Care
The company's REMI product is currently FDA cleared for in-hospital use, but Epitel plans to expand into ambulatory and in-home care.
Also: Complex-care-management platform Memora Health and digital-fitness startup FitOn both raised $40 million.
During the first six months of the pandemic, 13% of outpatient visits were conducted through telehealth. By March to August 2021, that number slipped to 8%.
A study published in JAMA Network Open found CCBT led to improved depressive symptoms in primary care patients compared with treatment as usual alone.
The continuous glucose monitoring system can be used to measure glucose levels in adults with diabetes for up to six months.
The Egyptian non-profit has teamed up with GE Healthcare to utilise AI to assess how well a patient is responding to neoadjuvant therapy, commonly used prior to surgery.
Also: Patricia Baran joins personal ECG company AliveCor, while SDOH analytics platform Socially Determined and virtual surgery startup Proximie both add two new members to their executive teams.
Precision genomics could impact the payer, provider and life science space.
HIMSS22
In a preview of their HIMSS22 session, Serena Bumpus of Ascension and Stephanie Hoelscher of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center explain their Texas pilot study on crisis documentation during COVID-19 surges and how it could lessen the burden on nurses.
Also, HCA Healthcare UK opens £26M specialist oncology unit at UCLH.