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Finland, Cerner to Co-Develop Health and Social Services Digital Platform

by Fred Pennic 09/10/2020 Leave a Comment

Cerner Launches AI-Powered Chart Assist to Combat Physician Burnout

What You Should Know: - Finland regional leadership has selected Cerner to establish a new healthcare and social services digital platform to support four regions in Central Finland. -  The co-design digital platform will support Aster, a co-operational organization across four of Finland’s nineteen regions; including Central Finland, Ostrobothnia, South Savo, and North Karelia. Today, Cerner announced it has been selected by Finland regional leadership to deliver more coordinated
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Grand Rounds Nabs $175M to Expand Clinical Navigation Platform

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Grand Rounds Launches Population Health Solution to Address SDoH

What You Should Know: - Grand Rounds raises $175 million in funding, led by The Carlyle Group, to accelerate clinical navigation and virtual primary care. - Grand Rounds has raised over $270 million to date, allowing the business to continue scaling its operations across the country. Grand Rounds, a San Francisco, CA-based healthcare company that matches employers and employees to high-quality healthcare, announced today it raised $175M in funding led by The Carlyle Group. The
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MEDITECH Launches Expanse Virtual Assistant Through Nuance

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MEDITECH Launches Expanse Virtual Assistant Through Nuance

What You Should Know: - MEDITECH launches Expanse Virtual Assistant, enabling users to quickly access, navigate, and control the EHR using advanced Nuance Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant technology. - Physicians can leverage Expanse Virtual Assistant to navigate and search patient charts for key areas of information including lab results, medications, allergies, radiology images, and more. MEDITECH and Nuance Communications Inc. (Nuance), today announced a collaboration to
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TruePill Raises $75M to Launch At-Home Lab Testing Network

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TruePill Raises $75M to Launch At-Home Lab Testing Network

What You Should Know: - Truepill raises $75 million in Series C funding To expand platform services and launch an at-home lab diagnostics network. - The company plans to use the funds to expand Truepill’s ecosystem of direct-to-patient capabilities, which includes the Truepill Health telehealth network, pharmacy fulfillment, a custom-built EMR, and more. Truepill, a San Mateo, CA-based building world-class patient experiences through its API-connected healthcare infrastructure,
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AMA Approves 2 New CPT Codes to Support Response to COVID-19

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AMA Approves 2 New CPT Codes to Support Response to COVID-19

What You Should Know: - The American Medical Association adds two new CPT codes to streamline the reporting of innovative tools and services now available to help reduce the COVID-19 disease burden. - The two new codes 99072 and 86413 have been approved for immediate use. The American Medical Association (AMA) published an update to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set that includes two code additions for reporting medical services sparked by the public
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Philips Launches Future Health Index Exploring COVID-19 Perceptions Among Younger Doctors

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Philips Launches Future Health Index Exploring COVID-19 Perceptions Among Doctors

What You Should Know: - Philips releases new Future Health Index report that explores how the COVID-19 pandemic is driving changes in how younger doctors view their profession. - The new research captures feedback from 500 doctors under the age of 40 in five countries: the United States of America, China, Singapore, France, and Germany. Royal Philips, today announced the release of the Future Health Index Insights: COVID-19 and younger healthcare professionals report. The main
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Optimize.health Raises $15.6M for Remote Patient Monitoring Platform

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Optimize.health Raises $15.6M to Accelerate Remote Patient Monitoring Adoption

What You Should Know: - Optimize.health raises $15.6M in Series A funding to accelerate access to and adoption of its remote patient monitoring platform. - Optimize.Health enables improved access to care, more favorable health outcomes, and contained healthcare costs through the combination of high-quality monitoring devices and a user-friendly, HIPAA-compliant digital platform that supports two-way video calls and text conversations between patients and their
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Uniphore CEO Talks Call Centers & Why Contact Tracing is Failing

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Uniphore CEO Talks Call Centers & Why Contact Tracing is Failing in the US

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, all call centers have now been asked to play a vital role, acting as the hubs for contact tracing to help track and contain the spread of the virus. It’s estimated that the U.S. needs to employ 100,000 to 300,000 contact tracers for this to be an effective program. However, call center representatives that have a healthcare background and are trained to handle these sensitive calls are in short supply, so states have had to get “creative about finding the workforce.”
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Keck Medicine of USC Deploys Virtual Check-Ins to Reduce Risk of COVID-19 Exposure

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Keck Medicine of USC Deploys Virtual Check-Ins to Reduce Risk of COVID-19 Exposure

What You Should Know: - Keck Medicine of USC, a world-class academic medical center in Los Angeles, has deployed Lumeon’s SMS-based virtual check-in solution to support physical distancing and reduce the risk of COVID-19 exposure at its facilities. - Keck Medicine is now more safely managing check-ins for more than 80,000 patients per month. During the first ten days of system operation, 67% of eligible patients checked-in virtually for their appointments. To support physical
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Israeli Startup Deploys AI-based Solution for Prostate Cancer Detection

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Israeli Startup Deploys AI-based Solution for Prostate Cancer Detection

What You Should Know: - Ibex Medical Analytics announces the first U.S. deployment of its AI-powered solution for cancer detection in pathology, at the CorePlus Servicios Clínicos y Patológicos, LLC, a leading clinical and anatomic pathology lab in Puerto Rico. - The deployment will improve cancer care in the U.S., where the number of pathologists decreased by nearly 20% in the past decade. This comes shortly after the first implementation of such technology in both France and the UK.
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