The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), today announced that CHIME Healthcare Innovation Trust has decided to suspend the National Patient ID Challenge after nearly two years of work. Despite the suspension, CHIME did emphasized that finding a national patient ID solution that accurately identifies a patient 100% percent of the time will remain a top priority.Launched in 2015, CHIME National Patient ID Challenge is a $1 million global competition aimed at
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Jefferson Health Selects Kyruus to Optimize Patient-Provider Matching
Jefferson Health, a leading academic health system in Pennsylvania and New Jersey has selected Kyruus, a leader in provider search and scheduling solutions to build a comprehensive provider directory and optimize patient-provider matching. Jefferson Health recently completed some significant expansion activity and needed a way to consolidate information about its providers from various sources to improve patient-provider matching. With Kyruus’ solution, Jefferson can create a robust, accurate
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Bernoulli Health, GE Healthcare Partner to Enable Data Interoperability for Medical Devices
Bernoulli Health, the developer of the advanced Bernoulli One clinical surveillance, medical device integration (MDI), and real-time data analytics platform, announced today collaboration with GE Healthcare on the new CARESCAPE Connect data aggregation solution. The data integration partnership between GE Healthcare and Bernoulli Health to increase volume, fidelity and resolution of data captured from GE Healthcare monitors and other third-party medical devices; to build sources of data that are
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Partners Healthcare Closed $171M Innovation Fund for Life Sciences Startups
Partners HealthCare System has closed a $171 million innovation fund to invest in early stage life sciences startups. The innovation fund includes $66.1 million in outside capital for Partners Innovation Fund II and a $105 million commitment from Partners institutions to Partners Innovation Fund to focus on medical innovation created in the Partners system. The capital commitments to Partners Innovation Fund include two $50 million commitments each from The Brigham and Women’s Hospital and
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Research Reveals AI Health Coaches As Effective as In-Person Professionals for Diabetes Prevention
New peer-reviewed findings published in JMIR Diabetes reveals that an artificial intelligence (AI) health coaches is just as effective as in-person weight loss programs, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-led National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), a clinically-proven weight loss program focused on type 2 diabetes prevention.The peer-reviewed research suggests AI has comparable results to the Diabetes Prevention Program by observing Lark, an AI chronic disease platform
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drchrono Leverages Face ID on iPhone X to Unlock EHR for Physicians
Mobile EHR provider drchrono Inc., today announced that it has leverage Face ID on iPhone X for physicians to unlock electronic health records (EHRs). By simply launching the drchrono app, Physicians can save time using new Face ID recognition technology to log into the drchrono EHR.On iPhone X, doctors now can simply raise their phone to login to the EHR app, unlike using Touch ID, a passcode or entering a username and password. drchrono has thousands of medical professionals and over 10
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ResMed Integrates Remote Patient Monitoring Platform With AirMini CPAP Device
ResMed announced that it has added cloud-connectivity to the AirMini, the world's smallest, portable CPAP device- through its AirView platform. The connectivity between AirMini and AirView enables clinicians to see patients' nightly data, verify adherence, and spot therapy issues – giving them a great opportunity to educate and engage patients to reach the best possible health outcomes. AirMini is available in 15 countries across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, with more countries to
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Texas HIE Selects Innovaccer to Advance Data-Driven Valued-based Care Initiatives
The Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange, PHIX, an El Paso, TX-based health information exchange (HIE) has selected Innovaccer, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare platform company, to leverage its technology for data-driven value-based initiatives. As a Health Information Exchange, PHIX will provide access to patient's longitudinal health record from across the care continuum. PHIX’s goal is to improve efficiency, increase quality of care, and improve patient safety.To realize their
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LabCorp Forms Strategic Partnership with MC10 to Support Adoption of BioStamp Sensor
Global life sciences company LabCorp has formed a strategic collaboration with MC10, a digital health startup developing wearable sensor systems for seamless healthcare data collection. As part of the strategic partnership, LabCorp has also made an equity investment into MC10 to support adoption of it’s proprietary technology for use by LabCorp’s Covance Drug Development business in clinical trials and research studies, with the potential to be adapted over time for use in patient testing and
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