to support health care providers’ use of telehealth services during this national emergency.
The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved six funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Healthcare providers in some of the
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Datos Health Nabs $7M to Hospital-Grade, Automated Remote Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- Israeli-based digital health startup Datos Health raises $7M in Series A funding led by Israeli venture fund Crescendo Venture Partners.
- The successful fundraising comes amid surging interest in the Datos’ versatile and robust remote patient care platform, demonstrated in its timely deployment to support leading US and Israeli healthcare providers – including Rochester Regional Health and Sheba Medical Center – to enable remote care and monitoring for home
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CommonSpirit Health Deploys COVID-19 Virtual Triage and Remote Monitoring Across Ambulatory Clinics
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CommonSpirit deploys Notable Health’s COVID-19 Virtual Triage and Remote Monitoring solution across ambulatory clinics in Arizona, California, and Nevada, with plans to scale broadly across the CommonSpirit Health system in the coming weeks.
The aI-powered platform supports clinician assessment of a patient's risk for COVID-19 by transmitting clinical histories directly into the EMR and performing remote monitoring of at-risk patients throughout the care continuum.
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Providence Uses Remote Patient Monitoring For 700+ COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Providence is monitoring patients suffering from COVID-19 symptoms using Xealth’s digital health platform to deliver Twistle’s care automation and remote patient monitoring platform.
- So far, more than 700 positive or presumptive positive COVID-19 patients are already being helped with this solution at home, keeping patients safe while reducing additional stress on hospitals, emergency rooms, and front-line health care teams.
- Patients who are exhibiting
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COVID-19 Spikes Deaconess Health Adoption of Remote Medical Exams
What You Should Know:
Tyto Care and Deaconess Health System announced its expanded integration partnership to help stem the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
Tyto Care’s TytoHome telehealth device enables
Deaconess patients to perform comprehensive physical examinations with a
Deaconess Care Provider from the comfort of home reducing the risk of spreading
the coronavirus and limiting the pressures facing emergency rooms and clinics.
Since the COVID-19
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Babyscripts Lowers Prenatal In-Person Visits During COVID-19 Outbreak
What You Should Know:
- Babyscripts, a virtual care platform for obstetrics is helping to lower the amount of prenatal in-person visits to 4-6 appointments during the COVID-19 outbreak due to increased demand.
- The standard amount of in-person prenatal care visits is 12-14. With the help of mobile health and their remote patient monitoring platform, which connects patients directly with their providers, Babyscripts is safely transitioning prenatal care outside the clinic.
As
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