MyndYou Inc. and Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) have announced a partnership to make the MyndYou triaging and care management solution available to Allscripts clients, reducing the risk of hospitalization for patients worldwide. Providers will receive access to MyndYou’s AI-powered Cognitive Complexity Analysis.Allscripts also announced the expansion of an agreement with PIH Health through 2025. This is likely to improve comprehensive care for Allscripts’ patient communities.
Cigna and MDLIVE Inc. have announced the launch of the telemedicine industry’s most complete virtual primary care program, allowing U.S. health plans, health systems, retailers and employers the ability to provide consumers with convenient, secure and cost-effective options for accessing preventive, chronic and other primary care services. With this partnership, Cigna has secured the ability to be the first to offer virtual care for preventive checkups, launching in the second quarter of 2020.
Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC) has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire InTouch Health for $600 million, consisting of approximately $150 million in cash and $450 million in shares of Teladoc Health. The deal is expected to close by the end of the second quarter. This move will integrate telehealth solutions and add more than 14,500 physician users and 450 health systems and hospitals to Teladoc's profile. Â
A study, published in the January 2020 issue of the scientific journal Nature, found that by using Google AI technology, there was a reduction in false positives and false negatives when it came to diagnosing forms of breast cancer. Besides skin cancers, breast cancer is the most common cancer in American women, with a 13% chance that a woman will develop breast cancer sometime in her life. And while breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women (lung cancer kills more women each year), the chance that a woman will die from breast cancer is around 2.6%.
In the U.S. healthcare ecosystem, digital solutions pose unique challenges to the implementation of major change efforts. However, a new McKinsey Global Survey suggests the capabilities that support better outcomes remain as critical as ever, a new survey shows. Across all types of transformations successful implementations remain unspecific, with few survey respondents responding that their organizations’ change efforts have both improved performance and sustained those improvements.
