The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed how we interact with one another, with businesses, and with the world around us. From social distancing to hand sanitation to remote working, its impact on society is immense. And among the various industries that are experiencing significant change as a result of the pandemic, healthcare tops the list. Supply chain disruptions, crowded ICUs and exhausted medical staff has taken a toll on hospitals and clinics — and they’ve had to pivot rapidly to new
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Best Buy Health Now Offers Lively Health & Safety Services On Apple Watch For First Time
What You Should Know:
- Best Buy Health, today announced it is offering a full array of health and safety services available on the Apple Watch to help to make it easier for older adults to stay safe, healthy, and connected.
- Now Apple Watch users with the Lively app can get help from highly trained Lively Urgent Response Agents to get help in an emergency and non-emergency situations, from medical emergencies to car trouble and more.
How to Access Lively Health & Safety Services
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QGenda Acquires Automated Provider Scheduling Platform Shift Admin – M&A
What You Should Know:
- QGenda has acquired Shift Admin, an industry-recognized
leader for shift-based specialties including emergency medicine, urgent care,
and hospital medicine.
With the industry-leading scheduling technology for all
specialties across the healthcare delivery system, QGenda’s technology will
ensure care is available for patients when and where it is needed.
QGenda, the leading
innovator in enterprise healthcare workforce management solutions, announced
the
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12 Telehealth & Virtual Care Predictions and Trends for 2021 Roundup
Dr. Paul Hain, Chief Medical Officer of GoHealth
Telehealth is Here to Stay in 2021
Prior to the pandemic, telehealth was a limited ad-hoc service with geographic and provider restrictions. However, with both the pandemic restrictions on face to face interactions and a relaxation of governmental regulations, telehealth utilization has significantly increased from thousands of visits in a week to well over a million in the Medicare population. What we’ve learned is that telehealth allows
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42 Recently Launched COVID-19 Vaccine Management Solutions to Know
An in-depth look at twelve recently released COVID-19 vaccine management solutions as COVID-19 vaccines are being distributed nationwide.
1. Microsoft
Microsoft
launches a COVID-19 vaccine management platform with partners Accenture and
Avanade, EY, and Mazik Global to help government and healthcare customers
provide fair and equitable vaccine distribution, administration, and monitoring
of vaccine delivery.
Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) has deployed over 230 emergency COVID-19
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Mount Sinai to Deploy Current Health’s RPM Solution to Enhance Oncology Patient Care
What You Should Know:
- Mount Sinai Health System will implement Current Health’s
remote patient monitoring (RPM) solution to allow oncology patients to recover
at home while being continuously and passively monitored by their care team.
- The implementation will reduce hospitalization events and prevent potential patient exposure to infection while bridging the digital health divide as more and more patients engage in telehealth.
Current Health
today announced that its remote patient
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Papa Launches Virtual Primary Care Platform to Support Aging Americans During The Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- Papa, the popular "family on-demand" service for older adults, today announced the launch of Papa Health, a new virtual health platform aimed at improving health outcomes for the vulnerable aging population during the pandemic.
- The comprehensive health management platform will include
virtual primary care, urgent care, and chronic care management - adding to
its existing services that provide older adults with companionship
and assistance with
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Powered by Doctor on Demand, ArcBest Rolls Out Virtual Primary Care Health Plan to its 13k Employees
What You Should Know:
- Publicly traded logistics company ArcBest announced its
deal with Doctor On Demand to introduce its virtual-first health plan to its
13,000 employees, who are largely "essential workers" as long-haul
truckers.
- Employees appreciated the convenience and safety of 24/7 virtual care – from their homes, from the road – and ArcBest is now doubling down on virtual care for 2021 – and offering a holistic, virtual-first primary care health plan – one where patients see
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Ensuring Telehealth Providers’ Virtual Care Dollars Make Sense
Telehealth and virtual care are not brand-new phenomena suddenly cobbled together as a rapid response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the average US patient could be forgiven for thinking that it is. Indeed, virtual visits to care providers and remote patient monitoring have been available for quite some time, delivering two key benefits:
- Providing a platform to address cost-efficiencies and accessibility to quality healthcare for the populace at large
- Playing a
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4 Ways to Combat Hidden Costs Associated with Delayed Patient Care During COVID-19
COVID-19 terms such as quarantine, flatten the curve, social distance, and personal protective equipment (PPE) have dominated headlines in recent months, but what hasn’t been discussed in length are the hidden costs of COVID-19 as it relates to patient adherence.
The coronavirus pandemic has amplified this long-standing issue in healthcare as patients are delaying routine preventative and ongoing care for ailments such as mental health and chronic disease. Emergency care is also
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