Sturdy Memorial Hospital (SMH), a full-service independent community hospital has signed a 7-year agreement to implement Cerner’s EHR platform at its 132-bed hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Through this agreement, SMH will use Cerner CommunityWorks, a cloud-based deployment model, tailored to help community health care organizations securely manage patient health history, including clinical and financial data. The software deployed through this model is designed to support transparency
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MedStack Lands $2.4M to Expand Privacy & Security Platform for Healthcare Apps
MedStack, a privacy and security compliance solution for healthcare apps, today announced it has raised a $2.4 million in seed funding. The seed round was led by TELUS Ventures, with participation from ScaleUP Ventures and Panache Ventures. Existing investor Ontario Centres of Excellence and several existing angel investors also participated in this round.The TELUS Ventures investment into MedStack represents a strategic synergy between MedStack's growing reputation as an enabler for digital
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Orbita Expands Voice Capabilities for Voice and Chatbot Apps in Healthcare
Orbita, Inc. today unveiled a trio of enhancements that significantly expand the capabilities of Orbita Voice, a HIPAA-compliant platform for voice and chatbot applications in healthcare. The three new features dramatically simplify the process of designing, building, managing, and optimizing secure, enterprise-grade healthcare applications that integrate conversational AI technology:- Orbita Answers is a unique knowledge management framework for quickly building conversational voice and chatbot
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SCL Health, Zocdoc Launches Real-Time Online Appointment Booking
SCL Health has launched real-time online appointment booking and verified physician reviews powered by Zocdoc, offering its patients seamless, anytime access to a select group of SCL Health providers. The announcements mark SCL Health as the first health system in the Colorado-Montana region to partner with Zocdoc.Partnership DetailsThrough this partnership, patients will be able to find and digitally schedule appointments with participating SCL Health providers any time of day, even when the
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Crossover Health Acquires Virtual Primary Care Platform Sherpaa Health
Crossover Health, a provider of comprehensive health services for self-insured employers, has acquired the exclusive rights to the technology platform developed by Sherpaa Health, the pioneer of virtual primary care. The announcement is part of Crossover Health’s efforts to accelerate the creation of a seamless “in person, online and anytime” system of health for its national base of self-insured employers and their employee members.Virtual Primary Care PioneerFounded in 2012 by Jay Parkinson,
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Penn Medicine, Babyscripts to Develop Postpartum Hypertension Solution
Babyscripts, Inc., a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, announced that they are entering into a strategic partnership with Penn Medicine to improve postpartum health. The strategic partnership will pair Babyscripts’ remote monitoring technology with the knowledge gained from Penn Medicine’s Heart Safe Motherhood program (HSM) to improve the quality of postpartum care while lowering costs.Strategic Partnership BenefitsIn addition, the partnership will develop a solution that enables
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Doctor On Demand Launches Virtual Care Platform to Deliver Primary Care for Health Plan, Employers
Virtual care provider Doctor On Demand, today announced the launch of Synapse, a fully-integrated platform that allows health plans and employers nationwide to deliver primary care coverage virtually for the first time. Synapse will integrate into health plans’ existing networks and provide patients with improved access to the full mind and body care, inclusive of preventive health, chronic care, urgent care, and integrated behavioral health.Synapse by Doctor On Demand OverviewSynapse by Doctor
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CDC Recognizes Lark Health’s A.I. Diabetes Prevention Program
Lark Health, a chronic disease prevention platform, today announced that its AI-based Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) has received Full Recognition status from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Full Recognition is the highest level of clinical recognition for the DPP, and Lark is now the only DPP that uses cutting edge A.I. to be awarded this recognition.Lark's DPP is the second-largest in the country and one of the fastest-growing. Lark's A.I. platform is augmented by
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Survey: Physicians Generate an Average $2.4 Million a Year Per Hospital
Physicians generated an average of $2,378,727 per year in net revenue on behalf of their affiliated hospitals, according to a recent survey. Conducted by Merritt Hawkins, a physician search firm and a company of AMN Healthcare, the survey asked hospital chief financial officers to quantify how much revenue physicians in 18 specialties generated for their hospitals in the previous 12 months. The findings include both net inpatient and outpatient revenue derived from patient hospital admissions,
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Cedars-Sinai Selects Alexa for Smart Hospital Room Pilot to Enhance Patient Experience
Los Angeles-based health system Cedars-Sinai, today announced a new smart hospital room pilot that will allow patients to use an Alexa-powered platform known as Aiva to interact hands-free with nurses and control their entertainment. The aim of the pilot project is to move patient interaction into the 21st century when hospital rooms will need more intelligence and convenience to accommodate changing patient needs."Patients young and old are now used to voice-activated devices in their homes.
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