With true implementation beyond a system go live, optimizing IT/EHR performance (32 percent) and overcoming IT staff shortages (31 percent) were cited almost equally as the most significant challenges in 2018, according to the sixth annual Health IT Industry Outlook Survey conducted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. The report reveals 40 percent of health IT leaders rated measuring improvement in patient care quality as the top business objective in 2018, followed by identifying areas of cost
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Ambra Health to Launch Cloud Medical Imaging Platform in Japan
Ambra Health, a medical data and image management SaaS company has inked a distribution agreement with Japanese medical distributors and a subsidiary company of Mitsubishi Corporation MC Healthcare to launch the Ambra Health medical imaging platform in Japan. The announcement marks MC Healthcare’s first digital health solution offered in the Japanese market. The healthcare industry in Japan is characterized by similar trends occurring in the United States, including the strong need for
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Genoox & Bionano Partner to Detect Disease-Causing Structural Variants
Genoox, a genetic data analysis company, recently partnered with Bionano Genomics to better identify the nearly 20k potentially disease-causing SVs in the human genome. By combining Genoox technology and Bionano mapping data, the new Genoox integrated platform will offer clinicians a single platform for accurate detection of genetic mutations for rare disease. Genoox and Bionano intend to co-sell and co-market the integrated platform for research and future clinical applications.Children’s
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ResApp Develops Sound-based Algorithm to Diagnose Sleep Apnea via Smartphone
ResApp Health, the Australian digital health startup that has been working on software for smartphones that can diagnose respiratory diseases from the sound signatures of coughs (US clinical trials underway), has announced a new area of development – a diagnostic test to diagnose obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) using a smartphone – simply by leaving the smartphone next to one’s bed to record sounds of the subject while sleeping – and then the algorithms provide a diagnosis (similar AI use to the
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SERMO’s FICO Score for Drugs Tops 3 Million Data Points
SERMO's FICO score for drugs; First of its kind clinical decision tool now includes 600,000 ratingsSERMO, a global social network for physicians has announced major growth in physician ratings of pharmaceutical drugs on its one-of-a-kind Drug Ratings platform. With 625,000 individual ratings across several criteria submitted exclusively by physicians as of March 2018, Drug Ratings is the largest unbiased, global database of physician feedback on drugs.Launched in May 2017, Drug Ratings is the
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healthfinch Nabs $6M for Charlie Practice Automation Platform
healthfinch, a Madison-based healthcare IT startup, has secured $6 million in funding led by Adams Street Partners to continue building and supporting its award-winning Charlie Practice Automation Platform. This funding brings the company’s total raised to over $17MM since it was founded in 2011.The Charlie Practice Automation Platform, developed by healthfinch, automates routine, repetitive clinical tasks in athenahealth, Epic, and Allscripts EMRs. Its refill management and visit planning
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Aetion Raises $36M to Expand Evidence Analytics Platform for Value-Based Care
Aetion, a software platform company that delivers real-world analytics and evidence needed for biopharma and payers to engage in value-based care, has raised $36.4 million in Series B funding. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and included a new investor, Amgen Ventures, alongside existing investors Flare Capital Partners, Lakestar and Oxeon Ventures. Mohamad Makhzoumi of NEA will join the Aetion board of directors.With the addition of the $36 million, Aetion has raised a
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Zocdoc Joins Epic App Orchard to Enable Patient Self-Scheduling
Zocdoc, the digital health marketplace used by millions of patients, today announced its availability in the Epic App Orchard. Dozens of leading health systems take advantage of an API integration between Zocdoc and Epic, and Zocdoc's inclusion in the App Orchard program creates a more streamlined experience. Customers include the Mount Sinai Health System, Houston Methodist, and many more.As an App Orchard contributor, Zocdoc will utilize application programming interfaces (APIs), which serve
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Oracle Health Unveils mHealth Connector Cloud Service to Collect Patient Data During Clinical Trials
Oracle Health Sciences releases its new mHealth Connector Cloud Service that will enable clinical study teams to remotely collect e-Source data from patient sensors, wearables and apps during their clinical trials, all while delivering a new level of patient engagement and centricity.“We are thrilled to announce our new mHealth Connector as it holds great promise in speeding clinical trials and bringing more drugs to market faster. Being able to take what used to be patient-recorded data and
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Critical Access Hospital Replaces Paragon with eClinicalWorks Acute Care EHR
Waverly Health Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital located in Waverly, Iowa is expanding its relationship with eClinicalWorks by replacing their existing EHR from Paragon Inpatient to eClinicalWorks Acute Care EHR and Revenue Cycle Management. This transition will reduce overall implementation costs while creating unified patient records in inpatient and outpatient communities while ensuring the seamless exchange of information.“At Waverly Health Center we are dedicated to providing high
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