What You Should Know: - Volaris Group acquires medaptus, a clinical workforce, and workflow solutions that empower healthcare delivery entities to achieve their desired patient, clinical and financial outcomes. Today, Volaris Group has acquired medaptus, a healthcare technology company that removes the administrative burden from hospital and group practice operations to enable higher efficiency throughput. Removing common and costly workflow barriers from
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Future of Femtech and Technology: An Emerging Innovative Crossroads
In recent years the technological field has taken revolutionary steps to balance out gender disparities. This has led to the advent of a female-centric health technology market that utilizes tech as a proponent for women's health and overall wellness. You must have seen (or at least heard of) an app that focuses explicitly on women's issues. These tools are part of a growing collaboration between health and technology known as femtech. Areas that are currently represented include sex and
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AstraZeneca, CCT Partner to Conduct COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trials in Arizona
What You Should Know: - AstraZeneca and CCT announce a partnership to conduct COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials in Arizona with 1,500 participants. CCT Research (CCT), a leader in community-based, embedded clinical research, today announced its partnership with AstraZeneca to advance COVID-19 research. Together with local healthcare providers, CCT will facilitate clinical trials for the AZD1222 COVID-19 VACCINE,
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Providence Taps Nuance to Develop AI-Powered Integrated Clinical Intelligence
What You Should Know: - Nuance Communications, Inc. and one of the country’s largest health systems, Providence, announced a strategic collaboration, supported by Microsoft, dedicated to creating better patient experiences and ease clinician burden. - The collaboration centers around Providence harnessing Nuance’s AI-powered solutions to securely and automatically capture patient-clinician conversations. - As part of the expanded partnership, Nuance and Providence will jointly
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NeuroFlow Joins Epic App Orchard for Behavioral Health Integration
What You Should Know: - NeuroFlow, the leader in technology-enabled behavioral health integration, is now available to healthcare providers through Epic’s App Orchard marketplace. NeuroFlow combines provider workflow augmentation solutions, clinical care dashboards, and a patient-facing application to create a clinical feedback loop centered around behavioral health. - Patient generated data including validated assessment scores, mood and sleep ratings, and journal
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WELL Health Integrates with Cerner’s Patient Portal to Simplify Patient Communication
What You Should Know: - Cerner is striking a deal with patient communication hub company WELL Health to change its patient communication technology for its provider customers. - Through Cerner’s HealtheLife, the new capabilities will pull from a myriad of systems and apps to help improve communication and reduce administrative time for clinicians and staff. Cerner Corporation, a global health care technology company, today announced new capabilities designed to take the interaction
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M&A: RxVantage Acquires onPoint Oncology to Expand Offering to Oncology Practices
What You Should Know: - RxVantage has acquired onPoint Oncology to provide cancer care teams with on-demand access to educational resources, reimbursement data, and analytics. - The acquisition of onPoint Oncology builds on RxVantage’s rapidly expanding digital offerings for providers. In April, RxVantage launched Virtual Meetings to help providers reestablish access to life science experts amidst the disruptions caused by COVID-19. RxVantage, the leading digital
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HST Pathways and Casetabs Merge to Form ASC Practice Management Powerhouse
What You Should Know: - HST Pathways and Casetabs announce merger to power surgical communication combined with the industry leader in ASC practice management. - The combined company is supported by a majority investment led by private equity company Bain Capital Tech Opportunities with a minority investment from Nexxus Holdings. HST Pathways (“HST”) and Casetabs, two leading providers of innovative, cloud-based software for ambulatory surgery centers (“ASCs”)
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FDA Awards Eli Lilly Emergency Use Authorization for Antibody to Treat COVID-19
What You Should Know: - Eli Lilly is awarded Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the FDA for its monoclonal antibody for the treatment of recently diagnosed, mild to moderate COVID-19 in high-risk patients. - U.S. government will allocate 300,000 doses of bamlanivimab to high-risk patients, with no out-of-pocket costs for the medication. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Eli Lilly and Company's (NYSE: LLY)
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VHA, Ontrak Launch 3-Year AI Study to Help Prevent Veteran Suicide
What You Should Know: - The Veterans Health Administration has selected Ontrak in collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Brown University to transform suicide prevention care for veterans. - Leveraging AI developed by a Harvard Medical School professor and the core analytics of the Ontrak platform, the three-year study will look at the effect of intensive care coaching in addition to the standard of care for veterans at high risk of suicide after inpatient hospitalization at a
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