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Teladoc Health Completes Merger with Livongo

by Fred Pennic 10/30/2020 Leave a Comment

Teladoc Health Completes Merger with Livongo in Under 3 Months

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

by Jasmine Pennic 10/26/2020 Leave a Comment

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

by Fred Pennic 10/23/2020 Leave a Comment

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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Veterans Affairs Expands Telehealth Services Using Nuance Dragon Medical One

by Fred Pennic 10/16/2020 Leave a Comment

Veterans Affairs Expands Telehealth Services Using Nuance Dragon Medical One

What You Should Know: - Nuance Communications, Inc. announced the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is using the Nuance Dragon Medical One speech recognition cloud platform and its mobile app, PowerMic Mobile. - The solution helps VA doctors better document patient care in-person, and now remotely through expanded telehealth services necessary in the COVID-19 era. Nuance® Communications, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is using
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4 Areas Driving AI Adoption in Hospital Operations and Patient Safety

by Renee Yao, Global Healthcare AI Startups Lead at NVIDIA 09/30/2020 Leave a Comment

4 Reasons Why Now Is the Time for Hospitals to Embrace AI

COVID-19 has put a tremendous burden on hospitals, and the clinicians, nurses, and medical staff who make them run.  Many hospitals have suffered financially as they did not anticipate the severity of the disease. The extended duration of patient stays in ICUs, the need for more isolated rooms and beds, and the need for better supplies to reduce infections have all added costs. Some hospitals did not have adequate staff to check-in patients, take their temperature, monitor them regularly, or
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Microsoft Teams, Epic Integrate to Power EHR-Connected Virtual Visits

by Fred Pennic 09/24/2020 Leave a Comment

Microsoft Teams, Epic Integrate to Power EHR-Connected Virtual Visits

What You Should Know: - Microsoft Teams joins Epic App Orchard Marketplace to enable clinicians to launch a virtual patient visit or consultation with another provider in Teams directly from the EHR system. - By integrating Epic’s context-aware linking, this solution helps clinicians embed Microsoft Teams' meeting capabilities directly into the EHR.  Microsoft Teams has joined Epic’s App Orchard marketplace to power telehealth workflows within a provider’s organizations through
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Nuance Integrates with Microsoft Teams for Virtual Telehealth Consults

by Fred Pennic 09/17/2020 Leave a Comment

Nuance Integrates with Microsoft Teams for Virtual Telehealth Consults

What You Should Know: - Nuance Communications Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced that Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX), an ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) solution, is now integrated into Microsoft Teams for virtual health consults. - The ongoing strategic partnership between Microsoft and Nuance aims to combat burnout while supporting the telehealth movement by improving healthcare experiences—for patients and physicians—with seamlessly integrated
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2020 Virtual Care: Navigating Patient Care In A Post-COVID-19 World

by Jasmine Pennic 09/08/2020 Leave a Comment

2020 Virtual Care: Navigating Patient Care In A Post-COVID-19 World

Updox, the only place to manage healthcare communications across both in-person and virtual care, today released its 2020 Virtual Care Report: Patient Care in a Post-COVID World that details the rapid transformation telehealth saw during COVID-19, how it is currently being used, physician and patient expectations for telehealth post-COVID -- and how virtual care spanning the entire patient experience will become the new precedent. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth became the
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How the Simple Telehealth Visit Will Revolutionize Care Delivery and Disease Management

by Anthony Pannozzo, Chief Design Officer and Global Healthcare Lead at frog 09/08/2020 Leave a Comment

How the Simple Telehealth Visit Will Revolutionize Care Delivery and Disease Management

The impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare industry’s ability to innovate has been stunning. We have seen FDA emergency authorizations and relaxed regulatory guidelines enable the development of radical new ventilator ideas, accelerated timelines for vaccine development, and an extraordinary transition to telehealth services. Many of these actions were a response to the exposure of weak spots in our healthcare system, but even as those weaknesses have been shored up (in large part due to public
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The Coronavirus Crisis’ Silent Death Toll: Chronically Ill Patients

by Dr. Kayur Patel, Chief Medical Officer of Proactive MD 08/25/2020 Leave a Comment

The Coronavirus Crisis’ Silent Death Toll: Chronically Ill Patients

The impact of the coronavirus crisis is shining a bright light on many of the challenges facing the U.S. healthcare system.  So much more than a lack of primary care physicians and hospital beds, the all-hands-on-deck approach to combating the spread of COVID-19 has forced patients fearful of engaging with the healthcare system for needs unrelated to the virus to put elective procedures, routine care and timely treatment for chronic or critical conditions on the back burner. Compounding
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