- OODA Health announces that its Board of Directors has promoted co-founder and President Seth Cohen to CEO
- Former CEO and OODA Health Co-Founder Giovanni Colella, M.D., will now serve as Executive Chairman and support Cohen and the Board when it comes to the overall strategy and serving OODA Health’s ecosystem of partners and customers.
OODA Health, a healthcare technology company focused on empowering patients, providers, and payers with real-time healthcare interactions, today
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Lifepoint Informatics Launches App for DrChrono EHR Users to Manage Lab Reports
- Lifepoint leveraged DrChrono’s API to create an app that works seamlessly with its EHR platform to easily order and process lab reports and results. - Medical professionals can place their orders directly within DrChrono EHR via Lifepoint’s app and it will transmit orders electronically.DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future announced today a new partnership with Lifepoint Informatics, a leader in healthcare IT focusing on laboratory outreach connectivity,
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Ride Health Lands $6.2M to Deliver Real-Time Ride Coordination Platform
- Ride Health, an NYC-based real-time ride coordination platform that improves access to care and patient’s ride experience has raised $6.2M in seed funding. - Penn Medicine is already using Ride Health’s ride coordination platform to reduce costs, no-shows, and length-of-stay. - Ride Health now supports transportation benefit management for health plans in 10 states, optimizing utilization across all transportation modes including mileage reimbursement, public transit, ride-hailing,
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Banner Health Deploys Buoy Health AI-Powered Digital Triage Tool
- Banner Health goes live on Bouy Health’s AI-powered digital triage tool for real-time personalized clinical support.Buoy Health (Buoy), the AI-powered platform for consumers that provides real-time personalized clinical support, today announced Banner Health has deployed its digital triage tool, Buoy Assistant, to equip and empower its customers as they navigate the healthcare journey.Headquartered in Arizona, Banner Health is one of the largest nonprofit healthcare systems in the United
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Change Healthcare Launches API & Services Connection to Spur Healthcare Innovation
- Change Healthcare has just announced the launch of API & Services Connection, a of library of APIs that spans the Change Healthcare broad portfolio of solutions and includes AI, Medical Network, Payments, Pharmacy, and RCM products.- Now available on the AWS Marketplace, the new library gives healthcare innovators instant access to the same clinical, financial, operational, and patient experience services that power Change Healthcare’s portfolio of HIT solutions. - Now, innovative
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7 Trends Impacting The Design of Healthcare Environments in 2020
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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