Telehealth

The company has plans to expand Nurx Now to offer additional urgent care services in the future.   

This, in addition to the company's Series A round from last year, brings its total amount raised to $77.5 million. 

Select Ginger clients will get access to the program starting August 2021, with broad availability slated for 2022.  

Telehealth Connection TV: Improvement is still needed however; professor Rupa S. Valdez shares how vendors and informaticists can boost virtual care accessibility.

A "virtual-first approach" could be the new norm, says Michelle Snyder, a partner at McKesson Ventures, in this episode of the Virtual Care Paradigm.

Dr. Brian D’Anza, medical director of telehealth at University Hospitals, will be speaking at HIMSS21 about the health system’s new emergency room pediatric telehealth program.   

Telehealth Connection TV: Nursing informatics professional Judy Murphy discusses the potential for virtual services to bolster preventive care.

Christina Armstrong, a clinical psychologist at the VA’s Office of Connected Care, will be speaking at HIMSS21 about how the health system reacted to the pandemic.   

New care paradigms are nothing without new payment paradigms to make them work. In this episode of the Virtual Care Paradigm, health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn weighs in on the question of how to make virtual care pay.

This week's top stories include Hims & Hers acquiring Honest Health, the AHA calling out Express Scripts over its 340B claims reporting policy, and Cerner and Meditech supporting record-sharing via Apple.