As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare executives to share their predictions and trends for 2021.
Kimberly Powell, Vice President & General Manager, NVIDIA Healthcare
Federated Learning: The clinical community will increase their use of federated learning approaches to build robust AI models across various institutions, geographies, patient demographics, and medical scanners. The sensitivity and selectivity of these models are outperforming AI models
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Virtual Visits | Telemedicine | News, Analysis, Insights
DispatchHealth Launches New Clinic Without Walls for Enhanced Virtual Visits to MultiCare Patients
What You Should Know:
- DispatchHealth launches Clinic Without Walls, a new service line offering patients a telemedicine visit with in-person assistance for more complex medical visits.
- The initial service line will be available in a pilot to MultiCare patients in the Tacoma and Spokane areas in an effort to its senior patients' alternative visits during the pandemic.
DispatchHealth, a provider of in-home high-acuity medical care, today announced
the launch of Clinic Without
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Elation Health Nabs $40M for Clinical-First Solution to Power Independent Primary Care
What You Should Know:
- Elation Health, which provides an easy-to-use and affordable clinical technology platform for more than 14,000 independent primary care clinicians serving 7 million patients - including an EHR raises $40M in Series C funding from Al Gore's sustainable investment firm, Generation Investment Management.
- Elation’s API-enabled platform also allows
organizations to transform the patient and provider experience and implement
their own models of data-driven,
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Ensuring Telehealth Providers’ Virtual Care Dollars Make Sense
Don Godbee Don Godbee, Mobile Solutions Architect at Stratix
Telehealth and virtual care are not brand-new phenomena suddenly cobbled together as a rapid response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the average US patient could be forgiven for thinking that it is. Indeed, virtual visits to care providers and remote patient monitoring have been available for quite some time, delivering two key benefits:
- Providing a platform to address cost-efficiencies and accessibility to
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Amwell Launches New Offerings to Increase Doctor-to-Patient Virtual Connectivity
What You Should Know:
- Amwell just announced some new offerings Amwell Now, Touchpoint
Tablet software, and C500 to help increase doctor-to-patient virtual
connections as patient and doctor preferences change in light of the pandemic.
- The new solutions (a quick-to-deploy video visit offering, new tablet software, and a telemedicine cart) are designed to be easy-to-use but fully integrated in the provider’s systems and secure.
Amwell, a
national telehealth
leader, today
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WELL Health Integrates with Cerner’s Patient Portal to Simplify Patient Communication
What You Should Know:
- Cerner is striking a deal with patient communication
hub company WELL Health to change its patient communication technology for its
provider customers.
- Through Cerner’s HealtheLife, the new capabilities will
pull from a myriad of systems and apps to help improve communication and reduce
administrative time for clinicians and staff.
Cerner Corporation, a global health care technology company, today announced new capabilities designed to take the interaction
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Eko Lands $65M to Expand AI-Powered Telehealth Platform for Virtual Pulmonary and Cardiac Exam
What You Should Know:
- Cardiopulmonary digital health company Eko raises $65M
in Series C funding to close the gap between virtual and in-person heart and
lung care.
- The latest round of funding will enable Eko to expand
in-clinic use of its platform of telehealth and AI algorithms for disease
screening and to launch a monitoring program for cardiopulmonary patients at
home.
Eko, a
cardiopulmonary digital
health company,
today announced $65 million in Series C funding led by
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Teladoc Health Completes Merger with Livongo
Telehealth
leader Teladoc Health today announced
it has completed its merger with Livongo
in just under three months. Here are things to know about the completion: Under
the terms of the merger,
Livongo shareholders will receive 0.5920x shares of Teladoc Health plus cash of
$11.33 for each Livongo share (including the special dividend declared by
Livongo).
The company expects to directly deliver more than 10 million
virtual visits this year and has reported an additional three million
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Florida Health System to Implement Fully Digital Patient Smart Rooms
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare innovators NCH Health Systems and eVideon, have partnered to transform the health systems’ patient rooms into an immersive digital experience.
- eVideon’s Smart Room solution includes smart TVs, tablets, digital whiteboards, and more to be implemented across NCH hospitals to improve patient engagement, education, and entertainment.
- The technology will also benefit the NCH Health
System’s clinical staff by improving workflows and automating
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CareLinx, Doctor On Demand Partner to Bring In-Home Virtual Care to Seniors
What You Should Know:
- Doctor On Demand and CareLinx, one of the largest professional networks for in-home care, have announced a collaboration to bring in-home virtual care services to CareLinx clients.
- At a time when seniors have been encouraged to stay home to avoid exposure to COVID, Doctor On Demand’s partnership with CareLinx will vastly improve their opportunity to receive comprehensive healthcare while remaining safe.
After being the first and only
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