What You Should Know:
- Femtech startup Ruth Health providing progressive telehealth and comprehensive care platform built for women by women announced it has raised $2.4M seed funding round led by Giant Ventures, with participation from Citylight VC, Cleo Capital Scout Fund, Crista Galli Ventures, Duro VC, Emmeline Ventures, Gaingels, Global Founders Capital, Pentas Ventures, SOMA Capital, Techstars, Torch Capital, YCombinator, and various strategic angels. This brings Ruth Health’s
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Virtual Healthcare Services
OpenLoop Raises $3M to Expand Digital Health Marketplace for Clinicians
What You Should Know:
- Techstars-backed OpenLoop raises $3M in funding to expand digital health marketplace to connect certified clinicians to telehealth opportunities.
- The company plans to use the funding to This financing enables OpenLoop to expedite the development of their marketplace technology and grow their team of experts.
OpenLoop, a Des Moines, Iowa-based virtual health company based in today announced their oversubscribed seed round financing of $3 million led by an
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Teladoc COO Shares 5 Virtual Care Predictions to Watch in 2020
- Teladoc Health’s COO David Sides gives a glimpse of what the future holds as more consumers tap into virtual care.
Forget face to face, healthcare is moving into cyberspace—albeit not as fast as one would like. Yes, there is no question that the interest in virtual care is growing swiftly. However, the adoption of virtual services has been somewhat slow; only about 10 percent of healthcare consumers have used such services, according to a study by J.D Power.
Despite interest from
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ATA Unveils ATA19 Annual Conference Award Winners
The ATA, the nation’s leading telehealth association has unveiled the winners of this year’s annual awards that recognize exemplary achievements and individuals in the telehealth field. The annual conference awards will be presented at the ATA19 Annual Conference and Expo in New Orleans on April 14-16, 2019. “The winners of this year’s awards are doing amazing work and it’s wonderful to see the innovation and transformation that is happening in the Telehealth field,” said Laurie Poole, Vice
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The Challenges and Potential Payoff of Integrating Virtual Healthcare Services
Zipnosis CEO Jon Pearce explains how companies like his are helping health providers tap into virtual healthcare—behind the screens.Consumer interest in virtual health services is growing, but are health providers ready to deliver them? A recent Accenture study revealed that more than three-quarters of its 1,501 respondents would use virtual services—however, only 21 percent of those same respondents noted receiving virtual services.Physicians could save big by providing virtual services in
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Accenture: 78% of Consumers Are Interested in Receiving Virtual Healthcare Services
More than three-quarters (78 percent) of consumers say they’d be interested in receiving virtual healthcare services, but only one in five (21 percent) have had the opportunity to receive services in this way, according to a new survey from Accenture. The Accenture survey of 1,501 U.S. consumers reveals that growing consumer demand for virtual healthcare services is putting increasing pressure on providers and payers to expand delivery options for on-demand health services. The research
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