Today Royal Philips and Bon Secours Charity Health System (BSCHS), a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth), announced a $180M multi-year, strategic partnership agreement to support their goals of expanding access to quality care & building healthier communities through population health management. The agreement will make Philips solutions available to BSCHS in support of their goal to transform the delivery of healthcare to the residents of New York’s
Read More
Pfizer Pumps $9M Into Swedish Digital Health Firm AMRA to Abolish Outdated BMI with Precision Measurements
Pharmacy giant Pfizer has invested $9 million in AMRA, a Swedish digital health firm that transforms MR images into precise body composition measurements through its venture capital arm, Pfizer Venture Investments (PVI) co-led by Novo Seeds with participation from Industrifonden. The company plans to utilize the funding to further build its global presence and grow its network among researchers and pharmaceutical companies.Additionally, it has plans to establish a US subsidiary and expand its
Read More
Hackensack Meridian Health Taps PatientPing to Bring Care Coordination Network to Providers in New Jersey
Hackensack Meridian Health, a not-for-profit health care integrated health care network in New Jersey has partnered with Boston-based health tech company PatientPing to achieve higher quality care through better patient care coordination. As part of the partnership with PatientPing, the healthcare system will implement a care coordination network across all of Hackensack Meridian Health’s 13 hospitals, meaning that providers in the state will be able to see when patients are admitted, discharged
Read More
American Well: 50 Million Americans Would Switch PCP to Get Video Visits
20% (50 million) of consumers would switch to a PCP that offers video visits if another primary care physician (PCP) in their area offers them, according to the Telehealth Index: 2017 Consumer Survey by American Well. The latest 2017 survey conducted online within the United States by Harris Poll on behalf of American Well from August 19-23, 2016 among 2,100 adults ages 18 and older, and from September 28-30, 2016 among 2,007 U.S. adults ages 18 and older to measure consumer perceptions and
Read More
GetWellNetwork Acquires Mobile Patient Platform Seamless Medical Systems
GetWellNetwork®, Inc., a provider of Interactive Patient Care™ (IPC) solutions has acquired Santa Fe, New Mexico-based Seamless Medical Systems. The acquisition of Seamless extends GetWellNetwork's fully integrated cross-continuum patient engagement platform to more than 150 clinics nationwide. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in 2011, Seamless Medical Systems streamlines the patient journey through integrated digital patient intake and communications solutions
Read More
Avizia Launches Virtual Care SDK for Providers to Enable Telehealth Visits on Mobile Apps
Avizia, a provider of end-to-end telehealth solutions has unveiled a new software development kit (SDK) that enables health systems to integrate Avizia's premier telehealth capabilities into their own mobile apps . A solution for providers looking to improve the consumer health experience, the Avizia Virtual Care SDK adds valuable features to mobile apps while connecting to the Avizia ONE telehealth platform to effectively and efficiently scale and manage telehealth services.As a part of this
Read More
Stratus Video Launches Telehealth Division, Partners with Adventist Health
Stratus Video, a provider of language service and video technology has announced its expansion into the telehealth market with a next generation communication platform. Stratus Telehealth solutions are built with intelligent call routing which engages the right people, at the right time. Healthcare providers, patients, and interpreters will be able to use their own devices to communicate with each other via video, SMS text messaging and email. For Stratus, these expanded capabilities position
Read More
BD Taps BERG’s AI Platform to Reduce Medication Non-Adherence
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) a leader in medical technology, will use BERG's artificial intelligence platform to improve patient health by minimizing challenges associated with medication adherence for patients. The partnership will leverage BD's healthcare IT expertise and BERG's AI platform to develop a medication adherence algorithm that will help healthcare workers identify certain patient populations that are at the highest risk for nonadherence post-discharge.Estimates show that the
Read More
Report: Reducing Manual Business Transactions Could Save Healthcare $9.4B
Reducing manual business transactions could save healthcare $9.4 billion in savings, according to new data released today in the fourth annual 2016 CAQH Index. The index reveals that conducting resource-intensive manual transactions are costing U.S. health plans and healthcare providers as much as $11 more per transaction and on average $6 more than when conducted electronically. CAQH Index Overview The fourth annual CAQH Index measures adoption, costs and, for the first time, provider labor
Read More
IBM Watson Health, FDA Launch 2-Year Study to Explore Blockchain for Secure Patient Data Exchange
IBM Watson Health has signed a 2-year research initiative with the FDA to leverage blockchain technology to define a secure, efficient, and scalable exchange of patient data. As part of the two-year agreement, IBM and the FDA will explore the exchange of owner mediated data from several sources, such as EMRs, clinical trials, genomic data, and health data from mobile devices, wearables and the "Internet of Things." The initial focus will be on oncology-related data with plans to share initial
Read More
