TytoCare Announces $49 Million Funding Round and Launches New Care Modules
Funding Round Led by Existing Investor Insight Partners and Includes New Strategic Health System and Pension Fund Investors MemorialCare, HOOPP, and Clal
TytoCare, a virtual care company enabling leading health plans and providers to deliver accessible, high-quality primary care from home, today announced that it has raised $49 million in additional growth funding. This new investment brings the company’s total funding to $205 million to date. The round was led by global software investor Insight Partners, which also led TytoCare’s previous round. Notably, the round includes new investors, including MemorialCare ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Barry Arbuckle Clal Dedi Gilad Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Home Smart Clinic HOOPP Insight Partners MemorialCare TytoCare Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – August 20, 2023 – Healthcare orgs only use 57% of their data to drive decision-making, digital health is well represented on the Inc. 5000 list, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
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The annual Inc. 5000 list is live. Digital health companies on the list include AngelEye Health, Authenticx, DAS Health, FarmboxRX, ixlayer, Mytonomy, Reveleer, TigerConnect, TimelyCare, Valenz Health, Veda, and Vytalize He...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT 1upHealth 4medica Accelecom AliveCor Anahi Santiago AngelEye Health Authenticx AVIA Azalea Health Boston Children's Hospital C3HIE Center for Virtual Care Value and Equity Cerner Cerner CommunityWorks Christiana Source Type: blogs
MedEssist is Helping to Transform Pharmacies into Pharmacy Health Clinics
The healthcare system in many countries is stretched thin. To help relieve the pressure, governments are starting to allow pharmacists to treat a growing number of minor ailments. MedEssist’s technology platform is helping pharmacies transform into health clinics.
Healthcare IT Today got a brief demonstration of the MedEssist platform from Joella Almeida, CEO and Co-Founder at the Collision Conference. We also asked her about the expanding role of pharmacists in healthcare.
Pharmacies Are Already in the Community
“We are focused on helping independent pharmacies,” explained Almeida. “There’s one on every bloc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Collision 2023 Collision Conference Joella Almeida MedEssist minor ailments Pharmacies Pharmacists pharmacy health clinics Source Type: blogs
THCB 20th Birthday Classic: McKinsey wants to inspire lots of change; caveat emptor
by MATTHEW HOLT
So to celebrate 20 years, we’ll be publishing a few classics for the next week or so. This is one of my faves from the early days of THCB, back in 2006. It’s interesting to compare it with Jeff Goldsmith’s NEW piece from yesterday on vertical integration because at the time a pair of Harvard professors, Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg were telling hospitals to change their operations in a way that seemed to me were going to destroy their business–cut down to one or two service lines they were best at and stop with the rest. McKinsey picked up on this and I went to town on wh...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: The Business of Health Care Elizabeth Teisberg Hospitals Matthew Holt Mckinsey Michael Porter Source Type: blogs
Access to Public Health Services in South Africa ’s Rural Eastern Cape Province
Michael Mncedisi Willie (CMS), Mudasir Maqbool (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences), Access to Public Health Services in South Africa ’s Rural Eastern Cape Province (2023): Socio-economic issues, such as poverty levels and high levels of unemployment are among the impediments to accessing... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 13, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
A whole new perspective
Through a chain of events that I won ' t bore you by reciting, I find myself the Democratic candidate for First Selectman of the very small town I live in. (I expect that ' s surprising. It is to me.) This suddenly makes me think about problems I really hadn ' t considered much before.Our town ' s main industry is agriculture. We don ' t really have a main street. There ' s a liquor store, an auto repair business, an acupuncturist, a seamstress (really) and a chain saw shop. We have a sawmill and a campground. That ' s about it. Our problem is that agricultural land pays very little in real estate taxes, which means that a...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 12, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
EarliPoint Evaluation System for ASD Diagnosis: Interview with Tom Ressemann, CEO of EarliTec Dx
EarliTec Dx, a medtech company based in Georgia, has developed the EarliPoint Evaluation System for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This common neurodevelopmental condition is often overlooked in affected children, leading to a lack of early intervention and care. Part of the issue is a lack of access to specialists who can diagnose the condition.
Another issue is the lack of quantitative tools that can assist clinicians in diagnosing ASD, and instead they rely on subjective measurements and observations. The EarliPoint system is hosted on a touchscreen tablet, and involves children observing a video feed of social inte...
Source: Medgadget - August 8, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Pediatrics Psychiatry ASD autism autism spectrum EarliTec Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Getting it over with
Ch. 10 is only three verses, so I ' ll give you chapters 9 and 10 today and that will be all for the book of Esther. Here the Jews massacre 75,000 people, which is a cause for great celebration. In verse 6, they kill 500 people in Susa, and in verse 15, they kill 300 at Susa, apparently some leftovers. They kill the ten sons of Haman in verse 10, then impale them in verses 13 and 14, presumably already dead, then they impale them again in verse 25. Whoopee! Time for a party!Next up is the Book of Job, which I know very well.9 On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar,
the edict commanded by ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 6, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Visually Guided Uterine Biopsies in Physician ’s Office: Interview with Allison London Brown, CEO of LUMINELLE
LUMINELLE, a medtech company based in North Carolina, has developed a suite of endoscopic tools that allow clinicians to perform visually guided gynecological procedures right from their office. At present, the majority of uterine biopsies taken to investigate the cause of abnormal uterine bleeding are taken blind, with no visual guidance at all. This leads to suboptimal outcomes, and the frequent need to repeat the biopsy procedure because the first attempt did not yield an adequate sample.
To address this, LUMINELLE has developed the LUMINELLE SUSTAINE system and the LUMINELLE Bx (Biopsy) device. These technologies ar...
Source: Medgadget - August 4, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Ob/Gyn Source Type: blogs
Four Benefits of Drones for the Healthcare Industry
Conclusion
Drones offer a multitude of benefits for the healthcare industry, ranging from expanding patient access and ensuring safer deliveries to enabling faster distribution and enhancing sustainability while reducing operational costs. As drone technology continues to advance and regulatory frameworks evolve, it is clear that drones have the potential to transform the healthcare landscape, improving the lives of patients and healthcare providers alike. (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Carilion Clinic Drones in Healthcare DroneUp Greg James Healthcare Delivery Healthcare Drones patient access Presc Source Type: blogs
The view from nowhere
I commend to your attentionthis essay from Dan Froomkin on the willful blindness of the corporate media to the reality of right wing politics in the U.S. today. (Even Froomkin doesn ' t seem to notice that the Republican party generallyis driven by dispensationalism, that most of their voters really do believe in Biblical inerrancy and literalism, and the imminent apocalypse. But that ' s for another day.)I was particularly interested in Froomkin ' s example of opposition to solar farms in rural Ohio. Washington Post reporter Jeff Stein really stepped in it with his remarkably na ïve article headlined “Small-...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 29, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Preserving Patient Dignity (Formerly Patient Modesty) Volume 127
Discussion Blog)
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - July 28, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs
Environmental sustainability and occupational therapy practice, revisited.
Please go here formy first thoughts on sustainability in occupational therapy around ten years ago.I received an email from a colleague who has been an advocate and published author on this topic asking me if I had the opportunity to revisit my thoughts on sustainability and occupational therapy.In fact I have continued to think about this, so I thought I would document my response here.Hi XXXXX- Thanks for reaching out. I have previously and still believe that the study of climate change itself should remain within the purview of climate scientists. It seems to me that when it is co-opted by distal groups (incl...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - July 28, 2023 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: blogs
Is More Physician-Owned Hospitals the Solution to our Health Cost problem?
BY JEFF GOLDSMITH
Robert Frost once said, “Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
Increasingly, in our struggling society, that place is your local full service community hospital. During COVID, if it wasn’t your local hospital standing up testing sites, pumping out vaccinations and working double overtime helping patients breathe, we would have lost several hundred thousand more of our fellow Americans.
But it wasn’t just COVID where hospitals leaped into the breach. As primary care physicians’ practices collapsed from documentation overburde...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: The Business of Health Care Affordable Care Act COVID Jeff Goldsmith Physician-Owned hospitals Source Type: blogs
The ketogenic diet: a historical perspective and survival consequences
As someone who had an early life in rural Nigeria, I strongly believe that the diet debates are out-of-touch elite pastimes born out of food glut in Western societies. For survival, all living things evolved and adapted to scarcity, and humans have been appropriately described as opportunistic omnivores who would eat whatever is available. How
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The ketogenic diet: a historical perspective and survival consequences originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 25, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mukaila Kareem, DPT Tags: Conditions Nutrition Source Type: blogs
