DrChrono, today announced a new a new offer for current Practice Fusion customers that want to move their data from their current system to the DrChrono cloud-based EHR platform. Current Practice Fusion customers that want to sign up for this new plan from DrChrono receive special discounted pricing, a free iPad and data importing.Practice Fusion, after being acquired by Allscripts for $100M, recently announced to their users that their EHR would no longer be free. Their users, by continuing to
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TriNetX Launches Research Analytics Solutions for Use with Its Clinical & Genomic Data
TriNetX, the global health research network, today announced the availability of TriNetX Research, a suite of analytics solutions to leverage real-world data when conducting observational and outcomes research. TriNetX Research combines longitudinal clinical and genomic data from its global network with powerful, state-of-the-art analytics on a single self-service platform. Researchers will now have access to the fastest and easiest method to create real-world evidence (RWE) and enable
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Gender Parity Remains Elusive in Health IT, Despite Recent Progress
Chasm Partners, a leading executive search firm in the healthcare technology and services space, recently convened a roundtable discussion to evaluate the state of gender parity in the healthcare IT space, as well as explore the benefits that gender diversity creates for health organizations. The discussion revealed gender parity is most effective when it’s a component of broader, organization-wide cultural change and women must known their own value to effectively become their own advocates of
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Philips, AHA & UPMC Launch $30M Fund to Spur Health Innovation in Heart Disease and Stroke Care
Philips, American Heart Association (AHA) and UPMC’s announcement to launch Cardeation Capital, a new $30 million venture fund designed to spur healthcare innovation in heart disease and stroke care. With cardiovascular disease costs projected to exceed $1 trillion by 2035, this initiative will play a critical role in transforming care for a healthier, less costly tomorrow.The fund will be managed by Aphelion Capital where each company has committed $10 million and will work together to identify
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Celsius Therapeutics Launches with $65M to Develop Precision Therapeutics for Autoimmune Disease & Cancer
Celsius Therapeutics, a company translating single-cell genomic insights into precision therapeutics for autoimmune diseases and cancer, launched with a $65 million Series A financing led by Third Rock Ventures with participation from GV (formerly Google Ventures), Heritage Provider Network, Casdin Capital, Alexandria Venture Investments and other key investors. Celsius is charting a new course of target and drug discovery by understanding the specific cells, among many others, that are key
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Partners with Sharecare to Provide Personalized Health Platform to Members
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross) today announced that it is partnering with Sharecare, the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, to offer its personalized health platform to Blue Cross commercial customer groups and members starting in 2019. This partnership will provide exclusivity to Blue Cross as the only Minnesota-based plan to offer the Sharecare platform.As part of the agreement, Sharecare will serve as the foundation for Blue
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SnapMD Launches Patient Presenter Workflow Capabilities
Today, SnapMD, the full-service enterprise telehealth technology innovator and solutions provider, launched a new Patient Presenter Workflow functionality within its Virtual Care Management (VCM) telehealth platform. The new provider interface seat type is a fast and easy means to bring care to patients in a wide variety of settings. Whether it’s a virtual consult for a child at school, advice to caregivers for a patient in hospice, or a specialist consult from a patient’s bedside, the VCM
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Change Healthcare Unveils Clinical Decision Support Tool, InterQual 2018
Change Healthcare unveiled InterQual 2018, a clinical decision support solution, that delivers updates and enhanced clinical criteria, as well as new disruptive technology, such as InterQual AutoReview. InterQual is regularly updated with rigorously objective clinical criteria. This year's release benefits from a new proprietary literature surveillance system that automatically analyzes over 3,000 medical literature sources daily and flags newly published information for the clinical team to
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Evolent Health Partners with SOMOS IPA to Accelerate Transition to Value-Based Care
Evolent Health, a company providing an integrated value-based care platform to the nation's leading provider organizations, today announced it has partnered with SOMOS IPA to accelerate value-based care in New York. The partnership will focus first on supporting the performance goals of New York's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program for approximately 300,000 New York residents and will serve as a platform to expand to other value-based care arrangements.Evolent is supporting
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AHRQ Report: Mobile Apps Have Little Clinical Evidence of Improving Diabetes for Patients
A new report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on mobile phone applications for diabetes patients reveals that out of hundreds of commercially available apps, only 11 had been researched, and of these, only five were associated with clinically significant improvements in levels of blood sugar control as measured by hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) tests.Report OverviewAHRQ-funded researchers sought to understand the effectiveness of roughly 280 apps that may be used to support
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