What You Should Know:
- HHS launches an initiative to measure how office-based
physicians use health IT, including key measures on interoperability and
burden.
- ONC awards a three-year cooperative agreement to the American Board of Family Medicine to develop key measures related to health IT use and the interoperability of health information, etc.
Today, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched an initiative to
measure health
information technology (health
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Rambam Opens Largest Underground COVID-19 Facility in Israel
What You Should Know:
- Rambam opens the largest COVID-19 facility in Israel for COVID-19 patients hospitalized in a fortified underground emergency hospital.
Due to the increase in COVID-19 cases in Israel, Rambam Health Care Campus has opened the largest COVID-19 treatment center in Israel. COVID-19 patients at Rambam Health Care Campus are now being hospitalized in the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital, which opened earlier today for the first time since its
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Change Healthcare Launches Solution to Enable Pharmacies to Manage COVID-19 Test Billing
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare launches a new solution that simplifies
billing to bring more COVID-19 testing options to consumers.
- New service
enables pharmacies to manage COVID-19 test billing within their traditional Rx
claims processes, driving the potential to dramatically expand U.S. testing
capabilities.
Change
Healthcare, announced a new solution, MedRx
that makes it easier for consumers to get COVID-19 testing in their local
pharmacies. The company’s
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Embright Taps Innovaccer to Advance Population Health Initiatives
What You Should Know:
-Clinically integrated network (CIN) Embright selects Innovaccer to advance population health initiatives across its network.
- The clinically integrated network will leverage Innovaccer’s Data Activation Platform to track its overall performance and address patient healthcare needs.
Innovaccer, Inc., a healthcare technology company, today announced it has partnered with Embright, a Pacific Northwest-based clinically integrated network (CIN) founded by UW
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M&A: Anthem Reportedly in Negotiations to Acquire CareCentrix
What You Should Know:
- Health insurer Anthem
is in late-stage negotiations to acquire home healthcare benefits manager CareCentrix, according to PE Hub.
- PE Hub reports
that customer concentration issues have been a factor in negotiations; however,
the deal is far from certain.
- Backed by growth private equity firm Summit Partners, East Hartford, CT-based
CareCentrix provides specialty benefit management services to health plans,
improving quality and reducing costs in several
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Tampa General, Philips Ink 7-Year Partnership to All Bedside Patient and Vital Sign Monitors
What You Should Know:
- Tampa General Hospital announces a
seven-year strategic partnership with Philips to innovate and improve patient
experience.
- As part of the partnership, Tampa
General will replace all bedside patient and vital sign monitors throughout the
1,006-bed hospital and upgrade key imaging equipment in the catheterization
laboratories and interventional radiology rooms.
Tampa General Hospital
(TGH) and Philips today
announced they are creating a
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Parexel Acquires Healthcare NLP Provider Roam Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Parexel acquires healthcare software company Roam
Analytics, Inc. to strengthen and enhance Parexel’s pharmacovigilance (PV)
services.
- The acquisition provides significant opportunities to
apply Roam Analytics’ natural language processing (NLP) technology to further
streamline and extract insights from unstructured data.
- Parexel will also use Roam’s AI technology to leverage
various data, from clinical notes, medical images, patient surveys,
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Ascensia Diabetes Care Partners With VisiQuate to Expand Beyond Blood Glucose Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Ascensia Diabetes Care and VisiQuate announced a
partnership to expand beyond blood glucose monitoring and provide holistic
diabetes management solutions.
- The overall solution will provide integration with
Ascensia’s existing devices and digital diabetes solutions to enable it to
capture data from patients who have consented to provide their information.
Ascensia Diabetes Care,
a Santa Rosa, CA-based provider of blood glucose monitoring systems
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RADLogics Secures FDA Clearance for AI-Powered Chest X-Ray App for Triage & Prioritization
What You Should Know:
- RADLogics today announced that it has secured
510(k) clearance from the FDA for the company’s novel AI-Powered chest X-ray pneumothorax application,
which identifies and prioritizes chest X-ray scans that appear
to contain a pneumothorax, a collapsed lung, for urgent radiologist review.
- RADLogics’ FDA cleared CT and X-ray solutions
– including this application – are
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Medable Launches TeleConsent for Clinical Trials to Streamline Approvals During Decentralized Trials
What You Should Know:
- Medable launches Teleconsent, part of its Telehealth
family of cloud-based software for decentralized clinical trials.
- The application represents the next big step in
enabling fully virtual trials and is key to patient-centric trial design
because it allows patients to handle the lengthy process of consenting – and
re-consenting – to trial participation conveniently from anywhere.
Medable Inc.,
a software provider for decentralized clinical trials,
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