IoT research firm Parks Associates has released new connected health research overview of consumer trends in on-demand virtual care, including visiting physician services and remote care.The report, 360 View Update: On-Demand Care: The Patient Wants to See You Now, examines the types of services consumers are most interested in, the demographics reporting the greatest interest in these services, and self-reported consumer satisfaction rates. The research also pays special attention to consumer
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Sansoro Health Raises $5.2M For Real-Time Data Exchange Between EMRs & Digital Health Apps
Sansoro Health, a Minneapolis MN-based startup that makes it easy to exchange real-time health care data between digital health applications and EMRs led by Bain Capital Ventures. The digital health startup plans to use the funding to expand sales, marketing and operations to accelerate transforming health care IT ecosystems through real-time digital health interoperability.Among U.S. hospital system chief information officers, 62% identify interoperability as their most important
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Biotricity Files for Final FDA 510(k) Clearance for Remote Cardiac Monitoring Wearable
biotricity, a Redwood City, CA-based healthcare technology company has filed for a second and final 510(k) for the hardware portion of its remote cardiac monitoring software and device, Bioflux solution with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The announcement follows a previous milestone where Biotricity received FDA approval for the software portion of its remote cardiac monitoring wearable.This 510(k) is the final regulatory requirement needed for Biotricity to bring its Bioflux
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SV Life Sciences Rebrands As SV Health Investors, Closes $400M Fund
Boston-based healthcare and life sciences venture capital and growth equity firm SV Life Sciences has changed its name to SV Health Investors and has closed its sixth flagship fund target of $400 million. SV Health Investors' venture partner program focuses on leveraging experienced healthcare entrepreneur to serve as hands-on advisors and directors for portfolio companies. This approach contributes to SV's appeal to both potential investors and entrepreneurs. The new multi-sector focus fund
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IBM Opens IBM Watson Health Center in Finland, Plans to Employ 150 Consultants Over Next 5 Years
IBM today officially announced the opening of The IBM Watson Health Center in Helsinki, Finland. The new center will enable Finnish healthcare to utilize Watson cognitive computing to help doctors improve the health of Finnish citizens, and strengthen and develop the Finnish innovation and business ecosystem in the fields of health and well-being. The center is expected to employ up to 150 consultants in Finland over the next few years. The center is part of a five-year landmark collaboration
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Aprima EHR Integrates With ActX to Bring Precision Medicine Into The Physician’s Office
Aprima, a physician pratice-focused EHR provider has announced an integration partnership with Genomic Decision Support platform ActX to bring precision medicine into the physician’s office. The addition of the ActX platform provides Aprima clients with access to genomics in everyday patient care and delivers clinically actionable insights that facilitate personalized medication and screening choices based on a patient’s unique genetic profile.Imagine, during your office visit, your physician
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Azalea Health Acquires EHR/PM Provider LeonardoMD to Expand Footprint
Azalea Health, a provider of fully-integrated cloud-based healthcare solutions and services has acquired LeonardoMD, a complete practice management (PM) and EHR provider. The acquisition further cements the privately held Azalea as a leader in the cloud-based Health IT and medical billing solutions space, expanding both the breadth of healthcare specialties serviced and the geographic reach across the United States as well. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Azalea Health now
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CoverMyMeds Integrates With athenahealth EHR to Help Patients Fill Prescriptions Faster
athenahealth is teaming up with electronic prior authorization (“ePA”) platform CoverMyMeds for prescriptions that will automate the ePA process for providers using the athenaClinicals electronic health record service.Of the estimated 185 million prescriptions a year in the U.S. that require prior authorization from payers, 40 percent are eventually abandoned. One reason is because the process to determine insurance coverage is extremely time-consuming, involving phone calls and faxes between
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GE Healthare Taps eMedApps to Securely Access Stored Patient Info From Devices for Centricity EMR Customers
GE Healthcare has partnered with eMedApps as part of the GE Healthcare Centricity partner program that offers a comprehensive business continuity solution to GE Centricity EMR customers. eMedApps’ partnership with GE Healthcare will provide customers with an efficient and innovative contingency solution that allows clinicians, schedulers, and administrative staff to securely access stored patient information from any device – including mobile devices – whether their Centricity EMR is available
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OM1 Raises $15M to Expand Healthcare Outcome Analytics Platform
OM1(formerly known as Better Outcomes), a Boston, MA-based healthcare outcome analytics company has raised $15M in Series A funding led by General Catalyst with participation from Glikvest, 7wire Ventures and Wanxiang Healthcare Investments. The company plans to utilize the funding to build out its tech platform that leverages big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide stakeholders with an analytics platform to have a holistic view and better understanding of real-world healthcare
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