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Today, Amazon Clinic announced it is now available to customers in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., offering more people easy access to licensed clinicians for virtual care.Amazon Clinic is a virtual health care marketplace available to adults 18-64, that connects customers to third-party, licensed clinicians to help manage common health conditions like urinary tract infections, pink eye, and erectile dysfunction.
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Highmark BCBS Delaware, Wellinks Partner for Virtual COPD Care
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Highmark BlueCross Blue Shield Delaware partners with Wellinks to deliver virtual COPD care to underserved populations in Delaware starting on July 1.With Wellinks, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware members will be able to access empowering and effective COPD care solutions from the comfort of their own homes.
Reduce Access Barriers Through Virtual COPD Care
Today, COPD care in the U.S. is extremely fragmented, though the disease is the nation’s third
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Virtual Digestive Care Platform Oshi Health Receives Strategic Investments
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Oshi Health today announced strategic investments by the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) and the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) GI Opportunity Fund.The landmark support of both gastroenterology (GI) associations signals the importance of evidence-based, multidisciplinary care delivered through hybrid collaborative models to address the urgent and growing problem of limited access to digestive healthcare in
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Health Tech UX – Why We Must Keep Physicians Top-of-Mind
The shortage of physicians in America is a growing concern, with serious consequences for our nation’s hospitals. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) estimates a shortage of between 21,000 and 77,100 non-primary care physicians by 2034, including surgical and other medical specialists. Already, 50% of hospitals are short coverage for three or more specialties, and 90% are short at least one. Half of the nation’s hospitals ended 2022 in the red, and for many Americans, getting
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M&A: Florence Acquires Virtual Care Solution Zipnosis
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Florence, an innovator in healthcare enablement software, announced today its acquisition of Zipnosis, an asynchronous-first virtual care solution that creates efficiency for clinicians while making quality care more accessible and affordable for patients. Through this acquisition, Florence will broaden its product offerings with synchronous and asynchronous virtual care and further their mission to create a consumer-centric interface that
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HealthSnap Secures $9M for Remote Patient Monitoring Platform
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HealthSnap, a Miami-based remote patient monitoring platform for chronic disease management raises $9M in funding led by Asclepius Growth Capital, an SPV founded by David Jahns, a managing director of Galen Partners, and Steve Cashman, CEO of Caption Health and former CCO of InTouch Health, as well as new strategic investments from current business partners UnityPoint Health and Tampa General Hospital. Existing stockholders Florida Funders and MacDonald Ventures also
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Included Health Launches Virtual-to-Home, Care Model
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Included Health announced a new partnership with a national provider of high acuity and complex in-home care, DispatchHealth to launch a new virtual-to-home, care model.Included Health and DispatchHealth will supplement care that begins online with on-demand, in-home support. This augmented offering will activate the home as a setting to treat everything from common to complex injuries, illnesses and disease, and offers great promise when it comes to reducing
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Roundups: HealthJoy Expands Partnership With Teladoc Health, Oura, Other Strategic Partnerships
Roundup summary of recent digital health strategic partnerships:
HealthJoy, Teladoc Health Launch Virtual Primary Care
HealthJoy, a benefits navigation platform that amplifies employer benefit strategies expands its partnership with Teladoc Health to introduce virtual primary care. HealthJoy Virtual Primary Care, powered by Teladoc Health, provides a fully integrated primary care experience that supports members throughout their entire healthcare journey. The solution will further
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TytoCare Report Reveals Providers’ Key to Virtual Care Adoption
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A new report released by TytoCare, a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, revealed insights into how health plans and organizations can drive virtual care engagement.While key elements that patients value in virtual care offerings include cost and time savings, and the ability to reduce Emergency Department (ED) or urgent care visits, people want to see doctors they trust or and are more likely to adopt virtual care when
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M&A: eVisit Acquires Bluestream Health
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- eVisit, a virtual care operating platform for health systems and large, complex healthcare delivery organizations acquires Bluestream Health, a digital front door and virtual care workflow solution that manages patient and provider interactions throughout the care delivery process.
- Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Acquisition Brings Virtual care to Patients
eVisit augments its highly innovative capabilities with complementary digital
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