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Willis-Knighton Health System to Implement MEDITECH Expanse EHR

by Fred Pennic 11/14/2019 Leave a Comment

 - Willis-Knighton Health System, the largest healthcare system in North Louisiana renews long-term partnership with MEDITECH to deploy the fully-integrated EHR platform across all care settings.- Implementation includes Expanse Population Health, which will enable them to deliver care that reaches far beyond the hospital and physician's office.Willis-Knighton Health System, a Shreveport, LA-based not-for-profit healthcare system, today announced it has signed to implement MEDITECH’s mobile,
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NextGen Acquires Medfusion for $43M, Spins Out Data Services Business to Form Greenlight Health

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NextGen Acquires Medfusion for $43M, Spins Out Data Services Business to Form Greenlight Health

- NextGen Healthcare announced today it has agreed to acquire Medfusion for $43 million in cash to give its clients a better patient engagement platform. - Medfusion will spin out its data services business to form Greenlight Health to meet the growing need for patient-initiated health data retrieval. - Greenlight Health will be focused on driving data flows for patients, consumers, businesses and organizations that need ready access to patient-approved data housed across a wide variety of
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InsightRX, Premier Partner to Bring Precision Antibiotic Dosing to 4,000 Hospitals

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InsightRX, Premier Partner to Bring Precision Antibiotic Dosing to 4,000 Hospitals

- InsightRX and Premier Inc. Partner to enable 4,000 hospitals, health systems, and providers to personalize treatment for infectious disease patients. - The integrated solution aims to decrease serious side effects caused by vancomycin and other antibiotics used to treat infectious diseases. InsightRX, a provider of precision medicine, and Premier Inc., a healthcare improvement company uniting 4,000 U.S. hospitals and health systems, have joined forces to individualize medication
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Tyto Care Launches On-Demand Medical Exam Nationwide at Best Buy Stores

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Tyto Care partners with Best Buy to launch TytoHome

- TytoHome, the first comprehensive, at-home telehealth solution, is now available nationwide in Best Buy stores and on BestBuy.com. - TytoHome is a handheld examination device with attachments that can examine the heart, lungs, skin, ears, throat, and abdomen, as well as measure body temperature.- Each TytoHome visit costs $59.99 or less depending on the nature of the visit and/or the user’s health insurance plan. Reimbursement is available for patients from leading insurers including Anthem,
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Sheba Medical Center to Create The World’s First Fully VR-Based Hospital

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Sheba Medical Center to Create The First Fully VR-Based Hospital In The World Sheba Medical Center Declares Israel’s “City of Health”, Inks $350M Deal

- Sheba Medical Center is creating the world-first first VR-based hospital by leverage XRHealth’s virtual reality platform as part of their strategic innovation commitment to digital health. - Sheba will leverage XRHealth’s VR platform for cognitive therapy, physical therapy, pain relief, and many other applications throughout the entire hospital.Sheba Medical Center, the leading medical center in the Middle East and an internationally recognized healthcare facility in Israel, today announced a
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Massachusetts Expands Digital Health R&D Sandbox Program

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Massachusetts Expands Digital Health R&D Sandbox Program

- Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI) adds Brigham Digital Innovation Hub (iHub) in Boston, MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) in Cambridge, and TechSpring at Baystate Health in Springfield, Mass. - MeHI selects startups eMotion Rx of Cambridge and Stability Health of Worcester for Inaugural Sandbox at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteThe Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI) has selected three of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ leading
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Eisai Launches First Amazon Alexa Skill to Bring Solace & Support to Children with Epilepsy

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Eisai Launches First Amazon Alexa Skill to Bring Solace & Support to Children with Epilepsy

 - Eisai Inc. launches Ella the Jellyfish, the first Amazon Alexa skill designed for those affected by Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS), a rare and severe form of childhood-onset epilepsy. - LGS can be characterized by frequent and unpredictable seizures, limited speech and mobility, cognitive impairment, and developmental delays.- Available free of charge, , this unbranded Alexa skill provides comfort to children, families and caregivers through song, storytelling, meditation, and interactive
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Philips Debuts AI-Driven Clinical Solution for Aiding Cognitive Assessment in the U.S.

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Philips Debuts AI-Driven Clinical Solution for Aiding Cognitive Assessment in the U.S.

- Philips IntelliSpace Cognition provides U.S. healthcare professionals with a powerful aid for assessing cognitive impairments due to neurological conditions. - Philips has invested in collecting insights from both neurologists and neuropsychologists in order to design IntelliSpace Cognition in an iterative manner and ensure it fits into the majority of existing workflows. - IntelliSpace Cognition will initially be commercially available only in the U.S. Philips, a global leader in
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Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation to Upgrade to Medsphere’s CareVue EHR

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Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation to Upgrade to Medsphere's CareVue EHR

- Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation (CHCC) will implement Medsphere’s CareVue electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management (RCM) platform. - Based on Saipan, the capital of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, CHCC is the primary organizer of acute and ambulatory healthcare services for the islands of Rota, Saipan, and Tinian.Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation (CHCC) will implement the Medsphere’s CareVue electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management
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Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ with Ascension Has Been Secretly Collecting Millions of Patient Records

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Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ with Ascension Has Been Secretly Collecting Millions of Patient Records

What You Need to Know - Google has been secretly working with St. Louis-based Ascension on an initiative code-named “Project Nightingale” to gather millions of patient records across 21 states since last year, reports The Wall Street Journal. - The collected data includes patient names, date of birth (DOB), lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records to provide a complete health history. - After the WSJ article, Ascension officially announced its collaboration with
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