The loss of lives and livelihoods from COVID-19 is almost too much to comprehend. And yet, slowly, conversations are emerging about the positives percolating from the pandemic.
It’s human nature to want to look for the positives in even the worst of situations, and I’ve noticed that in both my personal and my professional circles of late, people are talking about the things they hope we don’t lose when things go back to “normal.”
Chief among them, especially in my healthcare technology
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Doctor On Demand Raises $75M to Expand Comprehensive Virtual Care Platform
What You Should Know
- Doctor On Demand raises $75M in Series D
funding led by General Atlantic to expand comprehensive virtual care.
- Doctor On Demand is seeing record usage
this year – up 139% - for COVID-19 screenings, routine health issues, chronic
conditions and behavioral health.
San Francisco, CA-based Doctor On Demand, today announced it
has raised $75 million in Series D funding led by General Atlantic, a leading
global growth equity firm,
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VA, Philips to Create World’s Largest Tele-Critical Care System for Veterans
What You Should Know:
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs selects Philips to create the world’s largest tele-critical care system, further integrating tele-health and delivering quality care for veterans.
- The ten-year contract, which enables
VA to invest up to $100 million with Philips for
tele-critical care technology and services, leverages Philips history of innovation, including research into
technologies that can better support veterans, telehealth,
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Lenovo Launches Virtual Care Solution with Voice Activated Digital Assistant
What You Should Know:
- Today, Lenovo launches Virtual Care solution to help healthcare
provider organizations remotely monitor, engage with and educate patients with
many of these chronic health conditions, including diabetes, COPD, congestive
heart failure (CHF), and hypertension.
- Easy to use, patients take the kit home, plug it in and
can immediately begin interacting with their care team. Patients are guided
through an individual daily care plan aided by biometric devices and
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2020 Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals List
What You Should
Know:
- Fortune and
IBM Watson Health named the 100 Top Hospitals that are setting new standards
for using technology to improve operational efficiency, quality care and
safety.
- The rapid shift to virtual care amid COVID-19 put a bigger spotlight on the barriers impeding digital transformation, but this year’s top hospitals are leading the way for practical approaches to using telehealth and predictive modeling as well as data as a foundational measure to align
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72% of Consumers Had First-Ever Virtual Visit During COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know:
- Patient Perspectives on Virtual Care, a new study published today by Kyruus, reveals 72% of consumers had their first-ever virtual visit during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a vast majority would like to continue using it in the future.
- The survey of 1,000 consumers ages 18-65+ takes an
in-depth look at their use and perceptions of virtual care during COVID-19.
A majority of healthcare consumers had their first-ever virtual visit during the COVID-19 pandemic,
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Zimmer & Apple Watch Transform Joint Replacement Virtual Care w/ App New Features
What You Should Know:
- Zimmer Biomet announced new features of mymobility with
Apple Watch® - bringing remote patient care to life for patients who receive
hip and knee joint replacement at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
- Available later this year, mymobility with Apple Watch
will now use gait metrics (the stride of a person as s/he moves limbs) to
passively collect walking speed and double support time when walking on flat
level surfaces without GPS. These measurements
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Target Offers Team Members Free Access to Virtual Visits Via CirrusMD
What You Should Know:
- Target announced a number of new and extended COVID-19 benefits, including access to CirrusMD’s virtual care platform. The platform will provide text-first virtual health care visits for team members to securely text, share images, or video chat with a doctor.
Target today
announced a number of industry-leading updates and extensions to its pay and
benefits including access to virtual care visits. To support the health and
safety of its team members during a
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COVID-19: What it Means to American Healthcare: Trends, Impacts, Predictions, and the Road Ahead
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer releases new report, “COVID-19: What it
Means to American Healthcare: Trends, Impacts, Predictions, and the Road Ahead”
that uncovers a two-fold strategy for healthcare organizations to predict the
utilization trend of resources and maps the route from immediate COVID-19
challenges to steps needed to address these barriers.
- The report probes how virtual care and telemedicine IT
solutions rose as the ray of hope in the wake of an unprecedented outbreak
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Backed by Northwell, Conversa Health Raises $12M for AI-Powered Chatbots
What You Should Know:
- Conversa Health raises $12 million in Series B funding
round to expand its AI-powered chatbots enabling health systems, payers and pharmaceutical
companies to engage patients and collect patient-generated health data and
patient-reported outcomes.
- Conversa plans to use the funding to scale its virtual
care and communication platform—97 percent of patients who have used its chatbots
say they can better manage their care with Conversa.
- Murray Brozinsky
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