What You Need to Know:
- HHS finalizes interoperability rules that will implement interoperability and patient access provisions of the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) and support President Trump’s MyHealthEData initiative.
- The ONC Final Rule identifies and finalizes the reasonable and necessary activities that do not constitute information blocking while establishing new rules to prevent “information blocking” practices (e.g., anti-competitive behaviors) by
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Hospital Execs Believe Their EMRs Will Fail to Meet Their Future Needs, Report Finds
What You Need to Know:
- New Sage Growth Partners report reveals more than a quarter (27 percent) of respondents believe their EMR will fail to meet their future needs. COOs are the most pessimistic (67 percent) followed by CEOs (37 percent), and CFOs (34 percent).
- Hospital Technology Forecast 2020 market survey report reveals hospital leaders’ top health IT investment priorities, challenges, and opportunities.
- 35 percent of hospital executives say if they could go back in time,
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CareFirst Will Cover Medically Necessary Diagnostic Tests for COVID-19
What You Need to Know:
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield announces steps to expand access to coronavirus (COVID-19) care for its members
- CareFirst will waive prior authorizations for diagnostic tests and for covered services that are medically necessary for any members that are diagnosed with COVID-19.
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) announced it is taking action to ensure that its members seeking testing and treatment for coronavirus can swiftly access the right care in
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Rimidi Launches COVID-19 Screening App to Identify At-Risk Patients & Limit Exposure
What You Need to Know:
- To limit the spread of COVID-19 in healthcare settings, Rimidi has developed a Coronavirus (COVID-19) screening application for health systems to identify at-risk patients and direct them to appropriate locations.
- The EHR-integrated app is one of the first designed specifically to flag patients with possible Coronavirus symptoms, enabling health systems to mitigate the spread and optimize treatment.
Rimidi, a cloud-based
software platform, today announced
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Texas Hospital Association to Bring AI-Powered Autonomous Monitoring Across Texas Hospitals
What You Need to Know:
- Texas Hospital Association (THA) and care.ai are partnering to bring statewide adoption of AI-powered autonomous monitoring to hospital and health system members throughout Texas.
- care.ai’s platform uses autonomous monitoring to turn a standard hospital room into a self-aware room that provides real-time information about the patient and caregivers.
- It uses computer vision – not cameras – to detect and alert staff if an at-risk patient attempts to get out
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FHIR-Based APIs Health Gorilla Becomes Largest CommonWell Connector
What You
Need to Know:
- FHIR-based API Provider Health Gorilla is now the largest CommonWell Connector by connecting more than 15k participating provider sites within the CommonWell nationwide network.
- Health Gorilla was the first CommonWell member to join the CommonWell Connector program, and subsequently, had the first client live via a CommonWell Connector connection
Health Gorilla, a provider of FHIR-based APIs, today announced that it has successfully connected more than a
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Amazon Alexa Devices Can Now Answer Medication-Related Questions
What You Need to Know:
- In a new collaboration between First Databank and Amazon, consumers will have access to a wide variety of FDB’s drug information through simple queries via Alexa, Amazon’s cloud-based voice service.
- A subset of FDB’s drug information, trusted for more than 40 years by healthcare professionals, can now be accessed by consumers from any Alexa-enabled device.
- The Amazon Alexa integration provides custom content that allows consumers to ask about a drug’s
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Element Science Nabs $145.6M to Commercialize Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator
What You Need to Know:
- Element Science raises $145.6M in Series C funding to led by Deerfield Healthcare and Qiming Venture Partners USA, includes Cormorant Asset Management and Invus Opportunities.
- Funding will enable Element Science to complete clinical studies, begin U.S. commercialization of its digital wearable platform focused on high-risk cardiovascular patients transitioning from the hospital-to-home.
Element Science,
a San Francisco, CA-based innovative health
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Suki Raises $20M to Expand AI-powered, Voice-Enabled Digital Assistant for Doctors
What You Need to Know:
- Today, Suki announced a Series B funding round of $20 million, led by new investor Flare Capital Partners and including top investors like First Round and Venrock.
- In just two years, Suki has established its product as a leading solution to address the urgent crisis of physician burnout and is already trusted by independent and group practices as well as leading systems like Sutter Health and Ascension.
- Suki will use the funding to expand its user base
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Hong Kong’s Dept. of Health Taps Biofourmis’ Remote Monitoring Platform to Fight Coronavirus
What You Need to Know:
- Boston-based Biofourmis’ AI-powered digital therapeutics technology has inked a deal with The University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong’s Department of Health to leverage its wearable, AI-powered remote monitoring platform to provide new insights to fight COVID-19 in a national disease monitoring program.
- Biofourmis’ technology will remotely monitor coronavirus infected and suspected patients and apply personally predictive analytics to help patients and increase
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