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TytoCare Launches the Home Smart Clinic, the First Remote Primary Care Offering for the Entire Family

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – TytoCare , a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, today announced the launch of the Home Smart Clinic, a multi-pronged offering delivering health plans and providers a comprehensive range of elements required to launch a truly successful virtual care program without compromises.

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CVS Health to purchase Signify Health for $8B

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In order to further CVS's healthcare services strategy, the acquisition of Signify Health adds clinicians that assess patients at home. The deal also provides CVS Health with a value-based care platform that connects payers to providers and providers to each other to lower costs and improve patient outcomes. Email: afox@himss.org.

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CIOs' 5-year plans for precision medicine and emerging technologies

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One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. A lot of new challenges.

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What will be the impact of COVID-19 on the next wave of health IT innovation?

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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of all kinds of healthcare information technology, from telehealth to artificial intelligence. Crunchbase estimates that healthcare technology companies have raised a record-breaking $36.6 This leads to death and preventable hospitalizations, among other terrible outcomes.

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Debunking 4 Myths About Virtual Care to Drive Health Equity

HIT Consultant

Achieving health equity is now a primary goal for providers, payers, regulators, and patient advocates seeking to ensure that healthcare is accessible and effective for all. Broadband access is less frequent in geographical areas with higher burdens of chronic disease and reduced healthcare access.

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FCC Awards Additional $42.7M in Round 2 of COVID-19 Telehealth Program

HIT Consultant

The FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program supports the efforts of health care providers to continue serving their patients by providing reimbursement for telecommunications services, information services, and connected devices necessary to enable telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Round 2 is a $249.95 – Community Health Centers, Inc.,

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Debunking 3 Myths About Virtual Care to Drive Health Equity

HIT Consultant

Achieving health equity is now a primary goal for providers, payers, regulators, and patient advocates seeking to ensure that healthcare is accessible and effective for all. Broadband access is less frequent in geographical areas with higher burdens of chronic disease and reduced healthcare access.