Kyruus, a company that offers provider search and scheduling solutions, today announced that Emory Healthcare has selected its KyruusOne™provider data management platform and ProviderMatch patient access solutions to enhance the patient experience while streamlining operational workflows. The seven-hospital, Atlanta-based health system will implement ProviderMatch in its call center and on its consumer-facing website to deliver a consistent patient experience across multiple points of entry to
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University City Science Center’s Digital Health Accelerator Unveils Third Class of 7 Startups
The University Science Center’s Digital Health Accelerator (DHA) has announced its third class of seven digital health startups. From flushable pregnancy tests, remote patient monitoring systems, augmented reality to prepare for emergency situations – these are among the focus of the seven technologies being developed by the third class of startups. Each startup selected to the 12-month digital health accelerator will receive up to $50k in funding, professional mentorship, and networking
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Nuance Unveils AI-Powered Virtual Assistant to Improve the Patient/Physician Experience
Nuance Healthcare unveiled a new AI-powered virtual assistant solution aimed at optimizing the experience healthcare providers have with their EHRs and allowing physicians to spend more time focusing on the patient. This latest offering from Nuance builds upon their award winning platform – which 500,000 clinicians use to communicate more than 300 million patient stories a year – delivering a seamless transition of conversational dialogues to actionable information for doctors. Additionally,
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Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation Awards $8.3M to Support Senior Care Innovations
Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI), a solution accelerator for the aging and brain health sector has invested more than $8.3M across twenty-six projects to acclerate senior care innovations. The projects will utilized the funding to improve the quality of life and care for older adults with dementia and cognitive health issues. The projects are part of three new CABHI programs: the Industry Innovation Partnership Program, the Researcher-Clinician Partnership Program, and the
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FDA Selects Apple, Fitbit, Samsung, Others for Digital Health Pre-Cert Pilot Program
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it has selected Apple, Fitbit, Johnson & Johnson, Pear Therapeutics, Phosphorus, Roche, Samsung, Tidepool and Google’s Verily to participate in the FDA’s new digital health per-certification pilot program. The FDA selected the final nine companies for the pre-cert pilot program based on several factors including company size, demonstrated record of quality and organizational excellence, clinical focus area and the risk profile of
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Accenture Joins Hashed Health Blockchain Consortium to Develop Industry Use Cases for Blockchain
Hashed Health has added Accenture as a member of the Hashed Health Blockchain Consortium, a group of leading health companies focused on accelerating innovation with blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, as announced today at the Distributed: Health 2017 conference. As a consortium member, Accenture will focus its efforts on developing industry use cases for blockchain and distributed ledger technologies and identify opportunities where organizations can implement solutions at
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Merck Manuals Integrates Authoritative Medical Info With Allscripts EHR
Merck Manuals, a comprehensive electronic medical reference, will now integrate its provider reference and patient education content into the Allscripts EHR platforms: Allscripts Sunrise, Allscripts Professional EHR and Allscripts TouchWorks EHR.Made seamlessly accessible by an HL7-compliant Infobutton, the materials are readily available to clinicians within the Allscripts EHR workflow. The Merck programs have automatically been authorized for all Allscripts clients and they simply need to
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Capital Health’s Specialized Rehab to Implement InterSystems EMR to Become Digital Hospital
Capital Health's Specialized Rehabilitation Hospital (SRH), a United Arab Emirates-based 166-bed specialty hospital has selected Intersystems to become a fully digital hospital. SRH will implement the InterSystems TrakCare EMR system to support the clinicians in making better informed decisions and improving patient safety.In addition, the TrakCare will also enable SRH to create a consolidated view of each patient's history on any authorized Internet-connected device.SRH is managed and operated
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iVantage Health Analytics Launches Market Intelligence Platform for Health Systems
iVantage Health Analytics (iVantage), a provider of healthcare analytic and performance management solutions, today announced the launch of iVantage Market Intelligence, a strategic market intelligence platform to address a growing need for a comprehensive, strategic market intelligence platform for healthcare system and hospital market planning. The new market intelligence platform provides a platform for accessing integrated analytics for market size, market share, outmigration, utilization,
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Florence, Verady Partner to Develop Healthcare Blockchain Apps for Managing Patient & Clinical Trial Data
Florence, the company advancing clinical research through software, and Verady, a Blockchain asset assurance company, has announced a partnership to develop healthcare blockchain apps for advancing healthcare and clinical research. As part of the partnership, Verady's Application Programming Interface (API) will provide an easy-to-use, standardized Representational State Transfer (ReST) interface to abstract away the complexities of Blockchain for Florence's customers. The partnership will be
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