DIGITAL HEALTHCARE
Equum Medical | February 01, 2022
EquumMedical, a leading provider of acute care telehealth solutions, today announced strategic executive leadership hires to support its growing portfolio of clinical services that will help meet staffing and capacity challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Funding from the Heritage Grouphas enabled EQUUM to further enhance its service model and broaden the reach of its experienced team of clinicians acrossthe United Statesand beyond as the company executes its strategic vision of telehealth as a more prominent and permanent feature of the future healthcare delivery system.
"We are designing a company that anticipates the digitization of healthcare and through it the broader adoption of virtual care across the patient continuum. Through this tenured leadership team, Equum Medical is uniquely positioned to deliver on the full promise of acute telehealth."
Equum Founder and CEO Dr.Corey Scurlock, MD, MBA
Throughout the COVID pandemic Equum has supported hospitals large and small, urban and rural by connecting them via technology with highly trained specialists. Now it is building on this foundation by integrating new telehealth-enabled clinical services that can connect care from the emergency department to discharge with point of care teams supported continuously via virtual care. Equum Medical's portfolio of clinical solutions is aimed at reducing bottlenecks that impact cost, quality and access for health systems and optimizing patient flow.
Services now include:
Tele-Critical care, with episodic to round-the-clock coverage of ICUs, EDs and beyond
Patient transfer and hospital flow optimization to level bed utilization and keep patients within their communities
Virtual nursing through RNs who support other providers in clinical problem-solving to meet needs resulting from the shortage in nursing and rising costs of travel nurses
Telehealth enabled observation and sitting to decrease adverse events at the bedside and reduce costs
Telehealth consulting, to help health systems clear away legacy systems and devise sustainable strategies for virtual care maturity
"Our customers wanted a single strategic partner for virtual care delivery, and I believe we have delivered a scalable model that demonstrates our differentiated offering," Scurlock said. "We are proud to announce that this vision will be fulfilled by a dream team of experienced telehealth leaders from across the industry."
About Equum Medical
For over 10 years, Equum Medical has provided board-certified critical care physicians delivering acute care telehealth to address the challenges hospitals and health systems face when trying to fill gaps in coverage. Equum Medical's flexible, customized approach helps clients improve the lives of on-site clinicians, extending patient care in specialty areas and offering program leadership. By adapting to each client's technology platform and ensuring quality of care is delivered through proven data-driven change management methodologies, Equum Medical enables hospitals and health systems to enhance care and serve more patients, while delivering a positive clinical, operational and financial impact.
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Memed | May 18, 2022
Memed – Brazil's rapidly rising and largest digital well-being firm has raised US$80 million in the previous year. Recently it has launched a set of digitally integrated care platforms. It’s a brand new strategy carried out by its CEO Joel Rennó Jr. Memed.
The most interesting fact is that approximately 65 percent of the funds generated will be used to improve product information, analytics, and medical intelligence provided to physicians, healthcare retailers, clinics and more. In addition, this platform will allow patients to buy therapy online from a Memed e-prescription with just a few clicks. As the news broke, the new strategy gained significantly more traction.
"In a fragmented market, we've established true digital bridges combining all personas across the value-chain to support convenient, speedy, and economical medical adherence by patients. The first product in this category was the exam platform, which allows patients to make online appointments for medical tests directly from Memed's e-prescription. Our physicians and trusted partners, such as insurance companies and health plan operators, deserve to know whether a given patient is performing the correct set of exams that were prescribed - our platform allows for online scheduling of such exams and drastically reduces no-shows for clinics and laboratories.”
About the new venture, CEO Joel Rennó Jr
The medication platform was the second strategic product recently launched as Memed had massive e-prescription volumes, which jumped from 2.9 million in 2018 to 29 million in 2021. With this launch, it built a reputation for itself in terms of technology and brand recognition.
Today, the platform functions as a real 3P marketplace, which Memed designed while keeping the user experience aspect. The pharmaceutical platform has already attracted six of the top ten pharma retailers in Brazil and nearly all of the digital native pharma e-commerces. This verifies Memed's strategy and highlights the unrivaled value of its scale.
Joel Rennó Jr. adds, "Imagine receiving an e-prescription from your doctor, opening it on your smartphone, clicking on a link that automatically takes you to an open platform featuring a wide range of the best pharmacies in Brazil. Then you purchase your medication online and have it delivered to your home 30 minutes later with just two clicks. That is what we have created to help our partners, physicians, patients, and pharmaceutical stores.”
Memed presently has a market share of more than 80% in e-prescriptions. However, despite the increased growth, the industry is still in its early stages regarding e-prescriptions, which account for less than 10% of total medical prescriptions issued in Brazil each year.
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Lyniate | September 30, 2021
Lyniate, the worldwide leader of healthcare data interoperability, today announced the introduction of Lyniate Rapid. Rapid is a purpose-built healthcare API gateway and manager designed to help health teams create and safeguard APIs, including Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-based APIs like those required by the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Rule.
Rapid enables teams to manage, monitor efficiency, and protect against cybersecurity threats related to patient data access, creating protection for vulnerable health information. Knowing that teams, across the care continuum, are under pressure to quickly modernize platforms, Rapid accelerates time to compliance with pre-built provider directory and patient data access APIs.
Lyniate Rapid is easily compatible with Lyniate Rhapsody and Lyniate Corepoint, the company’s flagship integration engines. Rapid helps healthcare teams implement using Health Level 7 (HL7) FHIR.
“Our team respects the history of healthcare interoperability, and we also encourage new approaches. With Rapid, we bring both to the table to help cover data and technology requirements so that each healthcare organization can focus on its business and deliver the best consumer experiences.”
Scott Galbari, chief operating officer at Lyniate
“We will continue to develop additional software and services to help customers meet compliance requirements as they are defined,” Galbari added. “We believe that some workflows are best addressed by transactional HL7 v2 messaging while other workflows are best addressed via API. Lyniate is a single trusted interoperability partner who meets the needs of both integration styles, giving teams the best experience and the most efficiency gain. Lyniate Rapid marks our continued commitment toward creating seamless, wide-spread data liquidity across the healthcare ecosystem.”
Rapid can be quickly deployed, ensuring the flexibility to adapt to CMS and ONC compliance changes and meet regulatory requirements. With features like API security, a built-in FHIR server, audit logging, and monitoring, this healthcare API gateway protects vulnerable health information from outside threats and reduces the time-consuming and error-prone process of configuring and managing each API. Rapid serves as a secure, managed entry point for healthcare API authentication and communication.
About Lyniate
Lyniate partners with healthcare organizations around the globe delivering cutting-edge solutions to address interoperability challenges. The company’s industry-leading products, Corepoint and Rhapsody, are used by thousands of customers to send hundreds of millions of messages every day. Lyniate is committed to delivering the best interoperability solutions for healthcare organizations, from specialty clinics to large networks, from payers to vendors, and everything in between to build the future of interoperability.
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