Ascensia Diabetes Care has announced a new global partnership with Zhejiang POCTech, Co., Ltd (POCTech), a developer and manufacturer of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems for people with diabetes. As part of the collaboration, Ascensia will be the exclusive distributor of POCTech’s CGM in selected countries, with distribution anticipated to start later this year. Ascensia and POCTech have also entered into an agreement to co-develop next-generation products, leveraging expertise from
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CentralReach Acquires Managed Billing Provider Bronco Billing
CentralReach, a provider of practice management software for ABA clinicians and educators, has recently acquired Bronco Billing, giving customers access to a team of billing experts to expedite the billing process and maximize revenue. The acquisition is an expansion of the existing partnership between Bronco Billing and CentralReach allowing customers to improve their billing process through auto-generated claims, receivables collections, payments, and denial re-submissions, so they can spend
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DrChrono Raises $10M to Expand EHR Platform to Large-Scale Practices
DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future announced it has raised $10 million in funding from SQN Ventures to globally expand its business. Founded in 2009, DrChrono’s platform comprehensive platform includes EHR, practice management, medical billing, revenue cycle management, and patient portal. DrChrono also built the one of the first iPad EHRs and the health platform was built for iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch and the web. DrChrono OverviewSince its inception,
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Orca Health Launches Waiting Room, a Digital Content Platform for Patients and Physicians
Orca Health, a healthcare technology company that creates software solutions that empower healthcare providers to improve quality of care, announced today the launch of Waiting Room, a digital content platform designed to streamline and improve the patient experience from diagnosis to treatment to post-surgical care.Patients are presented with Waiting Room on a tablet when they arrive at their appointments. The app's capabilities help patients and providers by:- Streamlining the registration and
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GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer Form New Consumer Health Joint Venture
GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer Inc to form new world-leading Consumer Healthcare Joint Venture provides a unique opportunity to accelerate GSK’s strategy and create substantial value for shareholders. GlaxoSmithKline has reached an agreement with Pfizer Inc to combine their consumer health businesses into a consumer health Joint Venture, with combined sales of approximately $12.7B. As part of the agreement, GSK will have a majority controlling equity interest of 68% and Pfizer will have an equity
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Livongo Appoints Former Cerner President Zane Burke as New CEO
Livongo Health, a Mountain View-based Applied Health Signals company that empowers people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, announced that it has appointed former Cerner president Zane Burke as the new Chief Executive Officer. Company Founder and current CEO, Glen Tullman, will remain in his role as Executive Chairman (he previously served as both Executive Chairman and CEO).Zane Burke BackgroundPrior to joining Livongo, Burke spent five years as president of health IT
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NextGen Launches New, Cloud-based Data Aggregation Platform: Health Data Hub
NextGen Healthcare, this week announced the launch of the Health Data Hub -- a cloud-based Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform. This groundbreaking technology meets the needs for interoperability and seamless information sharing for healthcare networks. Health Data Hub supports all clinical data types used by ambulatory and inpatient healthcare systems and streamlines patient data aggregation, making it easy to share and receive health records from any data management system.Health Data
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Mid-Valley Hospital Inks 10-Year Deal with Cerner to Implement EHR Across Hospitals & Clinics
Mid-Valley Hospital (MVH) has signed a 10-year agreement with Cerner to transform its Electronic Health Record (EHR) through the Cerner Millennium platform. MVH is a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) which provides Acute Care, Emergency Care, Surgical Services and Obstetrics to patients in Okanogan County. In addition, to the EHR implementation, MVH has also signed on to purchase Cerner population health solutions, with the goal of helping manage outcomes to improve the health of individuals
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Sempre Health and UPMC Health Plan Expand Program to Improve Adherence for Critical Medications
Sempre Health, a solution for advancing behavior-based pricing reductions for medication adherence, and UPMC Health Plan, which is part of UPMC, the second largest integrated health system in the U.S., today announced an expanded collaboration to improve affordability and adherence for critical medications. Starting this week, Sempre Health and UPMC Health Plan will now make additional medications available to even more members and products lines to impact members’ outcomes.Prevalence of
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Sentiance Acquires Personalized Mobile Coaching Platform BrandNewHealth
Sentiance, a leading IoT intelligence platform, today announced it has acquired BrandNewHealth in a move to bolster its platform to offer more personalized and behavioral change programs for its healthcare, insurance and mobility partners. Founded in 2003, BrandNewHealth is a leader in cost-effective personalized mobile coaching, with a primary focus on helping companies improve the health, well-being, and mobility of their employees and the communities they live in. The broader scope of the
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