3M Health Information Systems is expanding its 3M 360 Encompass System platform to introduce encounter-based professional fee coding solution. The new solution brings the power of 3M’s computer-assisted coding, physician query capability and reporting to coding and billing for physician services, helping professional coders improve productivity, boost compliance and decrease claim denials.The University of New Mexico Hospitals (UNMH), a five-hospital system and New Mexico’s only academic medical
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Stanford University to Implement Virtual Reality Platform for Enhanced Patient Engagement
Stanford University, Department of Neurosurgery has announced it will implement Surgical Theater’s Virtual Reality (VR) medical visualization platform to help enhance patient engagement. Precision VR™, Surgical Theater’s VR medical visualization platform, combines leading-edge fighter jet flight simulation technology with the patient’s own anatomy scans, using medical imaging such as MRI and CT, to create a VR reconstruction of the individual patient anatomy and pathology. The technology builds
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StartUp Health Launches ‘Longevity Moonshot’ to Change Face of Aging
StartUp Health, a New York-based global entrepreneurship development company for Healthcare Transformers, today announced the launch of StartUp Health’s Longevity Moonshot, a mission to extend and enhance healthy life by 50+ years and change the face of aging. Building off its participation in the White House Cancer Moonshot and The Cancer Moonshot 2020, the Longevity Moonshot is the first moonshot of focus that StartUp Health is organizing for its community of Healthcare Transformers.
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Oschner Health Pilots Apple Watch to Manage Chronic Diseases
After being the first Epic client to integrate with the Apple HealthKit, Ochsner Health System has announced it is now the first hospital in the nation to use the Apple Watch for managing patients suffering from chronic diseases. As part of the Ochsner Hypertension Digital Medicine Program pilot program, the New Orleans-based provider will utilize the Apple Watch to track several hundred patients who are struggling to control their blood pressure.
How It Works
Through wireless blood
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