Healthcare-blockchain developer, Embleema has raised $3.7M in Series A funding round, led by strategic partner Pharmagest, a leading pharmacy software group in Europe, and Techstars. The funds will serve to accelerate the joint development of blockchain-based applications for patients and pharmacies, and further Embleema’s commercial deployment. CEO Robert Chu left his role as Senior Vice President, Global Technology Solutions at IMS Health to start Embleema in June 2017 and is supported by a
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Premera Blue Cross & Cardinal Analytx Partner to AI-Driven Predictive Analytics
Cardinal Analytix, a predictive analytics company that leverages machine learning and AI technology to identify potential high-expense health plan enrollees, today announced a partnership with Premera Blue Cross, a health plan based in the Northwest. As part of the collaboration, Premera will utilize Cardinal's predictive analytics platform to identify and communicate with its plan members about potential health risks using predictive, or clinical, analytics based on advanced
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Teladoc Rolls Out Expanded Virtual Care Capabilities for Health Systems
Virtual care platform Teladoc Health, today announced new capabilities that enable health systems to deliver a broader spectrum of virtual care services and to streamline diagnostic testing orders. The new Clinical WorkScope and Diagnostic Testing capabilities are now available to all current and future users of the Teladoc Health SaaS-based licensed platform.Here is a look at Teladoc's expanded capabilities: - Clinical WorkScope – Enabling Unlimited Virtual Use Cases with Unprecedented
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Innovaccer Launches AI-based Data Activation Platform for Value-based Care
The decade-old technologies have held back the innovation on the data healthcare has worked so hard to collect. Innovaccer unlocks this data and brings a fundamental data-first approach to the industry. To provide a single source of truth for providers, today announced Innovaccer Inc. is launching their first Artificial Intelligence-based Data Activation Platform. With added Artificial Intelligence applications on top of it, the Data Activation Platform helps care providers with improving
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HIMSS Report: 4 Trends Driving the Rise of Consumer-Driven Reformation
Less than two weeks ahead of the annual HIMSS19 conference, HIMSS announced the availability of a new annual report, “2019 Healthcare Trends Forecast: The Beginning of a Consumer-Driven Reformation.” The white paper details what the industry can expect in 2019, including how digital health innovators and policymakers will be held accountable now that the hype cycle has peaked, why consumer pressures will drive healthcare toward a value-based model, new care delivery methods spurred by growing
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Epic, Impact Advisors and Premier Named 2019 Overall Best in KLAS
Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the ninth consecutive year in the newly released Best in KLAS2019 Software & Services report. In addition to the overall software suite award, Epic was named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor, won Best in KLASawards in nine segments, and won Category Leader awards in two segments. Understanding Best in KLAS Best in KLAS is based on information obtained from the 2,500 interviews KLAS conducts with providers and payers each
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MEDITECH Integrates Aggregated Data from Arcadia.io with Expanse Population Health
EHR vendor MEDITECH announced it is expanding its collaboration with Arcadia.io to enhance its Population Health offering within the clinically innovative Expanse solution. Within the progressive EHR, MEDITECH equips clinicians and care teams with Expanse Population Health, a population analytics database, coupled with an integrated collection of embedded clinical workflows, external data assets, and standardized toolkits, to aid organizations with population health initiatives. Expanse
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Livongo Acquires Digital Behavioral Health Solution myStrength
Livongo Health, an Applied Health Signals company empowering people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, today announced that it has acquired Denver-based myStrength, Inc., a provider of digital behavioral health solutions. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition enables Livongo to more fully address the health of the whole person by integrating behavioral health conditions including depression, anxiety, stress, substance use disorder,
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MEDITECH Expanse EHR Integrates with Nuance’s AI-Powered Virtual Assistant Platform
MEDITECH announced it is integrating Nuance’s Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant into MEDITECH Expanse EHR platform. This integration will complement common clinician workflows by automating high value clinical and administrative tasks that will allow physicians to spend more time focused on, and improving, the patient experience. MEDITECH Integration with Nuance's Virtual Assistant Platform BenefitsNuance’s virtual assistant platform is optimized for the healthcare market with rich conversational
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AMIA Calls on HHS to Decouple Clinical Documentation and Administrative Requirements
In comments submitted on Monday to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) orient its documentation burden reduction strategy towards a long-term goal of decoupling clinical documentation from billing, regulatory, and administrative compliance requirements. In late November 2018,
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