What You Should Know:
- DrChrono integrates with Ricoh’s Smart Integration
Healthcare add-on to enable a medical practice to easily scan a patient’s
driver license to auto-populate the corresponding fields into their EHR/PMS
system.
- The Healthcare add on also includes the ability to directly scan documents, such as referrals, patient history forms, or consent forms. This goes right into the patient record in the EHR, replacing the multiple steps of scanning, saving, and uploading
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ACO to Deploy Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform Across Medicare Population
What You Should Know:
- MultiCare Connected Care announced it will leverage Innovaccer's FHIR®-enabled Data Activation Platform for the Medicare Track 1+ population.
- MultiCare Connected Care is an Accountable Care Organization and a wholly-owned subsidiary of MultiCare Health System based in the state of Washington, one of the largest, not-for-profit health systems.
MultiCare
Connected Care (MCC), one of the leading clinically integrated care
networks in the state of Washington,
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DrFirst, MARQUIS Med Rec Partner to Help Hospitals Improve Patient Safety Through Better Medication Reconciliation
What You Should Know:
- DrFirst and the Society for Hospital Medicine, through its MARQUIS Med Rec Collaborative forms partnership, to work with hospitals to reduce these discrepancies in the medication reconciliation process—one of the most important steps to improve patient safety during transitions of care.
- DrFirst will customize The Collaborative’s current
toolkit, illustrating how its MedHx solution—the healthcare industry’s broadest
source of medication history data available,
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MTBC Acquires RCM Vendor Meridian Medical Management
What You Should Know:
- MTBC acquires Meridian Medical Management, a former GE
Healthcare IT company to enhance its cloud-based healthcare IT solutions and
services.
- Meridian Medical Management has been providing revenue cycle
management solutions to the ambulatory medical practice management marketplace
for over 20 years.
MTBC, Inc., a Somerset,
NJ-based provider of cloud-based
healthcare IT solutions and services announced it has acquired
Meridian Medical Management
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Fitbit Launches Ready for Work Program to Help Employers Manage Workplace Health During COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Fitbit launches new Ready for Work program to help
organizations with the unprecedented challenge of returning to the workplace
during the COVID-19 health crisis.
- The program combines key health biometrics from Fitbit devices along with symptom and temperature tracking into an easy-to-use daily check-in that provides employees with a recommendation on whether to go to work or stay home and seek medical care.
- Early research shows that resting heart rate data
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Abacus Insights Nabs $35M for Interoperability Platform to Help Health Plans Liberate Data
What You Should Know:
- Abacus Insights raises $35M in Series B funding for its data integration platform that enables health insurers to reconcile thousands of unique attributes to create a more personalized healthcare experience in everything from diabetes care and wellness programs to managing the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Abacus Insights’ data platform standardizes, curates, and enriches valuable healthcare data that is currently sitting idle, moving it out of restrictive silos, and
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Carequality Releases Implementation Guide for Electronic Case Reporting
What You Should Know:
- Carequality releases an implementation guide for electronic case reporting that enables automated, electronic case reporting to public health agencies, including the CDC.
- Carequality worked closely with the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) in developing the new implementation guide.
- This is Carequality’s second implementation guide, the first being the Query-Based Document Exchange Implementation Guide, which was originally adopted in 2015
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FDA Approves Cue Health’s Point-of-Care COVID-19 Test Using Nasal Swabs
What You Should Know:
- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded Cue Health Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its rapid, portable, molecular point of care COVID-19 test.
- The company recently raised $100M in Series C funding from Menlo Park-based Decheng Capital, Foresite Capital, Madrone Capital Partners, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc., ACME Capital, and other investment firms.
Cue Health Inc.
(“Cue”), a healthcare
technology company,
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Philips Unveils Fetal and Maternal Pod and Patch for Continuous, Non-Invasive Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Philips unveils Avalon CL Fetal and Maternal Pod and Patch aim to reduce unnecessary physical interactions between clinicians and patients, which is of particular importance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The Fetal and Maternal Pod and Patch allow for continuous, non-invasive monitoring of maternal heart rate, fetal heart rate, and uterine activity with a single-use, 48-hour, disposable electrode patch placed on the mother’s abdomen.
Royal Philips,
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COVID-19: What it Means to American Healthcare: Trends, Impacts, Predictions, and the Road Ahead
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer releases new report, “COVID-19: What it
Means to American Healthcare: Trends, Impacts, Predictions, and the Road Ahead”
that uncovers a two-fold strategy for healthcare organizations to predict the
utilization trend of resources and maps the route from immediate COVID-19
challenges to steps needed to address these barriers.
- The report probes how virtual care and telemedicine IT
solutions rose as the ray of hope in the wake of an unprecedented outbreak
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