COVID-19 has put a tremendous burden on hospitals, and the clinicians, nurses, and medical staff who make them run.
Many hospitals have suffered financially as they did not anticipate the severity of the disease. The extended duration of patient stays in ICUs, the need for more isolated rooms and beds, and the need for better supplies to reduce infections have all added costs. Some hospitals did not have adequate staff to check-in patients, take their temperature, monitor them regularly, or
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Updox, Redox Partner to Expand Network of Integrated EHRs, Deliver Seamless Telehealth
What You Should Know:
- Updox partners with healthcare integration platform
Redox to integrate with any EHR, deliver seamless telehealth to health systems
- Updox is expanding its network to include the largest
inpatient EHRs in order to supply healthcare professionals with solutions that
support in-person and virtual care.
As virtual care
continues to increase in demand, Updox,
a provider of care
coordination across both in-person and virtual care, announced today a
significant
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The COVID-19 Data Challenges Facing Payers
Both payers and providers can benefit from the same or similar high-quality data and can work together to provide the best possible services to patients with COVID-19 while avoiding overloading the healthcare system. The key is to use combined payer, clinical, and social data plus technology such as telehealth and artificial intelligence (AI).
Payer Perspective on COVID-19
The overriding concern for payers during the COVID-19 crisis is the need to support member health. During an
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How Do We Realize Connected and Collaborative Healthcare?
For a long time, healthcare in the United States was functioning in a well-defined manner. There were some cracks, some patchwork, but we made it work.
And then COVID-19 struck.
As the pandemic swept across the U.S., the way providers care for patients evolved in a matter of days. It evolved for the people staying at home as well as patients and providers began connecting with each other virtually.
Observation: There’s still plenty of room for innovation in healthcare,
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Why Remote Medical Solutions Are More Than Just A Pandemic Response
The health industry has increasingly emphasized convenience these past few decades, with methods developed to seamlessly integrate health management into our daily routines. Gone are the days in which people needed an entire day off just to see the doctor. This same focus has taken on extra meaning as of late, with the pandemic creating a need for treatment options that work around the constraints of social distancing. As a result, a host of digital-based solutions began appearing, providing
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Canadian Telehealth Startup OnCall Health Lands $6M for Virtual Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- OnCall Health Raises $6M Series A to Enable Virtual
Care Programs for Healthcare Brands
- Funding will be used by OnCall Health to expand its
reach and build out its software that enables healthcare brands, systems, and
startups to launch and scale their telehealth operations.
- OnCall enables healthcare enterprises to rapidly launch
their own virtual care platform that is highly configurable to their brand and
workflow.
OnCall Health, a
Toronto, CA-based
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Samsung, Centene to Bring Telehealth to 13k Patients in Rural, Underserved Communities
What You Should Know:
- Today, Centene announced that it is teaming up with Samsung Electronics America to expand critical virtual care for 13,000 patients in underserved and rural communities who may have limited access to technology, including seniors and low-income individuals.
- Amid the rapid digital transformation in healthcare,
the digital divide has exposed disparities in access to technology amid the
pandemic. With telehealth emerging as the preferred method of
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AmWell IPO and Google Deal – Five Key Takeaways to Know
1) COVID-19 Has Driven Revenue Up 77%
The headline revenue data (summarised below) provides very positive news for AmWell and its new investor, Google. Notably:
- Even prior to COVID-19, the company was growing well with revenues increasing by 31% in 2019 compared to 2018.
- This rate of growth has accelerated in 1H20, with overall revenue up 77% in the same period in 2019.
- The 2019 growth was partly driven by a small increase in the number of health plan subscription customers and
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Analysis: August Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of August 2020.
M&A is back and the velocity of the rebound has outpaced all expectations. The recovery quickly worked its way across the spectrum from large to small-cap, beginning with the larger cap NASDAQ rally of nearly 80% from lows in late March (only to soften in recent days), followed by multi-billion
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U.S. Telemedicine App Downloads Spikes During COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- US telemedicine app downloads see dramatic increases during the COVID-19 pandemic, with some seeing an 8,270% rise YoY.
Downloads of U.S. Telemedicine apps from leading telehealth companies have reported dramatic increases in demand for their services in the US since the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to GlobalData, a leading data, and analytics company. Some of the biggest benefiters have been the Synzi Virtual Care app for physicians, which saw a whole
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