While the long-term impacts of Covid-19 are still unfolding, here are four ways hospitals and health systems are beginning to understand the monumental impact of the pandemic on the healthcare industry.
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Startup making digital therapeutic for pelvic floor disorders raises $17M
Renovia, a digital health startup that developed an app-based program for urinary incontinence, raised $17 million in funding. The company recently completed a clinical trial that it plans to share with insurance carriers as evidence of its efficacy.
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Women’s health startup Renovia raised $17 million to market its lead product, a digital therapeutic for pelvic floor disorders. Photo credit: Renovia
Boston-based startup Renovia raised $17 million for its digital therapeutic, designed to help people with exercises for pelvic floor disorders. The company plans to use the funds to market its lead product, which received FDA clearance in late 2019.
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Healthcare tech is failing patients
The problem is that we’re approaching technology from a clinical and billing perspective, with little input from patients. We must demand and implement technology that is designed for the population you are serving.
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For the past year a parade of news has crossed my desk on the wonders of telehealth. If you’re someone who sees a doctor on a periodic basis only, it’s been a fantastic option for saving time, money, even hassle.
Yet it’s also exposed how far medicine lags behind the rest of the business world in serving its customers. Technologically speaking, we’ve essentially just mastered the basic art of video conferencing for episodic care and how to bill for it. But we’ve come nowhere near tech’s promise in serving patients beyond episodic care or shifting from fee-for-service to value-based health. Just because something is digital doesn’t automatically mean it’s better. We can and should expect
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