Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health partnered with the UNC School of Medicine to launch a mental health app for first responders and healthcare workers.
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Columbia-based University of Missouri engineers are using pencil and paper to create drawn-on, temporary biomedical devices that can remotely monitor a patient's health.
Several Utah policymakers are criticizing the state's decision to spend $6 million on an app meant for COVID-19 contact tracing that has since disabled its location tracking feature, according to Deseret News.
While digital health investments and venture funding has soared in recent years, not all 'unicorn' companies have maintained continued growth.
Walgreens Boots Alliance invested $1 billion in VillageMD to add full-service primary care physician offices and telehealth services to hundreds of locations across the U.S.
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RevSpring recently announced that its PersonaPay™ solution is now available in Epic’s App Orchard. The solution is able to work within existing native Epic workflows, providing a more seamless billing and payment experience for patients and customer service representatives.
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.
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.