What You Should Know: - Zocdoc, the country's leading digital healthcare marketplace, today announced $150 million in growth financing from Francisco Partners. - The funding follows Zocdoc’s successful transition to a fee-per-booking model, which has dramatically fueled its expansion into telehealth, vaccine scheduling, and national television advertising. The company has quickly become one of the country's largest telehealth platforms, with more than 10,000 providers offering nearly one
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Top 5 Business Opportunities for Digital Health Companies in 2021. Where Is The Money?
For many companies, 2020 has been a devastating year due to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the same can be said for the digital health sector, the pandemic has also paved a way for unexpected and extraordinary business opportunities in 2021. In 2020, Digital health start-ups and more established companies have suffered, as have other companies from a variety of industries. We have seen governments set up rescue funds for start-ups, including those that offer services for the
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41 Recently Launched COVID-19 Vaccine Management Solutions to Know
An in-depth look at twelve recently released COVID-19 vaccine management solutions as COVID-19 vaccines are being distributed nationwide. 1. Microsoft Microsoft
launches a COVID-19 vaccine management platform with partners Accenture and
Avanade, EY, and Mazik Global to help government and healthcare customers
provide fair and equitable vaccine distribution, administration, and monitoring
of vaccine delivery. Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) has deployed over 230 emergency COVID-19
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Amwell Appoints Amazon Exec Serkan Kutan as Chief Technology Officer
Amwell,
a national telehealth
provider, announced today that Serkan Kutan has joined the company as
Chief Technology Officer. As part of his new role as CTO, Serkan will lead
building upon and further scaling Amwell’s national telehealth platform to
serve the needs of hospitals and health systems, health plans, innovators, and
patients. “Serkan’s experience in innovating, building and maturing transformative healthcare technologies will play a significant role as we scale Amwell to meet
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Why COVID-19 Highlights Urgent Need to Humanize and Modernize The Patient Financial Experience
It’s no secret that COVID-19 and the
corresponding near-immediate economic catastrophe will be felt for
significantly longer than the few short months it took to wreak its initial
havoc. While losses hit businesses from “a to z” (...except maybe Amazon, ironically),
hospitals and health systems tasked with treating the victims of this pandemic
bear a particularly harsh dose of the financial fallout -- $72 billion in CARES
Act hospital grants barely serving as a band-aid to the financial
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27 Healthcare Consumer Insight & Digital Engagement Trends to Watch
- Majority of patients are depending on online reviews, ratings, and reputation more than ever when choosing a physician, according to a new Binary Fountain survey. - Recent years have shown explosive growth in the use of digital tools for research into the choice of physician and healthcare needs. - The 2019 “Healthcare Consumer Insight & Digital Engagement survey reveals critical trends into how patients look to online reviews, ratings and brand reputation when it comes to
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SCL Health, Zocdoc Launches Real-Time Online Appointment Booking
SCL Health has launched real-time online appointment booking and verified physician reviews powered by Zocdoc, offering its patients seamless, anytime access to a select group of SCL Health providers. The announcements mark SCL Health as the first health system in the Colorado-Montana region to partner with Zocdoc.Partnership DetailsThrough this partnership, patients will be able to find and digitally schedule appointments with participating SCL Health providers any time of day, even when the
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Zocdoc Joins Epic App Orchard to Enable Patient Self-Scheduling
Zocdoc, the digital health marketplace used by millions of patients, today announced its availability in the Epic App Orchard. Dozens of leading health systems take advantage of an API integration between Zocdoc and Epic, and Zocdoc's inclusion in the App Orchard program creates a more streamlined experience. Customers include the Mount Sinai Health System, Houston Methodist, and many more.As an App Orchard contributor, Zocdoc will utilize application programming interfaces (APIs), which serve
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Zocdoc Integrates With Allscripts EHR Via API to Improve Real-Time Booking for Patients
Online medical care scheduling service Zocdoc has announced integration with Allscripts EHR via API to improve both the real-time booking experience of patients and syncing capabilities for providers. Now offered through Zocdoc’s participation as an Integrator in the Allscripts Developer Program, the integration is available for new and existing practices using both Zocdoc and Allscripts.Zocdoc allows patients to find and book directly into providers' schedules, helping to improve access to care
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How Millennials Lead the Way to Healthcare Innovation
Editor's Note: Mark Haddad is VP of Consulting for the Microsoft group at SADA Systems, a full-service cloud migration and IT consulting services company, offering cloud solutions, managed services, technical services. Statisticians, researchers and workplace experts love to talk about how different Millennials are than the rest of us as workers and consumers. There have been numerous studies about the potential impact of this group on the healthcare industry, since healthcare defies nearly
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