The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has awarded $12 million to Durham, NC-based BioCryst Pharmaceuticals for experimental Ebola drug development. The development also includes preparing for large-scale manufacturing of the drug and conducting related studies.
The initial work will be undertaken over the next 18 months with support from ASPR’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
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Archives for 03/31/2015
e-MDs Acquired by Marlin Equity, Merges with MDeverywhere
e-MDs, a provider of ambulatory electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management (PM) solutions has been acquired by Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm with over $3B in capital under management. Following the acquisition, e-MDs has been merged with MDeverywhere, an existing Marlin portfolio company and leading provider of revenue cycle management (RCM) services and credentialing for physicians.
The acquisition and merger bring together two ambulatory
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LifeMap, Mount Sinai Launches COPD Navigator App Pilot
LifeMap Solutions, a digital therapeutics provider and subsidiary of BioTime, Inc. has launched a pilot program for COPD Navigator, an Apple HealthKit-compliant iOS app that helps patients monitor and manage the symptoms of COPD with Mount Sinai. For the pilot, LifeMap will partner with researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and with COPD experts from the Mount Sinai – National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute to work with patients who use the COPD Navigator iPhone app
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3 Pillars of An Effective Mobile Health Platform
As more and more functionality is added to the smartphone, the fog surrounding mobile healthcare is starting to lift and what is emerging is the integrated mobile health platform. This includes a central hub where physicians, nurses and patients can access the necessary information to care for patients or stay healthy.
Smartphone operating systems like Apple and Android are giving more control to mobile engineers, resulting in the development of very smart mobile applications. These
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Why Unstructured Data Holds the Key to Intelligent Healthcare Systems
This post is sponsored by SyTrue
As the brawn of big data continues to swell, the quandary of actually realizing value from it rises with the tide; part of the problem is that most data remains largely untapped because most data remains largely unstructured. For try as technology vendors might—the subtleties of clinical data are innately complex—and natively human.
Cross-industry consensus illustrates that approximately 80 percent of all data remains unstructured. In healthcare,
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New Patient Monitor Automates Patient Data Transfer to EMRs
Welch Allyn, a provider medical diagnostic device company, announced it has developed a new patient monitor for physician’s offices that fully automates vital signs capture and wireless data transfer to your EMR. The solutions aligns with the population health management objective to keep a patient population as healthy as possible, reducing the need for more expensive tests, procedures and office visits that add additional costs to the system. In order to do this effectively, data automation
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