What You Should Know:
- Today, Tyto Care announced the company’s evolution from
telehealth to tele-diagnosis with its AI-powered diagnostic support solution,
providing clinicians with advanced insights for informed remote diagnoses.
- The solution will improve the quality of remote triage
for common primary and chronic health issues – starting with wheezing and
stridor – grounded in Tyto Care’s industry-leading repository of remote exam
videos, sounds and images.
Tyto Care, a
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Mayo Clinic Launches On-Demand Diagnostic Testing Platform for COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic and Safe Health Systems launch a new health and connected diagnostics platform to lower costs and streamline access to care.
- The SAFE platform enables the rapid implementation of custom digital health applications, which combine digital provider services, artificial intelligence-based care automation, and remote point of care diagnostics.
Mayo Clinic and
Safe Health Group, Inc. announced the formation of Safe Health Systems, Inc.,
a
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Epic Selects InterSystems to Serve as Data Foundation for EHR
What You Should Know:
- Epic selects InterSystems IRIS Data Platform to serve
as the data foundation for the latest release of Epic’s EHR.
- Epic adopted InterSystems IRIS to enhance the
reliability and scalability of its EHR and to deliver improved consistency,
control, and automation of processes for its global community of approximately
2.5 million concurrent users.
InterSystems,
a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve
critical scalability,
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Providence Combines 9 Investments & Acquisitions to Form Tegria
What You Should Know:
- Providence combines nine operating companies to form
Tegria into a comprehensive suite of offerings for organizations across the
health care sector
-Tegria will focus on three key initiatives—healthcare
consulting and technology services, revenue cycle management solutions and
software technology and platforms.
Providence, one of the nation's largest health systems announce the formation of Tegria, a new company designed to provide next-generation
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HealthStream Acquires Nurse Scheduling Solution ShiftWizard for $32M
What You Should Know:
- HealthStream acquires ShiftWizard, a SaaS-based nurse
scheduling software saves your hospital time & money with an innovative
scheduling solution and mobile app made by nurses, for nurses.
- HealthStream acquired ShiftWizard, Inc. for
approximately $32.0 million in cash, subject to working capital and other
customary purchase price adjustments.
HealthStream today announced that it has acquired ShiftWizard, Inc., a Raleigh, North Carolina-based company
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UCSF, Fortanix, Intel, Microsoft Team Up to Accelerate Development of Clinical AI Algorithms by 1000X
What You Should Know:
- UCSF, in partnership with Fortanix, Intel, and Microsoft, will announce BeeKeeperAI, a Privacy-Preserving Analytics Platform that will accelerate the development of clinical AI algorithms by 1000X (from 30 months to 1 day).
- This will help get life-saving clinical applications to
all patients faster, such as predicting the need for blood transfusions or
detecting tumors on X-rays, while maintaining patient privacy using
Confidential Computing technology.
UC
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Comcast Spinoff Quil Unveils Home-Based Sensor Network for Seniors
What You Should Know:
- Comcast spinoff Quil announces its entry into the
senior market -- via integrated sensor-based home monitoring.
- Quil plans to launch Quil Assure to consumers by the
third quarter of 2021 following a series of pilots beginning this December.
Today, Quil Engage is available to consumers via partnering providers and
health plans.
Quil—the healthcare
joint venture of Comcast NBCUniversal and Independence Health
Group—announced plans to
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Lyft Integrates with Epic EHR to Enable Hospitals to Schedule Rides for Patients
What You Should Know:
- Lyft is continuing to expand rideshare for
non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) through a first of market direct
integration with Epic, the largest electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S.
- This will have an immediate impact on hospital operations and patients, with currently committed customers including Tampa General and Ochsner Health.
Today, ridesharing leader Lyft announced an integration with EHR provider Epic to enable
health system staff to
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Apple Rolls Out Health Records on iPhone to the UK, Canada
Today, Apple announced
the Health Records feature within the Health app is now available for users in
the UK and Canada to securely view and store their medical records right on
their iPhone, with their privacy protected at all times. Oxford University
Hospitals and Women’s College Hospital has been selected the first healthcare
institutions in the UK and Canada to make this feature available to their
patients.
How Health Records Works
Health Records creates a direct connection between
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Butterfly Network Launches Mobile, Whole-Body Ultrasound with Integrated Telehealth Platform
What You Should Know:
- Butterfly
Network launched its next-gen ultrasound product, the new Butterfly iQ+
featuring the world’s only Ultrasound-on Chip™ technology and announced a
landmark collaboration with the American College of Cardiology (ACC).
Butterfly Network,
Inc., today announced the launch of its next-gen ultrasound product, the
new Butterfly iQ+, the world’s only single-probe, whole-body
ultrasound system that connects to a mobile device and features
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