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Nashville Entrepreneur Center Gears Up for Virtual Care Delivery Conference September 21
Telehealth Academy III, a conference exploring the virtual care delivery landscape, will be one of the highlights of an inaugural week of events organized in the healthcare provider hub of Nashville, referred to as Nashville Healthcare Sessions.
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Hey Jane Expands Virtual Services Beyond Abortion Care into Reproductive, Sexual Health
New York City-based Hey Jane, a virtual abortion provider, announced last week that it is now offering vaginal infections treatment. This includes treatment for urinary tract infections, bacterial vaginosis and herpes. It is also offering birth control and emergency contraception.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Babylon Shuts Down US Operations After Rescue Merger Falls Apart
This week, virtual care company Babylon Health permanently closed its U.S. operations and laid off 94 employees. The news came after the company’s rescue merger fell apart — Babylon had planned to go private through a deal with Swiss digital therapeutics firm MindMaze and Babylon creditor AlbaCore Capital.
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Geisinger Launches Heart Failure Monitoring Program Using Bodyport’s Smart Scale
Geisinger is launching a pilot program in partnership with virtual heart failure monitoring startup Bodyport. About 200 of the health system’s heart failure patients will be using Bodyport’s cardiac scale at home — the scale uses sensors to measure a person’s metrics of heart function and body fluid status after they stand on it for about 20 seconds.
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TytoCare Rakes In $49M for Its Virtual Care Platform
Virtual care company TytoCare recently raised $49 million in growth financing, taking its total funding to date to $205 million. CEO Dedi Gilad declared that his company was founded to solve a fundamental problem with traditional telehealth services: people do not trust them, so they do not use them.
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Study: Telehealth Visits Lead to Fewer Follow-Up Visits Than Office Visits
An Epic Research study found that 16 out of 24 specialties had higher follow-up rates within 90 days of an initial office visit than a telehealth visit. This includes mental health, physical medicine and rehabilitation and pain medicine, which all had a more than 20% higher follow-up rate after an in-person office appointment than a telehealth appointment.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
How Telemedicine Can Combat Clinician Burnout, the Biggest Challenge Facing the Healthcare Industry
To fully reap the benefits of telemedicine, it is crucial to provide comprehensive education to both staff and patients. Clinicians, doctors, and other medical care providers should all be trained on telehealth software — its functionality, integration into their workflow, effective communication during consultations, and where to seek technical assistance.
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How Should Providers Adapt to Telehealth’s New Era?
Most patients prefer in-person care to virtual, according to a recent report. This finding should drive health systems to refine their telehealth experiences — they should determine which type of visits are best-suited for the modality, and they should ensure their virtual care environments adopt a more human-centric design.
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Clinicians Offer Snapshot from Day in the Life of Delivering Care at Teladoc Health
In a series of interviews, two Teladoc Health physicians and a therapist offered a window into a day in the life of delivering virtual care.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Included Health, DispatchHealth Partner To Combine Virtual Care With Home Care
Included Health and DispatchHealth are partnering to combine Included’s virtual care services with DispatchHealth’s home care services. If an Included physician notices a patient requires in-person support, the physician will send DispatchHealth to the patient’s home.
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How a Rural Health System Is Looking at Virtual Care and Remote Patient Monitoring
In a wide-ranging interview, Sanford Health’s president of virtual care explained how virtual care may be well suited to rural populations.
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Oshi Health Scores Its 1st Commercial Contract Through VBC Partnership with Aetna
Oshi Health recently entered a value-based care contract with Aetna. The New York-based startup provides specialized virtual care for patients with digestive disorders, focusing on dietary and behavioral health interventions to reduce the root cause of patients’ symptoms.
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Why Amwell’s CEO Isn’t Completely Discouraged By Its Stock Price
Amwell CEO Roy Schoenberg thinks the stock market has adopted a rather simplistic view of telehealth over the past year, reducing the care modality to a pandemic-era trend in which patients are no longer interested. But Schoenberg pointed out that providers are still committed to virtual care. Because of this, he thinks his company is in a better position to raise its stock price than others because it is partnering directly with providers to evolve telehealth delivery models.
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MedArrive, Ouma Strike Partnership To Bring Maternal Care to Medicaid Members
Through a new partnership, MedArrive can now connect its Medicaid patients to Ouma’s maternal care services. When MedArrive’s providers visit patients’ homes, they screen for patients’ needs and will connect them to Ouma if they determine the patients require maternal health support.