Conversa Health, a San Rafael, Calif.-based provider focused on automating digital conversations between physicians and their patients, announced it has closed a $2.5 million seed round. The funding was led by top-tier healthcare angel investors and has appointed industry veteran Daniel Dean as chief technology officer, responsible for all engineering and product management. Dean will lead Conversa's talented team of Health IT engineers in building out a robust product roadmap for
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Practice Fusion Releases Free EPCS to Ensure I-STOP Compliance for NY Providers
Practice Fusion, a cloud-based EHR for doctors and patients , today announced that it is now certified for the electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS). With this certification, Practice Fusion can help ensure that its New York State physicians are able to comply with the Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing Act (I-STOP) requirement for EPCS. Easily accessible from a mobile tablet or device, providers’ can quickly and securely transmit controlled substance prescriptions,
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NY Gov Cuomo Approves EPCS Delay to March 2016
On Friday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation that would postpone the deadline for doctors in the state of New York to use only electronic prescriptions to March 27, 2016 . According to lawmakers, many physicians still lack the required federal approval for their computer systems to perform electronic prescriptions for controlled substances (EPCS) intended to prevent prescription fraud, Washington Times report.
“This is a victory for patient safety,” said Dr. Andrew Kleinman,
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Medsphere and Silver Hill Hospital Partner to Enhance Interoperability in OpenVista EHR
Medsphere Systems Corporation and Silver Hill Hospital this week introduced an improved Discharge Summary module as the most recent innovation of Medsphere’s OpenVista EHR built specifically for behavioral health hospitals. Designed in close collaboration with clinicians at Silver Hill, OpenVista Discharge Summary (DSum) both automates the summary creation process and gives Silver Hill clinicians greater control over how the final discharge summary looks and what patient information it
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Kareo Acquires DoctorBase To Expand Marketing and Patient Communications Functionality
Kareo, a provider of cloud-based software and services for small medical practices has announced the acquisition of DoctorBase, a practice marketing and patient communications solution for private practices. The acquisition complements Kareo’s existing offerings and focus in the small medical practices market.
Financial terms of the acquisition will not be disclosed. All DoctorBase employees will be joining the Kareo team in their San Francisco office, significantly expanding Kareo’s
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Allscripts Embeds Elsevier’s CPM Framework Into Sunrise EHR
On Monday, Allscripts announced it is embedding Elsevier's CPM Framework into Allscripts Sunrise EHR to to support clinical decision at point of care. The collaboration strengthens coordination of patient care capabilities in the Allscripts Sunrise EHR, the core of the solution Allscripts and CSC exclusively proposed to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for the $11B DoD EHR Modernization project. DHMSM seeks an open EHR solution that is interoperable between a wide range of public and private
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Health Tech Incubator MATTER Roster Tops 70 Members
Chicago based health tech incubator MATTER has added ten more startups to its membership bringing its total to 70 companies, Chicago Tribune reports. The recently launched incubator aims to collectively fuel the future of healthcare innovation in Chicago through mentorship, networking opportunities, partnerships with companies and affordable workspace.
The incubator also recently partnered with the American Medical Association (AMA) to create the transformative health care innovation and
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Fitbit Expands Platform with Acquisition of FitStar
Fitbit Inc., has confirmed it has agreed to acquire FitStar, one of the largest platforms for delivering personalized video-based exercise experiences on mobile devices. The integration will allow users to track their daily activity with leading Fitbit devices and then get a personalized exercise program designed specifically for them with handcrafted workouts from fitness authorities, including football legend, Tony Gonzalez and yoga expert, Tara Stiles.
With this acquisition, Fitbit
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Stanford, GE Ventures Launch Evidation Health to Validate Digital Health Tools
Today, GE Ventures and Stanford Health Care has announced the launch of Evidation Health, an independent digital health company focused on validating real-world clinical and economic evidence for digital health products and platforms.
According to digital health seed fund Rock Health, more than $4B was invested in over 250 digital health companies in 2014 alone. As this new breed of digital health tools and technologies enter the market, these new products have not been validated to provide
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PQA, AllazoHealth Form Research Partnership to Study Med Adherence
Pharmacy Quality Alliance and AllazoHealth have formed a formal research partnership to study and improve the medication adherence metrics used industry-wide. PQA is the non-profit industry organization that develops and maintains medication use performance measures including Proportion of Days Covered (PDC) medication adherence metrics used by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Part D Drug Benefit, the Health Insurance Market Quality Rating System (QRS), URAC, and other
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