What You Should Know:
- Enzee Health, formerly ZapIT! Medical is announcing it has secured $1.5M in seed financing, led by Rev1 Ventures with participation from Tamarind Hill, Harbor Street Ventures, M7 NEO, Redgrave Investments, Service Provider Capital and others.
- Enzee empowers hospital personnel to easily perform and track required quality testing within departments, eliminating the inefficiencies of paper record keeping, and making it easier for administrators to assess whether
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Report: How Cyberattacks Hurts Patient Care and Mortality Rates
What You Should Know:
- Proofpoint, Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, and Ponemon Institute, a top IT security research organization, today released the results of a new study on the effect of cybersecurity in healthcare.
- The report, “Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare: The Cost and Impact on Patient Safety and Care,” found that 89% of the surveyed organizations experienced an average of 43 attacks in the past 12 months, almost one attack per week. More than 20% of the
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30% of First-Time Opioid Prescribed Patients Developed Dependency
What You Should Know:
- Gainwell Technologies, a leading innovator in healthcare technology solutions, has partnered with top academic institutions to drive research addressing some of the nation’s biggest healthcare challenges.
- Using Gainwell’s advanced research platform and de-identified Medicaid claims data from select clients, Stanford concluded that 30 percent of patients prescribed opioids for the first time developed a dependency. This is a critical finding in the search for
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Freenome Launches Multi-Cancer Detection Study Pairing Multiomics with Real-World Data
What You Should Know:
- Freenome, a privately held biotech company, today announced the launch of the Sanderson Study, the company’s latest study of its multiomics platform, in combination with real-world data to detect multiple cancers.
- The study will encompass both traditional and real-world data to generate evidence of clinical validation for certain high- and elevated-risk populations while also refining the platform’s cancer classification and risk prediction models. In addition,
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Report: State of Healthcare Staffing Impact & Trends in 2022
What You Should Know:
- Weave, the all-in-one customer communication and engagement platform for small businesses, today announced new research, The 2022 State of Healthcare Staffing, illustrating the negative impacts the Great Resignation and burnout have had on the healthcare industry and how staffing issues are impacting the patient experience.
- The survey looked deeply into how these staffing shortages are impacting different healthcare organizations, why their staff are leaving, and
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epocrates Launches Bugs + Drugs Tool to Promote Optimal Antibiotic Prescribing
What You Should Know:
- epocrates, an athenahealth, Inc. company that delivers digital clinical decision support to healthcare professionals, today announced the release of Bugs + Drugs, a mobile tool that offers clinicians information about bacteria types and antibacterial susceptibility patterns by ZIP code.
- A free feature in the epocrates mobile app, the tool supports clinicians in choosing appropriate empiric antibiotics for each patient at the point of
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Ypsomed & Sidekick Health Partner to Improve Therapy Outcomes
What You Should Know:
- Ypsomed and Sidekick Health today announced a collaboration to extend Ypsomed’s device and SmartServices offering by implementing a self-injection module in Sidekick’s proven digital therapeutics solution.
- The combination of Ypsomed’s devices with Sidekick’s digital health, behavioural economics and gamification expertise will form a unique solution delivering an engaging and personalized patient experience to people with chronic conditions, as well as a turn-key,
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KLAS: Post–Acute Care EMR Product Suites 2022 Trends to Watch
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- A new report from KLAS examines what solutions are offered, how they are being adopted, and how well they meet setting-specific functionality needs (particularly for home health and LTC/SNF)
- The KLAS report mainly focuses on vendors specific to post-acute care but also provides a brief look at the post-acute care solutions of enterprise acute care EMR vendors.
Trends Concerning Post-Acute Care EMR Product Suites in 2022
Most providers in post-acute care
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Withings Unveils New Body Comp Smart Scale & Health+ Service
What You Should Know:
- Withings is reimagining the use of smart scales and home health optimization with the introduction of Body Comp, a complete body assessment scale measuring multiple biomarkers typically only assessed in a professional clinical setting, and Health+ an enhanced service providing detailed health analysis and tools to help people improve their health by building a health routine.
- Bundled together, Body Comp and 12-month access to Health+ will be available from October
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KLAS: 7 Key Healthcare Trends in Microsoft Cloud Technologies in 2022
What You Should Know:
- A new report from KLAS focuses on healthcare-specific deployments of Microsoft Cloud Technologies, especially Microsoft Azure, which is receiving strong market interest.
- This study is meant to help organizations considering Microsoft Cloud technologies understand their current use, the overall customer experience, and the impact of the solutions.
Key Healthcare Trends in Microsoft Cloud Technologies in 2022
While still early, healthcare is gaining momentum
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