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TruLite Health Announces Collaboration With Mayo Clinic to Address Clinical Bias & Improve Health Equity

Business Wire — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:58:38 +0000

Optimizing software to deliver equitable healthcare at scale

TruLite Health, developer of the only health equity solution to remediate clinical bias, announced a know-how agreement with Mayo Clinic to address disparities in medical outcomes and costs.

TruLite’s innovative software, Truity™, tackles persistent issues of clinical bias that adversely affect patient outcomes in diverse populations. The platform addresses this challenge by driving patient-specific clinical, social and behavioral interventions, leading to improved healthcare outcomes and costs as part of an organization’s health equity strategy. Alongside their deployment in clinical practice, Mayo Clinic’s physicians will provide feedback on user experience enhancements, workflow and platform improvements.

“This collaboration with Mayo Clinic represents a significant step forward in health equity capabilities to address this critical unmet need in the market,” said Alan Roga, M.D., Founder and CEO of TruLite, an American Hospital Association (AHA) Health Equity Transformation Partner.

Clinical bias in healthcare has far-reaching consequences, significantly impacting patient outcomes and costing the United States healthcare system $320 billion annually. Moreover, a TruLite actuarial study found individuals with one of seven chronic illnesses who are Black or Latinx cost approximately $5,300 more annually for the same disease compared to the White population.

Leveraging the largest health equity knowledge base, TruLite’s software directly integrates into an electronic health record (EHR), and in the workflow provides patient-specific actions and interventions for clinicians, care teams and patients. This integration empowers providers to improve equity at the point of care and aligns with regulatory drivers, including the Joint Commission, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and Food and Drug Administration. Additionally, TruLite offers virtual health equity coaching with a focus on patient advocacy and through their partnership with the Morehouse School of Medicine.

The collaboration with Mayo Clinic comes on the heels of TruLite’s participation in the 2023 Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University Alliance for Health Care MedTech Accelerator Program, where the company was selected as one of nine international startups. This flagship initiative provides early-stage medical device and Healthtech companies with resources and mentorship to accelerate growth.

Mayo Clinic has a financial interest in the technology referenced in this press release. Mayo Clinic will use any revenue it receives to support its not-for-profit mission in patient care, education and research.

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Andor Health and Oradox Partner to Bring Open AI & GPT to Dental Care Management

PR Newswire — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:55:38 +0000

Andor Health, the company reinventing virtual health as a platform, partners with Oradox, a dental specialty service organization.

In an increasingly complex practice environment, dentists are often left to manual systems & processes to manage outgoing & incoming referrals and pre/post-care patient communication. The demands of the patient on the dentist and their staff have necessitated an evolution in how these needs are met. Oradox, in partnership with Andor Health, has revolutionized the way each practice communicates with other providers and patients to provide complete continuity of care.

“Oradox, powered by ThinkAndor, has allowed us to seamlessly communicate with our referrers – no more faxes, emails and lost paper referrals,” explained Sharmilla Singh, DDS, All Care Specialty. “It has been essential for us to deliver referred treatment and get the patient back to have restorative treatment done.”

ThinkAndor leverages OpenAI & healthcare trained GPT to better orchestrate clinical workflows and curate clinical context. As a cloud-based dental care management platform, Oradox leverages ThinkAndor to connect the general dentist, the dental specialist, and the patient to reduce leakage, engage the providers & patients in real-time, and deliver provider-approved educational content to help patients make informed healthcare decisions. Oradox, with the power of ThinkAndor®, engages with the patient pre/post-care and unifies the intake/referral processes into a simple HIPPA-compliant dashboard that provides powerful analytics from referral acceptance to completion to care plan compliance.

“Oral care, in many ways, is still operating with a multitude of manual, paper processes. By leveraging ThinkAndor, we can provide simple, digital real-time updates throughout a patient’s care journey, allowing us to administer complete continuity of care by linking together the general dentist, the patient, and the dental specialist,” explained Sudha Chinta, DDS, CEO of Oradox.

“Healthcare providers have struggled with a fractured way to deliver care for too long. Each siloed technology has created inefficient workflows. ThinkAndor streamlines workflows and unifies virtual care delivery so that healthcare providers can focus on their patients, not the process,” explained Raj Toleti, Chairman & CEO of Andor Health. “By leveraging OpenAI & the healthcare trained GPT model, ThinkAndor intelligently routes patients and providers through the intake and referral process driving maximum adoption.”

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ThinkAndor Leverages Open AI and Healthcare Trained GPT Models to Create the Next Dimension in Virtual Nursing

Business Wire — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 14:10:06 +0000

Andor Health, the company reinventing virtual health as a platform, accelerates Health First’s virtual rounding program by extending the program to support virtual nursing.

Physicians and nurses are experiencing burnout leaving health systems overburdened and hospitals at capacity. Due to staffing shortages, hospitals are struggling to admit/discharge patients in a timely matter negatively impacting a patient’s length of stay. Forward-thinking health systems are solving these issues by implementing a unified, scalable virtual health strategy. ThinkAndor provides a cohesive platform that leverages OpenAI & healthcare trained GPT that help orchestrate clinical workflows and curate appropriate clinical context to meet the rapidly changing needs of health systems.

ThinkAndor Virtual Rounding is configured to enable a highly optimized and scalable virtual nursing capability that is hardware-agnostic and workflow-driven. Launching directly from the EHR, ThinkAndor brings in shifts & schedules from a variety of systems to allow for on demand virtual nursing capability.

Health systems that have implemented ThinkAndor for virtual nursing have increased nursing capacity 3 times, have access to 1,600 nurses on the ThinkAndor network for burst capacity, and have established virtual nursing for admissions, discharges, dual medication verification, ICU monitoring, and other service line options. Additionally, nursing staff can quickly pull in specialty clinicians based on availability and shift schedule for immediate remote consultations for urgent interventions such as ED triage, telestroke, and telepsych.

Easily deployed, ThinkAndor leaves existing clinical workflow untouched and makes it easy for ancillary services to leverage this capability. Now nurse managers, case managers, clergy, and other non-clinical services can connect virtually providing the patient with emotional and spiritual care.

“Last year, we experienced a need for virtual nursing and rounding solutions in our ICUs. We were able to quickly solve for this with Andor, who was already partnering with us on other use cases. Since then, we have done thousands of successful virtual nursing rounds,” commented Doug McKee, MD, CMIO of Health First. “Now, we are expanding our virtual rounding and looking at the many other virtual use cases the Andor platform can facilitate. The Andor team has served as both a vendor – and strong partner.”

“Virtual nursing technology over the years has been hardware centric and disruptive to the clinical workflows. We at Andor over the last 3 years have developed an AI-based virtual nursing capability that truly is integrated with the clinical workflows,” explained Raj Toleti, Chairman & CEO of Andor Health. “By leveraging OpenAI, GPT healthcare models, and total integration to the EMR, a first of its kind decentralized virtual nursing can be delivered to health systems in a tailored, hardware agnostic, contextual, and just-in-time manner.”

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Andor Health and Microsoft Partner to Extend Virtual Care to Include Hospital at Home

AIT News Desk — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 14:56:18 +0000

Andor Health, the company that harnesses machine and human intelligence to configure and orchestrate the way care teams connect and collaborate, leverages Microsoft’s latest capabilities in ThinkAndor. An innovative enterprise platform, ThinkAndor’s unified approach to virtual health, combined with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Teams with healthcare templates, enables health systems to establish a comprehensive approach to virtual health.

ThinkAndor has leveraged artificial intelligence to extend the capabilities of Microsoft Teams allowing health systems and their patients to connect across the care continuum. With a concierge approach to virtual health, ThinkAndor provides a secure, HIPAA-compliant platform that allows care teams to collaborate, and also, enables data sharing from major patient events with community providers and post-acute care teams.

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Andor Health is building on this success with Microsoft Teams to allow flexible connection to a variety of device endpoints – Windows-based, iOS/iPad, Android/tablet, and/or existing devices within an organization. Andor Health also uses the MedTech service within Azure Health Data Services to connect and obtain data from medical devices and device ecosystems.

“Andor Health is leveraging the power of the Azure Health Data Services to bring together medical data from across all device platforms. As health systems transform the future of telehealth, Andor is helping health systems configure tailored care and enhance patient experiences,” explained Heather Cartwright, vice president, Health & Life Sciences Cloud and Data, Microsoft.

ThinkAndor Virtual Patient Monitoring and Hospital at Home now connects to a variety of devices to track a patient’s health status remotely. Clinicians can monitor a patient’s health, and care managers can effectively manage large patient populations regardless of the severity of their chronic condition.

The same platform can also unlock a variety of inpatient monitoring scenarios such as Virtual Rounding and Telesitting. Hospitals and health systems can deploy one comprehensive platform to monitor and intervene to provide the best medical care for patients while in the hospital or at home.

“ThinkAndor’s ability to tailor clinical workflows enables customers to configure use cases such as rounding, telesitting and hospital at home on a unified platform. Andor Health’s customers can anticipate achieving approximately a 40-50% reduction in patient fall rates, 50-60% decrease in sitter costs, and a generous increase in revenue,” Srini Surendranath, chief product and strategy officer, Andor Health. “We are proud to partner with Microsoft and extend the capabilities of Microsoft Teams and Azure Health Data Services to support health systems in their quest to enable equitable access to care for patients.”

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The Regional Healthcare Sector Must Continue to Be Resilient to Overcome New Challenges, Says GE Healthcare

AIT News Desk — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:41:18 +0000

The last two years have had a profound impact on economies, education, and healthcare systems around the world. As a result, countries, businesses, and individuals have been forced to adapt. One thing is very clear: there will always be change to what we consider the norm. We are – and will continue to be – faced with tough decisions, while striving to make progress.

The simple fact is that becoming resilient is the key to thriving amidst change. In this region, resilience is in our DNA. With some of the challenges we face, looking for the silver lining when an issue arises is normal. And it is our people who will ultimately drive our success.

The challenges we face today

Looking at the critically important global healthcare sector, COVID-19 has been one of – if not the – biggest disruptor of the era. As a result, the outcome has been an acceleration in the pace of technological change – what would previously take the industry years to implement is now taking only a few months, which is largely viewed positively.

However, while demand is increasing, supply chain issues and inflation -continue to crop up, adding to the increasing pressure on healthcare workers. These factors and others are influencing how business groups operate, make decisions, and develop strategies. Businesses have to constantly track changes within their own organizations and externally to stay on top of things. These external factors can be difficult as organizations do not control them but are certainly affected by them.

Using the unique example of the past two years, how can we navigate a world that will continue to bring challenges our way?

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Surviving and thriving

In the MENAT region, we have learned to develop the resilience we need to deal with change and crises. We are good at adapting while still maintaining a sense of stability.

Some of us are motivated simply by being blessed with another opportunity to wake up each day. Some might say that each day brings new challenges, but those of us who are resilient say each challenge actually brings new opportunities and a chance to build upon what was accomplished the previous day.

For us, in the healthcare sector, we cannot just survive. We must thrive so that we can help clinicians improve patient outcomes. We must use our resilience to keep the patient at the center of everything we do.

Look at the flip side of the coin

Despite the obvious hardships and challenges the pandemic has brought to us, we must also look at the positive side. As mentioned earlier, innovation in healthcare has never been faster, more intelligent, or as dynamic.

The number of people in hospitals will be lower than before, with hospitals used only to treat the sickest of the sick. For others, we will see increased and sustained use of remote technologies such as remote patient monitoring and virtual consultations. Tools like these can help free up capacity in clinics and hospitals for the most serious cases. On the technology side, our customers are also asking us to work with them to make their machines and hospitals more productive. Digital solutions and AI-enabled machines can greatly support this to ensure staff, patients, and machines are present where they are needed most. COVID-19 has also demanded that we move quickly and that solutions be simple and intuitive.

All of these themes – virtual health, digital solutions, speedy implementation – have been goals in the healthcare industry for years. The silver lining, we have found is that COVID-19 has helped to accelerate this, despite its disruptions.

Focus on people and teams

The need to focus on our employees with empathy has only increased over the last few years. We must strive to better understand lives and circumstances beyond work and must realize that different generations are at different stages of their lives and have varying needs. There is no one size fits all.

Many employees have found a new way to look at work-life balance due to working from home. Things that were business-as-usual two years ago are now under scrutiny. Employees want, demand, and are getting greater flexibility and deeper fulfilment.

Organizations that have come through the pandemic are those that have put their people first and focused on the long run. They have found that investing in the talent you have, rather than experiencing a high rate of turnover and loss, is a better business model. It also shows customers and employees that you, as a leader, are committed to the future, rather than simply eyeing next month’s bottom line.

Companies also need to think about employees’ mental health, which has evolved over the last two years into a true business imperative. When we put mental health first, it can give -employees a sense of purpose and direction, the energy to develop and execute critical plans, and the ability to deal with change that is an inevitable part of our lives. There is a mountain of evidence showing that workplaces with high levels of mental wellbeing amongst employees are more productive and more successful.

By utilizing the resilience in our DNA, focusing on optimism, and having the humanity to see teams as people first, we can weather the changes that will continue to come our way.

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Xcelerate Acquires Controlling Interest in AfiyaSasa Africa

AIT News Desk — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 12:38:11 +0000

Xcelerate, Inc. announced it has signed a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement to acquire a 51% interest in AfiyaSasa Africa, LLC, (ASA) a start-up medical technology and virtual health company that the Company believes is uniquely positioned to help patients in developing countries meet their medical needs by extending the reach of physicians through the technology. This technology is centered on software that uses and incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR) developed by AdviNOW. The application is designed to connect people in remote areas where there is limited medical infrastructure and/or limited medical professionals. ASA was recently founded by Dr. Dilan Ellegala and Doyle Word.

“This project, among others, has been at the forefront of our planning ever since Dilan Ellegala joined our Advisory Board in 2021. ASA is uniquely positioned to help the people of Africa meet their medical needs by extending the reach of physicians to their patient’s mobile devices through a patented breakthrough technology.” said Michael O’Shea, Xcelerate’s CEO.

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The ASA system is accessed by patients on their cell phones, tablets, or computers, and allows licensed physicians and other medical personnel to conduct initial check-in, triage, and determine the most appropriate care path, virtually. The system is equipped with facial recognition and storage capability to ascertain if the patient is a return patient. Additionally, through a set of questions and answers that are dynamically integrated with the systems proprietary AI component, measurements are taken with medical devices connected to a cell phone, tablet, or computer (e.g. stethoscope, thermometer, pulse oximeter etc.), bringing the telemedicine virtual appointment to the next level. The AI assists with Q&A and with the AR to arrive at diagnostic possibilities, testing and treatment options and next steps for the patient.

Dr. Ellegala, Co-Founder of ASA, has spent much of his professional life laying the foundation for transformational medical advances in Africa. His training of healthcare workers in remote Tanzania to perform brain and spine surgery and his pioneering work in global medical education is documented in Pulitzer-nominated journalist Tony Barthelme’s book, “A Surgeon in the Village: An American Doctor Teaches Brain Surgery in Africa.” NBC’s Tom Brokaw described the work as “A lyrical, inspirational, altogether rewarding account of first-and third-world surgeons working together to perform neurosurgery miracles in the heart of Africa. “ASA is now poised to take Dr. Ellegala’s foundational work to the highest level by dramatically improving the health care delivery system for hundreds of millions of Africans and we’re excited to be a partner in the project. Xcelerate remains focused on joining early-stage medical technology companies and acquiring and applying patented technology to clinical care world-wide,” said O’Shea.

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Automated Virtual Care Platform Conversa Health Expands Series B to $20 million

AIT News Desk — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:10:42 +0000

Builders VC, Northwell Health, P5 Health Ventures, Genesis Merchant Capital, J-Ventures and Nassau Street Ventures boost their investments as Conversa scales up to meet demand

Conversa Health, a leading virtual care and triage platform, has expanded its Series B financing to $20 million during a year in which the company experienced sixfold growth of its platform. With the closing of the Series B round, Conversa has raised a total of $34 million. The Series B round, first announced at $12 million in June, was co-led by Builders VC and Northwell Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Northwell Health, New York’s largest healthcare provider with 23 hospitals and 800 outpatient facilities.

“Conversa has become a critical collaborator in achieving our vision for virtual health, helping Northwell to engage, monitor and manage patients more efficiently than ever before.”

“Northwell has been successfully using Conversa to scale our communications and patient engagement initiatives which include thousands of COVID-19 patients,” said Michael J. Dowling, President and CEO of Northwell Health. “Conversa has become a critical collaborator in achieving our vision for virtual health, helping Northwell to engage, monitor and manage patients more efficiently than ever before.”

Investing to catalyze the shift to digital first

The COVID-19 pandemic compressed years of virtual care tool adoption into months. Conversa was perfectly positioned to meet this need. Conversa’s Automated Virtual Care and Triage™ platformenables health systems to remotely monitor, analyze and communicate with patients and healthcare consumers at high frequency and scale—for chronic care, acute discharge, perioperative, oncology, OBGYN, prevention and wellness, and more. The platform automates care where possible, identifies at-risk patients, and provides digital triage to higher levels of care for those patients—e.g. phone calls, telehealth, e-visits, scheduling in-person consults—when necessary.

In addition to co-leads Builders VC and Northwell Ventures, the investor syndicate includes UH Ventures, the venture arm of University Hospitals, an 18-hospital health system in Ohio; and venture capital firms P5 Health Ventures, Genesis Merchant Capital, J-Ventures, Epic Ventures, StartUp Health and Nassau Street Ventures.

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“Conversa links providers’ EHRs and other patient data to best-of-breed interactive digital care pathways and clinical analytics engine to automate care management 24×7. This improves care plan adherence pre- and post-visit, reducing costs and generating better outcomes for patients,” said Mark Goldstein, Builders VC partner and Conversa board member. “Conversa’s enterprise platform and library of digital pathways are used by providers to care for patients across their populations, as opposed to one-off point solutions. It fills an enormous gap in the market.”

By automating remote management of vulnerable populations with Conversa, health systems gain significant clinical and operational benefits, including:

Improved patient satisfaction and engagement—97% of patients feel Conversa helps them manage their care and 87% feel better able to follow their care plan;
Lower total cost of care—hospital readmission rates 32% lower in patient cohorts using Conversa;
Increased revenue—over 70% reduction in procedure no show/cancellation rates; and
Enhanced care team coordination and productivity—82% of care team members using Conversa would recommend it to a colleague to help them deliver care.

Innovating with health systems

Innovative healthcare companies are partnering with Conversa to create a new care delivery model based on automated, evidence-based digital pathways. Conversa was one of the first digital health companies to develop a suite of COVID-19 Virtual Care Solutions, helping hospitals increase capacity by automating the outreach to and monitoring of vulnerable patient and employee populations. Northwell, UCSF Health and UNC Health were among the first health systems to adopt these solutions to educate patients about COVID-19, direct them to care when needed, deliver COVID-19 test results and provide daily quarantine check-ins.

Conversa and UCSF Health rapidly launched Conversa Employee HealthCheck last spring to enable UCSF to effectively and efficiently comply with a city of San Francisco mandate to screen all workers daily before entering their hospitals and clinics. Analyzing the data helps employers spot burgeoning hot spots and respond to potential workforce needs more quickly. Prisma Health in South Carolina and SCL Health in Colorado, as well as other employers, such as retailers and universities, also adopted Employee HealthCheck. Northwell recently began offering HealthCheck to employers and schools working to create and maintain a safe environment throughout New York.

Conversa integrates remote patient monitoring (RPM) and other devices to incorporate vital signs and biometrics into its automated digital pathways where needed. Seeking to care for lung transplant patients better at home to avoid exposure to coronavirus, UCSF integrated a Conversa chat program with a home spirometry kit to detect early signs of declining lung function.

Conversa has also extended its COVID-19 response to help with vaccine education, outreach, appointment scheduling and post-shot monitoring. Healthcare workers at UCHealth in Colorado have their vital signs monitored by a stick-on sensor called the BioButton, made by Conversa partner BioIntelliSense, starting two days before receiving their COVID-19 vaccinations and continuing for seven days after. Conversa collects temperature, respiratory rate and heart rate data from the BioButton and integrates the data with insights from a daily automated vaccination health conversation.

Accelerating the transformation of healthcare

Conversa will use the additional Series B funds to continue to scale its technology platform, expand its library of automated virtual care digital pathways, and fuel growth with new and existing customers. The new investment comes after a year that saw an acceleration of Conversa’s business and market recognition of its platform, including being named “Best Remote Diagnostics Company” for 2020 at the UCSF Digital Health Awards.

“In the future, much of healthcare will be done remotely. Conversa’s automated platform helps care teams practice at the top of their license to deliver high-quality care at much lower cost. Our technology continually analyzes health data, using the resulting ‘signals’ to navigate patients along personalized journeys down evidence-based pathways. This data-plus-behavioral science approach maximizes engagement and drives positive behaviors while reducing variability of care,” said Conversa CEO Murray Brozinsky. “We’re honored to partner with our visionary customers and investors in our crusade to transform healthcare.”

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Pam Shipley Joins Sharecare as Chief Operating Officer

AIT News Desk — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:26:55 +0000

Sharecare, the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, announced that veteran healthcare executive Pam Shipley has joined the company as executive vice president and chief operating officer (COO). Bringing more than 30 years of experience in healthcare to this new role, Shipley will oversee Sharecare’s ongoing operational growth and end-to-end delivery of its comprehensive virtual health platform, services, and solutions.

“Despite the myriad of challenges 2020 has dealt us all, it has yielded a bellwether moment for healthcare, digital health, and Sharecare, and Pam is an operational leader who will help us deliver on our vision and scale for the future,” said Jeff Arnold, founder, chairman, and CEO of Sharecare. “In addition to her proven ability to efficiently operationalize growth, Pam’s commitment to improve the lives of others by enabling people – especially the underserved – both gain better access to care and increase their utilization of those critical resources is very complementary to our current executive team.”

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Focused on rapidly growing activation and engagement among Sharecare’s client partners, members, and employees, Shipley will accelerate efforts already underway to unify and integrate the company’s critical well-being and virtual care solutions across the enterprise. Reporting to Arnold, she joins Sharecare from Centene Corporation, a Fortune 50 company and leading multi-national healthcare enterprise that is committed to helping people live healthier lives. There, Shipley served as senior vice president, markets, with oversight and responsibility for multiple markets in the South, East, and Midwest regions with P&L accountability for $17 billion in revenue.

Spanning her 12 years with Centene, Shipley was responsible for strategy and business development for Envolve. She also led the Provider division, resulting in an instrumental organizational shift to value-based purchasing and innovation. Additionally, she led the Business Implementation Group and IT Configuration Unit, served as plan president in two markets, and was the company’s first executive sponsor for digital transformation. Prior to Centene, Shipley held a number of positions at other leading healthcare organizations, including UnitedHealthcare, where she successfully launched a platform for the Project Management Office that would sustain the growth of Medicaid managed care at the organization.

“For the last several years, I have closely followed Sharecare’s trajectory and been inspired by the company’s vision, as well as the talented team of passionate people assembled to execute on it,” said Shipley. “The opportunity to be part of this company at this moment in time is both exciting and humbling, and I am eager to work alongside my new Sharecare colleagues to empower people to take control of their personal health, inspire a movement to community-driven care, and leverage technology to bring much needed scalable innovation to healthcare.”

In 2018, Shipley was chosen by the McKinsey Group to be included in their “Remarkable Women” program, for which a dozen women are selected each year across the world. A passionate advocate for healthcare equity, she served as the executive sponsor for Centene’s women’s Employee Inclusion Group, I.N.S.P.I.R.E., is a member of Women Business Leaders, and sits on the Advisory Board of Nuvo Cares. A mother of nine, Shipley resides in Atlanta with her husband and children.

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90% Of Patients Now Utilizing Virtual Visits; 63% Say They Want to Continue Virtual Visits Post-COVID

AIT News Desk — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:00:25 +0000

CoachCare, a virtual health and remote patient monitoring platform for providers and patients across specialties, today announced survey results for over 1,400 patients currently undergoing virtual visits on the CoachCare platform during COVID-19. According to the survey, the patient response to virtual visits was highly positive, with a significant number of patients expecting virtual visits to be a part of their treatment going forward. These findings indicate that clinics and providers must implement a long-term virtual care solution to remain competitive.

CoachCare provides virtual health and remote patient monitoring services to over 3,500 clinics, and approximately 100,000 providers and patients. Earlier this year, as the healthcare industry found itself forced to evolve into a virtual environment practically overnight due to COVID-19, CoachCare sought to understand how patients were reacting to the new reality. The survey revealed that patients were both accepting and optimistic about the changes to their healthcare routines.

“Our survey shows that although only a small percentage of patients had used virtual video visits prior to COVID-19, they quickly adjusted. Many patients now prefer virtual care or a combination of virtual and in-person care compared to strictly in-person appointments,” said CoachCare Marketing Director, Carol Duke, who ran the survey. “This is encouraging news for clinics and providers who are worried their patients will resist virtual care, now and in the future.”

Providers in the healthcare space have faced unprecedented changes to their businesses and patient programs as they have been forced to look for ways to continue to care for their patients during COVID-19. Part of the challenge is the need to implement new services and technologies for staff and patients to stay safe, while keeping their clinics open. Today, patient services such as remote patient monitoring and secure video visits are a necessity for providers.

The CoachCare survey shows that these virtual technologies are beneficial to both the clinic and patient, allowing clinics an acceptable way to monitor and check on their patients at any time between in-person visits, and providing patients with more flexibility, time, and money when it comes to their healthcare journey.

“Secure video visits are just the tip of the iceberg here.” Duke continued. “COVID has brought to the forefront the need for providers to not only visit with their patients remotely but also to fully monitor their conditions and programs from home, 24/7. This is not something that will go away once COVID passes. Patients will expect personalized remote care moving forward.”

All of the survey highlights can be seen below:

Title: Patient Response to Virtual Visits Due to COVID-19

1,443 patient responses
Included patients at various types of clinics, including Weight Management, Integrative/ Functional Medicine, Bariatrics, and ENT – as well as Gynecology, Allergy, Endocrinology, and Gastroenterology, among others
Over 90% of patients surveyed were participating in virtual visits through video conferencing as an alternative to in-person appointments
Only about 13% of patients were participating in virtual visits prior to COVID-19
Over 79% of patients surveyed generally liked video visits
Over 63% of patients said they want to continue to have virtual visits, even when it’s safe to go back to their clinics
Top reasons patients said they preferred virtual visits were 1. Reduced need to travel long distances/ quick access to their provider, and 2. Saves them time & money

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Evidation Raises $45 Million Series D and Hires CCO

AIT News Desk — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:34:16 +0000

Sam Marwaha joins as Chief Commercial Officer; Company to deploy virtual health programs for its network of nearly 4 million individuals later this year

Evidation Health announced the close of $45 million in Series D funding to power the expansion of its privacy-first, direct-to-person research platform, Achievement, to include virtual health. The company will use this new capital to build upon its existing evidence generation capabilities to offer real-time insights and digital tools to its network of nearly 4 million individuals.

B Capital Group led the round, which includes new investors McKesson Ventures and Section 32 as well as existing investors Revelation Partners, Rethink Impact, and SV Health Investors. B Capital’s Adam Seabrook has joined Evidation’s Board of Directors. Sam Marwaha, Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group and long-time advisor to Evidation, joins the company as Chief Commercial Officer.

The company will leverage this investment to continue to rapidly grow its study solutions business and offer programs that enable Achievement members to gain clinically actionable insights into their health. These include relevant digital interventions, treatments, and tools to help individuals understand and take advantage of the latest evidence, in partnership with their care teams. The first of these new virtual health offerings is slated for release later this year. Evidation will continue to expand and diversify the Achievement population — already the largest and most demographically and geographically diverse connected cohort in the United States — to serve additional at-risk and disease-specific cohorts. Achievement already includes participants residing in all 50 states and in 9 out of every 10 ZIP codes nationwide.

“Participation in research is an activator for individuals to better understand their health and seek care proactively,” said Evidation CEO Deborah Kilpatrick, Ph.D. “The natural next step for Evidation is to decrease the latency between evidence and action by offering virtual health programs, while still keeping privacy and consent at the forefront. We are especially excited to have Sam Marwaha, a pioneer in real-world evidence and an experienced digital health strategist and operator, join us to lead our commercial endeavors as the company ushers in a new era of self-activated care.”

Marwaha will lead Evidation’s commercial strategy as it brings its new offerings to market. A 20-year industry veteran, Sam will strengthen and broaden partnerships with life sciences companies as they innovate with patients, providers, and payers. He will also scale Evidation’s marketing and business development teams and shape new opportunities to help people achieve better outcomes through virtual health.

“Evidation is a learning engine directly connected to four million people, making it possible to understand real-life indicators of health quality and disease progression, reflecting behavioral and social factors,” said Marwaha. “Evidation can drive personalized, consented engagement with individuals in the safety and convenience of their homes, empowering them to be partners in their own health.”

“Healthcare needs Evidation more than ever before,” said Raj Ganguly, co-Founder and Managing Partner at B Capital Group. “Evidation’s technology has the potential to realize new ways for individuals, providers, biopharma, and payers to understand and react to health in real life. Today’s announcement marks the company’s next step toward achieving that goal and we are pleased to continue our partnership with the company as investors.”

“We see tremendous value in generating real-world data for both clinical development and commercial life sciences use cases, ensuring the best possible understanding of a population inside and outside the clinic,” said of McKesson Ventures. “The discipline, rigor and scale with which Evidation has built their technology makes it possible to garner relevant real-world data points and transform them into meaningful insights for pharma.” of McKesson Ventures. “The discipline, rigor and scale with which Evidation has built their technology makes it possible to garner relevant real-world data points and transform them into meaningful insights for pharma.”

This funding and C-suite hire caps off a fast-paced growth period for Evidation. Eight of the top 10 global biopharma companies rely on Evidation for person-generated health data (PGHD), including passive sensor data, electronic patient reported outcomes (ePROs), and at-home diagnostics. Johnson & Johnson, Apple, and Evidation recently launched the ongoing Heartline Study, the largest randomized trial in the history of cardiovascular disease. Evidation is also working with a diverse cross section of partners in industry, academia, government, and civil society, including the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on efforts to better detect, characterize and predict COVID-19 using PGHD.

“COVID-19 has shown us that accelerating real-world evidence development is critical,” said Mike Pellini, MD, Managing Partner of Section 32 and former CEO and Chairman of Foundation Medicine. “Evidation has led the way in health measurement and has proven out the potential of person-generated health data. The company is optimally positioned to lead the way into a new era of individualized healthcare.”

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