What You Should Know: - Caregility, an enterprise telehealth platform company, and Eko, the market leader in stethoscopes for telehealth, today announced an integration partnership. - Caregility’s cloud platform now seamlessly integrates with Eko’s smart stethoscopes and software, enabling users of Caregility’s iConsult application to perform high-quality auscultation (heart, lung, and other body sounds) on patients during a virtual physical exam. Addressing Virtual Care Gaps to Improve
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Hospital Telehealth Vendor Financials Round Up – Teladoc Health, Amwell & SOC Telemed
Several hospital telehealth vendors enjoyed great success in 2020 as they benefitted from unprecedented demand for their IT and services during the pandemic. But as lockdown restrictions were lifted and the strain on hospitals’ in-house capacity across the ICU and other acute care wards eased into the second half of 2021, were the vendors able to maintain their growth? With full-year results from several of the leading hospital telehealth vendors now published, here’s our take on the recently
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Ohio Hospital Selects Hicuity Health for Tele-ICU and Telemetry Services
What You Should Know: - Knox Community Hospital has selected Hicuity Health to provide both tele-ICU and cardiac telemetry services. Hicuity Health is well-positioned to address the hospital’s multiple care needs and enables the facility to expand access to critical care within the community while also supporting Knox clinical staff as they address the around-the-clock challenges of critical care. - By partnering
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Key Lessons from COVID-19 & How We Can Better Support our Healthcare Provider
COVID-19 has been a novel pandemic in many ways beyond the actual virus itself – from the irreparable impacts it’s having on society, to the immense strain it’s put on the healthcare industry. A recent report stated that 93% of healthcare professionals reported experiencing stress, 86% reported experiencing anxiety, and 76% reported exhaustion and burnout [1]. Considering that the virus will continue to have an impact in 2021 and the reality that COVID-19 will likely not be the last epidemic we
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Advanced ICU Care Rebrands as Hicuity Health
What You Should Know: - Advanced ICU Care, has announced a corporate name change to Hicuity Health. The new brand more accurately reflects the organization’s evolving portfolio of advanced telemedicine services and future expansion of its solution offerings. - The updated branding will support Hicuity Health’s continuing expansion of its inpatient telemedicine solution offerings, with each new service line focused on aiding partner hospitals in improving patient health while also
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The Future of the ICU? How Clinical Decision Support Is Advancing Care
Without a doubt 2020 has been a devastating year for many; the impact of COVID-19 on both personal lives and businesses has had long-term consequences. At the end of September, the number of COVID-19 cases fell just short of 350 million, with just over 1 million deaths reported. The expectation of a second peak in many countries exposed to the deadly illness is being handled with care, with many governments attempting to minimize the impact of an extreme rise in cases. COVID-19
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UAB Medicine, Advanced ICU Care to Develop Tele-ICU Care Operations Center
What You Should Know: - UAB Medicine has announced a large-scale, strategic telemedicine partnership with Advanced ICU Care that will encompass the entire health system, one of the top three largest public hospital facilities in the U.S. - The relationship initiates the development of a new tele-ICU care operations center and envisions serving up to 750 ICU beds in Alabama and surrounding states. UAB Medicine, a nationally recognized leader in patient care, research and training and
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Cloudbreak Health Lands $10M for Unified Telemedicine Platform to Fuel Growth
- Cloudbreak Health raises $10M in funding from Columbia Partners Private Capital to expand its telehealth footprint. - The company plans to use the funding will advance Cloudbreak Health’s operations and product innovations as it looks to expand nationwide throughout 2020. Cloudbreak Health, LLC, (“Cloudbreak”), a leading unified telemedicine and video medical interpretation solutions provider, today announced it has secured a $10 million investment from Columbia Partners Private
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Philips Launches AI-Powered Patient Risk Prediction Algorithm for ICU
- Philips launches Sentry Score, a predictive algorithm for the intensive care unit (ICU) that shows a patient’s probability of receiving an intervention within 60 minutes. - The proprietary predictive algorithm enhances Centralized Virtual Clinical Operations to provide decision support and intervention for ICU patients. - Sentry Score provides clinicians in the tele-ICU with a more comprehensive view of the patient, allowing them to coordinate assessments and recommended actions with
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Tele-ICU: Advancing from Triple Aim to Quad Aim with Improved Critical Care Team Satisfaction
Tele-ICU is increasingly being recognized for its ability to improve the satisfaction of high-acuity care teams, which can ultimately impact the ability to enhance patient outcomes. Since 2007, hospitals and healthcare systems in the U.S. have been driving toward a common set of goals: The Triple Aim. This model broadly calls for enhancing the patient experience, improving population health, and reducing the per capita cost of healthcare. This capstone objective for the healthcare system was
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