In the past several months, Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has risen from humble beginnings in a Wuhan farmer’s market to international status: dominating the news cycle, exhausting the world’s hand sanitizer resources, and generally monopolizing the mental real estate of the developed world.
As new cases continue to be identified in the U.S., politicians are giving coronavirus the attention it deserves, responding to initial accusations of inadequacy with proposals for funding and
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Innovaccer Launches Care As One Campaign to Express Solidarity during COVID-19
What You Should Know:
Innovaccer has launched the Care As One campaign to raise
funds to donate to Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief
organization, working to connect people with food and end hunger.
The campaign features a collection of stories from all
over the world that people have shared as examples of heroism and acts of
kindness they have witnessed during the pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the
human race some of its worst days
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Tackling COVID-19 with Telemedicine on an FHIR-Enabled Data Activation Platform
With the incidence of new COVID-19 cases expanding by the day, those in healthcare are accelerating their search for any available tools or medications that could stem the outbreak.
Modern medical organizations have used technology to track and treat viruses in the outbreaks that have occurred over the last few decades. The current COVID-19 crisis makes innovative virtual care solutions an indispensable tool as the virus spreads across communities.
The Rise of Virtual Care During the
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Eko Launches AI-Powered Telehealth Platform for Virtual Pulmonary and Cardiac Exam
What You Should Know:
Eko launches first AI-Powered telehealth platform for virtual
pulmonary and cardiac exams, providing clinicians with in-person level exam capabilities
during video visits.
Already deployed by more than 200 health systems for telehealth, platform goes beyond standard video conferencing to facilitate stethoscope audio, ECG live-streaming, and FDA-cleared identification of atrial fibrillation (AFib) and heart murmurs.
Eko today
announced Eko Telehealth, an
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FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Programs Surpasses $50M in Funding
What You Should Know:
- To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program, which was authorized by the CARES Act, has approved funding for 132 healthcare providers across 33 states plus Washington, DC for a total of just over $50M in funding.
The Federal Communications
Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved an additional 43
funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth
Program. The seventh set of healthcare providers in both urban and
rural areas of the
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Omada Health Acquires Telehealth Physical Therapy Company Physera
What You Should Know
Tele-physical therapy company Physera announced that
they are joining Omada Health, a digital health company that offers
programs for chronic disease prevention and management, and mental health
support.
Through the deal, Omada adds Physera’s musculoskeletal
solution to its suite of digital care programs for the prevention and self-management
of diabetes, hypertension, and mental health.
Physera recently launched a
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Amazon Transcribe Medical Enhances Speech-to-Text Accuracy of COVID-19-Related Terms
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
is now helping accurately assess, consume and analyze information related to
COVID-19 by enhancing speech-to-text accuracy of COVID-19-related
terms with Amazon
Transcribe Medical, a machine learning service that makes it easy
to quickly create accurate transcriptions from medical consultations
between patients and physicians.
These medical speech-recognition capabilities can now help
efficiently and accurately transcribe video and audio
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Doctor On Demand Becomes First Telehealth Provider to Support 33M Medicare Part B Beneficiaries
What You Should Know:
- Doctor on Demand becomes the first nationwide, telehealth provider to expand its medical services to Medicare Part B coverage in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Through Doctor On Demand, beneficiaries are now able to easily connect with a board-certified physician of their choice over secure live video from home, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Doctor On Demand,
a San Francisco, CA-based virtual care provider, announced it is the first
nationwide,
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COVID-19 and Its Global Impact on Primary Care Virtual Consultations
Last week saw Teladoc Health release its 1Q20 financial results giving the US telehealth industry a first glimpse of how COVID-19 is impacting the ambulatory virtual care market. Discussion around the crisis and its impact on telehealth has been rife since early March and the data published by Teladoc Health highlights that this was justified.
The company reported that the number of virtual care consults in the quarter had passed the 2 million mark, up approximately 60% from the 1.24M
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KLAS: COVID-19 Guide to Telehealth Virtual Care & Remote Care Platforms
What You Should Know:
- New KLAS telehealth reports aims to aims to provide high-level COVID-19 guidance helpful to healthcare organizations on the virtual care and remote care platform vendor landscape.
- Includes high-level overviews of validated vendors’ current customer satisfaction, key questions to consider in building a strategy, and a consolidated view of KLAS’ previously published telehealth reports.
Telehealth
adoption in healthcare until recently had been increasing at a
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