We are facing a global healthcare crisis unlike any in our recent history. Within the span of a few short weeks, we saw our lives and practices drastically change. COVID-19 has fundamentally altered how medical care is delivered today and possibly for many years to come. We as clinicians need to rise to the challenge to provide the best possible care in this time of change and uncertainty. This includes adjusting the way we communicate with patients, adapting to the evolving landscape of
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Cerner Invests in Xealth to Jointly Develop Digital Health Solutions for Clinicians
What You Should Know:
- Cerner and Xealth announce a collaboration to foster
tighter physician-patient relationships by giving patients easier access to
digital health tools.
- These assets will be prescribed directly within the physician’s EHR workflow to manage conditions including chronic diseases, behavioral health, maternity care, and surgery preparation.
- Cerner and LRVHealth have together invested $6 million
in Xealth as part of this agreement, with Cerner and Xealth planning
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Teladoc Health and Livongo Merge in $18.5B Deal: 5 Things to Know
What You Should Know:
- Teladoc Health to merge with Livongo for $18.5B in cash
and stock to create a powerhouse leader in consumer-centered virtual care.
- Teladoc Health shareholders will own approximately 58
percent and existing Livongo shareholders will own approximately 42 percent of
the combined company.
- Jason Gorevic, current CEO of Teladoc Health, will be
the CEO of the combined company.
Teladoc Health
(TDOC) and Livongo (LVGO), today
announced that they have entered
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Amwell Appoints Amazon Exec Serkan Kutan as Chief Technology Officer
Amwell,
a national telehealth
provider, announced today that Serkan Kutan has joined the company as
Chief Technology Officer. As part of his new role as CTO, Serkan will lead
building upon and further scaling Amwell’s national telehealth platform to
serve the needs of hospitals and health systems, health plans, innovators, and
patients.
“Serkan’s experience in innovating, building and maturing transformative healthcare technologies will play a significant role as we scale Amwell to meet
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Imprivata Introduces Digital Identity Framework for Healthcare Organizations
What You Should Know:
- Imprivata introduces a new framework to help healthcare
organizations manage digital identities and support remote/virtual care.
- Framework designed to help organizations develop and
implement a robust, comprehensive digital identity strategy to address
healthcare’s unique security, compliance, and workflow challenges.
Imprivata, the
digital identity company for healthcare, building on the work done by H-ISAC,
today introduced
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Innovaccer, CareSignal Partner to Enable Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with CareSignal to
address healthcare’s urgent need amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: to create and
maintain solid, clinically actionable relationships with patients in a new set
of predominantly virtual care.
- CareSignal offers evidence-based end-to-end support services for chronic medical conditions such as asthma, CHF, COPD, diabetes, depression, hypertension, and hospital discharge support, and maternal health monitoring.
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The Adoption of Telehealth During the Pandemic will Shape Healthcare’s New Normal
COVID-19 has presented healthcare with a challenge like no other, with nearly nine million cases all over the world and over 470,000 lives lost. The speed of the outbreak and the disruption caused by it has created unforeseen challenges for communities and economies, and it’s especially apparent in healthcare delivery. Healthcare systems in nations around the globe have dedicated substantial resources to respond to the pandemic and the growth has only somewhat stymied.
While the U.S.
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Virtual Behavioral Health Could Reduce Costs, Improve Patient Outcomes, Report Finds
What You Should Know:
- A new Accenture report called “Breakthrough Behavioral
Health Access: Think Virtual” finds that the use of virtual behavioral health could
expand care for more than 53 million Americans facing these conditions.
- Demand for behavioral health specialists significantly outweighs current availability; in addition to severe wait times of 25 days for first clinical appointments, we are projected to have a shortage of 250,000 behavioral health and mental health
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Central Maine Healthcare, Innovaccer Partner to Power Data-driven Telehealth Capabilities
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with Central Maine
Healthcare (CMH), an integrated healthcare delivery system that serves over
400,000 people in the central, western, and mid-coast regions of the state, to
connect providers with their patients through data-driven telehealth, powered
by its FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform.
- The care delivery system will conduct data-enabled
virtual visits to assist its providers with efficient, remote care amid
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Call to Action: Restrictions Around Virtual Health Can’t Go Back to “Normal”
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government has passed several stimulus packages with the goal of helping employers keep their business in operation while office volume is down and, in some cases, practices are physically closed. The CARES Act, which included the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Provider Relief Fund, for example, has provided some relief to eligible healthcare providers, including low-interest rate loans to help providers pay staff salaries, rent, and other
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