Zynx Health, a provider of evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions, announced the launch of ZynxPeds, a suite of pediatric-specific and pediatric-appropriate order set and care plan content developed to address the unique care requirements of pediatric patients. ZynxPeds was developed in partnership with the acclaimed Akron Children’s Hospital, one of the country’s top-ranked children’s hospitals.ZynxPeds OverviewClinicians from Akron Children’s initially developed the
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Fitbit Launches New Connected Health Platform for Employers, Health Plans and Health Systems
Global wearables provider Fitbit, today launched Fitbit Care, a connected health platform for employers, health plans and health systems that combines health coaching and virtual care through the new Fitbit Plus™ app, Fitbit’s innovative wearable devices, and self-tracking and personalized digital interventions to help improve wellness, disease management, and prevention.With the introduction of Fitbit Care, Fitbit is delivering on its commitments to expand the company’s healthcare offerings and
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Dignity Health, OODA Health Partner to Offer Real-Time Consumer Payment Model
Dignity Health today announced that it will streamline payments between payors and providers to improve the patient experience through a strategic technology partnership with OODA Health. The OODA Health digital platform will help address historic and technological barriers between payors and providers by enabling real-time claims payments. The instantaneous nature of this technology will alleviate the administrative back and forth that ties up physicians’ time and causes patients undue worries
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Inova Personalized Health Accelerator Invests in Cyrano Therapeutic
Inova Personalized Health Accelerator (IPHA), announced it has invested in a new therapy company Cyrano Therapeutics that is developing a solution to address a major unmet need in patients with olfactory impairment. Sense of smell can often be taken for granted until it is lost. This occurs most commonly by sino-nasal disease and upper respiratory infection, and in many cases, by head trauma.Cyrano Therapeutics understands the profound impact these senses can have on the quality of life and is
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Meditech Launches New App Development Environment with API, FHIR Support
EHR vendor MEDITECH, today announced the launch of their new app development, MEDITECH Greenfield. Greenfield lays the groundwork for visionaries and innovators to create a better future for providers, patients, and consumers, with technology that connects communities and enables better care.MEDITECH Greenfield OverviewSupported by RESTful APIs, including FHIR, Greenfield is an open space for MEDITECH customers and third-party developers to cultivate homegrown applications. MEDITECH's API
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CareCloud to Use Google Cloud Healthcare API to Accelerate Interoperability
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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