CommonWell Health Alliance today announced a new option for health IT vendors and healthcare practitioners looking to connect to the nationwide CommonWell interoperability network. Through the creation of this new CommonWell Connector program, participating CommonWell members who provide health data integration platforms and services will now be able to offer CommonWell services to their customers, including both to provider organizations and to other end-user facing platforms such as
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PerfectServe Acquires AI Patient Scheduling Solution Lightning Bolt and CareWire
After 16 years of bootstrapped success, Lightning Bolt is being acquired by PerfectServe, a provider of cloud-based clinical communication and collaboration solutions. Lightning Bolt’s AI technology enables healthcare organizations to build smarter physician shift schedules that give doctors balanced hours, safer shifts, and more flexibility to take time off, all while still improving patient access.Founded in 2002 and based in San Francisco, California, Lightning Bolt is an AI-enabled solution
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Konica Minolta Deploys AI Robots to Support Patient Care at Hospital in Italy
Konica Minolta announced a collaboration with the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy to better develop artificial intelligence (AI) in robots to assist in both urgent and non-urgent patient care. Specifically, the team wants to study the employment of robots to assist patients and support the work of nurses and doctors by conducting basic monitoring activities. The announcement follows the recent establishment of Konica Minolta’s latest research center
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HealtheConnections and HealthlinkNY Merge to Set New Standard for Regional Health Improvement
Rob Hack, president, and CEO of HealtheConnections, and Staci Romeo, executive director of HealthlinkNY, announced today their companies will merge together into HealtheConnections, forming a health improvement organization that spans 26 counties of the Central New York, Southern Tier, and Hudson Valley regions. The merger follows a strategic partnership announced in September 2018, and, according to Romeo, the teams quickly agreed that a merger would be the best choice to accelerate their goal
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LexisNexis Partners with QuadraMed to Prevent Duplicate Patient Records
LexisNexis and QuadraMed, a division of Harris Healthcare, today announced they have partnered to improve patient matching for QuadraMed’s Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) software and clean-up customers at over 1,200 healthcare facilities. QuadraMed diagnoses, treats, cures and prevents patient identity issues through a comprehensive set of software and services, including duplicate and overlap reconciliation, but its ability to confirm that two records represent the same person is
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BREAKING: eMDs Acquires Ambulatory EHR Aprima to Strengthen Position in Ambulatory EHR Market
eMDs announced today that it has acquired Aprima Medical Software (“Aprima”), a provider of electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PM) software and revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions to ambulatory care organizations. The acquisition strengthens eMDs position in the ambulatory EHR space to serve over 63,000 providers in over 26,000 practices and hospitals across the world.For two decades, Aprima serves physicians in primary care and more than 70 specialties with a fast,
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Prenetics Group Acquires ‘Psychologist in a Pocket’ Kelaa App
Prenetics, a Southeast Asia-based global genetics, and digital health company announced it has acquired Kelaa App, the core product of Soma Analytics and associated assets. Founded in Germany in 2013, the Kelaa’ smartphone app available on Apple and Android devices provides tailored recommendations on how to deal with day-to-day stresses through bite-sized personalized daily sessions for employees and businesses. Used by a number of Britain’s leading medium to large enterprises, including
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Former ONC Chief Karen DeSalvo Joins LRVHealth as Executive Advisor
Former ONC Chief and Assistant Secretary at HHS joins “Inside Healthcare” investing platform focused on identifying and nurturing digital health innovation. Dr. Karen DeSalvo, who served as National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Assistant Secretary for Health (Acting) during the Obama administration is joining LRVHealth as an executive advisor. LRVHealth is an early-stage venture platform exclusively focused on finding, investing in and building disruptive new digital health,
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Phynd Lands $8M to Expand EHR-Integrated Provider Information Platform
Phynd, a Dallas-based provider information management platform, today announced it has raised more than $8 million in Series B funding from participating investors MemorialCare Innovation Fund, Rex Ventures (the investment arm of UNC Health Care), Orlando Healthcare Ventures and Dallas Venture Partners. Provider Information ManagementFounded in 2013, Phynd is a strategic enterprise platform managing all operational provider data, powering your core processes with robust provider data via
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MbientLab Launches Wearable Sensor Solution for Physical & Occupational Therapists
MbientLab, a company building the next generation of sensors and tools for the healthcare industry, announced the availability of its MIOTherapy (MIO) – the first wearable technology platform that integrates the effectiveness of traditional physical therapy with smart sensors, therapeutic exercises, games, and 3D visualization technology to personalize and improve outpatient rehabilitation and accelerate recovery.Wearable Sensor Technology to Improve Outcomes of TherapyUsing a unique combination
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