- XRHealth announced it will provide Israel’s Sheba Medical Center’s Coronavirus patients in quarantine with virtual reality telehealth services.
- The XRHealth platform will provide relief from isolation, stress, and anxiety for those quarantined at Sheba for possible Coronavirus exposure.
XRHealth, a Boston, MA-based provider of extended reality and therapeutic applications, today announced it will be providing virtual reality (VR) telehealth services to the Sheba Medical Center in
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Philips Launches Emergency Care Informatics Suite to Power Real-Time Feedback Between Emergency Responders & Doctors
What You Need to Know:
- Philips launches its new pre-hospital informatics solution for emergency responders in the U.S. market and will debut it at HIMSS 2020 next week.
- Emergency medical service personnel are facing rising demands in their roles while also encountering challenging and diverse cases that require better technology to meet patient needs.
- By providing real-time, bidirectional feedback between emergency responders on the scene and doctors in the hospital awaiting the
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InterSystems Launches HealthShare Managed Connections to Improve Data Exchange
What You Need to Know:
- InterSystems launches InterSystems HealthShare® Managed Connections, a service that enables healthcare organizations to take advantage of a network of connections to a vast number of patient records via a central hub and exchange data easily.
- As a CommonWell ConnectorTM product, HealthShare Managed Connections empowers users with the ability to access the CommonWell Health Alliance network—representing more than 15,000 provider sites and 76
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AMA, Nuance to Pilot Innovations to Reduce Physician Documentation Overload
- Today, Nuance and the American Medical Association announced a partnership to pilot innovations preventing physician burnout from documentation overload.
- This partnership is a step forward in solving physician burnout and the associated costs by piloting the combination of each organization’s technologies to reduce distractions from patient care caused by increasing administrative demands.
Nuance®
Communications, Inc and the American Medical Association (AMA)
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Best Buy Launches New Medical Alert Device & App for Seniors
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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