Provider organizations, primarily health systems, accounted for 34 percent of the $5.4 billion in venture funding that digital health companies received during the first half of 2020, according to a July 6 Rock Health report.
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Despite a global pandemic and U.S. recession, digital health companies in America shattered venture funding records for the first half of 2020, according to a July 6 Rock Health report.
John Halamka, MD, joined Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic in January to lead the health system's digital transformation as president of Mayo Clinic Platform.
The need for technology and digital capabilities accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, underscoring the importance of data and virtual monitoring to care for all patients while hospitals focused on patients with the virus.
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the business value of remote monitoring and wearable technologies for healthcare providers and insurers, according to a June 29 Forrester Research report.
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Patients are most interested in using wearable devices to share their cardiovascular and sleep data with providers and insurers, according to a recent Forrester Research report.
St. Augustine, Fla.-based Flagler Health+ is integrating a new technology platform to help bring employees back to work safely, according to a report from The St. Augustine Record.
The JPMorgan CIO Survey gathered responses from 130 CIOs about which technology companies will be most valuable during digital transformation.
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic in July will begin offering select patients the opportunity to enroll in its new at-home care model, which provides hospital patients virtual and in-person care from home.
Microsoft software engineer Tim Brookins unexpectedly used the backbone from the app he designed to track football fans' migration to build a contact tracing app now being deployed throughout North Dakota.