ZeOmega Inc. has announced an agreement to integrate ZeOmega's Jiva™ population health management solution with McKesson's InterQual® Connect authorization and connectivity solution to fully automate pre-authorization for payers and providers. The integration marks ZeOmega’s Jiva as the first partner to tap InterQual Connect’s cloud connectivity to expand automated authorization to include requests requiring a medical review and simplify pre-auths for their customers.Without leaving their easy
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Practice Fusion Founder Launches Heart Monitoring Smartwatch – iBeat Life Monitor
After stepping down as the CEO of cloud-based EHR platform Practice Fusion in mid-2015, founder Ryan Howard is back with a new digital health startup focused on a life-saving Wearable-as-a-Service. The startup is currently developing its first product, iBeat Life Monitor, a heart monitoring smartwatch wearable that perpetually monitors and detects cardiac arrest, heart attack, and atrial fibrillation. Similar to your average medical alert system for seniors, in the case of a life-threatening
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Data Science Startup Apixio Nabs $19M for Cognitive Computing Platform
Healthcare data science company Apixio Inc., today announced that it has raised $19.3 million in Series D funding led by SSM Partners with participation from First Analysis, Bain Capital Ventures and Apixio’s largest angel investor. Apixio will utilize the funding towards advancing and scaling products powered by its cognitive computing platform, further enabling insights for optimal patient care. Casey West, managing partner at SSM Partners will join the Board of Directors, bringing deep
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5 Hospital Executives Share Advice on Building Successful Epic EHR Teams
The decision to buy and implement an Epic EHR is typically one of the largest strategic investments a provider will make, and much of the cost is an investment in people.A large-scale Epic implementation requires the significant hiring and training of hundreds of IT professionals to design, build, maintain, upgrade and optimize the EHR.Challenges of Hiring Epic ProfessionalsFor most providers, hiring quality Epic professionals at scale presents a number of challenges, especially in the highly
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BaseHealth, TriVita to Launch Personalized Wellness Program
BaseHealth, a healthcare-focused predictive analytics company has teamed up with health and wellness company TriVita to launch a new personalized wellness program at scale for consumers. Through the partnership, BaseHealth’s comprehensive assessments will power TriVita Shield, a new personalized wellness program. BaseHealth claims this marks the first time that predictive analytics for healthcare is available to consumers at scale. Wellness Program OverviewThe TriVita Shield wellness program
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4 Critical Success Factors for Hospitals Deploying Mobile Communication
63 percent of hospitals and health systems surveyed have deployed or plan to deploy a mobile communications platform supporting more than 500 smartphones over the next 12 to 18 months, according to study conducted by Spyglass Consulting Group. The report, "Large-scale Smartphone-based deployments enable hospital-wide communications" identifies the market opportunities and challenges for hospital IT shops to widely deploy a smartphone‐based communications platform to support patient care teams
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Anthem Unveils New Health Innovation Studio in Atlanta
This week, Anthem Inc. unveiled its new health Innovation Studio in midtown Atlanta’s Technology Square. The 6,500 square feet studio will house a multi-disciplinary team focused on creating new digital health solutions to enhance the consumer health care experience, improve the quality of care, and lower health care costs.The Innovation Studio work will focus on further advancing Anthem’s three strategic pillars: I. consumer experienceII. managing the cost of careIII. Provider
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Decisio Health Lands $4.5M for FDA-Cleared Clinical Intelligence Platform
Decisio Health, a Houston-based healthcare software company that helps acute-care provider organizations continually improve their clinical processes, announced today that it has raised $4.5 million in Series B funding. The round was led by DECLATEX, LLC with participation by the University of Texas Horizon Fund. The company also added Larry Lawson, founder of eCardio, as an investor and board member.In addition to the funding round, the company has launched their clinical intelligence
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Penn State Health, Mercy Virtual Partner to Deliver Virtual Medicine
Penn State Health has signed a partnership agreement with Mercy Virtual to virtually monitor intensive care unit (ICU) patients at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, a leading university health center. Over time, the partnership will expand cross Penn State Health facilities and programs, drawing on both partners’ expertise to create new care models across the region. The partnership marks Mercy’s second virtual medicine agreement in recent months. Mercy and University of North
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State & Impact of Digital Health Tools Report: 14 Trends to Know
Last week, healthcare technology company HealthMine released the results of their HealthMine Digital Health Report: The State and Impact of Digital Health Tools that examines how consumers are using digital health tools and how it impacts their lives. Data for this report was gathered from The HealthMine Digital Health Survey, which was fielded and analyzed in March/April 2016 to 500 consumers who use internet connected health devices or applications. Respondents are adults enrolled in a health
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