What You Should Know:
- Nearly half (48%) of Americans report feeling anxiety before a doctor’s appointment—up nearly 10 percent from 2022 (39%), according to PatientPoint’s 2023 Patient Confidence Index.
- The survey results released in partnership with OnePoll highlight the importance of treating the whole patient and taking their unique circumstances into consideration, as well as empowering moments that matter for better health.
2023 PatientPoint Patient Confidence Index Key
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Intermountain to Replace Cerner with Epic Enterprise EHR by 2025
What You Should Know:
- Intermountain Health, one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems based in Salt Lake City announced the implementation of Epic’s enterprise EHR platform across the organization by the end of 2025. Intermountain’s current contract with Cerner is slated to end by November.
- The deployment will establish a single, unified EHR platform across 33 hospitals and 385 clinics across seven states to optimize cost savings, patient experience, and interoperability.
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Philips Reaches US Economic Loss Resolution for Respiratory Device Recall
What You Should Know:
- Philips Respironics, has reached an agreement to resolve all economic loss claims in the US Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) related to Philips Respironics’ voluntary recall of certain sleep and respiratory care devices.
- The agreement will provide predefined cash awards to all eligible participants in the US depending on the type of device, extended warranties on all replacement devices, and an additional cash award if they return the recalled device
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OM1 Launches Parkinson’s Disease Real-World Datasets for Neuroscience
What You Should Know:
Today, OM1 announced the launch of its Parkinson’s Disease datasets, enhancing its Mental Health & Neuroscience Real-World Data Network.OM1’s Mental Health & Neuroscience Real-World Data Network, which already includes robust datasets focused on Major Depressive Disorder, Multiple Sclerosis, Bipolar Disorder I and Schizophrenia, will further expand to include Alzheimer’s Disease in the coming months.
Parkinson’s Disease Premium Dataset
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GE Healthcare, Mass General Brigham Co-Develop AI Algorithm for Radiology Scheduling Predictions
What You Should Know:
- GE HealthCare and Mass General Brigham form a strategic collaboration on the co-development of an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that will help increase scheduling operations effectiveness and productivity.
- The first innovative AI app from the collaboration is the schedule predictions dashboard of Radiology Operations Module (ROM), a digital imaging tool that helps optimize scheduling, reduce cost, and free providers from administrative burden, allowing
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Augmedix Expands AI Medical Documentation to Behavioral Health Market
What You Should Know:
- Augmedix announced today the expansion of the company’s ambient medical documentation products to the behavioral healthcare market.
Augmedix currently supports behavioral healthcare entities with its Augmedix Live and Augmedix Notes products and will supplement those with its newest product, Augmedix Go, later this year.
Reduces Burnout for Behavioral Health Clinicians
Nearly half of psychologists report burnout or the inability to meet patient demand.
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HTD Health Launches Healthcare AI Practice Led by Erkin Ötles
What You Should Know:
- HTD Health, a New York-based company specializing in virtually-enabled care, EMR integration, and Software as Medical Device (SaMD) design and development, is launching a healthcare AI practice with partner Erkin Ötleş to meet the changing needs of the industry.
- The firm works with healthcare organizations across the sector to plan, design, and build software systems to improve patient engagement, clinical efficiency, care quality, and
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Integral Secures $6.9M to Expand Real-Time Compliance for Life Sciences
What You Should Know:
- Integral, an innovator in safeguarding privacy and maximizing data quality raises $6.9M in seed funding to protect sensitive health data and provide automated expert certification software that enables health and life sciences companies access to compliant, rich, de-identified data in hours, rather than months.
- The seed round was led by Haystack, The General Partnership, and Virtue Ventures, with additional support from Also Capital, Array Ventures,
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Banner Health Taps evolvedMD to Bring Behavioral Health to Primary Care Sites in Phoenix
What You Should Know:
- Banner Health forms a strategic partnership with Phoenix-based evolvedMD to place mental-health providers at Banner’s primary-care clinics, making it easier for people to receive mental health services they may need.
- The integration of mental health services in primary-care settings will be phased in at Banner Medical Group sites throughout metro Phoenix, starting in the East Valley at Banner’s East Mesa and Queen Creek locations.
- Under the program, a
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Viz.ai, UCSF to Commercialize 3 Cardiac AI Algorithms
What You Should Know:
- Viz.ai, an AI-powered disease detection and intelligent care coordination has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to commercialize three AI algorithms for the automated detection of cardiovascular diseases.
- Developed at UCSF by leading researchers, these AI algorithms to detect cardiac amyloidosis, pulmonary hypertension, and supraventricular tachycardia are based on analysis of electrocardiograms (ECGs), the
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