What You Should Know:
- Nice Healthcare raises
$5M in seed funding to power the next phase of growth of its in-home and
virtual primary care services.
- Nice contracts directly with employers to provide
unlimited access to its service under a transparent and capitated rate of $30 -
$36 per employee per month.
Nice Healthcare, a Minneapolis, MN-based provider of in-home and virtual primary care services, today announced it has raised $5 million in seed funding to pioneer the
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CareLinx, Doctor On Demand Partner to Bring In-Home Virtual Care to Seniors
What You Should Know:
- Doctor On Demand and CareLinx, one of the largest professional networks for in-home care, have announced a collaboration to bring in-home virtual care services to CareLinx clients.
- At a time when seniors have been encouraged to stay home to avoid exposure to COVID, Doctor On Demand’s partnership with CareLinx will vastly improve their opportunity to receive comprehensive healthcare while remaining safe.
After being the first and only
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Rural Hospital Execs Can Beat COVID-19 By Shifting From Reactive to Proactive Care
Eric Tran, Tulane School of MedicineDonald Voltz, MD, Aultman Hospital
The COVID-19 virus is ravaging the planet at a scale not seen since the infamous Spanish Flu of the early 1900s, inflicting immense devastation as the U.S. loses more than 200,000 lives and counting. According to CDC statistics, 94% of patient mortalities associated with COVID-19 were simultaneously suffering from preexisting conditions, leaving a mere 6% of victims with COVID-19 as their sole cause of death. However,
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Priority Health Launches Telehealth PCP Plans for Members in Michigan
What You Should Know:
- Priority Health launches its virtual-first coverage
option with MyPriority Telehealth PCP plans, using top platform Doctor On
Demand.
- Members who choose one of the MyPriority Telehealth PCP
plans will have a doctor assigned as their primary care physician (PCP) through
Doctor on Demand and all visits will take place virtually.
Priority
Health announced the launch of their new MyPriority Telehealth PCP plans
that will go into effect on January 1, 2021. The
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5 Trends Driving The Future of Healthcare Real Estate in 2020 & Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed patient expectations for healthcare delivery, including offered services and health office operations. Although health systems have remained dynamic in adopting telehealth capabilities, their long-term capital, like real estate and supply chain management (SCM) protocols, have not adapted to match these expectations. Health systems must be aware of current trends in both areas to inform their future decisions.
Divesting in healthcare real estate
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Babyscripts Forms Commercial Partnership with Roche to Develop RPM Programs for Pregnancy
What You Should Know:
- Babyscripts today announced a commercial partnership with
Roche Diagnostics, a division of the world’s largest biotech company and a
global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics.
- Roche will partner with Babyscripts on the
development of Babyscripts’ remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs to
leverage groundbreaking data science through the next generation of RPM in
pregnancy.
Babyscripts, a
Washington D.C.-based
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Blue Cross NC Launches No-Cost Virtual Programs to Quit Smoking and Reverse Diabetes
What You Should Know:
- Today, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina partners
with Carrot Inc. and Virta Health to help address two of the largest ongoing
health issues facing Americans today - smoking and type 2 diabetes.
- Virta and Carrot’s programs will be available to
individual under-65 members and fully insured group members beginning November
2020.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC), today announced it is teaming up with Carrot Inc. and
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The Future of the ICU? How Clinical Decision Support Is Advancing Care
Kelly Patrick, Principal Analyst at Signify Research
Without a doubt 2020 has been a devastating year for many; the impact of COVID-19 on both personal lives and businesses has had long-term consequences. At the end of September, the number of COVID-19 cases fell just short of 350 million, with just over 1 million deaths reported. The expectation of a second peak in many countries exposed to the deadly illness is being handled with care, with many governments attempting to minimize the impact
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From Virtual Care to Hybrid Care: COVID-19 and the Future of Healthcare
Amwell,
a national telehealth leader, released the results of its annual Physician and Consumer Survey. The results show physicians
and consumers expect to use telehealth more often following COVID-19 than they
did before the pandemic. Telehealth usage is up considerably in 2020, with 22%
of consumers and 80% of physicians having a virtual visit this year, up from 8% and 22%, respectively, in 2019. This adoption is largely driven
by a shift to scheduled visits across all
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Veterans Affairs Expands Telehealth Services Using Nuance Dragon Medical One
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications, Inc. announced the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is using the Nuance Dragon Medical One
speech recognition cloud platform and its mobile app, PowerMic Mobile.
- The solution helps VA doctors better document patient
care in-person, and now remotely through expanded telehealth services necessary
in the COVID-19 era.
Nuance® Communications, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is using
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