The coronavirus outbreak has brought epic casualties as more than 7.3 million cases have been confirmed globally and more than 413,000 people--and counting--are known to have died. In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown flaws in our medical system, from basic preparedness to the coordinated distribution of medical equipment. Within this global tragedy, there are stories of heroism and renewed mind power and energy addressing health care.
In reaction to shortages, we’re
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Synapse Medicine Raises $8M to Expand Medication Intelligence Platform to Ensure Prescription Safety
What You Should Know:
- French digital health startup Synapse Medicine raises
$8M in funding led by insurance provider for healthcare professionals MACSF.
- The Synapse Medicine medication intelligence platform
supports companies and healthcare institutions in their decision-making
processes to ensure the safety of prescriptions.
- Synapse Medicine currently works together with
telemedicine companies, public and private insurance providers, hospitals and
care facilities, as well as
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Top 4 Disruptions Healthcare Providers Should Prepare to Address
The past few years have been particularly interesting for the healthcare landscape. We’ve seen a surge in telemedicine and retail clinics, increasing use of personal healthcare devices such as watches and fitness trackers, aggressive attempts to dismantle the ACA, the growing influence of private equity investment firms, and massive mergers with disruptive enterprise market entries such as Amazon. As the ground beneath them continues to shift, many providers are venturing into new territory to
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Vonage, Redox Integrate Telehealth Data with EHRs to Support Interoperability
What You Should
Know:
- Vonage and
Redox form partnership where Vonage API users can now leverage Redox APIs to
exchange telehealth data with electronic health records (EHRs).
- Together the
companies enable healthcare providers to connect effectively and privately with
patients via a platform that is fully interoperable with EHRs and other leading
healthcare data source systems.
Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital
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Why COVID-19 Highlights Urgent Need to Humanize and Modernize The Patient Financial Experience
It’s no secret that COVID-19 and the
corresponding near-immediate economic catastrophe will be felt for
significantly longer than the few short months it took to wreak its initial
havoc. While losses hit businesses from “a to z” (...except maybe Amazon, ironically),
hospitals and health systems tasked with treating the victims of this pandemic
bear a particularly harsh dose of the financial fallout -- $72 billion in CARES
Act hospital grants barely serving as a band-aid to the financial
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90% of Consumers Believe Remote Health Monitoring Device Helps Better Manage Chronic Conditions
What You Should Know:
- Nearly 90 percent of those consumers believe they could
better manage chronic conditions with a specialized remote health monitoring
device, according to Sony’s mSafety Wearable Platform Division.
- The mSafety study found that managing chronic
conditions remains “stressful” and “difficult” despite advances in technology —
particularly remote health monitoring devices and platforms.
- The mSafety study also found more than half of those
surveyed would consider
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Black Lives Matter: Health IT Industry, Where Are You?
All lives truly matter. However, the world does not exist in a vacuum void of institutional racism, subconscious, and implicit bias. As a result, every life within America is not valued the same, as is evident by the recent George Floyd murder. When all lives are not treated with the same opportunities and respect, whether in matters of criminal justice, employment, housing, education, health, and healthcare evidence shows the result is that only some lives actually matter. One cannot change the
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Target Offers Team Members Free Access to Virtual Visits Via CirrusMD
What You Should Know:
- Target announced a number of new and extended COVID-19 benefits, including access to CirrusMD’s virtual care platform. The platform will provide text-first virtual health care visits for team members to securely text, share images, or video chat with a doctor.
Target today
announced a number of industry-leading updates and extensions to its pay and
benefits including access to virtual care visits. To support the health and
safety of its team members during a
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COVID-19: What it Means to American Healthcare: Trends, Impacts, Predictions, and the Road Ahead
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer releases new report, “COVID-19: What it
Means to American Healthcare: Trends, Impacts, Predictions, and the Road Ahead”
that uncovers a two-fold strategy for healthcare organizations to predict the
utilization trend of resources and maps the route from immediate COVID-19
challenges to steps needed to address these barriers.
- The report probes how virtual care and telemedicine IT
solutions rose as the ray of hope in the wake of an unprecedented outbreak
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Arcadia Launches New COVID-19 Recovery Toolkit for Health Systems
What You Should Know:
- Arcadia launches COVID-19 Surveillance and
Engagement Toolkit with data and resources to help health systems in
value-based payment arrangements meet the demands of the pandemic.
- Since the introduction of Arcadia’s COVID-19 Surveillance
and Engagement Toolkit, more than a dozen health systems have used Arcadia Analytics
to reach patients via text message outreach and symptom screening tools, an
increase
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