Baltimore-based b.well Connected Health was in growth mode to begin the year.
The company, which makes a tool that CEO Kristen Valdes calls a “digital front door for healthcare,” raised $16 million in new funding. It also saw what Valdes called new U.S. government regulatory moves to give patients more access to healthcare data as the Woodlawn-based Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released final rules on interoperability and information blocking.
Then came the COVID-19 pandemic. To be sure, it’s a critical time on the frontlines for healthcare. Yet in many ways, the industry as a whole is navigating an environment of social distancing that means lots of functions need to happen remotely, which has put digital tools in demand. Less than a month after the interoperability changes, the pandemic also brought more new regulatory moves, which allow telehealth and virtual care in ways that hadn’t been available before. For example, states are allowing their citizens to be served by doctors from other states.
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