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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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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
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- 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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Validic Launches Real-Time, COVID-19 Remote Symptom Monitoring Tool
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- Validic launches COVID-19 rapid deployment remote monitoring tool for employers and healthcare organizations to monitor employees, patients, and other individuals at scale for emerging symptoms of COVID-19.
- COVID-19 Home Monitoring tracks a person’s body temperature, difficulty breathing, cough frequency, and oxygen saturation.
- Triggered alerts will notify program administrators or clinicians as a person’s symptoms worsen, improve, or remain static – or as
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Stanford Alumni Scientists, Physicians Launch StartX Med COVID-19 Task Force
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- More than 1500 Stanford faculty and alumni announced the launch of StartX Med COVID-19 Task Force featuring 70+ StartX Med Innovators with medical breakthroughs for the prevention, diagnostics, and treatment of coronavirus mobilize efforts to fast-track public health needs during the pandemic.
- The StartX Med COVID-19 Task Force will collaborate on outreach to government agencies, regulatory bodies and healthcare systems in the interest of public health for
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CTA Releases Virtual Care Guiding Principles, Led by Livongo, Validic, Others
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- 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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What Health IT Thought Leaders Say HIMSS20 Would Have Focused On—If It Had Happened
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Health IT thought leaders share what HIMSS20 would have focused On—if It had happened.
- Hot topics include health IT to address COVID-19; artificial intelligence; EHR interoperability and usability; and more.
–Kuldeep Singh Rajput, CEO of Biofourmis, Boston, Mass., which provides digital therapeutics that power personalized predictive care
“Remote monitoring platforms and clinical-grade wearables combined with artificial intelligence [AI]-based
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