What You Should Know: - Transcarent, a health and care experience company that makes it easy for people to access high-quality, affordable care announced it will acquire AI-powered virtual care platform and care business of on-demand primary care company, 98point6. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed; however, insiders expect the deal to be valued at $100M. - As part of the acquisition, hundreds of 98point6 enterprise customers including Boeing, Kindercare and
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IDS Taps Veta Health to Expand Virtual Care Offerings
What You Should Know: - Veta Health and Indiana-based Interactive Digital Solutions (IDS) announced their strategic partnership to expand IDS's virtual care offerings through an exclusive reseller agreement. - The adoption of telehealth and virtual care has surged since the Covid-19 pandemic and the demand for solutions that extend beyond virtual visits is high. The partnership enables hospitals and health systems to contract with a single organization to provide a
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Ryse Health Secures $6.5M for Type 2 Diabetes Care
What You Should Know: - Ryse Health, a healthcare technology company that’s committed to pursuing a world free from chronic diseases and raising the bar on Type 2 Diabetes care raises $6.5M in Series A funding led by Route 66 Ventures. The round also included support from W Health and Healthworx, the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. - The company plans to use the funding to enable Ryse to continue to grow its team, strengthen its business operations, partner
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Consumers Prefer Telehealth to In-Person Visits While Traveling
What You Should Know: - New KeyCare survey finds nearly 7 in 10 (68%) of consumers who needed minor but urgent medical services while traveling in the prior year received care via telehealth visits with their regular physicians or affiliated members of their physicians’ care teams, outpacing all other care-delivery options. - Results are based on a survey of 400 consumers who have previously scheduled and
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From Telemedicine to Complete Virtual Care and Beyond
Telemedicine has helped improve the quality of life of patients in every corner of the world and has been successfully utilized to provide convenient care to people with limited or no access to health services. Today, worldwide digital interconnectivity is growing, enabling telehealth to advance health equity, bring access to care for underserved regions and meet the urgent, primary and behavioral healthcare needs of an exploding global population. It has been a remarkable journey for the
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Epic, Impact Advisors, Nordic, Chartis Named 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® Awards
What You Should Know: Epic, Nordic, Impact Advisors and The Chartis Group won the 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® awards. Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the thirteenth straight year in 2023 Best in KLAS – Software & Services report, released, which reports on the top vendors for 2022. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Epic won thirteen other Best in KLAS awards in various market segments. - Impact Advisors tied with Nordic to be a
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Included Health, Solv Partner to Connect Virtual & In-Person Care
What You Should Know: - Solv today announced the launch of Solv Final Mile Network, the first solution to bridge the gap from online navigation and virtual care to in-person, local medical care across the country. - Built on the scale of Solv’s national network of providers, Solv Final Mile technology makes continuity of the patient care journey possible, by eliminating the friction between digital care and same-day, in-office visits for providers and their patients. Included Health, a
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Intermountain Health Taps Qualtrics to Help Advance Patient, Consumer and Employee Experience Management
What You Should Know: - Intermountain Health has chosen Qualtrics (Nasdaq: XM), the leader and creator of the experience management category, to create world-class experiences for its patients, caregivers and all populations who interact with and consume Intermountain's services by helping improve how it listens, understands and acts on experience data. - Intermountain is a nonprofit health system headquartered in Salt Lake City with 60,000 caregivers serving millions of patients each
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Memora Health & Virtua Health Partner to Streamline Patient Experience
What You Should Know: - Memora Health, an intelligent platform for virtual care delivery and complex care management partners with Virtua Health, the largest health system in South Jersey, to streamline care delivery and improve the patient experience. - The partnership will leverage Memora’s clinical intelligence platform across specialties to automate clinicians’ routine care tasks and streamline care management operations with the goal of removing unnecessary barriers and making it
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TytoCare and Overlake Partner to Expand Virtual Care Offerings
What You Should Know: - Virtual care company TytoCare has partnered with Overlake Medical Center & Clinics, a nonprofit regional medical center offering a full range of advanced medical services to the Puget Sound region, to enhance their virtual care offerings. - Overlake Clinics is introducing the TytoHome device into its Concierge Care medical service to enhance the care providers’ ability to diagnose and treat patients with comprehensive physical exams during virtual visits. -
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