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Christina Heath | Apr 30, 2021

MedTech Breakthrough: 'Telehealth has been in the spotlight like never before' during COVID-19

Pexip's virtual care solution, Pexip Health, has won the "Best Telehealth Platform" in the fifth annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards, reported Cision PR Newswire.

According to the release, health care organizations rely on Pexip Health's video platform, which offers a wide variety of virtual care services, allowing patients to join video calls from devices of their choice without having to download extra software or apps. 

"Telehealth has been in the spotlight like never before, and many organizations and patients are seeing how complex these health care video deployments can be," James Johnson, managing director for MedTech Breakthrough, told Cision PR Newswire. "Pexip Health simplifies complex video conferencing to empower individuals to meet, regardless of location or technology. We offer a hearty congratulations to Pexip for taking home our 'Best Telehealth Platform' award in the 2021 MedTech Breakthrough Awards program."

Pexip Health also allows for health care providers to use technologies already installed in their offices and gives providers "robust integrations and customization options" so that health care providers can also work from home.

Pexip Health is used by some of the largest providers around the world, including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Defense Health Agency, which is the largest nonprofit health care delivery system in the United States, Ontario Health in Canada, National Health Service in UK, Queensland Health in Australia and the Northern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland, according to Cision PR Newswire.

MedTech Breakthrough is an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes companies, products and technology innovations throughout the global health and medical technology markets. The MedTech Breakthrough Award is an honor recognizing "innovation, hard work and success" in health care and medical areas of robotics, clinical administration, telehealth, patient engagement, electronic health records (EHR), mHealth, medical devices, medical data and others.

This year, more than 3,850 nominations from 17 different countries were up for consideration for a MedTech Breakthrough Award in various categories. 

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