What You Should Know:
- Vizient acquires PrefTech OR, a next-generation, cloud-based preference card management (PCM) software that helps healthcare providers optimize their operating rooms to increase workflow efficiency, lower costs and improve patient care. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- PrefTech OR continuously monitors preference card quality, automatically generates actionable guidance and identifies savings opportunities.
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InfoBionic Partners with Mayo Clinic to Enhance AI Remote Patient Monitoring Platform
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- InfoBionic, a digital health company providing AI-powered diagnostic remote patient monitoring solutions has entered into an agreement with Mayo Clinic to incorporate its extensive know-how in cardiac patient monitoring, AI-ECG, and virtual telemetry to optimize and build upon its existing monitoring platform.
- The collaboration aims to enhance InfoBionic's current proprietary AI algorithms and analytics capabilities to provide more personalized and
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United Therapeutics to Acquire Miromatrix Medical for $91M
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- United Therapeutics Corporation and Miromatrix Medical Inc. announced today a definitive agreement for United Therapeutics to acquire Miromatrix for $91M.
- The acquisition of Miromatrix will expand United Therapeutics’ existing complementary platform of organ manufacturing programs, which include ex-vivo lung perfusion, xenotransplantation, 3-D bioprinting, and regenerative medicine approaches with the objective of creating an unlimited supply of tolerable,
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Clinician Shortage Worsens Primary Care Crisis, Experts Reveal
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– The U.S. has seen a consistent decline in primary care clinicians since 2014 due to fewer clinicians entering the workforce, increased rates of burnout and decreased direct patient care, according to the latest evidence report from the Primary Care Collaborative and Robert Graham Center.
- The report, Health is Primary: Charting a Path to Equity and Sustainability reveals the United States has seen a
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Autonomous Coding Highly Trusted by Healthcare Finance Pros, But Not Well Understood
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- Autonomous coding enjoys a high level of trust among healthcare finance professionals who use or plan to use the technology, according to new survey from the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) on behalf of AGS Health.
- The survey reveals 45 percent of healthcare financial professionals indicate autonomous coding often works well and 16 percent place their complete trust in it. However, despite its emergence as a powerful tool for streamlining and
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CipherHealth Launches AI Initiative with Google Cloud for Hospital Operations
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- CipherHealth, a provider of patient-centered engagement launches a new strategic initiative to leverage Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform to revolutionize hospital operations and patient care.
- CipherHealth is building, training, deploying, and managing machine learning and AI models across products and across the spectrum of care.
Google Cloud's Vertex AI to Accelerate Development of AI and Machine Learning Models
CipherHealth selected Google Cloud to
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Abridge Raises $30M for Generative AI Scribe to Tackle Clinician Burnout
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- Abridge, a company leading the way in generative AI for healthcare raises $30M in Series B funding led by Spark Capital, along with several leading healthcare innovators, including Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, CVS Health Ventures, UC Investments, Lifepoint Health, SCAN Health Plan, and the American College of Cardiology.
- Abridge’s generative AI scribe automatically converts a patient-clinician conversation into a structured clinical note draft in
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Talkspace Appoints New Chief Medical Officer
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- Talkspace, an online behavioral health company, announced the appointment of Nikole Benders-Hadi, MD, as Chief Medical Officer.
- As CMO, Dr. Benders-Hadi will lead Talkspace's clinical practice, partnering with providers to deliver the highest quality digital mental health care as Talkspace continues to grow and scale.
- She will be pivotal in elevating the company's clinical offering, including leveraging clinical data and technology to deliver better patient
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Missouri Hospital Taps RapidAI to Enhance Rural Stroke Care
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- Texas County Memorial Hospital, a hospital in rural Missouri has selected RapidAI to deploy its core stroke imaging and workflow products.
- As a Level III stroke center, TCMH’s closest Level I facility is over 90 miles away, posing a significant barrier to timely treatment for stroke patients in the community.
- With Rapid’s technology, TCMH will now be able to analyze high-res CT scans in real-time, detect suspected ICH and LVO more effectively and make
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RadiantGraph Launches with $5M to Bring AI Personalization to Health Plans
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- RadiantGraph, a platform using machine learning and artificial intelligence to drive consumer engagement for health plans, today announced its launch today after raising $5 million in Seed funding in a round led by True Ventures and XYZ Ventures, with participation from Remus Capital.
- The company plans to use the funding to accelerate growth, which includes partnering with new healthcare organizations and advancing their enterprise health and
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