DrFirst, a provider of e-medication management software and services has acquired certain assets of California-based The IN Group, a MEDITECH -focused consulting services firm. Founded in 2004, the IN Group helps hospitals using MEDITECH optimize clinical and technical workflows in order to enhance patient safety, increase provider efficiency, and meet regulatory requirements. The acquisition strengthens DrFirst’s expansion of e-medication management services that help provider organizations
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ONC Awards Boston Children’s Hospital $275k for FHIR App Ecosystem
The ONC has awarded Boston Children’s Hospital, $275k to address the goal of coordinating open information about market-ready FHIR app solutions. The funding will support the development of an FHIR app discovery site that makes it easier for developers to publish their apps and for providers to discover and compare them. Related: What FHIR Means for Interoperability and Its Potential in Population HealthAccording to the ONC, the cooperative agreement requires Boston Children’s Hospital to:1.
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MUSC Integrates Telehealth Visits with Epic EHR Via Vidyo
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has simplified access to high quality remote consultations between clinicians and patients by deploying Epic’s telehealth and virtual care workflows tightly integrated with Vidyo’s real-time video communication platform. This solution creates a seamless workflow that makes it easier for doctors and patients to schedule, conduct video consults, record and access health information securely within the Epic portal. Virtual visits are the latest addition
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Polar Wearables Integrates with Validic To Enhance Corporate Wellness Programs
Wearable sports technology provider Polar, today announced its partnership with digital integration platform Validic. Through the integration of its wearables with Validic's platform, Polar will bring its trusted heart rate technology and activity tracking devices to a variety of corporate wellness and remote monitoring programs.Polar products make it easy for organizations to implement corporate and preventative wellness programs that reward employees for their efforts in leading a physically
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IMS Health Acquires Canada-based Privacy Analytics
IMS Health has acquired Canada-based Privacy Analytics, a technology provider that enables healthcare organizations to unleash the value of sensitive data for secondary purposes without compromising personal health information. The acquisition will help IMS Health strengthen its robust Real-World Evidence (RWE) capabilities and advance the company’s ability to help life sciences clients drive R&D and commercial performance and demonstrate treatment value in real-world settings. MS Health
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3 Keys to Scaling Up Population Health Management for Providers
Financial incentives, technological advances and pioneering care models have provided fertile soil for the green shoots of population health to grow. But for these programs to flourish, they will need more sophisticated analytics, patient stratification, community involvement and care management.This week, PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) released “Population health: Scaling up,” where they interviewed executives in leading healthcare, research and academic institutions on how organizations
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drchrono Integrates Heart & Lung Sounds into EHR for Clinical Documentation
Three companies have teamed up to integrate a patient's heart and lung sounds into the EHR for clinical documentation for the first time ever, representing a milestone in longitudinal patient care. The new partnership from Direct Urgent Care,Eko, and drchrono uses a quick three step process, clinicians can now seamlessly integrate heart and lung sounds into a patient's EHR. How It Works1. Direct Urgent Care, a Berkeley-based urgent care provider with 30,000 patients, enables providers to record
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Intermountain Healthcare Pumps $12M into Machine Learning Startup Zebra Medical
Intermountain Healthcare has invested $12 million in strategic funding with Zebra Medical Vision, an Israeli medical company. The partnership will accelerate the creation of Zebra’s imaging analytics engine and create neural networks that will use Zebra’s vast imaging dataset to assist radiologists with automated diagnostic algorithms. In addition to Intermountain, Zebra's existing investors include Khosla Ventures and Marc Benioff. Founded in 2014 by Co-Founders Eyal Toledano, Eyal Gura, and
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Propeller, Health Vectura Partner To Develop Connected Dry-Powder Inhaler
Digital health company Propeller Health is teaming up with respiratory pharmaceutical company Vectura to develop digitally connected dry powder inhaler (“DPI”) technology inhalers integrated with Propeller's FDA-cleared digital health platform. The partnership will bring a new connected dry-powder inhaler device onto the Propeller platform. Vectura provides a range of pre-metered foil blister-based dry powder inhalers developed to meet patients’ needs in inhalation therapy. The initial focus of
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Canary Health Acquires Mobile Stress Management Company bLife
Digital health self management company Canary Health(formerly DPS Health), announced it has acquired mobile stress management company, bLife, to round out its self-management suite that includes a CDC-recognized Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) and the chronic disease online workshops from Stanford University's Patient Education Research Center. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition, bLife co-founder Paul Campbell has joined the senior management team
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