- 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, according to a study by J.D Power.
Despite interest from
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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.
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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
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 growing (though still very much in the minority) number of
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The Future of Whole-Person Care: The Intersection of Tech and Holistic Health
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, and spiritual needs of an individual and seeing them
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Aetna to Offer Prenatal App Babyscripts to Support PA Medicaid Members
- Aetna Better Health of Pennsylvania, Aetna’s Medicaid managed care organization in Pennsylvania enters a strategic partnership with Babyscripts. - Strategic partnership will enable Aetna Better Health of Pennsylvania to deliver pregnancy care solutions to plan members at participating WellSpan Health sites using Babyscripts prenatal application. - New point of care model allows low-risk pregnant patients to receive the benefits of remote monitoring and virtual care.Aetna Better Health of
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Mercy Integrates with Bright.md’s Virtual Care Platform to Modernize Care Delivery
- Mercy, a four-state health system serving Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas will integrate Bright.md services into their care delivery platform to expand their ability to care for patients.- Growing adoption of solutions like Bright.md’s SmartExam underscores increasing demand for non-video telehealth platforms as a more cost-effective and convenient means for treating patients with low-acuity illnesses and conditions that might be considered embarrassing for some individuals such as
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American Well Acquires Aligned Telehealth to Create The Largest Telepsychiatry Platform
Key Highlights- American Well has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aligned Telehealth, a leader in the provision of behavioral telehealth and telepsychiatry services to hospitals and health plans. - The acquisition combines Aligned Telehealth’s ability to access a network of clinical experts with American Well’s digital care delivery platform. - The combination will create the largest enterprise telepsychiatry platform in the U.S.National telehealth leader American Well announced today
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Cleveland Clinic, American Well Launches New Company to Offer Virtual Visits
- Cleveland Clinic and American Well form a new joint venture, The Clinic, to distribute comprehensive health services through virtual visits. - Through a secure digital platform powered by American Well, people from around the world will be able to connect with Cleveland Clinic's leading specialists and receive insights, opinions, recommendations, and assistance for a variety of conditions.Cleveland Clinic and American Well are partnering on a first-of-its-kind initiative to provide broad
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