What You Should Know:
- Today, health AI/predictive analytics company EarlySense announced that it has sold its proprietary contact-free continuous monitoring technology intellectual property (IP) to Hillrom for a cash consideration of $30 million, potential payments based on the achievement of certain commercial milestones, and a portion of Hillrom’s equity investment in EarlySense.
- As part of the agreement, EarlySense will receive licensing for
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VillageMD to Launch First Primary Care Clinic in Chicago
What You Should Know:
VillageMD announced its plans to open its first primary care clinic in Chicago through the acquisition of Primary Care Medical Associates at 1460 N. Halsted Street, Suite 202 in Chicago.
As part of the acquisition, Dr. Robert Perlmuter and providers will join Village Medical offering comprehensive primary care across a broad range of physician services, along with 24/7 care through telehealth and virtual care. The addition marks the 45th Village Medical office
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MetroHealth System, CareSimple Launch Remote Patient Monitoring Program
What You Should Know:
- CareSimple and MetroHealth System announced that they have entered into a strategic remote patient monitoring integration partnership.
- Under the terms of
the agreement, CareSimple will empower the Cleveland, Ohio public health system
with simple, patient-friendly RPM solutions to improve health outcomes for
their high-risk senior and chronically ill populations.
The MetroHealth System, a nationally recognized public health care system located in
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Concentra Transitions Telemed Offering from Amwell to eVisit Virtual Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- Concentra recently transitioned their
three-year-old Concentra Telemed® offering from Amwell to the eVisit Virtual
Care platform.
- The eVisit Virtual Care platform is
supporting all of Concentra’s telemedicine requirements, including its
industry-leading 24/7/365 Concentra Telemed offering and Concentra Telerehab®,
conducting more than 8,000 virtual visits a month.
- eVisit
was founded six years ago and is already in use at more than 100
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Conversa Health Expands Series B to $20M with Additional $8M in Funding
What You Should Know:
- Conversa Health raises an additional
$8M, expanding its Series B round to $20M for its automated virtual care
platform, totaling $34M in funding to date.
- The Series B round, first announced at $12 million in
June, was co-led by Builders VC and Northwell Ventures, the corporate venture
arm of Northwell Health, New York’s largest healthcare provider with 23
hospitals and 800 outpatient facilities.
- Founded in 2014, Conversa enables health systems
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3 Steps to Maintain Telehealth’s Momentum Post-Pandemic
In the face of COVID-19, healthcare witnessed how crises can become the long-awaited push for creativity and innovation that the industry needs. When our healthcare infrastructure’s weaknesses were exposed, telehealth helped to stitch them up, with the number of telehealth claims increasing 8,336% nationally from April 2019 to April 2020. Out of need, patients quickly turned to telehealth as a new model of care delivery; clinicians adapted to a new avenue for engaging with patients, policymakers
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UnitedHealth Rolls Out Employer Virtual Primary Care Plan
What You Should Know:
- UnitedHealthcare is rolling out a virtual primary care plan for employers that will be powered by telehealth platform Amwell, CNBC first reports.
- The virtual primary care plan will allow patients access
to physicians with low or no co-pays for routine care via phone or computer.
- The virtual primary care program will be available for employers in 11 states including Colorado, Texas, and Maryland, as well as Washington, DC.
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IoMT Is Improving Patient Access: We Must Avoid Creating New Barriers
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is changing the face of healthcare and has the potential to significantly improve patient access as well as system efficiencies. The adoption of telemedicine, for example, spurred on by the Covid-19 pandemic, has spread rapidly. Forrester revised its forecasts to predict that virtual care visits in the United States will soar to more than one billion this year—including 900 million visits related to Covid-19 specifically. Likewise, in the United Kingdom,
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Transitioning from Traditional to E-Fax: How Healthcare Communications are Transforming Post-COVID
The majority of industries have decreased or eliminated their use of the traditional fax machine over the past decade, including aviation, retail, and even finance. While the healthcare industry is at the forefront of disease research and treatment, however, it is still heavily reliant on this aging technology.
Traditional fax has become ubiquitous in healthcare. It worked for health systems for many years, but the overwhelming volume of patient data and paper documents the healthcare
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CVS Health Launches Senior Medical Alert System, Symphony
What You Should Know:
- Today, CVS Health announced Symphony, a medical alert
system designed to keep seniors safe and connected at home.
- Symphony consists of a collection of in-home and wearable devices that offer a new at-home experience by connecting a suite of sensors that can monitor for falls, motion, and room temperature while also providing a 24/7 personal emergency response platform for use when needed.
CVS Health, today announced the release of Symphony medical
alert
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