What You Should Know:
- Fern Health will reveal a
first-of-its-kind collaboration with Mass General Hospital where it will inform
existing and future digitally-delivered pain management programs through the
marriage of AI + predictive analytics with 10 million de-identified Mass
General patient records.
- MGH will validate emerging Fern Health products and pilot new products in clinical environments, setting the stage for Fern expansion into all aspects of non-invasive multimodal pain
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Holy Name, Sheba Medical Center Partner to Develop Digital Health Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Holy Name Medical
Center based in New Jersey and Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, the largest
medical center in the Middle East announced a strategic partnership to develop
digital health and telehealth solutions, The
Times of Israel reports.
- As part of the partnership, Holy Name’s team will Sheba’s ARC (Accelerate, Redesign, Collaborate) Innovation
Center with the focus of identifying clinical needs and developing
solutions to medical challenges.
- ARC
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CareLinx, Doctor On Demand Partner to Bring In-Home Virtual Care to Seniors
What You Should Know:
- Doctor On Demand and CareLinx, one of the largest professional networks for in-home care, have announced a collaboration to bring in-home virtual care services to CareLinx clients.
- At a time when seniors have been encouraged to stay home to avoid exposure to COVID, Doctor On Demand’s partnership with CareLinx will vastly improve their opportunity to receive comprehensive healthcare while remaining safe.
After being the first and only
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3M and Eko Launches 3M Littmann® CORE Digital Stethoscope for Clinicians
What You Should Know:
- 3M and Eko team up to launch 3M Littmann® CORE Digital
Stethoscope to deliver a game-changing tool for clinicians as they assess,
diagnose, and monitor their patients.
- The new 3M Littmann CORE Digital Stethoscope offers
clinicians access to both analog and digital auscultation options and connects
to Eko’s software and AI algorithms* to help clinicians better interpret sounds
and detect heart murmurs.
3M™ Littmann® Stethoscopes and Eko, today announced the
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98point6 Lands $118M to Expand Text-Based Primary Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- On-demand text-based primary care platform 98point6
raises $118M in Series E funding to further invest in research and development
and expand its robust medical practice.
- 98point6 offers patients easy access to primary care in the same way they’ve grown accustomed to receiving the majority of services today—on their schedule and via a mobile app.
98point6, an on-demand digital primary care service that delivers personalized consultation, diagnosis, and
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Were We Mentally Ready for COVID-19? Why It’s Time to Take Behavioral Health Seriously
As you read this, over 200,000 American deaths have been attributed to the virus. The influx of cases continues, while state and local economies are experiencing hardship, children are shuttered in their homes learning remotely, grown children are moving back home and the “new normal” disrupts nearly all of life’s plans.
Yet, these issues don’t reveal all the traumas that Americans are experiencing 10 months into the pandemic. The pandemic's impact continues to be swift and brutal,
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Press Ganey Acquires Doctor.com, Acquires Majority Stake in Binary Fountain
What You Should Know:
- Press Ganey advances the healthcare consumerism movement with acquisitions of Doctor.com and a majority stake in Binary Fountain.
- Expanded technology platform enables industry-leading
management of providers’ online brand and seamless Web-wide patient acquisition
and loyalty strategies.
Press Ganey today
announced the expansion of its market-leading health care consumerism platform
with the acquisitions
of Doctor.com and a majority equity stake
in Binary
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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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Cleveland Clinic Names Top 10 Medical Innovations For 2021
Cleveland Clinic’s top clinicians and researchers present the top 10 medical innovations transforming medical advancements and new awards to recognize healthcare innovation.
The list of breakthrough technologies was selected by a committee of Cleveland Clinic subject matter experts, led by Will Morris, M.D., executive medical director for Cleveland Clinic Innovations, and Akhil Saklecha, M.D., managing director of Cleveland Clinic Ventures.
Here is a look at the top 10 medical
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3 Telemedicine Security and Compliance Best Practices
The coronavirus pandemic accelerated telemedicine exponentially as patients and doctors switched from in-person visits to remote consultations. Health providers rapidly scaled virtual offerings in March and April and traffic volumes soared to unprecedented levels, with practices “seeing 50 to 175 times the number of patients by telehealth than before the outbreak,” according to McKinsey. By early August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expanded the list of
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