Patient Access

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By  Jessica Hagen 01:09 pm February 19, 2024
AT&T will offer its more than 125,000 employees 24/7 access to women's health platform Maven Clinic's virtual fertility and family-building support services, including guidance around egg freezing, adoption, IVF, surrogacy snf preconception. The New York-based digital reproductive health and family platform offers fertility and family planning services, pregnancy and postpartum care, and...
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:26 pm February 16, 2024
AI-powered care facility automation platform care.ai announced an enterprise-wide partnership with New Jersey-based not-for-profit hybrid care provider Virtua Health, where Virtua will leverage care.ai's virtual care offerings, including its Smart Care Facility Platform and Always-Aware ambient sensors. care.ai's Smart Care Facility Platform includes a network of sensors spread through a care...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:00 pm February 14, 2024
Hippocratic AI, a generative AI company developing safety-focused large language models for healthcare, is launching a Nurse Advisory Council that will work in conjunction with its Physician Advisory Council to ensure the safe development of its LLMs aimed at increasing care equity, the supply and availability of healthcare workers, and better healthcare access and outcomes. The California-based...
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:53 pm February 13, 2024
Zocdoc, a health tech company known for its appointment-booking and doctor-search tool, announced its new Guided Search capability. The tool provides patients with more tailored search results based on their symptoms and what they are seeking treatment for, helping users find the right in-network provider.  "We know that choosing the right provider is very important to patients, but far too often...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:41 pm February 9, 2024
Tech-enabled mental health platform Headlight announced its launch alongside $18 million in funding led by Matrix and EPIC Ventures.   Headlight's CEO is Geoff Swindle, the former chief business officer of PillPack and Amazon Pharmacy.  The California-based mental health company offers in-network access to patients for the treatment of ADHD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, acute stress disorder,...
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:47 pm February 8, 2024
Direct primary care provider Everside Health and employer health provider Marathon Health are merging to offer primary care with offerings for patients, employees and union-sponsored clients utilizing a value-based care model.  Everside works with employers and unions to offer healthcare directly to their workers without an insurer middleman. It includes health centers and virtual care, and...
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By  Nathan Eddy 02:31 pm February 5, 2024
GE HealthCare received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Novii+ maternal and fetal monitoring solution, which will become available to U.S. customers later in the year. The device, consisting of a wearable and wireless sensor, enables noninvasive measurement and display of fetal heart rate, maternal heart rate and uterine activity for pregnant patients at or beyond 34 weeks. With the expanded...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:34 pm February 5, 2024
Cedars-Sinai announced the launch of Xaia, a spatial-computing, AI-enabled virtual psychotherapy companion accessible on the Apple Vision Pro headset that aims to help people with anxiety, addiction, depression and pain management. The healthcare system dubs the experience "generated reality," which it defines as merging technology and therapy.  Developed at the medical extended-reality lab at...
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:31 pm February 1, 2024
Teletherapy company Talkspace and virtual opioid use disorder treatment company Bicycle Health are partnering to expand access to virtual care for patients of both companies.  Talkspace offers therapy for adults, teens 13 to 17, and couples, as well as psychiatric services and medication management. The platform assists individuals suffering from anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, OCD, panic...