Biotricity today announced the commercial availability of Bioflux, a real-time, high-precision mobile cardiac telemetry solution for customers. The Bioflux system, which received final FDA approval in December, is a complete solution for cardiac monitoring and diagnosis, consisting of the Bioflux device, proprietary software, and a 24/7 monitoring center that merges seamlessly with physicians’ existing platforms and workflows.The Bioflux system is a complete solution for cardiac monitoring and
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Lyft Integrates with Allscripts EHR for Non Emergency Medical Transportation
Lyft Business is announcing a new integration partnership with EHR provider Allscripts. With Lyft-Allscripts integration, 45,000 physician practices, 180,000 physicians and 2,500 hospitals that use Allscripts EHR can easily request a Lyft for their patients. In addition, Lyft also announced its ambitious goal of eliminating transportation barriers to care. Today, 3.6 million Americans have transportation issues that prevent them from getting to or from a doctor’s appointment, and 25 percent of
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Uber Launches Uber Health, an On-Demand Medical Transportation Service for Patients
Uber, today announced the launch of Uber Health, a HIPAA-compliant service that lets health providers book rides for patients. According to the Transit Cooperative Research Program, a federally funded independent research entity, the non-medical-emergency medical transportation market is worth more than $3 billion.With Uber Health, coordinators can schedule rides on behalf of patients, caregivers and staff to take place immediately, within a few hours, or up to 30 days in advance. This allows
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Commvault, Mercy Partner on Cloud backup/Disaster Recovery Solution
Enterprise data management provider Commvault has announced that its Commvault Data Platform was selected by Mercy Technology Services (MTS), the IT backbone of Mercy (a top 5 large U.S. health system), to power its new healthcare cloud disaster recovery (DR) and backup as a service (BaaS) solution.Fully managed by MTS, the new DR and BaaS solution helps small to medium-sized hospitals and other health care organizations apply holistic data management strategies for quick, easy and secure
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Mayo Clinic Partners With Orbita to Transform Patient Journey Through Voice First Experience
Orbita, Inc., a provider of digital experience management solutions for voice and conversational AI technologies in health and wellness applications, and Mayo Clinic have formed a relationship to deliver Mayo Clinic health and wellness content to help transform the patient journey through education, engagement and improved quality of care. The partnership between Orbita’s powerful voice platform and Mayo’s leading content gives organizations the ability to reach, engage and empower audiences in
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eClinicalWorks Launches Acute Care EHR & Revenue Cycle Management
Today, eClinicalWorks, announced it will launch a cloud-based platform for Acute Care EHR and Revenue Cycle Management during HIMSS18, starting at $599 per bed per month. The company is changing the landscape of acute care EHR industry by providing a modern, cloud-based platform with no upfront license fees. Hospitals will have no financial barriers to transition to eClinicalWorks.Hamilton Healthcare System, is expanding its relationship with the company by selecting the platform and will become
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Medtronic Receives FDA Approval for New Arm Indication for Continuous Glucose Monitoring System
Medtronic today announced that the FDA has approved a new arm indication for the Guardian Sensor 3, the company’s most accurate continuous glucose monitoring system and the only sensor approved in the U.S. to help control automated insulin delivery for patient with diabetes via its hybrid closed loop system – the MiniMed 670G system.This expanded indication will enable patients to wear the sensor on the upper arm, providing improved flexibility, enhanced performance for users, as well as
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Cerner Integrates Surescripts Prescription Price Transparency Functionality With EHR
Cerner has announced a collaboration with Surescripts to integrate their Real-Time Prescription Benefit functionality into the Cerner Millennium electronic health record (EHR). Surescripts Real-Time Prescription Benefit will integrate directly into the physician’s workflow to provide patient-specific prescription information at the point of care.Prescription benefit information at the point of care will help facilitate engagement between individuals and their physicians to find the prescription
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M*Modal Closes $70M to Accelerate Investment In NLP/AI Tech Platforms
M*Modal, a Franklin, TN-based provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding solutions, today announced that its largest investors have completed an investment of $70 million in the company by converting debt into equity. This transaction will allow M*Modal to further accelerate its investment in technological innovation in its natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence platform as well as client acquisition. M*Modal’s artificial intelligence (AI) and
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ACOs Generated $300M in Savings Over 3 Years Via Lightbeam Technology
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) using Lightbeam technology have generated over $300M in savings over the last three performance years, since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) began. Lightbeam’s platform facilitates end-to-end population health management for ACOs, payers, provider groups, health systems and other healthcare organizations aspiring to provide superior care at a lower cost.Over the life of the program, Lightbeam
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