The rise of telemedicine and virtual care options have primed at-home testing to make a significant impact on the future of healthcare. 70% of today’s medical decisions depend on laboratory test results, but lagging lab APIs hinder the widespread launch of remote diagnostics. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a major increase in telemedicine usage, including a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020 alone. Both patients and doctors
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Altibbi Raises $44M for Middle East AI-Based Digital Health Platform
What You Should Know: - Altibbi, the Middle East’s largest AI-based digital health platform raises $44 million in Series B fund funding led by Foundation Holdings, Hikma Ventures and existing investors Global Ventures and DASH Ventures. The Series B round marks the largest single financing round for a regional Digital Health company. - Raising more than $50M in funds since its founding in 2011, Altibbi’s diverse shareholder base also includes high-profile investors Endeavor Catalyst,
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HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform OptimizeRx, a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and stay on therapy announced a definitive agreement to acquire the EvinceMed platform and related assets. EvinceMed is a provider in delivering end-to-end automation for specialty pharmaceutical transactions. The acquisition includes the full Market Access Management Platform
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OpenLoop Raises $8M to Expand Full Stack, White Label Telehealth Services
What You Should Know: OpenLoop, a health tech startup delivering full-stack clinical support to companies launching and scaling virtual care services across the nation raises a Series A funding round of $8M led by SpringTide Ventures. - OpenLoop, known for the quality, flexibility and breadth of services they offer to clients who are often early in their telehealth delivery journeys, will use this fresh capital to continue to expand their technology-enabled infrastructure. They will be
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Amazon Care Expands Telehealth Services Nationwide, Expands In-Person Services in More Than 20 Cities
What You Should Know: - Amazon Care expands its telehealth services nationwide and in-person services will be rolled out in more than 20 new cities this year. The service is already available in Seattle, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Arlington. - Amazon plans to expand more than 20 additional cities—including major metropolitan areas like San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, and New York City—so customers can access care where and when they need it
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NowRx Launches $73M Equity Crowdfunding Round to Expand Same-Day Prescription Delivery & Telehealth Services
What You Should Know: - NowRx, a Mountain View, CA-based provider of same-day prescription delivery and telehealth services, today announced it is raising a $73M in Series C funding through equity crowdfunding platform SeedInvest. - By leveraging customized robotic dispensing, industry-leading consumer and driver apps, and QuickFill, a proprietary pharmacy management and logistics system, NowRx can offer same-day end-to-end services, from online prescribing to
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Boost Mobile Offers Free Telehealth Services Powered by K Health
What You Should Know: - Boost Mobile, which serves millions of underinsured and uninsured customers, today announced it will become the first wireless provider to offer free telehealth services to its subscribers and their families by partnering with K Health. - Launching in early summer, new subscribers to Boost Mobile’s Unlimited Plus plan (and their immediate families) will receive immediate access to healthcare and doctors, via K Health, straight from their Boost Mobile phone. - K
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Does Telemedicine Impede or Help the Patient-Centered Medical Home?
Traditional patient care patterns have been radically altered by the COVID-19 pandemic. And after more than a year of disruption, it’s doubtful that everyone will revert to those patterns after the pandemic. New habits have been formed, and consumers are more willing to pursue the path of least resistance in obtaining care, such as opting for quick and easy telemedicine appointments. Both patients and clinicians have identified benefits from virtual care approaches. However, this and other
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Could ‘Hospitals Without Walls’ Be the New Normal for Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring?
The statistics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic continue to be startling, despite the ever-growing mental and physical fatigue that we’ve all experienced living through this frightening, intimidating and unprecedented era. More than 125 million cases worldwide have resulted in a death toll closing in on three million, while in the United States alone, 30 million reported infections have resulted in a death toll that reached 550,000. (1) One thing that can be said for certain about
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Best Practices to Ensure Telehealth Security and Protect Patient Data
To support the sudden increase in test results and medical records being transmitted during the pandemic, hospitals, laboratories, and pharmacies implemented additional devices and remote connections into their networks. After the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) lifted penalties around telehealth to expand care options amid the crisis, new platforms were adopted that were not previously allowed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This exercise of discretion
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