Galway Clinic becomes first hospital in Ireland and the UK to launch Expanse, MEDITECH’s single integrated web EHR platform, to unify care teams, share patient records, and better coordinate patients’ care. Galway Clinic, a state-of-the-art, 146-bed hospital, today announced it has became the first hospital in Ireland and the UK to launch Expanse, MEDITECH’s innovative, fully integrated Patient Administration System (PAS) and Electronic Health Record (EHR). Leveraging the latest technology,
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Zebra Technologies Unveils Barcode Label & Wristband Printers to Reduce Medical Errors
Zebra Technologies Corporation, a market leader in rugged mobile computers, barcode scanners and barcode printers enhanced with software and services to enable real-time enterprise visibility, today announced two new healthcare barcode printing solutions that can identify patients and specimens at the point of care. Zebra’s ZQ600-Healthcare series label printers and ZD510-HC direct thermal wristband printer enable the production of highly durable labels and patient identification wristbands
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Walgreens Launches New Digital Marketplace to Connect Visitors to Healthcare Providers
Walgreens today introduced Find Care Now, a digital platform and marketplace that helps connect the company’s millions of mobile and online visitors to healthcare services to a growing selection of recognized healthcare providers in their community. The company is working closely with a current list of 17 participating providers as part of the effort, further enhancing Walgreens omnichannel role as a convenient and trusted neighborhood healthcare destination.Find Care Now services include
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Carilion Clinic Joins TriNetX Network to Expand Clinical Research and Collaboration Opportunities
TriNetX, the global health research network, will announce the latest addition to its research network: Carilion Clinic, a not-for-profit healthcare organization based in Roanoke, Virginia. By joining the network, Carilion will enhance its researchers’ ability to quickly execute clinical trials and collaborate with other industry TriNetX network members. Carilion, serves nearly one million residents and owns and operates seven hospitals, more than 225 outpatient practices, and Jefferson College
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Mount Sinai Opens Center for Biomedical Blockchain Research to Develop Healthcare Blockchain Apps
First venture launched by an academic medical center to use blockchain technology to solve healthcare and medical science problems. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Institute for Next Generation Healthcare has announced the official opening of the Center for Biomedical Blockchain Research. The center is the first of its kind at any academic medical center to utilize blockchain technology, a distributed, decentralized secure database system originally developed for Bitcoin, to
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Novartis, SHYFT Partner to Support the Commercialization of Key Therapies in Europe
SHYFT Analytics, a Medidata Solutions, today announced that Novartis has selected its Intelligent Platform for Life Sciences to support the commercialization of key therapies in Europe. As part of the collaboration, Novartis will use the following SHYFT solutions: - STRATA Data Platform to aggregate and manage a growing number of third party and proprietary commercial data sources- LUMEN Insights Platform to deliver intuitively-designed analytics to drive the “next-best-actions” for commercial
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Loopback Analytics Joins Epic App Orchard to Simplify Data Integration
Loopback Analytics, a leading provider of data-driven solutions for hospital and health systems, today announces its availability in the Epic App Orchard Marketplace to enable turnkey integration between Epic EMR clients and the Loopback Analytics platform. The company’s comprehensive management platform helps identify at-risk patient populations, match interventions and measure efficacy to improve clinical and financial outcomes.Loopback Analytics customers can now use the Loopback Connector
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Madaket Health Raises $10M for Automated Healthcare Provider Enrollment Platform
Madaket Health lands $10M for automated healthcare provider enrollment platform to accelerate its growth, expand platform solutions for payer-provider collaboration.Madaket Health, a Cambridge, MA-based healthcare SaaS platform solution that simplifies administrative data exchange between payers and provider has raised $10 million in Series B funding Qiming Venture Partners. The round also included participation from Experian Ventures, The PNC Financial Services Group, and Salesforce Ventures.
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Anthem, Samsung, American Well Partner to Provide Plan Members Access to Telehealth Services
Collaboration leverages both Samsung Health and American Well apps to easily connect consumers to high-quality telehealth servicesSamsung, Anthem, and American Well, today announced a new partnership to provide consumers access to a broad array of telehealth services through the Samsung Health app and American Well’s LiveHealth Online app. Starting today, consumers with an Anthem-affiliated health plan and the updated Samsung Health app on their Samsung Galaxy device can now access LiveHealth
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MedStar-AMA Study Reveals EHR Usability and Safety Challenges for Physicians
New MedStar-AMA study points to need for performance standards for EHR usability and safety for physicians, finds huge variability in completion efficiency and accuracy. A new study published by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) involving clinicians using electronic health records (EHRs) to perform certain common tasks provides compelling evidence that the design, development and implementation of these systems need to be improved to make them easier to use by
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