ART MEDICAL, the Israeli startup that created the first smart enteral feeding solution using sensor-based technology, today announced their advanced algorithms for the company’s sensor-based smart tubes platform, which collects new, and untapped patient data to reduce the risks of medical complications. ART MEDICAL's advanced algorithms automates the placement of feeding tubes, and detection of gastric content aspiration to improve clinical outcomes.Today when a patient enters the ICU, and
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SkylineDx Inks Partnership With Mayo Clinic to Develop Diagnostic Tests for Melanoma
SkylineDx, a Netherland-based commercial-stage biotech company has inked a joint development agreement with with Mayo Clinic to develop novel diagnostic tests which will improve clinical decision making for melanoma patients. For SkylineDx, the collaboration with the renowned Mayo Clinic is an important milestone as it allows the company to develop new diagnostic tests and extend its product offering for a broader group of patients and clinicians.The knowledge and experience of SkylineDx in the
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Atrius Health to Deploy Linguamatics NLP Platform to Support Value-based Care
Atrius Health, the Northeast’s largest nonprofit independent multi-specialty medical group announced it will implement Linguamatics, a Natural Language Processing (NLP) enterprise platform to identify and extract critical clinical information hidden within unstructured patient data.As a long-term Accountable Care Organization (ACO) for Medicare, commercial, and Medicaid patients, Atrius Health requires ready access to clinical notes and data to address reporting requirements and advance quality
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Advocate Health to Replace Allscripts, Cerner With Epic EHR
Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care has announced plans to implement Epic’s EHR system, replacing Cerner and Allscripts EHR to achieve a single unified EHR platform. Advocate Health Care officials expect to go-live on Epic’s EHR solution within three years, which includes the training of more than 17,000 Advocate physicians, nurses and associates. The new Epic EHR solution will streamline online patient appointment scheduling and digital check-ins.The news comes on the heels of
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Navicure, ZirMed Rebrands As Waystar for End-to-End Revenue Cycle Technology
Revenue cycle management providers Navicure and ZirMed, who merged in November 2017, today announced the re-branding of the combined organization under the new name Waystar. The rebranded company Waystar simplifies and unifies the healthcare revenue cycle with innovative technology that empowers clients to collect more with less cost and less stress, so they can focus on their goals, patients, and communities.Waystar brings together the two rev cycle organizations that offers cloud-based,
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Universe mHealth Unveils Client-Branded Mobile App Platform
Universe mHealth LLC, today announced the launch of their client-branded advanced mobile app platform for healthcare organizations—the Universe mHealth App Platform. The platform offers medium and large healthcare organizations a single iOS and Android mobile app to support all of their informational, clinical, and financial self-service tools.Custom apps currently offered by major health systems feature incredibly low functionality considering their price tags of $500,000 to $1,000,000 and 1+
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Gore Innovation Center, Kenzen Team Up to Develop Dermal Biometrics Patch
The Gore Innovation Center in Silicon Valley, today announced a joint development agreement and cash investment in digital health startup, Kenzen. W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) engineers and scientists will work hand in hand with Kenzen, an innovator in precision health monitoring and insights, to develop a comprehensive wearable health monitoring system that employs biosensor data and predictive modeling to anticipate and prevent avoidable injuries and health conditions.By integrating
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drchrono, HDP Health Integrate to Enable Physicians & Patients Access to Clinical Trials
drchrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced that it has partnered with HDP Health to provide physicians and medical facilities with access to thousands of the latest clinical trials for their patients.HDP Health software is now integrated with drchrono’s EHR platform and lets the doctor know which of their patients are eligible for clinical trials. HDP Health supports medical organizations and helps physicians identify which of their patients fit
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Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Form New Company to Tackle Employee Health
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase & Co., today announced the formation of a new healthcare company. The newly formed healthcare company will focus on ways to address healthcare for their U.S. employees, with the aim of improving employee satisfaction and reducing costs.Company FocusTogether, the three companies, which bring their scale and complementary expertise to this long-term effort, will pursue this objective through an independent company that is free from profit-making
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Innovaccer Launches Next-Gen Care Management Suite for Care Teams
Care teams across the healthcare space are facing a common barrier. Care managers are so busy working on redundant tasks that they don’t have as much time for patient interaction. More often than not, patient information is neither complete nor available at the right time. It has become a challenge for care organizations to measure and compare the efficacy, impact, and cost-effectiveness of care programs.The care teams that succeed are the ones that have easy access to accurate data and are
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