South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, a subsidiary of BioBridge Global has launched a program to aid accident and trauma patients served by area air medical services and hospital helicopters. The program called “Brothers in Arms,” will enable air medical crews to administer special pre-hospital transfusions of whole blood, proven to counter blood loss and dramatically improve survival rates when tested in battlefield situations.The program is based on a battlefield transfusion program developed
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Mediware Acquires Revenue Cycle Management Solution MEDTranDirect
Mediware Information Systems, Inc.announced it has acquired MEDTranDirect, a revenue cycle management solution and an approved network service vendor for Medicare. For Mediware, the acquisition complements the revenue cycle management and Medicare claims capabilities in Mediware’s home care market solution, Kinnser Software, while simultaneously leveraging Mediware’s heritage of supporting data-driven clinical excellence and improving efficiencies in administrative workflow.MEDTranDirect’s
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Livongo Rolls Out Hypertension Program to Eligible Members
Livongo Health, a Mountain View, CA-based consumer digital health company focused on empowering all people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives has announced that eligible members of the Livongo for Diabetes program will have access to the new Livongo for Hypertension program. In addition, Livongo will offer a stand-alone hypertension solution to new members.By addressing multiple chronic conditions on one platform, Livongo can better understand the personal health
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Intermountain, R1 RCM Expands Enterprise Revenue Cycle Management Partnership
Today, R1 RCM announced an expanded partnership with Intermountain Healthcare to be the exclusive RCM provider across all Intermountain patient care sites, including inpatient and preventative care settings. The expanded relationship enables the transformation of Intermountain’s revenue cycle process for RCM performance improvement, cost savings and other positive impacts to efficiencies, but more importantly to the patient experience. Intermountain will rely on R1 to provide and manage the full
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St Vincent’s Health Australia Deploys Vocera for Clinical Alerts & Communication
St Vincent’s Health Australia has officially deployed Vocera solutions for communication and clinical alerts across all its aged care facilities. St Vincent’s Health Australia is one of many organizations in the country using Vocera technology to improve care team communication, patient and resident experience, and operational efficiency. In 2017, Vocera added 35 aged care facilities in Australia to its client roster.Additionally, Vocera is steadily increasing deployments in public and private
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Florida Hospital New Smyrna Launches Tele-ICU with Advanced ICU Care
Florida Hospital New Smyrna has announced its partnership with Advanced ICU Care to provide tele-ICU clinical services to its critically ill patient population. The partnership extends Advanced ICU Care’s growing, multi-state relationship with Adventist Health System hospitals for collaborative ICU patient care via telemedicine.Working collaboratively, Advanced ICU Care will help support New Smyrna’s bedside clinicians to deliver 24/7 care by U.S. board-certified intensivists and standardized
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Protenus Lands $11M to Expand AI-Driven Compliance Analytics Platform
Baltimore, MD-based Protenus, a provider healthcare compliance anlaytics has raised $11 million in Series B funding co-led by F-Prime Capital Partners and Kaiser Permanente Ventures, with participation from Arthur Ventures, Lionbird Venture Capital, and Cognosante Ventures. The company plans to use the funding to accelerate sales and customer support hiring, as well as R&D to expand platform capabilities.Founded in 2014, the Protenus platform makes an analytical assessment of every digital
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Global Digital Health Funding Breaks $7.2B in 2017, Up 42% From 2016
Global digital health funding, including private equity and corporate venture capital reached a record-breaking total of $7.2B in 2017 over 778 deals, representing a 42 percent increase from the $5.1B in 622 deals in 2016, according to the latest report from Mercom Capital Group. Mercom’s Q4 and Annual 2017 Digital Health Funding and M&A report reveals total corporate funding for Healthcare IT companies – including debt and public market financing – climbed to $8.2 billion in 2017, a 47
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Solera Health Integrates WellDoc’s BlueStar Digital Therapeutic for Diabetes Management
Solera Health, an integrated benefit network, and WellDoc, a leading digital therapeutic company has announced that WellDoc’s BlueStar® digital therapeutic will join the Solera network as a diabetes management solution of choice. The integration partnership aligns both companies’ goals to improve the lives of those living with chronic diseases while enhancing clinical results and decreasing overall healthcare costs.Solera Health connects patients, payers and physicians with community
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Tissue Analytics Lands $5M for EHR-Integrated Mobile Wound Care Platform
Tissue Analytics, a Baltimore, MD-based digital health startup which provides simple, easy-to-use solutions to increase efficiency and accuracy for wound and skin tracking, has announced a $5M Series A round. The round was led by DigiTx Partners with participation from Tencent, Dreamit, Molnlycke Health Care, Intermountain Healthcare, and Penn Medicine.The company plans to use the latest round of funding to support the expansion of the sales team in their recently opened Kansas City office and
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