Stratus Video announced that its mobile video interpretation solution is now being utilized at all of Southcoast Health’s Southeastern Massachusetts hospitals. Stratus Video’s video remote interpretation (VRI) technology lets Southcoast Health easily provide improved care for LEP and Deaf patients, while ensuring compliance with ADA regulations.Ever-expanding language diversity, coupled with evolving federal regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has brought on-demand
Read More
Cedars-Sinai Partners With Noteworth to Integrate Patient-Generated Data With Epic EMR
Cedars-Sinai has signed a three-year deal with Noteworth, a healthcare data software as a service (SaaS) company to integrate patient generated data into clinical decision-making. The digital health startup Noteworth was a part of the second cohort of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator powered by Techstars.As part of the three-year program, Cedars-Sinai will use Noteworth’s platform to integrate previously unavailable patient-generated data directly into their Epic EMR to help improve patient
Read More
MAP Health Management Integrates With IBM Watson Health to Tackle Substance Abuse
IBM Watson Health and MAP Health Management are teaming up to bring the data prowess of Watson to curb substance abuse and addiction in the United States. MAP will integrate Watson cognitive technologies into the MAP Recovery Network Platform to enhance the platform’s existing capabilities around patient risk models. With this integration, it is anticipated that behavioral health and substance abuse treatment providers that use the MAP platform will be better able to predict and prevent
Read More
Cambia Health Solutions Integrates With Visa To Transform Reimbursement for Consumers
Cambia Health Solutions, a total health solutions company announced a new collaboration with Visa to help transform the reimbursement experience for consumers. As part of the collaboration, Cambia Health will integrate Visa Direct technology into its payment platform, allowing consumers to receive health care reimbursements directly to their eligible debit cards, speeding up the payment process.What Is Visa Direct?Visa Direct is a card-based platform that can deliver funds in near real-time to
Read More
Medullan to Offer Users Access to Harvard Health Publications for Consumer Health Insights
Medullan, a digital health firm that designs and builds powerful solutions that achieve high rates of adoption for payers, providers, life sciences, and pharma, announced a collaboration with Harvard Health Publications (HHP), a division of Harvard Medical School. This relationship will provide consumers access to Harvard’s consumer health information via the digital tools and mobile apps Medullan envisions, designs, and builds for its clients.HHP’s content covers thousands of health
Read More
Modernizing Medicine Raises $231M to Expand Mobile Medical Specialty EHR
Mobile, cloud based, specialty-specific EHR provider, Modernizing Medicine announced that Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm has made an investment of $231 million into the company to provide liquidity to existing shareholders, fund further expansion and support future strategic endeavors.With the latest round of funding, the Boca Raton, FL-based company plans pursuing certain strategic initiatives that may include automation of prior authorization workflows, deployment of an eCommerce
Read More
Sense.ly Integrates Mayo Clinic’s Triage Algorithms To Enhance Their Virtual Nurse App
Sense.ly, a San Francisco, CA-based virtual medical assistant application for patient engagement and chronic disease monitoring has announced an agreement with Mayo Clinic. As part of the agreement, Sensely will integrate Mayo Clinic's triage algorithms and clinical expertise with Sense.ly's proven, empathy first, patient engagement platform to support of optimal health outcomes for individuals.The Sense.ly virtual medical assistant app combines innovative avatar-based technology, advanced
Read More
SafeRide Health Partners With Lyft to Reduce Medical Appointment No-Shows
SafeRide Health and Lyft have teamed up to improve access to care, simplify healthcare operations and reduce healthcare costs. SafeRide Health is a digital health platform that improves access to care by delivering medically qualified transport and utilizing Lyft. SafeRide’s network fulfills over 45,000 rides a week across Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, the broader Midwest, and the greater New York area.Lyft and SafeRide deliver a single platform to manage a hospital’s entire patient
Read More
Innovaccer Launches Free Social Determinants of Healthcare ‘SDOH’ Portal
Innovaccer Inc., a Berkeley,CA-based healthcare analytics company has built a free Social Determinants of Healthcare ‘SDOH’ portal to help providers understand and monitor the impacts of social determinants of health on patient population. The Importance of Understanding Social Determinants of HealthThe social determinants of health have been known to affect a person’s health, access to care, cost incurred, and the outcomes. Out of more than 300 million people living in the U.S.; 13.5% people
Read More
Spry Health Unveils Clinical-Grade Wearable Loop to Deliver Continuous Vital Sign Monitoring
Spry Health, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of remote patient monitoring solutions has unveiled their new clinical-grade wearable Loop that delivers continuous vital sign monitoring. Loop enhances timely care to chronically ill patients, with individualized analytics to improve patient outcomes, reduce hospitalization and decrease spending by healthcare organizations.Incubated at Stanford-affiliated accelerator StartX in 2013, founders Pierre-Jean “PJ” Cobut and Elad Ferber started Spry Health
Read More
