SmithGroup one of the nation’s leading integrated design firms has tapped its broad network of 1,300 interdisciplinary design professionals to offer its predictions for the trends and challenges that the design industry will face in the decade ahead. Here are seven trends that are likely to impact the design of health care environments in the 2020s. 1. Adapting to the Climate Crisis“In the last couple of years, the impacts of climate change are increasingly viewed as a global crisis, and I
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HealthMyne Appoints Rose Higgins As New CEO
- HealthMyne appoints Rose Higgins as the company’s new CEO, replacing Arvind Subramanian.
HealthMyne, a provider
of quantitative imaging decision support software solutions, announced the
appointment of Ms. Rose Higgins as the company's new Chief Executive Officer
(CEO). Prior to joining HealthMyne, Higgins served as President for SCIO Health
Analytics, an EXL Services company. Higgins has also served in previous
executive roles at McKesson and RelayHealth.
“Rose was selected to be CEO
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Mayo Clinic Appoints Rita Khan as First-Ever Chief Digital Officer
- Mayo Clinic appoints Rita Khan as the health system’s first-ever chief digital officer to lead Mayo Clinic’s digital health transformation strategy.
- Khan most recently was senior vice president of consumer digital at UnitedHealthcare, where she directed enterprise-level digital strategy.
Mayo Clinic has named Rita Khan chief digital officer, Mayo Clinic where she will help guide Mayo Clinic's strategy as it prepares for transformative changes in the digital space. As Mayo Clinic's
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NextGen Acquires OTTO Health to Expand Telemedicine Capabilities
- NextGen Healthcare acquires telehealth platform OTTO Health to expand its patient engagement capabilities with integrated virtual visits. - NextGen plans to integrate OTTO Health’s telehealth platform with their recently acquired Medfusion patient experience platform.NextGen Healthcare, Inc., a provider of ambulatory-focused technology solutions, announced an agreement to acquire OTTO Health (“OTTO”). The proposed acquisition is expected to close this month, subject to the satisfaction of
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DrFirst’s Patent-Pending AI-Based Tech Solves Major Hurdles to Medication Reconciliation
- DrFirst announced a pending patent for AI technology today that breaks down the “prescription language barriers” between different EHRs – a crucial step in the process to avoid adverse drug events – solving a once intractable problem faced by hospitals. - The new U.S. patented tech uses an advanced approach for applying AI to unstructured medical information to process free text into appropriate data fields of the EHRs, infer missing prescription elements based on context, and convert free
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FDA Breakthrough Status Granted for Heart Failure Algorithm by Eko
- Eko announced the FDA has granted “breakthrough status” for an algorithm that could provide an easily accessible screening test for heart failure during routine physical exams.- This designation is awarded to novel innovations that demonstrate the potential to address unmet medical needs for life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases. - Heart failure is often left untreated until it’s too late due to costs, inaccessibility to echocardiogram testing, or misdiagnosis. With nearly six
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Thrive Earlier Detection Wins the BlueCross BlueShield Data Innovation Challenge
- Thrive Earlier Detection has won the BlueCross BlueShield Data Innovation Challenge for its proposal to evaluate the health-economic impact of earlier multi-cancer detection. - Thrive to analyze more than five years of Blue Cross and Blue Shield claims to detect cancer earlier and more cost-effectively- As part of winning the BlueCross BlueShield Data Innovation Challenge, Thrive will have six months of access to analyze a select dataset from BHI’s database of more than 5 billion covered
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Cerner Integrates Change Healthcare Solutions to Automate Acute Case Management
- Cerner integrates Change Healthcare InterQual Connect medical review and InterQual AutoReview into its EHR and acute case management solution. - Case management innovation supports medical review automation to lessen the administrative burden and increase focus on patient care.Change Healthcare today announced that Cerner Corporation, a global healthcare technology company, has integrated Change Healthcare’s InterQual Connect Medical Review Service and InterQual AutoReview into its Acute Case
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Lilly to Integrate Dexcom CGMs into Personalized Diabetes Management System
- Eli Lilly has announced a global commercialization agreement to integrate Dexcom’s continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices into Lilly’s personalized diabetes management system. - The personalized diabetes management system, currently in development to advance the treatment of diabetes, will integrate connected insulin delivery devices, software and analysis to equip people with diabetes and their healthcare providers with personalized information and guidance to help them better manage
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Accenture Names 11 Finalists from Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge
- Accenture names 11 company finalists from the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge, which seeks to support innovative approaches and solutions for improving the way people access, manage and finance healthcare in North America. - Selected finalists presented to an exclusive panel of judges comprised of senior executives from globally recognized health companies at one of two regional events. One was held in Boston on Nov. 7 and the second in San Francisco on Dec. 5. For those selected as
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