CareCloud, the platform for high-growth medical groups, has joined the Google Cloud Technology Partner Program, the company announced today. Through the new relationship, CareCloud will accelerate the continued expansion of its cloud platform with a focus on interoperability, leveraging Google Cloud’s Healthcare API.As part of the program, CareCloud’s platform will use Google Cloud Healthcare API as a normalized data store, leveraging CareCloud’s proprietary real-time data streaming
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Change Healthcare, Amazon Partner to Build Claims & Payment Network
Change Healthcare, today announced that its Intelligent Healthcare Network will now be complemented with a cloud-based network built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The new cloud-based network infrastructure to promote more efficient, transparent, and secure administrative and financial transactions.As the first stage of a collaborative initiative working with stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem, the company will deploy this network on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The network will allow the
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GHX Launches Mobile-Enhanced Vendor Credentialing Solution
Today GHX launched a new mobile-enhanced Vendormate Credentialing application with geolocation service capabilities. The mobile application provides suppliers and providers an efficient and convenient solution that can increase compliance of provider procedures and federal mandates.For suppliers, denied access means lost revenue opportunity. The new capability allows representatives to check hospital compliance and facility access prior to their scheduled visits. The geolocation service also
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VisualDx Launches AI-Driven Smart Symptom Checker App for Skin Conditions
Aysa is a first of its kind AI-driven app set to revolutionize the way consumers to educate themselves and make more informed decisions about their personal skin conditions. Aysa is trained through the VisualDx platform which combines clinical search and medical knowledge from experts with a database of more than 120,000 of the best medical images in the world.But what does that really mean? With the power of machine learning, Aysa enables people with no medical background to use the app to
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Livongo Launches Cellular-Enabled Blood Pressure Monitoring System
Digital health startup Livongo, today announced the first cellular-enabled blood pressure monitoring system in the U.S. that allows for easy checking and reporting from home, eliminating the so-called ‘White Coat’ syndrome that leads to unnecessary prescriptions for high blood pressure, and it also enables real-time insights and Health Nudges delivered when it is most effective. The cellular-enabled monitoring system allows blood pressure data to transfer seamlessly from ‘Cuff to Cloud’TM.
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RCM Provider Waystar Acquires Predictive Analytics Company Connance
Waystar, a revenue cycle technology company, today announced its acquisition of Connance, a provider of healthcare predictive analytics. As Waystar became one of the nation’s largest healthcare financial data sources through the merger of Navicure and ZirMed last year, this new acquisition will enable the company to bolster existing end-to-end revenue cycle technology offerings and predictive analytics capabilities to more than 450,000 providers, 22,000 healthcare organizations and 750 health
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MedTech Startup Endotronix Lands $45M for Heart Failure System
Endotronix, Inc., a digital health, MedTech company dedicated to advancing the treatment of heart failure, today announced it has raised $45 million in Series D funding led by LSP, investing from its LSP Health Economics Fund 2. The round also included participation from Aperture Venture Partners, BioVentures Investors, Lumira Ventures, OSF Ventures, Seroba Life Sciences, SV Health Investors, Wanxiang Healthcare Investments, and an unnamed corporate strategic investor.The medtech startups plans
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Mercy Technology Services (MTS) Extends PACS Imaging Solution to Hospitals Everywhere
Mercy Technology Services (MTS), the IT backbone of one of the largest Catholic health systems in the nation, today announced it will launch a new picture archiving communication system (PACS) imaging solution. Built on a foundation of proven hosting services and success in helping Mercy’s radiologists achieve increased efficiency and decreased report turnaround time by up to 50 percent, MTS will become the first health care provider to extend PACS as Service to hospitals across the country.MTS
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AliveCor Receives “Breakthrough Device” Designation from FDA for Bloodless Hyperkalemia Test
AliveCor, a Mountain View, CA-based digital health startup developing solutions to transform cardiac care, announced on Monday received “breakthrough device” designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for their bloodless hyperkalemia test. Developed with Mayo Clinic, AliveCor’s KardiaK Platform screens for elevated levels of blood potassium – hyperkalemia, without requiring any blood from the patient.This designation signals that the FDA will consider the technology on an
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Cerner President Zane Burke to Step Down in November
EHR leader Cerner, today announced that Zane Burke will step down as President of the company, effective Nov. 2. Effective immediately, John Peterzalek, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Client Relationships, will assume Burke’s responsibilities and the title of Chief Client Officer.“We thank Zane for his contributions to Cerner across more than two decades,” said Cerner Chairman and CEO Brent Shafer. “Zane leaves the company with a strong client focus and commitment to continued innovation,
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