Going to ViVE powered by CHIME and HLTH? The event will include this session on Monday at 2 pm —Whole-Person Care 101: CH. 1 Behavioral Health with four MDs covering this topic.
After the onset of the pandemic, drug overdoses exceeded all previous 12-month period records, and anxiety and depression quadrupled in our nation. This dramatic rise has heightened awareness of mental health’s impact on condition outcomes. Whole-person care goes beyond standard physical healing. Integrating behavioral health using community resources, technology, and education is essential to achieve holistic, person-centered care. This exploratory session will familiarize attendees with data access innovations to support primary care and behavioral health integration for crisis management and ongoing mental health support services.
Equiva extends thanks to our colleague, Eyal Shemesh, MD, professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and chief of the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, for sharing his insights as a panelist for this session. Dr. Shemesh has a long history of research in leveraging digital tools to enhance patient care. He and his team received an $860,000 award from the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth program, using funds to ensure continued care for clinic patients during the pandemic by sending tablet devices to family’s homes. To overcome barriers for patients with limited technology access and literacy, tablets were preconfigured with one-touch access to telehealth visits, patient education materials and survey tools.
Doceree Inc, a global network of HCP-only platforms for programmatic messaging, announced today the appointment of Matt Botkin as senior vice president – Business Development, Point-of-Care. As the company expands its Point-of-Care division, Botkin is poised to lead Doceree’s strategic partnerships with health systems in the North America market.
“The point-of-care ecosystem has undergone a digital transformation, and Matt brings an extraordinary vision to bolster clinical communication offerings to strengthen interactions between life sciences brands and healthcare professionals (HCPs),” said Harshit Jain MD, Founder and Global CEO, Doceree. “Matt’s forward-thinking approach to establish tactical partnerships will be invaluable as we scale our collaborations with health information technology platforms to cultivate online messaging solutions that will elevate virtual care.”
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Verana Health, a digital health company has launched Qdata Glaucoma. Qdata Glaucoma is a data module aimed at glaucoma patient journey. The data module has more than 5 million de-identified patients, ranging from suspect diagnosis through treatment and outcomes.
Qdata Glaucoma is powered by real-world glaucoma data from the American Academy of Ophthalmology IRIS Registry (Intelligent Research in Sight), which is managed and analyzed by the Academy and Verana Health. Qdata Glaucoma provides insight generation for life sciences organizations using high-quality glaucoma data. The module also delivers the most comprehensive view of the glaucoma patient journey to enable new insights into treatment patterns and outcomes, postmarketing safety, comparative effectiveness, and label expansion and modification.
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Boston-based XRHealth has raised $10 million in funding to expand virtual healthcare. The funding was backed by HTC, Bridges Israel impact investment fund, AARP, and crowdfunding on StartEngine.com and existing investors.
Among the virtual reality technology’s applications are chronic pain, stress and anxiety, and autism spectrum disorder.
“XRHealth is putting Virtual Clinics into users’ pockets at a critical time in the changing landscape of the medical delivery and the technology industry,” says Eran Orr, Chief Executive Officer of XRHealth. “We are leveraging these changes to create a new form of healthcare that is accessible at any time of day, from any location in the virtual environment of the metaverse, where treatment can be personalized and adjusted based on real-time analytics.”
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