Patients today have more options than ever for accessing care outside of their traditional health systems and physician practices. While access to care has no doubt improved, the addition of new channels has
created new problems and exacerbated longstanding ones, notably with care coordination, consistency and continuity of care, patient and clinician satisfaction, and ensuring both HIPAA compliance and organizational privacy and security policies.
Telehealth is meeting the need for
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Why Telemedicine Isn’t A Temporary Fix — It’s The Future
In March 2020, many office workers packed up their bags under the mandate of their employers, assuming they’d be working from home for a few weeks so the coronavirus could “blow over.” Fast-forward two years: many of those same employees have yet to step foot back into their old offices, and some never will again.
A similar trend is playing out in healthcare. When COVID-19 started, many health systems rapidly adopted virtual care models as a matter of necessity to keep as many non-COVID
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Brightside Health Raises $50M for Personalized Anxiety & Depression Care
What You Should Know:
- Today, Brightside Health announced it raised a $50M Series B, led by ACME Capital and Mousse Partners, bringing its total funding to $75M to date.
- The funding will help Brightside expand access to high-quality mental healthcare to more people across the country, enhance the platform, forge new partnerships, and grow as a team, from about 57 now to an expected 175 later this year.
Brightside Health, a telemedicine platform that offers fast access to
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RedDress Donates FDA-Cleared Wound Care Solution to Aid Injured Ukrainians
What You Should Know:
- RedDress, a Florida-based Israeli medical company is shipping revolutionary blood-clotting wound care systems to Ukraine to help with serious injuries and severe trauma wounds.
- RedDress began shipments of 400 of their ActiGraft systems this week to multiple hospitals in Ukraine to help treat civilian casualties as a result of the indiscriminate Russian attacks.
ActiGraft: Recreating the
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GrandPad’s Tablet for Seniors now Available on Amazon.com
What You Should Know:
- GrandPad, the purpose-built tablet solution designed for people over the age of 75, announced today that seniors and family caregivers can now purchase the GrandPad tablet online at Amazon.com.
- Availability on Amazon.com expands the reach of GrandPad senior-friendly tablets to millions of older adults, families, and caregivers in an effort to reduce isolation and loneliness that can diminish health and wellbeing.
GrandPad® is the smartest, simplest, and safest
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HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity
OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform
OptimizeRx, a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and stay on therapy announced a definitive agreement to acquire the EvinceMed platform and related assets. EvinceMed is a provider in delivering end-to-end automation for specialty pharmaceutical transactions. The acquisition includes the full Market Access Management Platform
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Medtronic Taps Vizient to Offer AI-Powered Surgical Video Management & Analytics Platform for OR
What You Should Know:
- Medtronic announced a new contract with Vizient, a leading healthcare performance improvement company for more than half the nation’s healthcare providers, to offer Touch Surgery™️ Enterprise, the first AI-powered cloud-based video management and analytics platform for the OR.
The latest offering from Medtronic’s Surgical Robotics portfolio, Touch Surgery™ Enterprise makes it easy to capture and analyze surgical video and ensures data privacy compliance with AI that
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XRHealth Secures $10M to Expand Virtual Reality Treatment in the Metaverse
What You Should Know:
- XRHealth, the gateway to the healthcare metaverse, announced today that they raised $10M in funding to expand virtual healthcare treatment in the Metaverse. The funding was backed by HTC, Bridges Israel impact investment fund, AARP, and crowdfunding on StartEngine.com and existing investors.
- XRHealth’s platform is FDA and CE registered and provides an immersive experience for users, transporting them to a virtual world for comprehensive
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Force Therapeutics and Xealth Integrate to Drive Remote Care Management
What You Should Know:
- Today, Force Therapeutics and Xealth are partnering to bring remote management of postoperative recovery and care plans into clinicians’ EHR workflows.
- The Force platform delivers provider-prescribed digital education and video content for patients recovering from injury or surgery at home. The partnership integrates the Force platform with a provider’s electronic health record, enabling care teams to view clinically relevant metrics within the
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Current Health and Zoom Partner to Enable Equitable Care in the Home
What You Should Know:
- Current Health – a care-at-home technology platform that was recently acquired by Best Buy – announced a new integration with Zoom, which will allow patients to more easily connect with their care teams, regardless of bandwidth connectivity or language barriers.
- As part of the partnership, Zoom will provide Current Health customers with enhanced video communications platform capabilities that expand their ability to deliver safe and effective virtual care
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