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New and more stringent regulations have increased documentation burden for long-term care (LTC) provider organizations, and this combined with other factors (COVID-19, staff turnover, increased LTC demand) has intensified clinician and nurse burnout in LTC. As a result, many organizations are pressing their LTC EMR vendors to address documentation challenges, simplify workflows while mitigating costs, and improve satisfaction in a market that has seen an overall
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Flatiron Health Launches Integrated RWE Solutions for Oncology
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Building upon over a decade of experience providing high-quality, real-world oncology data, Flatiron Health has announced the expansion of their real-world evidence (RWE) offerings to include analytic, scientific, and consultative services, leveraging the high-quality foundational real-world data (RWD) assets that the company is well known for.Flatiron’s new Integrated RWE Solutions will include data and end-to-end services to provide a more flexible and fit-for-purpose
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KLAS: Capacity Optimization Management Performance 2023
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Operational limitations—such as staffing shortages, variable patient flow, and poor visibility into resource availability—can make it difficult for healthcare organizations to effectively manage their capacity, leading to volatile workloads that see resources either under- or over-utilized. Some organizations are using capacity optimization management technology, which includes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), to collect data that can improve
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Amino Health Secures $80M for Healthcare Guidance Platform
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Amino Health, the leading digital healthcare guidance company, today announced $80 million in both equity and debt financing led by Transformation Capital and Oxford Finance LLC, respectively.In the face of declining digital health investment, this funding underscores the success of Amino Health's proven model and enables the company to scale its technology and continue its strong growth trajectory.
Funding to Lead to Broadening of Amino
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Get Well to Roll Out New Social Determinants of Health Screening Solution Nationwide
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Get Well, a global leader in digital patient engagement, today announced it has expanded its industry-leading digital patient engagement portfolio to include new social determinants of health (SDOH) screening solutions.The new solution will be available to more than 200 enterprise healthcare organizations nationwide that are using GetWell Inpatient, an interactive patient care and hospital experience management product, at no additional cost.
Enabling Enterprise
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Luma Health Integrates with MEDITECH Expanse EHR
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Luma Health unveiled its integration and partnership with one of the healthcare industry’s top electronic health record providers, MEDITECH, which brings powerful new capabilities to the thousands of healthcare providers that use the MEDITECH Expanse EHR. As an initial member of the MEDITECH Alliance program and currently the only patient-facing vendor included in the program, Luma collaborated with MEDITECH to validate the integration of its Patient Success Platform™
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Apple Watch, Wearables Can Monitor & Access Psychological States
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Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that applying machine learning models to data collected passively from wearable devices can identify a patient's degree of resilience and well-being. The study, published in JAMIA Open, supports the use of wearable devices, such as the Apple Watch, to monitor and assess psychological states remotely.The researchers note that mental health disorders account for 13 percent of the burden of global disease and
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Q/A: CalmWave CEO Talks Leveraging AI to Reduce Alarm Fatigue
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Healthcare providers face the difficult challenge of coping with an ever-increasing workload while still providing high-quality patient care and trying to retain their staff. As the CEO of CalmWave, Inc., Ophir Ronen is an expert in both patient outcomes and staff retention who understands the importance of leveraging AI technologies to reduce alarm fatigue and deliver more efficient quiet care.
Delivering Efficient Care by Reducing Alarm Fatigue
Alarm fatigue is
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TytoCare Report Reveals Providers’ Key to Virtual Care Adoption
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A new report released by TytoCare, a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, revealed insights into how health plans and organizations can drive virtual care engagement.While key elements that patients value in virtual care offerings include cost and time savings, and the ability to reduce Emergency Department (ED) or urgent care visits, people want to see doctors they trust or and are more likely to adopt virtual care when
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Magenta Medical Raises $55M for World’s Smallest Heart Pump
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Magenta Medical, the developer of the world’s smallest heart pump, announced today a $55M financing round led by global healthcare investment manager OrbiMed, with participation from existing investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Pitango VC, and ALIVE - Israel HealthTech Fund.The financing will be used, among other things, to advance the clinical programs of the company’s product in the United States toward its first FDA
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