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10 Million Women To Receive Vital Health Education Through Mobiles By IMImobile, BBC Media Action And The Gates Foundation

Real Wire – January 28, 2016 – IMImobile, which helps companies to engage with their customers via mobile technologies, has teamed up with BBC Media Action, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to roll out free mobile health education services for the Government of India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to nearly 10 million families and one million community health workers across India.

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, JP Nadda, recently launched a program to roll out two mobile health services developed by BBC Media Action and powered by IMImobile’s technology nationwide. These m-health services use the IMIconnect communications technology platform to make pre-recorded audio health messages available to millions of women. The services will educate families about simple steps that new and expectant mothers can take to improve their health, and the health of their children:

Mobile Academy service is a voice based mobile training course on reproductive, maternal, new-born and child health for Community Health workers, designed to expand their knowledge of life-saving preventative healthcare and enhance their capacity to engage effectively with families. Front-line workers can access the course from any phone and complete it at their convenience.
Kilkari service is an IVR subscription service that delivers time-sensitive audio information about maternal and child health to the mobile phones of husbands, their pregnant wives, and young children for up to 72 weeks. The information is linked to the woman’s stage of pregnancy and/or child’s age.

The services are currently being launched in Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, and are already targeting 850,000 families every week.

Jay Patel, CEO, IMImobile, commented:
“We are delighted to support the launch of these vital services to improve front line health communication in areas where mobile communication is the only viable option for providing much needed health advice. This key initiative highlights how the use of mobile engagement technologies can make a huge difference to people’s lives.

“There are over one billion mobile users in India and we hope to play a crucial role in assisting organizations that need scalable multi-channel technologies in order to realise the vision of a Digital India.”

Rahul Mullick, Head of ICT & Supply Chain at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said:
“The national launch of mHealth services is a great step towards leveraging India’s increasing mobile penetration to make healthcare services accessible to everyone across India. We at the foundation believe technology can offer compelling solutions in solving public health challenges and are committed to supporting the government in its ambitious agenda of prioritising equitable access to public health services.”

Sara Chamberlain, Digital Director, BBC Media Action India, added:
“The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s commitment to using mobile phone technology to provide free reproductive, maternal, neo-natal and child health education to every new and expecting mother in India is a ground breaking step towards realizing the vision of Digital India. We are proud to be a part of this transformational initiative.”

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The IMImobile Voice Application is integrated with an application called MOTECH, developed by Grammene Foundation for both inbound as well as outbound services.

IMImobile enables organisations of all sizes and sectors to maximise the potential of mobile technologies to improve customer engagement. We believe that mobile will sit at the heart of customer engagement strategies for years to come.

By removing the barriers and complexities to create and deploy mobile-led customer engagement solutions as part of a multi-channel framework, we provide software and services that helps organisations to improve customer experience, simplify business processes and enhance operational efficiency.

Our products and solutions built upon the IMIcloud act as an intelligent layer between existing IT systems and business processes to create, manage and launch services across mobile, digital and social communication channels.

Organisations that trust us to deliver smarter customer engagement include Vodafone, O2, Telefonica, Aircel, Airtel, EE, BSNL, AT&T, MTN, France Telecom, Centrica, Coca-Cola, Universal Music, Tata, the AA, the BBC and major financial institutions.

IMImobile is headquartered in London with offices in Hyderabad, Atlanta and Dubai and has 700 employees worldwide. IMImobile is quoted on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market with the TIDM code IMO.

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The Next Level Of On-Demand Expert Medical Care Is Here: USC Center for Body Computing announces Its Virtual Care Clinic (VCC) In Collaboration With Eight Strategic Partners for An ‘Anytime, Anywhere’ Disruptive Health Care Model To Deliver Borderless Health Care

– Innovative digital health solution uses mobile apps, wearable sensors, virtual human health care providers, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), data collection, analytics and artificial intelligence using digital communication tools to provide a seamless, integrated system where patients anywhere in the world can access medical care and content

– VCC partnership with the world-renown USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), marries groundbreaking virtual human agent, VR and AR technologies with Keck Medicine of USC medical experts to create the digital models for the future of health care

– USC’s VCC is leading consumerization of health care that will be fully accessible, tailored to the individual and their care providers and enabled with private/public partnerships that transform patient diagnosis and care as well as physician/hospital operational efficiency

PRNewswire – January 28, 2016 – The University of Southern California (USC) Center for Body Computing (CBC), the digital health innovation accelerator for the Keck Medicine of USC medical enterprise, today announced its eight foundational partners for its Virtual Care Clinic (VCC). The disruptive digital health care model does not require patient or care providers to be present in the same place for seamless, integrated solutions designed to provide on-demand access to care. The VCC extends Keck Medicine of USC experts to anyone with a smartphone by harnessing cutting-edge technologies and creative solutions developed at the renown USC Institute of Creative Technologies (ICT) in Playa Vista, the heart of Los Angeles’ digital zone known as Silicon Beach.

In addition to its collaboration with ICT, the USC CBC invited the following best-in-class foundational partners to establish its VCC ecosystem: Doctor Evidence, IMS Health, Karten Design, Medable, Planet Grande, Proteus Digital Health and VSP Global. Using mobile apps, “virtual doctors,” data collection and analysis systems, world-class diagnostic and wearable sensors coupled with experiential design and engaging, expert patient health information, the VCC delivers wireless, on-demand access to Keck Medicine of USC experts while doctors go beyond telemedicine models for remote management and care of patients regardless of location.

“Our Virtual Care Clinic is not only the democratization of health care allowing anyone access to our medical experts without leaving their home, but it also capitalizes on the promise that digital health is supposed to offer,” said Leslie Saxon, MD. “Because we have worked in collaboration with our VCC partners and our medical experts, this health care model will empower patients, improve quality outcomes with more precision medicine analytics and diagnosis, and enhance the physician-patient relationship by creating a contextualized experience and seamless communication that puts the patient in the driver seat of their own health care experience and outcomes.”

Dr. Saxon further explained the partnership with USC ICT assures that best-in-class technologies developed at ICT can be leveraged for and patients will remain engaged in their health in a more continuous manner using creative and engaging, highly tailored solutions. “We have early proof of the success of this partnership in our highly innovative VR hackathon for health that we co-hosted at ICT this year and that will result in the use of VR to enhance the patient understanding and experience, ” added Dr. Saxon.

“University-based medical centers like ours are natural sources of health care innovation given the focus on basic science, clinical and translational research,” said Tom Jackiewicz, senior vice president and chief operating officer of Keck Medicine of USC. “But to achieve truly transformational medicine, we have to collaborate with the private sector, particularly the digital health and technology companies like our VCC partners.  Innovative patient care models such as our VCC will create operational efficiencies and cost-savings allowing us to refocus resources back into more innovation and constantly improve the patient experience. This is redefining medical care.”

Jackiewicz also stated that the USC Center for Body Computing, which is the cornerstone in Keck Medicine of USC’s digital health innovation strategy, is uniquely positioned for digital health leadership. While there are a dozen academic medical enterprises nationwide that have announced digital health programs and institutes in the last three to four years, the decade-long history behind USC’s CBC coupled with Keck Medicine of USC’s proximity to partners in Silicon Valley, Silicon Beach and Hollywood as well as its ability to translate the innovation into the clinical operation, make it more than just an “ideation” effort.

“We are honored to partner with USC CBC on this groundbreaking new health care delivery model,” said Randall W. Hill, Jr., executive director of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. “We know from our research that people are comfortable sharing information with our virtual characters.  We look forward to the personalization and accessibility these and other ICT technologies will provide to improve care for VCC visitors and to prove what is possible for the future of clinical care.”

In the next few months, the VCC will initially offer access to its experts at the USC Eye Institute, ranked No. 9 among ophthalmologic programs in the nation according to U.S. News & World Report, and the USC Institute of Urology, recognized as a worldwide leader in robotic cancer surgery for bladder, prostate and kidney cancer. Ultimately all 1,500 faculty/physician experts, surgeons and researchers at Keck Medicine of USC will become involved in the VCC.

The digital health sector – which encompasses mobile health, remote monitoring through smartphone-enabled devices or apps, sensors, and other wireless health solutions – has seen exponential growth over the last four years with 2015 venture funding in the space totaling $4.5 billion according to Rock Health. Two-thirds of all Americans, 200 million people, own a smartphone according to Pew Research and a report by MobileFuture stated use of mobile devices as health tools and remote patient monitoring could save the U.S an estimated $36 billion in health care costs by 2018.

In addition, patients and physicians are embracing technology for better care. According to the “Top Health Industry Issues of 2016” report by PwC’s Health Research Institute, 81 percent of physicians say mobile access to medical information helps coordinate patient care and 88 percent of consumers are willing to share personal data with their doctor to find new treatments.

Following are the foundational partners role in USC CBC’s Virtual Care Clinic:

USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) – World renowned for its virtual humans, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), graphics and narrative breakthroughs, especially in health and education work with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), ICT is the creator of the VCC’s “Virtual Doctors,” a staff of engaging characters based on the internationally recognized experts of USC medical care providers for on-demand, patient-doctor interaction.

Doctor Evidence – Providing the most comprehensive data delivered from peer-reviewed clinical trials/full-text articles and published medical evidence from other peer-reviewed datasets on disease treatments and outcomes, including drug labels and epidemiology databases. This patient profile guided content is delivered in an anytime, anywhere and any medical literacy level fashion for a best-in-class precision medicine source of truth in the hands of each patient.

IMS Health – IMS is the leading provider of structured mobile, medical app vetting and provides quality assessments and app prescriptions.

Karten Design – Part of embracing the consumerization of health care is to deliver information, services and products that engage and empower patients. Known for its “medicine made beautiful” mantra, Karten Design takes a holistic, experiential approach to medical device and digital health design.

Medable Inc. – Medable is the leading cloud platform and the industry’s only end-to-end platform for building HIPAA compliant healthcare applications with robust analytics capabilities. There are many barriers to building web and mobile applications for healthcare. Medable removes the barriers by providing a game changing platform where developers can rapidly build scalable, reliable, HIPAA compliant healthcare applications. Medable services the rapidly growing application needs of the device, pharmaceutical, payer, provider, and digital health startup industries. Medable is powering a future where there is an application for every drug, disease, device, and discovery. Using Medable, innovative healthcare companies build apps that improve the lives of patients today while building the data sets to change the healthcare of tomorrow.

Planet Grande – Located in Malibu down the coast highway from L.A.’s film and TV community, this Emmy Award-winning video creator infuses the best of Hollywood storytelling and engagement into information to help patients become heroes of their own health stories.

Proteus Digital Health – A leader in Digital Medicine, Proteus utilizes sensor-enabled pills and a small wearable patch that unlocks comprehensive data about medication adherence and clinical effectiveness, empowers meaningful conversations between patients and caregivers, and delivers actionable insights about entire health care populations. The innovative “Medicines as a Service” approach provides patients with a digital hook that drives patient activation.

VSP Global – A 2015 Rock Health report stated, “Wearable health is only at 12 percent adoption rate and to date no iconic consumer brand is yet involved.” Enter VSP Global and its innovation lab, The Shop. By covering 77 million lives and developing eyewear for over 30 well-known brands, VSP Global is a unique partner as both a payer disrupting high quality vision care and a fashion-focused consumer marketing powerhouse. The next generation of the company’s sensor-embedded wearable prototype—Project Genesis—will undergo refinement and additional testing in the VCC with consultation from the USC CBC.

About the USC Center for Body Computing
The USC CBC founded in 2006, is a digital health innovation incubation and accelerator center for the Keck Medicine of USC medical system that collaborates with various partners to research concepts in consumer-empowered health as well as commercialize wireless health products. The USC Center for Body Computing is a thought leader think tank designed to bring digital and life sciences executives, sensor and mobile app inventors, strategists, designers, investors and visionaries from health care, entertainment and technology together to collaborate on health care solutions through technology. The USC CBC is part of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, which is part of the Keck Medicine of USC medical enterprise.

Founded by Leslie Saxon, MD, an international digital health guru and trained USC cardiologist who has spoken at TED MED, SXSW, Wired Health and CES conferences,  and recently named “Most Tech Friendly Doc” by Rock Health, the USC CBC is driven to make patients “the heroes of their own health stories.” For more information visit: uscbodycomputing.org

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ExamWorks Group Acquires Advanced Medical Reviews

Bailey Southwell & Co – January 28, 2016 – Bailey Southwell & Co., LLC is pleased to announce the completion of the sale of Advanced Medical Reviews, Inc. (AMR), a national peer review provider based in Santa Monica, California that serves the group health, workers’ compensation, pharmacy benefit management, and healthcare provider markets, to ExamWorks Group, Inc. (ExamWorks), a leading provider of independent medical examinations, peer reviews, bill reviews, Medicare compliance services, case management services, and other related services. The transaction was completed at an all cash purchase price of $30 million and additionally includes an earnout for up to $9.8 million of cash payments based on revenue to be generated from a new client over a 24-month period.

BSC acted as the exclusive strategic and financial advisor to AMR.

AMR is recognized as a leading provider of technology-driven peer review services. AMR’s state-of-the-art software platform, including its proprietary operations system, web-based case referral platform, and mobile application, automates key elements of the peer review process, enables same-day workflow customization, and facilitates seamless integration with customer software. Through this acquisition, ExamWorks makes a key investment in enabling technology and core capabilities for the benefit of its customers, furthering the vision of ExamWorks that is predicated on being a full service IME provider.

“After an extensive search, we engaged Bailey Southwell to identify the optimal partner for AMR to continue its growth trajectory,” noted Vince Bianco, CEO of AMR. “They were the right firm for the engagement as their knowledge of the healthcare cost containment industry was invaluable. Ultimately, Bailey Southwell identified the ideal partner, facilitated communication amongst the parties, and helped negotiate mutually beneficial terms for the transaction. The trust and partnership we developed with Bailey Southwell was essential to the success of this transaction.”
About Bailey Southwell & Co., LLC

Bailey Southwell & Co., founded in 2005, is a privately held investment bank with offices in Nashville, Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri. BSC provides mergers and acquisition and capital raising advisory services to middle market companies. More information about BSC can be found at http://ift.tt/1RPSSmF.
About Advanced Medical Reviews, Inc.

Advanced Medical Reviews delivers services to a diverse group of healthcare and legal organizations, including: health plans, managed care groups, workers compensation and disability clients, TPAs, IPAs, Medical Groups, MSO, Medicare and Medicaid Teams, hospitals, and government entities. AMR commits to providing its clients with a fully integrated, compliant, and cost effective service emphasizing continuous quality improvement, innovation and, client satisfaction. Everyone at AMR believes that every patient deserves quality healthcare. More information about AMR can be found at www.admere.com.
About ExamWorks Group, Inc.

ExamWorks Group is a leading provider of independent medical examinations, peer reviews, bill reviews, Medicare compliance services, case management services, and related services. It helps its clients manage costs and enhance their risk management processes by verifying the validity, nature, cause, and extent of claims, identifying fraud and providing fast, efficient, and quality IME services. ExamWorks is focused on providing clients a national presence while maintaining local service and capabilities they need and expect. More information about ExamWorks can be found at www.examworks.com.

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SnapMD Completes $5.3 Million First Closing of Series A Financing

Lead Cloud Telemedicine Company Receives Significant Backing

PRWEB – January 27, 2016 – Leading healthcare IT company SnapMD, Inc., announced today it completed the first closing of its Series A financing in the amount of $5.3 million with Shea Ventures, TYLT Labs and Whittier Ventures participating.

SnapMD’s Virtual Care Management (VCM) telemedicine platform has been recognized by MarketResearch.com as one of the top 10 telemedicine companies to watch in 2016 (http://ift.tt/1TnWYBO). SnapMD is recognized as a leader “racing to reimagine patient care” with its transformative virtual clinic telemedicine technology delivered through common devices such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops to patients and providers alike.

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“We could not be more pleased to have Shea Ventures, TYLT and Whittier Trust among our investors. Along with the high-quality individual investors that also participated, the close of this round is one more validation of our business plan and approach to the market,” said SnapMD CEO, Dave Skibinski. “With this investment, SnapMD is well positioned to continue to build our sales pipeline, continue to add best-of-breed talent to our team, and solidify our plans for future iterations of our technology.”

SnapMD’s Virtual Care Management telemedicine platform is one of the most important advances in patient-centric medicine today. VCM telemedicine technology offers healthcare providers powerful tools to extend the reach of patient care and find efficiencies in personnel utilization. In 2016 the number of patients accessing telehealth services is expected to double from that found in 2013.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently stated that mHealth, defined as the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices, is projected to be a $26 billion industry by 2017.

With this financing, SnapMD will accelerate its business development efforts in direct sales as well as high-valued channel partners. The company will also fortify its deep and detailed product developments plans that include core innovations to the company’s primary cloud-based Virtual Care Management (VCM) private-label telemedicine platform, expanded data integration capabilities and further scale its mobile app solutions.

“We are seeing the demand for telemedicine technology grow in 2016,” said SnapMD co-founder and COO, George Tierney. “The overwhelming feedback we are receiving from health systems and the investment community is that the virtual visit is a new point of care and that telemedicine is a robust communication tool that should be placed in the hands of existing providers of care. This has been SnapMD’s approach from its founding, so it is certainly satisfying to see and hear the consensus forming around our view.”

About SnapMD
SnapMD is the Virtual Care Management (VCM) telemedicine software leader, enabling healthcare providers to engage their patients via a secure, HIPAA compliant, cloud-based telemedicine platform. SnapMD’s robust, private-label, VCM application is specifically designed to give healthcare organizations another option to improve access to care by launching virtual care Telehealth services under their brand utilizing their highly qualified, patient-trusted providers. For more information, please visit http://www.snap.md

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Wearable Technology Market Is Anticipated to Grow More Than 57.7 % From 2014 To 2020 Research By Hexa Research

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Press Release Rocket – January 25, 2016 – Latest Research On “Wearable Technology Market” Wearable electronic devices are integrated with highly developed electronic technologies attached or worn to the human body allowing mobile computing and wireless networking. They work simultaneously with human actions and are connected to smart applications in a network.

Wearable Technology Market this technology has possible for growth as it makes daily tasks easier and enhances customer experience. Increased popularity of numerous applications served such as advertising, infotainment, running (navigation) and cycling, surgery, label reader, telemedicine, accessing patient records, project planning, sports brain, remote patient monitoring and among others. The use of cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) is also anticipated to enhance the market growth. These technologies are used for remote track incidents like mountain expeditions, natural disasters, etc. Lack of privacy and high costs are some of the factors that restrain market growth.

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Product Insights
Depending on the body parts and wearable technology, the market is segmented into finger & wrist wear, body wear, eye wear, neck wear, foot wear and others. The devices under finger & wrist wear segment are smart watches smart rings and wrist bands among others. These devices are able of tracking the patient’s heart rate, activity level, sleep pattern, calories burned, and they are integrated with smart phones where patient can receive and make phone calls. The eye wear category includes devices such as eye tap, smart glasses, and contact lenses among others. Eye taps are fitted with camera that records the sight available and superimposes the original scene. Smart glasses help user in tracking distance, translation, sending messages, navigation, taking videos and pictures and many other functions. The foot wear segment includes smart anklets, smart socks and smart shoes among others.

These are mainly used for fitness-tracking. Smart textiles consists the body wear category. These are fabrics which allow electronics and digital components to be fixed in them that offer several purposes such as sports training data acquisition, location tracking and health monitoring. Additionally, applications such as recording changes in the environment, monitoring, sensing and influencing are also made achievable by smart textiles.

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Major applications include medical & healthcare, consumer applications, military and industrial sectors. Consumer applications are categorized into media & infotainment and sports & fitness. Devices such as heart rate monitors, activity monitors, smart glasses, smart textiles, smart clothing and smart watches enable users in tracking of different parameters such as total calories burnt, total distance covered, heart rate and blood pressure which are essential for maintaining health. Imaging products, head-up displays and Bluetooth headsets aid in infotainment and multimedia purposes.

Medical and Healthcare applications are facilitated by devices such as insulin pumps, continuous glucose monitoring, blood pressure monitors, hearing aids and ECG monitors among others. Wearable technology is broadly used in industrial applications such as enterprise applications, warehouse & packaging, and logistics applications. In military applications, heads-up display, smart clothing and hand-worn terminals, offer effective utility.

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Regional Insights
North is expected to grow considerably over the forecasted period owing to technological developments in this region. Asia Pacific accounts for the major market share due to increasing investments in communication technologies and technological developments in Korea, China and Japan. Less production cost in China and India is estimated to enhance market demand in APAC region. The U.K and Germany lead the market in Europe owing to increasing demand of wearable technology.

Competitive Insights:
The key market players in the wearable technology include BodyMedia, Adidas AG, Fitbit, Timex Group USA Inc., Jawbone, Oregon Scientific and Nike IncBeurer among others. Major players in the infotainment sector include Sony Corp., Samsung, LG Corp., Motorola, Qualcomm, Google Inc., Martian, Pebble and GoPro among others. Major players in the medical & health sector include Dexcom, Medtronic, Cardionet, Alive Technologies, Abbot and LifeWatch among others.

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Mississippi Insurance Department Awards Contract to Teladoc for Mississippi Volunteer Firefighters

Business Wire – January 25, 2016 – Teladoc, Inc., the nation’s first and largest telehealth provider, announced it has been selected by the Mississippi Insurance Department to provide telehealth services statewide to the 13,000 Mississippi Volunteer Firefighters and their dependents, which includes 24/7 access to Teladoc’s quality network of licensed physicians via smart phone or secure online video.

In 2015, the Mississippi State legislature authorized funding and directed the Mississippi Insurance Department to establish a telemedicine medical health plan for volunteer firefighters in the state. Volunteer firefighters individually have the option to enroll in the program through the county fire coordinators.

“Teladoc will be a valuable benefit to the state and our volunteer firefighters. Through Teladoc we can offer our volunteer firefighters and their families affordable, convenient access to quality health care, minimize time away due to illness as well as time spent traveling to and awaiting medical care which is not always available in rural areas,” said Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney, who is also the state Fire Marshal.

According to Chaney, the program with Teladoc will also benefit the state by increasing the availability of its firefighters to respond to emergency calls because routine medical conditions can be dealt with promptly.

In offering telehealth consults to its volunteer firefighters, the Mississippi Insurance Department expects the Teladoc program to be a recruiting incentive as demographic changes decrease the pool of available firefighters.

“This is the first statewide program of its kind in the country. We are excited that the Mississippi Insurance Department chose Teladoc to be its telehealth partner,” said Cynthia Mark, vice president, Health Plan Strategy for Teladoc. “We’re proud to have the opportunity to extend health care coverage within the state and add to our record of providing more than 1 million medical consults to Americans.”

About Mississippi Insurance Department

The mission of the Mississippi Insurance Department is to impartially enforce the laws and regulations enumerated in Mississippi Code Ann. Section 83-1-1 et seq., thereby creating an environment conducive to a competitive marketplace for the sale of insurance products and services while providing the State’s citizens with the maximum amount of consumer protection. Our aim is to create the highest degree of economic security, quality of life, public safety and fire protection for the State’s citizens at the lowest possible cost. To accomplish this mission, we are committed to providing assistance to our customers in a timely, caring and ethical fashion.

About Teladoc

Teladoc, Inc.
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is the nation’s first and largest telehealth platform, delivering on-demand health care anytime, from almost anywhere via mobile devices, the Internet, secure video and phone. Teladoc provides consumers with access to its network of more than 2,900 board-certified, state-licensed physicians and behavioral health professionals who provide care for a wide range of non-emergency conditions. With a median response time of less than 10 minutes, Teladoc physicians will have performed more than 575,000 telehealth visits in 2015. Teladoc and its physicians consistently earn a 95 percent member satisfaction rating or better, and Teladoc is the first telehealth provider to be certified by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for its physician credentialing process.

Recognized in June 2015 by MIT Technology Review as one of the “50 Smartest Companies,” Teladoc works with health plans, employers, organizations and individuals to provide access to affordable, high-quality health care on-demand. Teladoc is transforming the access, cost and quality dynamics of health care delivery. For more information, please visit teladoc.com, twitter.com/teladoc, facebook.com/teladoc or linkedin.com/teladoc.

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MTBC Announces the Release of Its Pioneering Electronic Prescribing Smartwatch App

Globe Newswire –  January 24, 2016 – MTBC, a leading provider of proprietary, healthcare information technology solutions today announced the release of its electronic prescribing app for the Apple Watch, one of the first electronic prescribing smartwatch apps available to U.S. healthcare providers.

MTBC’s Apple Watch app extends key components of its electronic prescribing app for iPhone users, known as MTBC iRx, to the Apple Watch.  Users of the Apple Watch app can view patient refill request alerts and inbound patient communications on the watch and then leverage iRx to authorize refills, write new prescriptions, access patients’ medication histories and clinical support decision tools, and more.

“Our clients continue to be on the forefront of leveraging technology to streamline care and optimize health outcomes,” said Stephen Snyder, MTBC President. He continued, “Extending components of our highly-ranked mHealth and web-based ecosystem of applications to smartwatches marks an exciting evolution of our platform and we plan to build on this momentum in the year to come as we continue to extend the reach of our broader platform to smart watches and other wearable technology.”

MTBC’s Apple Watch app is the latest addition to its mHealth suite, which includes seven other apps.  The most recently released app prior to MTBC’s electronic prescribing Apple Watch app was its ICD-10 converter app, which quickly seized and maintained the coveted rank of the most “popular” ICD-10 apps available in the Apple iTunes store.

To learn more about MTBC, please visit www.mtbc.com.

About Medical Transcription Billing, Corp.

Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. is a healthcare information technology company that provides a fully integrated suite of proprietary web-based solutions, together with related business services, to healthcare providers practicing in ambulatory care settings. Our integrated Software-as-a-Service (or SaaS) platform helps our customers increase revenues, streamline workflows and make better business and clinical decisions, while reducing administrative burdens and operating costs. MTBC’s common stock trades on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the ticker symbol “MTBC,” and its Series A Preferred Stock trades on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the ticker symbol “MTBCP.”

For additional information, please visit our website at www.mtbc.com.

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Virtual Care Management (VCM) Telemedicine Platform Tops Healthcare IT for 2016

PRWEB – January 24, 2016 – Healthcare IT Innovator SnapMD has been selected by MarketResearch.com as one of the top 10 telemedicine companies to watch in 2016. SnapMD is recognized as a leader “racing to reimagine patient care” with its transformative virtual clinic telemedicine technology that leverages common devices available to patients and providers alike such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops.

Coupled with recognition by CIO Magazine as a “Top 5 Healthcare IT Innovator”( http://ift.tt/1Pt7c4c ) and a prestigious nod from Becker’s Hospital Review as a “Top 25 Healthcare Technology Disruptor” ( http://ift.tt/20n7prf ) SnapMD is building wide market approval for its exclusively private-label (white-label) approach to telemedicine.

SnapMD’s Virtual Care Management (VCM) telemedicine platform is one of the most important advances in patient-centric medicine today. VCM telemedicine technology offers healthcare providers powerful tools to extend the reach of patient care and find efficiencies in personnel utilization. In 2016 the number of patients accessing telehealth services is expected to double from that found in 2013.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently stated that mHealth, defined as the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices, is projected to be a $26 billion industry by 2017.

Dave Skibinski, President and CEO, SnapMD said, “The growth of telehealth services is expanding and will accelerate in 2016, as healthcare providers utilize telemedicine technologies as a new way to expand access to care. Consumer interest, acceptance and confidence in telehealth are growing as well. The American Hospital Association (AHA) reports that 74 percent of U.S. consumers would use telehealth services and 76 percent of patients prioritize access to care over the need for human interactions with their healthcare providers.”

SnapMD’s VCM private-label platform delivers a comprehensive, easy-to-use, and efficient solution to healthcare providers seeking to extend and elevate healthcare continuity to their patients. By empowering providers to connect their patients to multidisciplinary teams of clinicians remotely via a secure video-based, integrated virtual clinic that can help them increase brand value, and maximize patient engagement and retention.

“The number of different business models and use cases that providers have launched with our VCM platform has been staggering. From large health systems to smaller practices, we are seeing management of fragile diabetic patients, primary care patient assessment for long-term care and expansion of employee health and occupational health programs, to name just a few,” said Skibinski.

For more information regarding the importance of Telehealth and its role in the healthcare delivery mix, download the recent white paper published by SnapMD, “Virtual Care Management, The Role of Telehealth in Building a Patient-Centric Environment” here: http://ift.tt/1Pt7acJ

About SnapMD

SnapMD is the Virtual Care Management (VCM) telemedicine software leader, enabling healthcare providers to engage their patients via a secure, HIPAA compliant, cloud-based telemedicine platform. SnapMD’s robust, private-label, VCM application is specifically designed to give healthcare organizations another option to improve access to care by launching virtual care Telehealth services under their brand utilizing their highly qualified, patient-trusted providers. For more information, please visit http://www.snap.md

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Crais Management Group Completes Study on the Changing Nature of Medical Device Development

PR.com – January 22, 2016 – Crais Management Group Completes Study on the Changing Nature of Medical Device Development, Connected Biotech Systems, and Capital and Detail Sales in 2016 Global Healthcare

Crais Management Group (CMG LLC) launched a study last year on the changing nature of medical device, biotech, biomedical, and health information technology research, design, development, and commercialization. The findings of the study are available in summary form to media and university partners, with the full survey made available to clients and commercial partners.

Objective: Objective of the study was to get an overview of the macro and micro changes taking place in health technology development and commercialization with the following influences:

· Open Innovation
· Open Platforms
· Global Market Demands
· Design Thinking
· Infectious Disease/HAI
· CAD and 3D Printing
· Tech Incubators
· Accountable Care: Value Based
· API’s
· FHIR HL7
· CNC Machining
· Outsourced Design
· App Store Distribution
· Sunshine Act
· HIPAA and Security
· Consumerization
· Online Marketplaces
· LEAN
· SDK’s and OpenDev

We know that the Accountable Care Act is bringing about many changes in healthcare, but what has had less attention is the rapidly changing environment of medical technology development and commercialization as the value chain from research and design,, to distribution is disrupted with new innovations, technologies, and constraints.

Crais Management Group is a leader in the field of business and technology design, development, and commercialization. With David Crais, CEO of CMG LLC, having over 25 years in healthcare technology development and marketing, including public markets finance, sales management, bioengineering, and medical systems management, the team at CMG LLC saw these changes and embarked on the research and analysis to understand the drivers of change such as industry shifts, policy changes, technology developments, operational economics, and innovation diffusions.

Results: New manufacturing systems are driving the cost of design, prototyping, and production down to a fraction of the previous capital spend required for medical tech development. New sources of funding allow for non-traditional vendors to enter the market for med device and IT development. However, the changing consumer and provider landscape with ACO’s, CIN’s, retail clinics, and telemedicine make only the most nimble and well planned innovators in the market strong contenders in the growing global and post-reform framework.

Devices with on board data storage and connectivity make every component of medtech a connected smart system. With this, interoperability standards become even more important, as do security and privacy. Like Marc Andreessen said, “Software is eating the world.” Well, all technology is going mobile, social, shared, connected, rapid manufactured, along with analytics capabilities at the back end from stored data. This is the brave new world of medical technology.

Also with this, sales and marketing methods will have to change. The new forms of corporate and system healthcare, driven in the 1990’s by HMO’s and for-profit equity backed healthcare companies, is now changing with ACO’s and IDN’s; the economics driven by “Obamacare.”

The ACO by definition is a parent organization to acute care centers, medical practices, labs, pharmacy, imaging and other services of coordinated care. The traditional “detail rep” will not survive this change.

The Sunshine Act, formularies, centralized purchasing, and corporate restructuring after the 2008 recession led to many layoffs and changes with medical sales forces and marketing teams. The shift to digital advertising, tablet-based detailing, GIS intelligence, advanced CRM analytics, and the influence of apps and CPOE modules will further change the medical sales force as we know it.

Places of care delivery are also changing. Retail clinics, telemedicine apps (Teladoc, Doctor on Demand, etc.), practice based telemedicine, employer clinics, medical tourism will mean “going to the doctor” will take on many new forms. This is a cataclysmic change for healthcare systems, payers, and patients.

Concierge medicine, PayPal, etc. may bring changes to Health Savings Accounts and other payment innovation attempts from previous reform eras.

The study shows the many facets and levels of change happening in and to the medical sales market, and the many more to come.

About the Study: CMG LLC team members attend and speak at over 30 medical and technology industry conventions annually. In addition, they take part in many smaller regional and specialty symposia to learn the trends in the marketplace and track changes in policy, economics, marketing, technological development, and management. David Crais, CEO of CMG LLC sits on two university advisory boards for technology transfer and medical product development and entrepreneurship. CMG LLC collects over 600 sources of industry and market intelligence weekly.

This knowledge management platform was used to understand discrete events, analyze patterns and connections, and forecast the trends found in this study.

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