Innovations

Telehealth helps New Zealand donor give kidney to brother in Virginia
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Care Delivery
Telehealth helps New Zealand donor give kidney to brother in Virginia
Mental health startups help providers monitor patient symptoms at home
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Care Delivery
Mental health startups help providers monitor patient symptoms at home
Renown Telemed
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Care Delivery
Cutting exposure to COVID-19 in EDs using on-site telehealth
Walkie-talkie devices
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Care Delivery
Walkie-talkie system keeps families connected to ICU patients
A virtual reality module on doffing PPE reviews steps a doctor has to take before leaving a patient’s room.
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Care Delivery
Cedars-Sinai turns to VR to train medical residents
Thinklabs’ stethoscopes use a Bluetooth connection to headphones to help reduce patient contact.
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Care Delivery
Digital stethoscopes keep docs at distance from COVID-19 patients
Pandemic spurs flood of venture capital funding to healthcare startups
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Finance
Pandemic spurs flood of venture capital funding to healthcare startups
Southwestern Vermont Medical Center lets patients wait in their car instead of a waiting room. They get a text when a clinician is ready to see them.
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Patients
'Virtual' waiting rooms help keep patients 6 feet apart
The Project Florence training is customized to match how much critical-care experience a nurse may have.
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Care Delivery
Online training helps redeployed nurses get up to speed on COVID-19
An app from ScribeAmerica lets physicians record patient visits. A remote scribe will later document the encounter.
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Operations
Virtual scribes help physicians document patient visits from afar