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MedStar Health uses $2M AHRQ research grant to enhance telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. Raj Ratwani, PhD, vice president of scientific affairs for the MedStar Health Research Institute, and director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare.

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MaineHealth turned a COVID-19 grant into a permanent telehealth program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Similar to many health systems across the country, COVID-19 created an urgent need for MaineHealth to take care of patients at a distance to keep patients and care teams safe. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. THE PROBLEM.

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CONNECT for Health Act reintroduced, would expand telehealth access

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A bipartisan group comprising half of U.S. senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. HIMSS is the parent company for Healthcare IT News.). " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich.

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VillageMD Acquires Summit Health-CityMD, Creating one of the Largest Independent Provider Groups in the U.S.

Healthcare IT Today

The combined company leverages VillageMD’s deep expertise in value-based care to support and accelerate the transition to more risk-based care and Summit Health-CityMD’s longstanding and deep expertise delivering multispecialty, connected care. We are incredibly excited about the potential of these combined companies.

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AWS announces healthcare workforce accelerator cohort

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A practice-wide communications system that can help free up primary care reception staff. Workforce management software that autogenerates healthcare staff schedules. IoT Solutions Group. Sensor-based monitoring of activity patterns to help support elder care and specialty care. Babblevoice. Rose Health.

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Carbon Health Secures Series D Investment to Drive Primary and Urgent Care Expansion

Healthcare IT Today

Carbon Health , a hybrid healthcare company that combines expert care with proprietary technology for easy everyday health, announced today that it has received $100 million from CVS Health Ventures, CVS Health’s corporate venture capital platform, as part of an initial close of its Series D round.

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How telehealth can improve efficiency and increase revenue

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Healthcare providers must optimize their use of virtual care platforms and other technologies to deliver on these demands for convenience, self-service and efficiency." For example, does a patient need to visit the ER or urgent care center, or can their condition be diagnosed and treated in a virtual setting?