Biotricity - a medical diagnostic and consumer healthcare technology company dedicated to delivering innovative, biometric remote monitoring solutions, that details how the Company has received its 510(k) clearance for its Bioflux device with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This latest 510(k) is the final FDA requirement needed for Biotricity to bring to market Bioflux in the U.S.Bioflux consists of a proprietary mobile ECG monitoring device and an ECG viewer software package, that
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Cigna Acquires Brighter to Expand Digital Health Engagement of Consumers
Health insurer giant Cigna has announced the acquisition of Brighter Inc., a SaaS-based digital health plan platform and engagement service provider to leading health services organizations. The acquisition of Brigther's digital health plan platform will build upon the already successful relationship between Cigna and Brighter by accelerating the development of Cigna’s mobile and desktop platforms and creating new end-to-end experiences that connect health consumers and providers with the
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Doctor.com, Connect Health Merge to Power the Digital Patient Journey
Doctor.com has merged with Connect Healthcare, a provider of SaaS provider directory and reputation management solutions to healthcare enterprises. For the first time, healthcare organizations can manage provider data, search, online listings, patient feedback analysis, reputation monitoring, transparency, and online scheduling -- all from one unified platform.Doctor.com seamlessly integrates provider data warehousing, web-wide listings management, reputation insights, universal online
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YC-Backed Elemeno Health Nabs $1.3M for Cloud-Based Virtual Coach
Elemeno Health, a Y Combinator-backed digital health startup has raised $1.3 million in seed funding led by Launchpad Digital Health. The startup plans to use the funding to expand and invest in its proprietary cloud solution for frontline healthcare teams. Currently, Elemeno Health’s app is in use by teams in multiple health systems in California, including UCSF.Founded in 2016 by UCSF Associate Professor Arup Roy-Burman, MD, and veteran Electronic Arts (EA) Game Developer Ed Nanale, Elemeno
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drchrono EHR Integrates With FlexScanMD to Help Medical Practices Track Product Inventory
Mobile EHR provider drchrono has announced its new integration partnership with the leading provider of cloud-based, medical inventory management, FlexScanMD. The new integration between drchrono and FlexScanMD allows medical practices to seamlessly track the products they stock, dispense and sell. Although inventory management is highly critical to many medical practices, it is often handled manually due to the lack of communication between a practice’s inventory management software, EHR and
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TriNetX Launches NLP Service to Extract Clinical Facts From Physician Notes & Clinical Reports
TriNetX, a global health research network for healthcare organizations, biopharmaceutical companies, and Contract Research Organizations (CROs), today announced the general availability of its Natural Language Processing (NLP) service. TriNetX’s NLP service utilizes sophisticated algorithms to extract clinical facts from physician notes and clinical reports, links them with other Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data, and makes the combined data available for assessing study feasibility, protocol
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SymphonyCare Acquires Empower Patient Portal Business Unit from Influence Health
SymphonyCare, a population health and patient engagement solutions company has acquired the Empower patient portal business unit from Birmingham, AL-based Influence Health. The acquisition was led by SymphonyAlpha Ventures, the venture capital arm of Symphony Corporation, a leader in digital healthcare innovation and technology solutions. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.The Empower patient engagement product alone currently reaches more than a half a million patients
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NIH Awards $70M to Launch Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials Consortium
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it is expected to award up to $70 million over five years to three physician-scientists to launch the Alzheimer's Clinical Trials Consortium (ACTC). The consortium will create a network of 35 Alzheimer's disease trial sites across the country with the goal of finding new ways to treat or prevent Alzheimer's. Reisa Sperling, MD, director of the Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment at Brigham and Women's Hospital, will collaborate with
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GHX Launches Solution to Integrate Supply Chain With Epic EHR Clinical Data
Today, GHX introduced a new solution that will allow providers to connect two of its most important business processes – the item master and the EHR -- and confidently answer the total cost of procedure. GHX Clinical ConneXion is the industry’s the first solution to provide a single source of truth for item information to support clinical documentation and patient billing, including supply and implant capture at the point of use. The first implementation is with the Epic Enterprise EHR
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Rev Cycle Startup Cedar Launches With $13M for Data-Driven Patient Payment Solution
Revenue cycle management-focused startup Cedar has announced its entry into the health IT market with a new data-driven patient payment solution. Supported by $13M in Series A funding, the Cedar platform, which powers solutions for hospitals, health systems and medical groups, delivers modern intelligence to alleviate collections challenges, improve billing operations and ensure a personalized billing experience for patients.A Data-Driven Payment Solution for Hospitals and Medical GroupsToday,
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