I’m excited to share about the telehealth opportunities in the fast growing medical spa industry

SAN JOSE, Calif. (PRWEB)
September 11, 2019

Alain Gazaui, chief executive of SpaKinect Corp–a centralized telehealth practitioners network for real time delivery of medical spa treatment approvals, will be speaking on emerging markets and telehealth models for the medical spa and aesthetic medicine industry at Telehealth Secrets Conference October 2-4, 2019 in Silicon Valley.

Gazaui brings an extensive history in healthcare technology to the firm. After graduating from USC, he started a pharmaceutical repacking business, designed for physicians to offer in office medicine fulfillment for patients, while capturing a much needed revenue stream. He then joined Chartscape, a leading EMR provider with clientele such as UCLA Oncology and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Using those experiences, he then founded a managed service organization that began using telemedicine as a way to offer reduced cost services to medical organizations spanning wide geographic areas. This led to the starting of SpaKinect and the force behind its successful expansion. Alain prioritizes collaborative approaches to operations and the principle that defined business alignment is a dependency to achieve rapid growth.

Telehealth offers on-demand face-to-face video sessions between medical spa patients and providers to meet medical board compliance for aesthetic treatments. SpaKinect has been offering on-demand good faith evaluations (a required initial examination before starting an aesthetic treatment) at the click of a button via VSee telehealth.

All states have some type of rule requiring a physician to prescribe a course of

treatment (sometimes called a good faith evaluation) before medical spa services may be rendered. According to an AmSpa State of the Medical Spa Industry Report, 37% of respondents either do not complete an initial good faith evaluation prior to a patient’s first treatment at the medical spa or do not use an approved provider (physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner) to complete the initial evaluation. These have led to nurse arrests and medical spa shut downs.

Telehealth addresses a key business problem for medspas by providing cost-effective, on-demand initial evaluation coverage for potential patients without the need of an additional onsite provider.

For the past 7 years, SpaKinect has developed a telehealth model that

• More than tripled the amount of coverage time offered
• Lowered patient wait times to 72 seconds.
• Experienced a 94 percent increase in the number of patients seen
• Scale services into 5 states.

“VSee’s powerful platform and amazing support staff have made it possible for us to scale to where we are today,” said Alain Gazaui, CEO of SpaKinect, “I’m excited to share about the telehealth opportunities in the fast growing medical spa industry and how SpaKinect continues to use telehealth to push the boundaries of this emerging space”

Dr. Milton Chen, VSee CEO said, “VSee is proud to be the telehealth software of choice to support SpaKinect’s emerging telehealth service model. We understand that clinical workflows are incredibly complex and require a tailored telehealth platform to achieve success. We look forward to learning more about SpaKinect’s vision for the future.”

Alain Gazaui will be joining 60+ speakers from UnitedHealth, Berkshire Hathaway, NBC Comcast, Salesforce CMO, MDLIVE founder, Zenefits CEO and more. He will be speaking on “The Intelligent Spa: A Collaborative Telehealth Model” on Thursday, October 3, 2019.

Seating for Telehealth Secrets is limited and is on a first-come, first-serve basis. To register, visit http://vsee.com/conference

About SpaKinect

SpaKinect provides a centralized TeleHealth practitioners network that operate as a coordinated natural extension of an aesthetic treatment approval program. This combined with the strengths of the local medical spa personnel is a highly effective, efficient, and scalable TeleHealth ecosystem. With our real time delivery of treatment approvals and our easy to use HIPAA compliant TeleHealth software, our platform creates an environment of compliance and accountability. Learn more at spakinect.com

About VSee

VSee is the telehealth company behind NASA Space Station, Trinity, DaVita, MDLIVE and 1,200+ customers, and the parent company of This American Doc medical group—an airbnb-like company for physician staffing. VSee empowers health organizations and practitioners to achieve better patient care and improved efficiency through simple, scalable telehealth. Its flexible platform provides fast customization for a wide range of complex triage workflows from ER diversion to e-ICU to on-call specialist consults to chronic care management. Learn more at vsee.com.

About Telehealth Secrets

Telehealth Secrets is the one conference for healthcare leaders and innovators focused on driving business growth through virtual health disruption. This year features 60+ speakers from UnitedHealth, Berkshire Hathaway, NBC Comcast, Anthem, Cigna, NextGen, Salesforce, Zenefits, Medstars, two telehealth law panels, an investor roundtable, 1-minute open mic pitches, and more. Peel back the hype, explore high growth opportunities, smart tech trends, and new patient-centered care models to achieve adoption and impact our broken healthcare system. Find the right people and right partners to make money, close deals, and move projects forward. vsee.com/conference

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BOSTON (PRWEB)
September 11, 2019

LifePod® Solutions Inc., the first-ever, proactive-voice caregiving service, today announced that elder care innovator HomeThrive has selected LifePod’s voice-first service for rollout to an initial 100 HomeThrive customers. With over 34 million people serving as unpaid caregivers to adults over the age of 50, demand has steadily increased for solutions that both enable loved ones to live independently at home and make it easier for family caregivers to support them. HomeThrive and LifePod are combining efforts to offer a comprehensive care service, provided as an employer or payer benefit, that integrates LifePod’s innovative, voice-first caregiving capabilities with the expert coaching and personal assistant services delivered by HomeThrive CareGuides, themselves master’s-level social workers assigned to support the entire family.

The National Caregiving Alliance estimates that 29% of American adults currently serve as caregivers to one or more family members. Caring for an aging family member requires time, energy and resources, all of which are in short supply for most working adults. As a result, the demands of caregiving ultimately impact employers of caregivers in the form of lost productivity. Indeed, caregiving costs the US economy $25.2 billion in lost productivity annually, according to Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Survey (2011).

“After testing LifePod’s innovative service, we’ve been impressed by the results and we’re thrilled to offer it to our customers, as a complement to our range of support services,” said David Greenberg, HomeThrive’s Co-Founder and Managing Director. “LifePod’s proactive and personalized service will make it easier for family caregivers and aging adults to live independent lives, while still remaining in close, constant contact.”

“We are proud to partner with HomeThrive to provide additional peace of mind to working family caregivers and enable their aging relatives to live independently,” said Stuart R. Patterson, CEO of LifePod. “The combination of HomeThrive’s expert coach and personal assistance service with LifePod’s intuitive and proactive-voice service represents the perfect blend of professional high-touch with state-of-the-art high-tech, helping both caregivers and care recipients alike.”

To ease the caregiving strain on their employees, employers offer HomeThrive as a new elective benefit option. HomeThrive supports caregivers with a dedicated CareGuide — responsible for, among other things, the coordination of necessary third-party services such as transportation, meals, or home care — as well as a digital portal and app that tie everything together for a stress-free experience. All the while, aging loved ones get the attention and assistance they need without giving up their dignity or their home.

Using an intuitive, online portal and dialogue management platform, LifePod simultaneously monitors and supports aging family members via personalized voice prompts. LifePod also provides real-time alerts, daily reports, periodic voice check-ins and more. LifePod is a natural extension for HomeThrive, enabling an always-on connection between the HomeThrive CareGuide and the elderly care recipient. Together, the two innovators are helping aging adults live with dignity and pleasure at home, while easing the strain on their family caregivers.

This news builds on LifePod’s recent momentum, which includes two highly successful pilot programs with the Commonwealth Care Alliance® (CCA) and luxury assisted living provider Wingate Healthcare, resulting in the expansion of services to 600 clients and residents. On August 29th, LifePod also announced a groundbreaking study with the American Heart Association to explore how Lifepod can impact outcomes for heart failure patients.

About HomeThrive

HomeThrive provides non-medical care management and personal assistance services to help aging loved ones thrive at home with dignity and purpose. HomeThrive matches each client and their family with one of its dedicated masters level social workers who begins by conducting a comprehensive evaluation of home safety, health, and well-being to inform a personalized care plan. The same social worker develops a trusted relationship with the senior and provides ongoing expert coaching to embrace healthy behaviors and identifies, recommends, and coordinates any necessary third party services to provide meals, transportation, home care, medication delivery or other essential offerings. To learn more, visit https://www.homethrive.com/

About LifePod Solutions

LifePod® is the first proactive-voice, AI-powered caregiving service developed with a singular goal in mind: to support and improve the quality of care and life for both caregivers and care recipients throughout their journey together. LifePod’s customizable functionality fits the unique needs of a wide range of caregivers supporting older adults aging in place as well as those suffering from chronic illnesses or disabilities at home. Winner of the Best of Show award in Patient-Focused Software at the 2019 Bio-IT World, LifePod’s two-way voice service expands the capabilities of popular smart speakers with patented technology that supports natural voice dialogues, configured and controlled by remote caregivers. The LifePod team, comprised of experienced voice and health technology veterans, works closely with families, professional caregivers, and senior living communities to improve health outcomes and reduce the costs of long-term and chronic care. To learn more and pre-order your LifePod today, visit https://lifepod.com.

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CAPTIV8® Informed Consent

Demonstrating patient understanding is a key part of the definition of consent. Unfortunately, this is missing in 98% of consent procedures. […] Implementing a professional tool like CAPTIV8 Consent is sure to help Ophthalmologists and patients alike.

COVENTRY, England (PRWEB)
September 11, 2019

Consent: How Are We Doing?

Only 9% of patient consenting is performed fully. The most common omission is evaluating patient comprehension, which is only done in 1.5% of consultations (Braddock et al, 1999).

Patients cannot accurately recall information about risks of cataract surgery through conventional consultations (Pesudovs et al, 2006). Use of multimedia patient education tools has been shown to improve patient understanding over verbal and written information (Schenker et al, 2011). Multimedia tools also reduce the amount of time spent by clinical staff (Baenninger et al, 2018).

A New Consent Tool

Optimed Ltd. (http://www.optimed.co.uk) are launching CAPTIV8® Consent to save clinicians’ time and improve the quality of informed consent. The company has an extensive library of 3D medical animations, in several languages, that cover a wide range of eye conditions and surgical procedures in Ophthalmology.

The consent tool allows Ophthalmologists to create customized playlists of animations and upload personalized videos to educate patients as part of the consent process. The tool allows surgeons to add quizzes to assess patient understanding in-between animations within the playlist.

Once the playlist is completed, the patient can review their score and corrections. Each consent playlist is associated with a specific legal consent document, which the clinician can upload into the CAPTIV8® platform. Once the patient has evaluated their score, they can read the consent document and electronically sign the consent form using a tablet, such as an iPad. CAPTIV8® Consent merges the signed consent document and patient questionnaire into one PDF document and automatically sends it to your practice email, EMR platform, or the patient.

The CAPTIV8® Informed Consent tool helps clinicians:

1. Implement a robust informed consent process.

2. Save time.

3. Improve and record patient understanding.

“Demonstrating patient understanding is a key part of the definition of consent. Unfortunately, this is missing in 98% of consent procedures. Considering that around 50% of medical negligence claims in ophthalmology are in the area of cataract and cornea, and the growing multifocal IOL market, implementing a professional tool like CAPTIV8 Consent is sure to help Ophthalmologists and patients alike,” said Dr. Trusit Dave, Optimed Ltd. Founder and Director.

The CAPTIV8® Informed Consent tool is available as an add-on to standard CAPTIV8®+ and CAPTIV8® subscriptions. It is powered by Optimed Ltd, the developers of CAPTIV8®, the most innovative platform for patient education and clinic marketing, designed specifically for the eyecare industry.

For more information on CAPTIV8® Informed Consent, visit: https://www.optimed.co.uk/informed-consent/.

Trusted by thousands of people around the world, the CAPTIV8® brands go beyond animation to support you in achieving continued success. From generating more appointments to bridging the patient understanding gap, to ensuring patient satisfaction, the CAPTIV8® platform is designed to help improve your bottom line. Our platforms are the only tool you will need to save time on patient education and clinic marketing so that you can remain focused on enhancing the lives of patients.

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Xtalks Life Science Webinars

In preclinical studies, CBD shows potential therapeutic efficacy against a diverse array of clinical conditions, yet there are major research gaps in our understanding of CBD efficacy for most medical conditions touted in marketing.

TORONTO (PRWEB)
September 11, 2019

With recent regulatory changes to state and national laws, cannabis is undergoing a period of rediscovery and attraction from big pharma, nutraceutical manufacturers, food companies, and retailers.

Chronic CBD users represent 7 percent of the American population, and North American use rates are expected to rise as access to hemp-derived CBD food products increases. In preclinical studies, CBD shows potential therapeutic efficacy against a diverse array of clinical conditions, yet there are major research gaps in our understanding of CBD efficacy for most medical conditions touted in marketing.

Food and dietary supplement contract manufacturers and own label distributors are responsible for knowing the No Observed Adverse Effect Level (NOAEL) which can be learned from clinical studies of the test article. The road to regulatory approval by regulators such as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Canada features safety assessments from preclinical rodent testing, clinical trials, New Dietary Ingredient notifications (NDINs), licensing agreements and more.

In this free webinar, experts from KGK Science will help regulatory personnel, senior level executives, contract manufacturers and food toxicologists navigate this complicated process. The live session with Chief Science Officer Mal Evans, DVM, PhD and Chief Regulatory Officer Corey Hilmas, MD, PhD will take place on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 1pm EDT. The presentation will be followed by a live Q&A period.

Specific learning objectives include:

• 
  CBD research and ideas to substantiate claims for your board room discussion
• Critical safety components in clinical trials for CBD essential oil for FDA regulators
• How to reduce your regulatory risk with food safety dossiers
• How to craft sufficiently qualified, limited-in-scope structure function claims
• Creating non-disease endpoints in clinical trials for substantiating structure function claims
• How FDA evaluates dietary ingredient and supplement product safety from a former federal regulator
• FDA and FTC requirements to meet compliance
• Best-in-class practices adopted by large corporations to manage risk

For more information or to register for this free event, visit How to Reduce Your Regulatory Risk in the Renaissance of Hemp-Derived “Ceutical” Products.

ABOUT XTALKS

Xtalks, powered by Honeycomb Worldwide Inc., is a leading provider of educational webinars to the global life science, food and medical device community. Every year thousands of industry practitioners (from life science, food and medical device companies, private and academic research institutions, healthcare centers, etc.) turn to Xtalks for access to quality content. Xtalks helps Life Science professionals stay current with industry developments, trends, and regulations. Xtalks webinars also provide perspectives on key issues from top industry thought leaders and service providers.

To learn more about Xtalks visit http://xtalks.com

For information about hosting a webinar visit http://xtalks.com/why-host-a-webinar/

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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (PRWEB)
September 11, 2019

Radiology… gastroenterology… ophthalmology… pathology…

The AI explosion is revolutionizing image analysis, with many companies developing technologies to evaluate medical images. In fact, image analysis software represents one of the fastest-growing medical device segments.

Unless one understands the approaches the FDA is taking to AI-based image analysis, one will be left behind.

As both a physician and a lawyer, John J. Smith, M.D., J.D, a partner at Hogan Lovells, is uniquely suited to explain what attendees need to know about the FDA’s AI regulation in this 90-minute webinar:

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  How FDA views AI within its medical device regulatory paradigm
• The different types of computer-assisted image analysis recognized by FDA
• The data that FDA expects to support AI-based CAD applications
• How FDA views post-market changes to CAD algorithms

Attendees will understand the new regulatory framework the FDA is developing so that one can determine how to best incorporate AI into devices and software.

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Webinar Details:

Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Regulation

What You Need to Know

An FDAnews Webinar

Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, 1:30-3:00 p.m. EDT

https://www.fdanews.com/theairevolution

Tuition: $287 per site

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FDAnews is the premier provider of domestic and international regulatory, legislative, and business news and information for executives in industries regulated by the US FDA and the European Medicines Agency. Pharmaceutical and medical device professionals rely on FDAnews’ print and electronic newsletters, books and conferences to stay in compliance with international standards and the FDA’s complex and ever-changing regulations.

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“ACU’s BSN to DNP program gives more nurses the opportunity to enter into a DNP program through a post-baccalaureate, 100% online, CCNE accredited DNP program. BSN-prepared nurses who want to return to school once and seamlessly progress to the doctoral level are a perfect fit for this program. “

DALLAS (PRWEB)
September 11, 2019

Abilene Christian University (ACU) is offering an alternative entry point for students wishing to pursue a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree. The online BSN to DNP program pathway is meant to serve as a fast track for students wishing to move quickly from a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree to a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree.

Traditionally, a student would need to have completed their Master of Science in Nursing degree before applying to ACU’s DNP program. The BSN to DNP program pathway gives a student the opportunity to save time and money in completing their doctoral degree.

“The current practice environment demands highly educated nurses prepare for the highest levels of practice, says Marcia Straughn, Dean of the School of Nursing at Abilene Christian University. “ACU’s BSN to DNP program gives more nurses the opportunity to enter into a DNP program through a post-baccalaureate, 100% online, CCNE accredited DNP program. BSN-prepared nurses who want to return to school once and seamlessly progress to the doctoral level are a perfect fit for this program. These students can begin with a bachelor’s degree and graduate with a DNP from our accredited program in approximately 3 years.”

Abilene Christian University is dedicated to its mission of preparing students for Christian service and leadership throughout the world, and programs like the BSN to DNP program pathway are in line with this mission. Nurses with a DNP work directly in service and leadership, and ACU’s BSN to DNP program pathway will expand its missional impact by offering access to high quality, doctoral education for nurses.

The BSN to DNP program pathway is 18 credit hours with a tuition cost of $650 per credit hour. Upon the successful completion of these credits, students will transition directly into the DNP level coursework with a tuition cost of $1,000 per credit hour. All Texas Nurse Practitioner members are eligible for a 10% tuition discount and a waived application fee.

Abilene Christian University is a vibrant, innovative, Christ-centered community that engages students in authentic spiritual and intellectual growth, equipping them to make a real difference in the world.

If you would like more information about this topic, please call Mandy Alegnani at 214-305-9467, or email mandy.alegnani(at)acu.edu.

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