What You Should Know:
- Despite pressure to take an Epic-first approach to
software decisions, many pharmacies at Epic organizations have held on to
third-party products due to the relative immaturity of some of Epic’s more
recently developed pharmacy solutions.
- Latest KLAS report explores medication inventory
management (MIM) and IV workflow management—the two areas where Epic has
focused much of their development efforts—to validate what capabilities these
modules deliver and where
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Humana Taps Cohere Health to Modernize Prior Authorizations for Musculoskeletal Treatment
What You Should Know:
- Cohere Health partners with health insurer Humana to modernize
the prior authorization process for musculoskeletal treatment across 12 states.
- In addition, the company has closed an additional $10M
in funding led by Flare Capital Partners and Define Venture, bringing the
company’s total funding to $20M.
Health insurer Humana has signed an agreement with healthcare collaboration company Cohere Health to improve the prior authorization process for
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Priority Health Launches Telehealth PCP Plans for Members in Michigan
What You Should Know:
- Priority Health launches its virtual-first coverage
option with MyPriority Telehealth PCP plans, using top platform Doctor On
Demand.
- Members who choose one of the MyPriority Telehealth PCP
plans will have a doctor assigned as their primary care physician (PCP) through
Doctor on Demand and all visits will take place virtually.
Priority
Health announced the launch of their new MyPriority Telehealth PCP plans
that will go into effect on January 1, 2021. The
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Stryker Launches First Completely Wireless Hospital Bed for Patient Safety
What You Should Know:
- Stryker launches the industry’s first and only completely wireless hospital bed, ProCuity that can connect seamlessly to any nurse call system for every acuity level.
- ProCuity Bed Series designed to enhance patient and
caregiver safety for all acuity levels, reduce in-hospital falls
Stryker, one of the
world's leading medical technology companies, today announced the global launch
of the industry’s first and only completely wireless hospital bed,
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CommonWell Enables Payer Access to Nationwide Interoperability Network
What You Should Know:
- CommonWell Health Alliance enables payer access with the addition of a new service provider, DataFile Exchange to support the operational services specific to the Payment and Health Care Operations use case.
CommonWell
Health Alliance today announced it is extending its interoperability
services to enable additional use cases beyond treatment and patient access,
starting with Payment and Health Care Operations data requests.
Data File Exchange
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Babyscripts Forms Commercial Partnership with Roche to Develop RPM Programs for Pregnancy
What You Should Know:
- Babyscripts today announced a commercial partnership with
Roche Diagnostics, a division of the world’s largest biotech company and a
global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics.
- Roche will partner with Babyscripts on the
development of Babyscripts’ remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs to
leverage groundbreaking data science through the next generation of RPM in
pregnancy.
Babyscripts, a
Washington D.C.-based
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JPC Taps Proscia to Modernize World’s Largest Human Tissue Repository
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. government’s Joint Pathology Center, which
houses the world’s largest human tissue repository, today announced that
Proscia, a leading digital and AI pathology company, will provide end-to-end
modernization of JPC’s pathology operations.
- The multi-phase project will digitize the world’s
largest human pathology specimen repository in order to enhance biomedical
research for cancer and infectious diseases like COVID-19, and enable easier
data sharing with
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FundamentalVR Expands VR Surgical Capabilities to Ophthalmology
What
You Should Know:
- Today, FundamentalVR, global pioneers in immersive VR
surgical skills training and skills data analytics, announced the expansion of
its surgical specialty capabilities with the addition of ophthalmology. The new
capabilities allow it to support medical device and life science companies in
improving the way they bring new tools and procedures to market.
- Powered by the company’s patented HapticVR™
technology that mimics the physical cues of surgical
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LabCorp Launches Fully Integrated Clinical Trial Platform to Streamline Drug Development Process
What You Should Know:
- LabCorp launches fully integrated clinical trial platform to streamline the drug development process featuring
- The new clinical trial platform will deliver dramatic reductions in patient and study site administrative tasks, improve trial resiliency, and maintain study continuity through the use of the company’s data, technology, and direct-to-patient outreach capabilities.
Global life sciences company LabCorp today announced new capabilities that
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Cerner Releases Open Call for EHR-Integrated Voice Assist Testing Partners
Cerner announces an open call for additional health systems to sign on as testing partners of their EHR-integrated Voice Assist technology. Voice Assist will allow clinicians to interact with the EHR by just using their voice. Clinicians will be able to issue voice commands to complete a range of tasks that can save significant time and reduce the administrative burden on care teams by replacing manual data documentation.
How Voice Assist Technology Works
Using the phrase
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