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BioTelemetry Acquires Cardiac Remote Monitoring Startup Geneva Healthcare for $45M

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BioTelemetry Acquires Cardiac Remote Monitoring Startup Geneva Healthcare for $45M

BioTelemetry, a provider of remote and wireless medical technology announced it has agreed to acquire Geneva Healthcare, a provider of remote implantable cardiac device-monitoring services. Under terms of the acquisition agreement, BioTelemetry will pay $45M in cash upfront plus potential earn-outs of at least $20M. Geneva generated $6M in revenue in 2018. Founded in 2011 by a team of cardiologists and user experience designers, Geneva has developed a proprietary cloud-based platform that
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Aetna, Apple Launches Personalized App That Combines Health History with Apple Watch

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Today, Aetna, a CVS Health business, announced Attain by Aetna app, a personalized well-being experience that combines health history with Apple Watch information to empower better health. Designed by Aetna in collaboration with Apple, the Attain app will provide Aetna members personalized goals, track their daily activity levels, recommend healthy actions, and ultimately reward them for taking these actions to improve their well-being.Share Attain Program Data & Health History with
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HSBlox’s Blockchain Advances Clinical Trial Sample Management with Increased Visibility,

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HSBlox’s Blockchain Advances Clinical Trial Sample Management with Increased Visibility,

HSBlox, a technology company that is bringing innovation and transparent economics to the healthcare ecosystem, today announced the launch of its Digital Sample Manager (DSM) solution, which leverages blockchain technology (distributed ledger technology or DLT) to bring improved visibility, transparency and tracking to the chain of custody in clinical trials. The solution provides end-to-end sample tracking and real-time status updates to all chain of custody entities.Advancing Clinical Trial
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Report: Understanding The Impact of Burnout on Healthcare Executives

by Fred Pennic 01/28/2019 Leave a Comment

Physician Burnout Report: Understanding The Impact of Burnout on Healthcare Executives

According to a new survey report from executive firm Witt/Kieffer, 79% of healthcare executives feel that burnout is negatively impacting their organization. In fact,  79% of healthcare executives believe that their organization is not doing enough to reduce or prevent executive burnout. The survey report, The Impact of Burnout on Healthcare Executives surveyed close to 350 healthcare executives representing CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, Chief Nursing Officers and other executives at the C-suite, Vice
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Intermountain and MDClone Integrate to Transform Patient Data into Actionable Insights

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Intermountain and MDClone Team Up to Transform Patient Data into Actionable Insight

Intermountain Healthcare, today announced it is teaming up with Israeli healthcare IT company MDClone to increase caregivers’ ability to transform patient data into information they can use to help people lead the healthiest lives possible. As part of the collaboration, MDClone will share a new approach to healthcare data access, analytics, and research with Intermountain. The new partnership will further transform its existing rich data sources into more meaningful information that will enable
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New Physician Burnout Initiative to Research 1 Million Physician Shift Hours in 2019

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Physician Burnout_Cognitive Overload Documentation Overload

Pathology of Burnout Initiative led by Lightning Bolt aims to understand patterns in physician work schedules and burnout. Lightning Bolt Solutions, a provider of optimized physician shift technology announced they will work to identify the root cause of physician burnout by studying one million physician shift hours in 2019. The “Pathology of Burnout Initiative” starts with the simple act of asking physicians how they are doing. The data from this study will be key in determining how healthcare
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EBSCO Health Acquires Clinical Decision Support Tool HealthDecision

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EBSCO Health Acquires Clinical Decision Support Tool HealthDecision

EBSCO Health, a provider of evidence-based clinical information tools has acquired HealthDecision, a decision support and shared decision-making tool for clinicians and patients. Founded in 2004, HealthDecision’s visual representation of medical outcomes is educational, easy-to-use and facilitates discussion between the clinician and patient to mutually agree on a personalized treatment plan.Developed by clinicians with subject matter expertise, HealthDecision integrates medical literature
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King’s Daughters Medical Center Implements MEDITECH’s Expanse Point of Care

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King's Daughters Medical Center Implements MEDITECH's Expanse Point of Care

MEDITECH's Expanse Point of Care software, the company's latest web-based, mobile technology for nurses and therapists to provide the best and most efficient patient-facing care, has been implemented at King's Daughters Medical Center (Brookhaven, MS). Accessible via a smartphone or a handheld mobile device, Expanse Point of Care features an optimized user interface for the company's Expanse Patient Care and Patient Safety solution.It has all the functionality needed to view charts, document,
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Philips and American Heart Association Partner to Increase Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survival Rates

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Philips AHA Connected Pulse

Today, Philips and the American Heart Association (AHA) announced a partnership to increase sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) survival rates outside the hospital around the world. This first-of-its-kind initiative, known as the Connected Pulse program, combines education and training to heighten awareness around CPR, the use of AEDs and other new technologies that can improve the chances for survival from the moment an incident occurs to the patient reaching the hospital.Cardiovascular disease is a
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OnlyBoth Launches 3 AI-Based Healthcare Benchmarking Engines

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OnlyBoth Launches 3 AI-Based Healthcare Benchmarking Engines

OnlyBoth Inc. has launched three new evaluation engines, complementing its original benchmarking engine, designed to meet the healthcare industry and consumer demand for comprehensive provider comparisons. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based engines enable distinct comparative searches for thousands of hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis facilities, long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, home health, and hospice agencies nationwide at www.benchmine.com. Four engine types,
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