While practitioners tend to think about electronic health records (EHRs) as a modern convenience or necessity following centuries of hand-written and typed charts, the switch from pens and typewriters to computers also transformed scattered medical notes into data – personal information that forms a collectively valuable and powerful body. Data has become a critical asset for health care providers, arguably equivalent to currency, and in the digital age, failing to adequately protect patient
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Archives for 2021
CVS Pharmacy “Talking” Prescription Labels Now Available Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- CVS Pharmacy today introduced Spoken Rx, its proprietary audio prescription label solution developed in collaboration with the American Council for the Blind, now available in all of its nearly 10,000 locations nationwide.
CVS Pharmacy, the retail division of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is now offering Spoken Rx™, its proprietary audio prescription label solution, in all its nearly 10,000 pharmacy locations
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Zoom Announces Cerner EHR Integration for Secure Virtual Visits
What You Should Know:
- Zoom is now accepting beta customers for Zoom’s new integration with Cerner’s electronic health record (EHR) platform, available by sending a message of interest on Cerner’s App Gallery or talking to your Zoom account executive.
- Hospitals, health systems, physician offices, and clinics that use Cerner to share and access patient EHR data across the continuum of care will be able to launch secure Zoom virtual visits directly
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Femtech Startup Babyscripts Secures Additional $7.5M for Virtual Maternity Care Solution
What You Should Know:
- Femtech startup Babyscripts, the leading virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, has announced an additional $7.5M has been raised during the second close of their Series B funding round.
- Investments from Cigna Ventures, Texas Medical Center Venture Fund and Atlantic Health System brings the Series B raise to $19M to date. Babyscripts has raised a total of $37M to date. Memorial Innovation Fund led the initial Series B round, joined
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Labcorp Offers Observed Collections of COVID-19 PCR testing in Over 500 Patient Service Centers
What You Should Know:
Labcorp announced that it is offering an observed collection of COVID-19 PCR testing in over 500 patient service centers nationwide.
Labcorp (NYSE: LH) is now offering observed self-collection for COVID-19 PCR testing in more than 500 of its patient service centers (PSCs) nationwide for people without symptoms or known exposure. Labcorp plans to offer this service in over 1,000 locations by
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Rethinking Patient Access: 4 Key Actions for Health Systems
As we learn to equilibrate with COVID-19, we are collectively learning how to modulate our acceptance of risk in order to re-emerge and engage with the world around us. It has at times over the course of the pandemic been a necessary choice, oftentimes in the name of risk, to forgo routine healthcare. Our avoidance of more routine prevention and health maintenance activities to minimize exposure and taxation of health systems has unfortunately increased other health risks, particularly risks
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Children’s COVID-19 Vaccine: A Key to Protecting Pediatric Asthma Patients
What Has Everyone Excited about COVID-19 Vaccines for 5-11-year-olds?
With the rollout this month of the COVID-19 vaccine for those 5-11 years of age, we can now directly protect children with asthma for whom COVID-19 infection is an even bigger hazard for our children during the pandemic.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the term “comorbidities” has entered our daily vernacular, mostly in reference to adults’ chronic illnesses such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes, but with pediatric
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Greenway Health Appoints Pratap Sarker as CEO
What You Should Know:
- Pratap Sarker to succeed Richard Atkin as CEO of Greenway Health, Atkin to transition to the role of Executive Chairman of the Greenway Health Board.
Health information technology services provider, Greenway Health, today announced that Pratap Sarker had been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Richard Atkin who has served as CEO since 2018. Mr. Atkin will transition to the role of Executive Chairman of the Greenway Health board.
In his new role,
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UC Davis Health, AWS Launches Cloud Innovation Center for Health Equity
What You Should Know:
- Today, UC Davis Health launched a Cloud Innovation Center (CIC), powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), making the renowned academic medical center one of America's leaders in digital medicine.
- Focused on digital health equity, the UC Davis Health CIC will allow clinicians, patients, developers, and students to exchange ideas, as well as design and prototype solutions focused on making digital health more equitable and accessible
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Elsevier Acquires Digital Health Education Platform Osmosis – M&A
What You Should Know:
- Elsevier acquires Osmosis – a digital health education platform that has simplified the complex learning journey for millions of medical students and healthcare professionals around the world.
- A growing demand for healthcare workers and medical education, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is driving the need for digital healthcare education solutions. The highly engaging visual learning offerings of Osmosis will be applied to other areas in Elsevier’s
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