What You Should Know:
- Evidation Health raises $45M in Series D funding to expand its privacy-first, direct-to-person research platform to the virtual health market.
- Evidation Health will use this new investment to enable
Achievers to gain clinically actionable insights into their health. The first
of these new virtual health offerings is slated for release later this year.
- To help guide the company as it ushers in this new era,
Evidation has also hired Sam Marwaha as Chief
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SwitchPoint Ventures Spins Out AI-Driven Health IT Startup Polaris Health
What You
Should Know:
- SwitchPoint (made up of veteran healthcare leaders with experience at Intermedix/R1 RCM and others) launches a new technology venture, Polaris Health that leverages AI to predict patient demand and create efficient clinician schedules that align with this demand.
- Polaris Health’s solution utilizes
proprietary machine learning algorithms to predict provider demand, distribute clinician resources to meet that
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Philips Partners With Proscia to Accelerate Open Digital Pathology Adoption
What You Should Know:
- Philips inks a collaboration with digital pathology
leader Proscia to advance an open ecosystem that helps laboratories accelerate
and scale digital pathology adoption.
- Proscia will integrate the Philips Pathology SDK to
natively utilize Philips’ iSyntax image format with its Concentriq digital
pathology platform and suite of AI modules, providing users of Philips’ digital
pathology solutions with expanded options to meet their business and
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New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare technology company DrFirst has announced the
release of its next generation, patented SmartSig AI technology to improve the
quality of patient medication history when it is imported into hospitals’ and
health systems’ electronic health records (EHRs).
- Simple prescription instructions, called “sigs,” can
have hundreds of variations or be missing entirely from patients’ medication
histories when they are imported into hospitals’ EHRs. The missing
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Walgreens Boots Alliance, Microsoft, Adobe Expand Partnership to Launch Personalized Prescription for Patients
What You Should
Know:
- Today, Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Microsoft, and Adobe announced an expanded partnership launching a world-class marketing technology and customer data platform to deliver consistent, personalized, and engaging experiences across all touchpoints and channels while respecting and protecting privacy choices of patients and customers.
- Reaching millions of customers worldwide each day, WBA will streamline offers and deliver targeted products and services from
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New Disinfection Robot Can Destroy COVID-19 Virus in 2 Minutes
What You Should
Know:
- Xenex launches
StrikeForce, a new service offering LightStrike robots and disinfection experts
to destroy the COVID-19 virus in facilities.
- Surfaces
contaminated with COVID-19 pose a grave threat to the safety of healthcare
workers, patients, frontline responders, military service members, cruise line
passengers, hotel guests and citizens everywhere.
- Deactivating
the COVID-19 virus on surfaces is a critical and necessary step to providing a
safe environment
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Brainlab Acquires Medical Video Game Innovator Level Ex
What You Should Know:
- Brainlab, a digital medical technology company based in
Munich, Germany has acquired Level Ex, a digital health startup creating
medical video games designed to advance the clinical skills of physicians and
surgeons.
- The acquisition will accelerate product development, allow Level Ex to enter new clinical areas faster, and expand its footprint in global markets, benefitting more medical professionals across a wider-range of specialties and cases.
- Level Ex
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CVS Health Launches COVID-19 Testing Solution for Companies Returning to Worksites
What You Should Know:
CVS Health today announced Return Ready™, a COVID-19
testing solution, to help return and maintain healthy populations at work.
Return Ready offers organizations clinical consultation, end-to-end testing execution, integrated reporting, and additional health and safety solutions to help reduce COVID-19 transmission.
The testing technology options include point-of-care testing with results in a few minutes or third-party lab-processed testing with results in a
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56% of Health Leaders State Their Current PHM Solution Falls Short, Fails to Address Current Needs
What You Should Know:
- More than half (56%) healthcare leaders say their current population health management (PHM) solution doesn’t meet their needs, according to a new survey from Persivia.
- Almost two-thirds (62%) say a lack of clinician
engagement is the top reason they’re looking to replace their PHM solution.
This was followed by the inability to convert data to action (48%), and
inability to engage patients (43%) or perform sufficient analytics (43%) tied
for third.
- The
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HHS Awards Morehouse $40M to Combat COVID-19, Advance Health Equity in Minority Communities
What You Should Know:
- Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) partners with the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on a three-year project to combat
COVID-19 and advance health equity in minority communities.
- The
initiative – the National Infrastructure for Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19
within Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities – is a three-year project
designed to work with community-based organizations across the nation to
deliver education and information on resources
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