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CareView Communications | March 06, 2023

CareView Communications, Inc., an IT company in the healthcare field, recently announced that it has built an integration with SONIFI Health that allows care teams to talk to patients through the interactive TV platforms that are already present in patient rooms. To create a patient-centric, networked virtual care system, CareView is integrating with SONIFI Health, which provides interactive technology to promote patient involvement. A hub-and-spoke telecare model spanning a sys...

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Royal Philips | March 14, 2022

Collaboration Live has achieved an extension of its US Food and Drug Administration 510(k) market approval for remote diagnostic usage on more mobile platforms, according to Royal Philips a worldwide leader in health technology. Collaboration Live, available on Philips Ultrasound Systems EPIQ and Affiniti, enables doctors to work in real-time with colleagues to complete picture capture and diagnosis regardless of location. One of the most accessible and low-cost imaging modalities i...

Medcity News | April 13, 2020

Apple and Google revealed on Friday that the two tech rivals are collaborating to launch a contact-tracing app for Covid-19. The system would use a Bluetooth signal that would bounce between users’ mobile phones to trace who they had been in contact with recently. If that person disclosed they had been diagnosed with Covid-19, everyone they had been in contact with would receive an alert.Contact tracing, or the process of tracing down people that might have come into someone who had ...

CMS | April 28, 2020

The Trump administration is suspending a program that offered advanced payments to providers and reevaluating another program that offered accelerated payments to health systems after doling out about $100 billion. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced over the weekend it is immediately suspending its Advance Payment Program to Medicare Part B suppliers such as doctors, non-physician practitioners and durable medical equipment suppliers. The agency is ree...