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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Babyscripts Lowers Prenatal In-Person Visits During COVID-19 Outbreak
What You Should Know:
- Babyscripts, a virtual care platform for obstetrics is helping to lower the amount of prenatal in-person visits to 4-6 appointments during the COVID-19 outbreak due to increased demand.
- The standard amount of in-person prenatal care visits is 12-14. With the help of mobile health and their remote patient monitoring platform, which connects patients directly with their providers, Babyscripts is safely transitioning prenatal care outside the clinic.
As
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Pager Goes International, Expands Virtual Care Model to Latin America
- Virtual care companion Pager announces its international expansion in Latin America with Seguros SURA Colombia.
- As part of Seguros SURA Colombia´s virtual healthcare model, Pager will deliver a virtual doctor into the family healthcare experience so that patients can seamlessly interact with their care team anytime, anywhere, via chat, voice, and video.
Pager, a virtual care companion that provides a personalized, connected care experience throughout your healthcare journey has
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Analysis: January Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of January 2020.
Ten years into the bull market, we operate in a heightened state of awareness for any indication of market weakness that may signal a downturn. While debt levels are rising and GDP growth somewhat sluggish, the world of private equity, public equity, and M&A continues to be in full swing bull
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Teladoc COO Shares 5 Virtual Care Predictions to Watch in 2020
David Sides, Chief Operating Officer at Teladoc Health
- Teladoc Health’s COO David Sides gives a glimpse of what the future holds as more consumers tap into virtual care.
Forget face to face, healthcare is moving into cyberspace—albeit not as fast as one would like. Yes, there is no question that the interest in virtual care is growing swiftly. However, the adoption of virtual services has been somewhat slow; only about 10 percent of healthcare consumers have used such services,
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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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Teladoc Health Acquires Virtual Care Platform InTouch Health for $600M
- Teladoc Health announced this morning it will acquire InTouch Health, the leading provider of enterprise telehealth solutions for hospitals and health systems for $600M.
- The acquisition establishes Teladoc Health as the only virtual care provider covering the full range of acuity – from critical to chronic to everyday care – through a single solution across all sites of care including home, pharmacy, retail, the physician office, ambulance, and more.
Teladoc
Health, Inc., a
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Zipnosis, GYANT Launch Holistic Digital Front Door for Healthcare Orgs
- Zipnosis and GYANT join forces to offer a more intuitive and accessible digital patient experience with a digital front door for healthcare organizations.
- The new joint solution combines GYANT’s chat-based AI patient engagement and evaluation capabilities with Zipnosis’ virtual and asynchronous care capabilities to improve the digital patient experience throughout the entire care journey, while simultaneously efficiently utilizing staff resources and improving care.
Zipnosis, a
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Thinking Pink: The Case for Femtech in 2020 & Beyond
Judith Nowlin, Chief Growth Officer, Babyscripts
If health systems are going to retain and attract new customers, femtech is a critical starting place: it’s what women want.
In 2012, investments in female-specific health technology (femtech, as it has been coined) totaled $57M. By the close of 2019, they’re projected to reach $1B. That’s a 1651% increase in a mere seven years — and the numbers continue to climb.
The boom can be pinned to a multitude of causes, not least among them a
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The Future of Whole-Person Care: The Intersection of Tech and Holistic Health
Judith Nowlin, Chief Growth Officer for Babyscripts
There is a common misconception in the healthcare field that technological innovation is opposed to the philosophy of holistic care. Tech is viewed as artificial, manufactured, and impersonal — it values human experience only for the sake of developing better algorithms and treats the physical body of the patient without care for their personhood.
In contrast, holistic care is seen as organic and natural; elevating the physical, emotional,
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