- 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
- 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
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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