What You Should Know:
- Wellkin Health appoints former him and hers executive Dr. Adrian Rawlinson as the company’s new Chief Medical Officer.
- In his new role as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Rawlinson will focus on establishing a Clinical Advisory Board and Clinical User Group.
Welkin Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company, announced the appointment of Dr. Adrian Rawlinson to the company as Chief Medical Officer. In his role as Chief Medical Officer, Dr.
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Bright.md Raises $8M to Expand AI-Powered, Asynchronous Virtual Care
What You Should Know:
Bright.md announced the close of an $8 million series C
to deliver critical capacity to support patient care in the midst of a COVID-19
pandemic and to help flatten the curve.
The funding will be used for a massive expansion effort
to bring non-video telehealth to aid frontline healthcare workers and the
patients they are treating.
Over six years, Bright.md has stretched $12.5 million to
advance its AI-powered automation platform for primary and urgent
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COVID-19 Spikes Deaconess Health Adoption of Remote Medical Exams
What You Should Know:
Tyto Care and Deaconess Health System announced its expanded integration partnership to help stem the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
Tyto Care’s TytoHome telehealth device enables
Deaconess patients to perform comprehensive physical examinations with a
Deaconess Care Provider from the comfort of home reducing the risk of spreading
the coronavirus and limiting the pressures facing emergency rooms and clinics.
Since the COVID-19
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Amwell Launches National Coronavirus (COVID-19) Telehealth Response Program
What You Need to Know:
- Amwell launches a national Coronavirus (COVID-19) telehealth response program to help hospitals, health systems, and health plans manage and mitigate coronavirus spread.
- Telehealth can serve as a force multiplier in the public health response to the COVID-19 outbreak, improving access to care directly from the home.
- Amwell has established an always-on-call infection control officer, COVID-19 specific workflows to guide clinical operations and quality, and
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Banner Health Expands Ambulatory & Acute Virtual Care Services to Patients
- Banner Health inks a 5-year partnership agreement with eVisit and VeeMed to enable ambulatory and acute virtual care services for their patients throughout the Southwest. - Together, eVisit and VeeMed will provide a Banner-branded virtual care platform including software, mobile applications, and leveraging Banner hardware to operationalize Banner's preferred approach to virtual care services. Banner Health, one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the country has
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Steward Health Care System to Deploy MEDITECH Expanse EHR Across 35 Hospitals
- Steward Health Care System recently signed to implement MEDITECH Expanse EHR in 18 sites located across Arizona, Texas, Utah, Arkansas, and Louisiana. - The implementation is a part of Steward’s “One Platform” strategy to bring all 35 hospitals under a one single, integrated, enterprise EHR. Health IT company MEDITECH announces it will extend its 20-year partnership with Steward Health Care System, which recently signed to implement the MEDITECH Expanse EHR platform in 18 sites located across
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Cerner Extends On-Site & Near-Site Health Center Experience with 24/7 Digital Primary Care
- Cerner selects HealthTap to further extend healthcare experiences beyond on-site and near-site health and pharmacy centers through HealthTap’s comprehensive digital primary care, including text and video visits and searchable content written by physicians. - Cerner clients using HealthTap’s digital primary care physician network can offer their employees the ability to connect with a U.S.-based, board-certified physician 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on-demand. Cerner Corporation is
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Executive Insights: Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2020
As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare industry executives to share their predictions and trends for 2020.
Robbie Hughes, Founder, and CEO, Lumeon
“Following the announcement of the Trump administration's price transparency requirement – and the ensuing backlash from hospital groups – the issue of price transparency will dominate the healthcare industry next year. Regardless of the outcome of the lawsuit, I expect we'll see more attention around the importance of the
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What Will It Take To Build The Uber of Medical Records? 3 Critical Steps to Consider
Our healthcare system has struggled with data silos and clumsy, antiquated data sharing practices forever and a variety of stakeholders will need to work together to achieve anything close to an “Uber of medical records.”
It’s well documented and understood that the healthcare industry has historically been slow to adopt new technology while other business sectors have welcomed it with ease. For example, while most industries abandoned the fax machine in the 1990s, as recently as 2017, fax
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VerityStream Acquires CredentialMyDoc for $9M in Cash
- VerityStream acquires CredentialMyDoc, a Savannah, GA-based web-based, software for credentialing and provider for $9M in cash. - The acquisition of CredentialMyDoc bolsters VerityStream’s leadership position in the outpatient facility market segment.VerityStream, f/k/a Verity, a wholly owned subsidiary of HealthStream (Nasdaq: HSTM), which is focused on delivering enterprise-class solutions that are transforming credentialing, enrollment, privileging, and evaluations for healthcare
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