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The Graveyard of Digital Health, and How to Stay Out of It

by Anish Sebastian, CEO and Co-founder, Babyscripts 10/09/2019 Leave a Comment

Bullshit Metrics: Is Patient Engagement Real?

- How partnerships are breaking the adoption barrier for digital health. Collaboration is at the heart of successes over history — in Darwin’s words, “those who learn to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” Yet the healthcare space has been slow to learn that lesson. Far from functioning as a team focused on a single goal, healthcare stakeholders operate on a fractured playing field, each one trying to get to the goal on their own. From that perspective, everyone becomes
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Amazon Launches Pilot Virtual Primary Care Clinic in Seattle for its Employees

by Fred Pennic 09/24/2019 Leave a Comment

Amazon launches Amazon Care, a pilot virtual primary care clinic in Seattle for its Amazon employees and in-person healthcare services from Oasis Medical. Oasis Medical. Amazon Care offers employees access to video care, care chat, mobile care, and a care courier available Monday to Friday, 8am to 9pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 8am to 6pm. Eligible Amazon employees and their families can request to enroll at any time during the year. Today, Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Care, a new pilot virtual primary care clinic and in-person healthcare services for employees and their families in Seattle. To power Amazon Care, the company has partnered with Oasis Medical Group, P.C., a medical practice licensed in Washington state, to provide care through the Amazon Care app and in-person services. Oasis Medical's clinicians are all trained in primary and urgent care. Amazon Care: The Best of Both Virtual and In-Person Care Amazon Care provides a mobile application that allows you to access virtual and in-person healthcare services from Oasis Medical. Oasis Medical provides the following services: Video Care: Have an in-app video visit with a doctor, nurse practitioner, or registered nurse (“clinicians”) for advice, answers, diagnoses, treatment, or referrals Care Chat: In-app text chat connects you to a clinician in moments for health advice and answers Mobile Care: Your Video Care provider may recommend an in-person assessment or treatment by a registered nurse (a “Mobile Care nurse”). With your approval, the provider will send a Mobile Care nurse to your home, a designated room on the Amazon campus, or any other location in our service area that you request. The Mobile Care nurse may collect lab samples, perform some onsite testing (such as strep tests), administer common vaccines, or perform physical examinations. Care Courier: During a Video Care visit, you may be prescribed medications consistent with our current scope of services. Many prescriptions can be delivered to you within two hours. Others can be sent to your preferred pharmacy for pick up. Amazon Care Eligibility Interested Amazon employees and their families can request to enroll in the pilot program at any time during the year based on meeting all of the following requirements: Amazon employee age 18+ (or spouse/partner/other dependent of one). Currently enrolled in an Amazon health insurance plan. Currently live and work within Amazon Care current service locations. Why It Matters “We’re currently piloting a healthcare benefit designed to help Amazon employees get fast access to healthcare without an appointment, at the convenience of their schedules, at their preferred location (home, office, or virtual). Amazon Care eliminates travel and wait time, connecting employees and their family members to a physician or nurse practitioner through live chat or video, with the option for in-person follow up services from a registered nurse ranging from immunizations to instant strep throat detection,” said a company spokesman in a statement provided to CNBC reporter Christina Farr. Amazon Care’s hours of operation are Monday to Friday, 8am to 9pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 8am to 6pm.

- Amazon launches Amazon Care, a pilot virtual primary care clinic in Seattle for its Amazon employees and in-person healthcare services from Oasis Medical. Oasis Medical. - Amazon Care offers employees access to video care, care chat, mobile care, and a care courier available Monday to Friday, 8 am to 9 pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 8 am to 6 pm. - Eligible Amazon employees and their families can request to enroll at any time during the year. Today, Amazon announced the launch of
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Mercy Virtual Integrates With AI Health Monitoring Platform Myia Health

by Fred Pennic 09/04/2019 Leave a Comment

Mercy Virtual Integrates With AI Health Monitoring Platform Myia Health

- Mercy Virtual integrates with intelligent health monitoring platform Myia Health to accelerate the adoption of new patient care and at-risk reimbursement models. - Myia is a digital health platform that collects biometric data from curated sensors, including best in the market and over the counter, Apple and Fitbit. - Mercy Ventures, Mercy’s corporate venture capital group leads $10M Series A funding investment in Myia to further strengthen the partnership. Myia Health,
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UM St. Joseph Taps Prenatal App Babyscripts for Remote Pregnancy Care

by Jasmine Pennic 08/20/2019 Leave a Comment

UM St. Joseph Taps Prenatal App Babyscripts for Remote Pregnancy Care

University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, a not-for-profit regional medical center in Towson, MD, and member of the 13-hospital University of Maryland Medical System has entered a partnership agreement with virtual care platform for obstetrics Babyscripts. As part of the partnership, expectant mothers who receive care at UM St. Joseph will now have free access to the Babyscripts app and remote monitoring support throughout—and beyond—their pregnancies.Using internet-connected devices for
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Axia Women’s Health to Power Pregnant Patients With Babyscripts Prenatal App During Their Prenatal Journey

by Fred Pennic 08/06/2019 Leave a Comment

Prenatal App Babyscripts Announces Partnership with Axia Women’s Health

Axia Women’s Health, the nation’s largest independent, physician-led women’s health network, today announced a partnership with Babyscripts, a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics. With nearly 300 providers and more than 115 health centers across New Jersey and Pennsylvania., Axia will provide their pregnant patients access to the Babyscripts app during the entirety of their prenatal journey and beyond. Babyscripts Program Offered Through Axia Women’s HealthThe Babyscripts program
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CoxHealth Taps MDLIVE to Optimize The Virtual Care Experience for Patients & Providers

by Fred Pennic 07/31/2019 Leave a Comment

MDLIVE Inc., a virtual healthcare provider, today announced a strategic and landmark partnership with CoxHealth. As part of the partnership, MDLIVE’s virtual care platform will be seamlessly integrated into CoxHealth’s existing digital framework to optimize the virtual care experience for both consumers and providers across the state of Missouri. CoxHealth will leverage MDLIVE’s holistic virtual experience to better support the many complexities and systems involved in providing virtual
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3 Takeaways From The 2019 HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference

by Michael Liberty, Sr. Market Analyst at Signify Research 07/19/2019 Leave a Comment

The HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference attracted over 2,600 delegates from 64 countries to Helsinki in June 2019. While there was a strong focus on healthcare in the Nordics, the conference brought with it a wide variety of vendors from across the globe all looking for new opportunities on the show floor. Our key takeaway – the goal to change mindsets in Europe towards how healthcare can be improved through the use of technology. We look at a few examples below, namely:- Developing
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Atrium Health Taps Prenatal App Babyscripts for Remote Pregnancy Care

by Fred Pennic 07/10/2019 Leave a Comment

Atrium Health

Babyscripts, the leading virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, announced today that they are teaming up with Atrium Health, one of the nation’s most highly integrated not-for-profit healthcare systems based in Charlotte, N.C. The collaboration provides pregnant patients who receive care at Atrium Health access to the Babyscripts app during the entirety of their prenatal journey and beyond.The Babyscripts mobile app provides access to education on pregnancy, content about baby
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Vida Health Raises $30M for Personalized Virtual Care Platform for Physical & Behavioral Health

by Fred Pennic 06/19/2019 Leave a Comment

Vida Health Raises $30M for Personalized Virtual Care Platform for Physical & Behavioral Health

Vida Health, a personalized virtual care platform for physical and behavioral health has raised $30M in Series C funding from strategic investors including GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation, Teladoc Health, and Workday Ventures. Existing investors from previous rounds also participated.Impact of Chronic Disease in the U.S.Sixty percent of adults in the United States have one chronic disease, and 40% have two or more. More than 68% of adults with a mental health condition have at least one
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Medically Home Group Nabs $10M for Scalable, Virtual Hospital Platform

by Fred Pennic 05/28/2019 Leave a Comment

Medically Home Group Nabs $10M for Scalable, Virtual Hospital Platform

Medically Home Group, Inc., a Boston, MA-based technology-enabled services company has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Cardinal Health and other investors. This strategic investment for Medically Home from Cardinal Health and other investors illustrates the rapid movement in the market for innovative value-based models. The company plans to use the latest round of funding to support scaling efforts and to realize a common vision of enabling cost-effective, patient-centric
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