U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, has again expanded its relationship with Doximity, the leading medical social network for doctors, to introduce a new tool that allows patients to schedule appointments while searching physician profile pages on usnews.com. Working with Doximity, U.S. News offers a free-to-use online directory of more than 900,000 practicing U.S. physicians, which provides consumers with data and tools that help them
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Fitbit Rolls Out New Digital Health Apps with its Partners to Improve Overall Health
Leading global wearables brand Fitbit, today announced new apps and clock faces to help people better manage their health, directly from the wrist.Built using Fitbit’s SDK, the apps and clock faces will give Fitbit smartwatch users new options to improve wellness and help manage conditions like diabetes and some types of cancer. Additionally, the apps will give health plans, employers and clinical researchers new opportunities to better support their users outside of a clinical environment,
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Capital Region Medical Center to Implement Cerner EHR and Revenue Cycle Solution
Capital Region Medical Center (CRMC) has selected Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, to implement an integrated electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management solutions to support improved health outcomes and optimized revenue functions. University of Missouri (MU) Health Care will extend its Cerner Millennium® domain to CRMC. As an affiliate of MU Health Care since 1997, the domain extension to CRMC will further the health system’s well-established collaboration
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Study: AI Mobile Platform Performs Better than CDC’s Diabetes Program
A new study in this week’s Journal of Medical Internet Research finds that a mobile platform using artificial intelligence helps diabetics and obese people better than the federal government’s National Diabetes Prevention Program. The pilot study, “Weight Loss Using a Novel Mobile Diabetes Prevention Program Delivery Platform With Human Coaching: 65-Week Observational Follow-Up,” published yesterday followed diabetics and obese people over the course of 65 weeks. Participants logged their
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Allscripts to Acquire Mobile Patient Engagement Platform HealthGrid for $60M
Allscripts has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HealthGrid Holding Company, a mobile enterprise patient engagement platform business for $60 million. Once the The acquisition will expand the Allscripts FollowMyHealthplatform portfolio, the company’s patient engagement solution focused on connecting patients with providers. The added functionality will enable providers to reach 100% of their patient populations without requiring patients to sign up for a portal. Instead, the new
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7wireVentures Launch $100M Connected Consumer Health Fund with Coalition of Healthcare Organizations
7wireVentures is an early stage healthcare venture firm based in Chicago has closed a $100 million fund and formed a coalition with eight healthcare provider and plans dedicated to investing in companies that use technology to help consumers get and stay healthy. The coalition of leading healthcare service organizations include Allina Health, Arkansas BlueCross BlueShield, Bon Secours Health System, Cigna, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Memorial Hermann Health System, Rush
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Trinity Health Moves to Epic for Single Integrated EHR & Rev Cycle Platform
Michigan-based provider Trinity Health has announced it has selected Epic for a single, enterprise-wide electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management platform. The Epic integrated system will enable the health system to improve experiences for patients and clinicians.Trinity Health's fully integrated health record will improve the care experience across the entire system by providing a single, comprehensive health record for each person.For patients and consumers, it will provide
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EXL Acquires Payment Integrity Company SCIO Health Analytics for $240M
EXL, an operations management and analytics company has signed an agreement to acquire SCIO Health Analytics, a West Hartford Connecticut-based leading healthcare analytics solution and services company for $240 million, excluding adjustments for cash, debt, and working capital. SCIO has been focused on using next-generation analytics to help payers, providers, and life sciences organizations make the transition to value-based care, improve revenue, reduce financial loss, uncover fraud, waste,
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SwipeSense Acquires Mobile App iScrub Lite for Recording Hand Hygiene Observations
SwipeSense, a Chicago-based healthcare technology company, today announced the acquisition of iScrub Lite, the leading mobile app for hand hygiene observation. Originally conceived and developed by the Computational Epidemiology Research Group at the University of Iowa, iScrub Lite was launched to simplify the time-consuming and error-prone process of recording hand hygiene observations and sharing the results with health care professionals. In fact, the CDC has recommended iScrub Lite as a part
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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Names First-Ever Chief Innovation Officer
Children's Hospital Los Angeles has appointed Omkar P. Kulkarni as the hospital's first chief innovation officer to help drive clinical innovation at one of the nation's top pediatric institutions, starting May 7. In his new role, Kulkarni will be responsible for fostering innovation across CHLA's clinical and research enterprises – including finding successful new methods of care, incubating new medical tools and software, and rallying communities in and out of the hospital to solve problems
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