- Shriners Hospitals for Children establishes new genomics institute to advance precision medicine in partnership with Genome Medical to return actionable genetic findings for pediatric patients. - Genomics Institute at Shriners Hospitals will offer genetic sequencing to patients at its 22 hospitals and outpatient locations in North America and from its international network of outreach clinics.Shriners Hospitals for Children is teaming up with Genome Medical to ensure that pediatric patients
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Syapse Leverages Machine Data Analytics to Safeguard Global Patient Data
- Today, Syapse and Sumo Logic have released an announcement furthering the support and delivery of valuable real-world data-based insights to its health system and life sciences partners. - Sumo Logic’s standardized process, security and audit capabilities are helping Syapse through a global health system network, adhere to strict healthcare data regulations.Sumo Logic, the leader in continuous intelligence, today announced that Syapse has chosen Sumo Logic to support the delivery of valuable
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Study Reveals First-Ever Predictive Model for Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes Related to Social Determinants
- Landmark study released from Stanford Medical School reveals a first-ever predictive model for uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus related to social determinants of health. - Peer-reviewed study released August issue of Medical Care that sheds light on an important aspect of T2DM causality, and addressing them has the potential to save the US Healthcare system billionsDr. Sanjay Basu and Dr. Rajiv Narayanaswamy, in conjunction with Stanford Medical School recently released an article in an
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Karuna Labs’ VR Rehab Management Now Available for Workers Comp Patients with Chronic Pain
- Karuna Labs, creator of personalized functional restoration and chronic pain management programs using virtual reality (VR) technology, is available to patients through workers’ compensation insurance. - Karuna Labs’ Virtual Embodiment Therapy will increase adherence to physical therapy and focus on exercises performed in daily living to improve quality of life.Virtual Reality (VR) technology is now being integrated workers comp injuries in order to alleviate chronic pain and improve range of
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Propeller Users Can Now “Ring” The Sensor From App to Find Their Lost Inhaler
- Propeller Health now allows users to “ring” their Propeller sensor from the app to find their lost inhaler. - Find My Inhaler update puts patient feedback into practice, making it easier for users to quickly find their misplaced inhaler.This week, Propeller Health announced that now Propeller users will be able to “ring” the sensor on a misplaced inhaler to make it easier to find, through an update to the Find My Inhaler feature in the Propeller app. This is a feature that patients
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Kaiser Associates’ Healthcare Practice Is Now Kx Advisors
- Kaiser Associates launches healthcare strategy consultancy Kx Advisors to help clients reach their critical growth goals.
Kaiser Associates announce the launch of Kx Advisors, a healthcare strategy consultancy dedicated to helping achieve critical business growth goals in partnership with its clients in Pharma, Biotech, Medical Device, and Health IT. The new consultancy is already operating under the Kx Advisors name at the Washington D.C., London, and Hong Kong offices.
For more than 30
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Twistle Raises $16M to Expand Patient Engagement Platform
- Seattle-based health IT innovator Twistle raises $16M in Series A funding from two major healthcare investors: Health Enterprise Partners (HEP) and MemorialCare Innovation Fund (MCIF). - The funding investors are healthcare-centric: MCIF is a strategic healthcare investment fund wholly-owned by a healthcare system and HEP is a private equity firm that invests exclusively in healthcare services and IT companies.- The funding will accelerate the delivery of personalized care guidance through
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4 Common Misconceptions About Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
- Alegeus report uses participant data to debunk four common misconceptions about health savings accounts (HSAs) that consumers have about HSAs.
Alegeus, a provider of consumer-directed healthcare (CDH) solutions unveiled part two of its research series on health savings account (HSA) participants, the 2019 Alegeus HSA Participant Profile. For the report, Alegeus conducted a survey of more than 1,400 U.S. healthcare consumers in order to:
• Measure the general understanding of HSAs among
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Lumeon Launches Care Pathway Blueprints for Easy-to-Deploy Workflow Templates
- Lumeon launches care pathway blueprints that enable providers to quickly deploy efficient ready-made care processes that apply best practice by design.
- Starter library of 15 ready-made pathway blueprints in high priority areas, including diabetes screening, pre-surgical optimization, post-discharge heart failure and post-discharge comprehensive care for joint replacement (CJR).
Lumeon,
a Boston, MA-based provider
of care pathway management, announced the launch
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BioSymetrics Launches New AI Capability to Improve Patient Outcomes
- First biomedical machine learning framework BioSymetrics introduces a new component that enables users to reduce bias, increase speed to market and improve patient outcomes.
- Augusta Architect enables data scientists in hospitals, healthcare systems, and pharmaceutical companies to perform fast, effective data pre-processing and ML.
- New component has a simple syntax that allows users to quickly process and integrate multiple, diverse datatypes and run or compare multiple ML
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