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Best Buy Launches New Medical Alert Device & App for Seniors

by Fred Pennic 02/27/2020 Leave a Comment

Best Buy Health Launches Medical Alert Device That Turns Your Smartphone into an Urgent Response Device

- Today, Best Buy Health launched its new Lively app and medical alert device, the Lively Wearable2 designed to help older adults live safely, actively and independently. - The new Lively app gives older adults easy, one-touch access to urgent response services via their smartphone, quickly connecting to help if an emergency occurs. Best Buy Health, today announced the availability of its new Lively app by Great Call that gives older adults easy, one-touch access to 5-Star Urgent
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Innovaccer Launches Unified Patient Record to Deliver Complete View of the Patient

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Innovaccer Unveils InData

- Innovaccer launches its “unified patient record” as its proprietary model to eliminate the challenge of seamless data access for healthcare organizations. - The unified patient record will serve as the backbone of Innovaccer’s Data Activation Platform that uses APIs and an analytical framework to manage complexity across all patient care settings. Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare data platform company, today announced the launch of its “unified patient record” as its
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Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Ribbon Health Raises $10M for Health Data Platform

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Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Ribbon Health Raises $10M for Health Data Platform

- Ribbon Health, a health care data platform raises $10.25M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (“a16z”) and is the first investment by a16z’s newly announced Bio Fund III. - Ribbon is a health data platform that offers the most accurate, up-to-date data on providers, insurance plans, and price and quality of care. Ribbon Health, a New York City-based healthcare data platform, that today just announced a $10.25 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz (“a16z”) and
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CentralReach Acquires ABA Data Collection Platform Thread Learning

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CentralReach Acquires ABA Data Collection Platform Thread Learning

- CentralReach acquires Thread Learning, an applied behavior analysis (ABA) platform designed for center-based clinics and schools to extend its leadership position within the ABA provider market. - The acquisition will add solutions for the education and international ABA markets and supplement its industry-leading platform with Thread’s rapidly-growing, highly-rated, intuitive mobile data collection. CentralReach, a Pompano Beach, FL-based provider of electronic medical record (EMR)
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MDPortals Taps Health Gorilla APIs to Power Clinical Data Insights

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MDPortals Taps Health Gorilla APIs to Power Clinical Data Insights

- MDPortals adopts Health Gorilla APIs to bring proprietary care insights to providers from a vast network of clinical systems. - MDPortals will leverage Health Gorilla’s Patient360 API to retrieve clinical records from thousands of care sites across the country, augmenting MDPortals existing connections to health information exchanges and patient portals. Health Gorilla, a leader in clinical data APIs, and MDPortals, a leading clinical insights company, announced today a partnership to
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CTA Launches First-Ever ANSI-accredited Standard for AI in Healthcare

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CTA Launches First-Ever ANSI-accredited Standard for AI in Healthcare

- The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announces the first-ever ANSI-accredited standard for the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, developed by more than 50 organizations from tech giants to healthcare leaders. - CTA convened 52 organizations – including IBM, Philips, BlackBerry, Doctor on Demand, Humetrix, American Medical Association, and AdvaMed – to develop this standard that provides a foundation to better
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Welldoc, Redox Partner for Bidrectional EHR Integration with BlueStar App

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Welldoc, Redox Partner for Bidrectional EHR Integration with Bluestar App

- Welldoc and Redox announce a partnership to ensure bidirectional integration with EHR with Welldoc's digital health solution for diabetes management, BlueStar. - This partnership will allow providers to receive and review insights about users of Welldoc's BlueStar digital health app for diabetes management directly within their EHR at the point of care.  Welldoc, a digital health company revolutionizing chronic disease management, announced today its strategic partnership
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Sharecare Acquires Value-Based Care Platform Visualize Health

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Sharecare Acquires Value-Based Care Platform Visualize Health

- Sharecare acquires Visualize Health, a Franklin, Tenn.-based population health and quality measure platform that enables payers and providers to close gaps in patient care to maximize value-based care. - The acquisition will enhance Sharecare’s capabilities for medical records management and is the 14th acquisition since Sharecare was founded in 2010.   Sharecare, the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, today announced its acquisition of
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BCBS Kansas City to Deliver Wellframe’s Digital Health Tools to Members

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BCBS Kansas City to Deliver Wellframe’s Digital Health Tools to Members

- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City announces their collaboration with Wellframe, a leader in digital health management, to bring its health plan members into a new era of health management. - Through Wellframe’s innovative app, Blue KC members can access digital resources and support for chronic and complex conditions, wellness, transitions of care, maternal health, cancer, and end-stage renal disease. - The Wellframe solution helps members build trusted relationships
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HHS Issues Strategies & Recommendations to Mitigate EHR-Related Clinician Burden

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Physician Burnout_Cognitive Overload Documentation Overload

- HHS issues new report outlining the key sources of EHR-related burden, as well as strategies and recommendations to achieve burden reduction goals for healthcare providers. - The HHS report reflects additional input from the more than 200 comments submitted in response to the draft strategy and recommendations. As part of the ongoing efforts to strengthen the relationship between patients and their doctors, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued
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