Roundup summary of recent digital health strategic partnerships: HealthJoy, Teladoc Health Launch Virtual Primary Care HealthJoy, a benefits navigation platform that amplifies employer benefit strategies expands its partnership with Teladoc Health to introduce virtual primary care. HealthJoy Virtual Primary Care, powered by Teladoc Health, provides a fully integrated primary care experience that supports members throughout their entire healthcare journey. The solution will further
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TytoCare Report Reveals Providers’ Key to Virtual Care Adoption
What You Should Know: A new report released by TytoCare, a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, revealed insights into how health plans and organizations can drive virtual care engagement.While key elements that patients value in virtual care offerings include cost and time savings, and the ability to reduce Emergency Department (ED) or urgent care visits, people want to see doctors they trust or and are more likely to adopt virtual care when
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Duped by Data? Here’s Why EMRs Are Antiquated & Outdated in Today’s Hospital
Electronic medical records (EMRs) - software systems where physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers store, retrieve, and act on clinical data - are fundamentally broken. This sentiment is so widely shared among healthcare workers that it has become almost trite to point it out. Patients feel it too - we’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve heard “isn’t it in my chart?” when we ask a question during a clinical visit. Unfortunately, the vast majority of EMRs do not facilitate
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Hint & Eden Partner to Expand Virtual Direct Primary Care Offering Nationwide
Hint & Eden Partner to Expand Virtual Direct Primary Care Offering Nationwide What You Should Know: Hint Health, the company powering the Direct Primary Care (DPC) movement, and Eden Health, a leading national virtual and in-person primary care provider, today announced a partnership to expand the Hint Connect footprint with a virtual DPC offering across all 50 states.This partnership allows employers to offer a DPC network nationwide for patients who don’t have convenient access
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OXOS Medical Raises $23M to Deliver ”Radiology Department in a Box”
What You Should Know: OXOS Medical, the MedTech innovator developing simple and safe X-ray solutions, announced a $23 million Series A funding from Parkway Venture Capital and Intel Capital, bringing its total funding to $45 million.OXOS continues to build on its traction across outpatient clinics, the military, the Veterans Administration, sports teams, hospitals, imaging centers, and bioskills labs. To help accelerate the company’s growth, Gregg Hill, Parkway Venture Capital co-founder and
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VIVE 2023: 6 Digital Health Executives Share Their Key Takeaways
A common thread throughout my conversations at ViVE was the increased competition for health consumers. Larger health systems are continuing to be fragmented by smaller specialties, like Northwell Health, which reported their outpatient care volumes are continuing to rise. Free-standing surgery centers, ER, urgent care, primary care, imaging centers and so on, are monitoring large healthcare systems looking for ways to extract the most profitable arms and business from them. As this continues to
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Telehealth Utilization Declined 76% Nationally from 2020 to 2021
What You Should Know: - From 2020 to 2021, telehealth utilization declined 76 percent nationally while, during that same period, retail clinic utilization increased 51 percent nationally. - Retail clinic growth had the greatest increase among all alternative places of service studied—retail clinics, urgent care centers, telehealth and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs)—as well as emergency rooms (ERs), in a new FAIR Health white paper containing the sixth annual edition of
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Ribbon Health Enables Access to Provider Appointment Booking, Eliminating Barriers to Care
What You Should Know: - Ribbon Health (Ribbon), a leader in healthcare provider data technology and management launches new platform features that will increase access to care through provider scheduling. - Enabled by partnerships with leading booking marketplaces, these new platform capabilities empower patients to easily search for providers that both fit their needs and are accepting new patients, and book appointments with those providers for high-quality care across primary,
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Sana, Little Otter Partner to Give Adolescent Members and Their Families Access to Mental Healthcare
What You Should Know: - Sana, a healthcare company that provides Fortune 500-level health benefits to small businesses at affordable prices, today announced a partnership with Little Otter, a digital mental health solution for children and their families. - Both Little Otter and Sana are aligned in their goal to provide comprehensive, high-quality mental healthcare to their members and their families. By investing more in primary care and enabling access to more low-cost,
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Improving The Digital Experience – for Both Patient and Employee
It’s a tired, old saw: Healthcare organizations are woefully behind when it comes to technology, automation and digital experiences. Leaders are sick of hearing it. But that doesn’t make it any less true. Current market pressures, however, compel hospitals, health systems and medical practices to reconsider their hesitancy in embracing these innovations. A combination of consumer demand and acute, unrelenting labor shortages force leaders to explore the practicality of leveraging
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