What You Need to Know:
- Today, telemedicine leader Cloudbreak Health launched a free app with free service for hospitals to help fight the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
- Cloudbreak’s devices have already been used with suspected COVID-19 patients whose primary language was something other than English, including at the University of California at San Diego’s dedicated coronavirus clinic.
Cloudbreak Health (“Cloudbreak”), unified telemedicine and video medical
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Coronavirus Forces Cancellation of 2020 HIMSS Conference: 6 Things to Know
What You Need to Know:
- Amidst growing fears of exposure to the COVID-19 Coronavirus HIMSS announced the cancellation of the 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, marking the first cancellation in 58 years.
- The advisory panel recognized that industry understanding of the potential reach of the COVID-19 Coronavirus h has changed significantly in the last 24 hours.
- Over the last week, COVID-19 Coronavirus has become a global topic of concern. Gov. Ron DeSantis
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Xealth Joins Epic App Orchard for EHR-Driven Digital Health Engagement
What You Need to Know:
- Xealth announces it has joined the Epic App Orchard Marketplace to drive digital health engagement for health systems using Epic EHR by optimizing the ordering, delivery, and monitoring of your digital health apps, content, products, and services across the enterprise.
- Through the secure Xealth platform, clinicians can find and order the right digital health tools and programs for patients direct from the EHR workflow, send these digital health orders to the
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Hospitals Are Failing to Meet New Moms’ Expectations for Digital Health, Xealth Survey Finds
What You Need to Know:
- Hospitals are failing to meet new moms’ expectations for digital health services from their healthcare providers, according to a new Xealth survey.
- Conducted among nearly 1,000 U.S. women who are new or expectant mothers, a majority (53%) who are familiar with digital health see online information as a key factor in choosing a hospital.
Xealth, a Seattle, WA-based provider enabling digital health at scale, announced recent survey findings that examine the
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Innovaccer Launches InAPI to Build Apps on FHIR APIs to Promote Interoperability
What You Need to Know:
- Innovaccer launches InAPI to build apps on FHIR APIs access for in-house development teams and third-party developers to enable seamless data.
- The platform enables easy development of healthcare apps and promotes healthcare data interoperability among systems to enable care as one.
Innovaccer,
a Silicon Valley-based healthcare
technology company, announced that it will be launching InAPI, its new
technology platform for healthcare developers that
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Amwell Launches National Coronavirus (COVID-19) Telehealth Response Program
What You Need to Know:
- Amwell launches a national Coronavirus (COVID-19) telehealth response program to help hospitals, health systems, and health plans manage and mitigate coronavirus spread.
- Telehealth can serve as a force multiplier in the public health response to the COVID-19 outbreak, improving access to care directly from the home.
- Amwell has established an always-on-call infection control officer, COVID-19 specific workflows to guide clinical operations and quality, and
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Clarify Health to use LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Socioeconomic Data
What You Need to Know:
- LexisNexis Risk Solutions, that it has partnered with Clarify Health to evaluate the predictive capability of social determinants of health and clinical data.
- The collaboration’s approach will integrate individual-level SDOH data into Clarify Health’s clinical analytical models to evaluate the quality and efficacy of the data at the point of care to help drive care management decision-making.
- Clarify Health’s analytical models help identify population
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Due to Coronavirus Outbreak, Medicomp Systems Pulls Out of HIMSS20
What You
Need to Know:
Medicomp Systems cancels its participation in the HIMSS 2020 conference due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak posing an unacceptable health risk for its staff.
Medicomp Systems, a Washington, D.C.-based provider
of clinician-driven, point-of-care solutions that fix EHRs, announced today that the company is
canceling its participation in the 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference &
Exhibition, March 9–13, 2020 in Orlando to protect the health and safety of
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Emory Healthcare, Verizon Opens Nation’s First 5G Healthcare Innovation Lab
- The Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband network is now live at the Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub (EHIH) in Atlanta, becoming the nation’s first 5G healthcare innovation lab.
- The 5G healthcare innovation lab at EHIH will test how 5G could enhance augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications for medical training, enable telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, and provide a point of care diagnostic and imaging systems from the ambulance to the ER.
- Verizon joins EHIH’s partner
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Fitbit, FibriCheck Expand Partnership to Deliver CE-Marked Heart Health Detection App in Europe
- Fitbit and FibriCheck have expanded their partnership to enable users in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain to monitor their heart rhythm for irregularities, such as Atrial Fibrillation (AFib), directly from their Fitbit smartwatch.
- The partnership was first announced in September 2019, when the FibriCheck app was made available to Fitbit smartwatch users in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Since the app launched on Fitbit OS, more than 150,000 heart rhythm measurements have
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