Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL), operators of the Vermont Health Information Exchange (Vermont HIE), and Medicity, a provider of population health management solutions, announced that VITL has launched its external connection to the Veterans Health Information Exchange (VHIE).VHIE. The external connection to VHIE, , also known as the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) program will enable providers inside and outside the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to share
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Livongo Launches New Direct-to-Consumer Diabetes Management Program
Livongo Health, a consumer digital health company focused on empowering people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, today announced partnerships with the American Diabetes Association, Beyond Type 1, Diabetes Hands Foundation, and JDRF to launch the Livongo Family Care Plan. The Family Care Plan is a comprehensive direct-to-consumer diabetes management program for people with diabetes and those who love them.The partnership also provides everyone who subscribes to the
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NexHealth and National Dental Partners to Improve Patient Experience
NYC-based provider group National Dental announced its partnership with NexHealth to complement its care with a seamless, digital experience that keeps patients engaged.Managing patient relationships has become increasingly difficult and time-consuming for healthcare providers, who often rely on manual labor and a patchwork of incompatible technologies to track and communicate with patients. For a large group like National Dental, which has 13 offices in the New York metropolitan area, this
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Microsoft HealthVault Insights Integrates With Validic for Access to Patient-Generated Health Data
Microsoft HealthVault Insights, a research-based project designed to transform patient engagement by generating new insights about patient health has announced integration with digital health integration platform Validic. The integration with Validic will enable HealthVault Insights to connect to as many as 400 clinical and consumer devices – enabling the data from these devices to drive meaningful insights for patients.Using machine learning and analytics, HealthVault Insights is designed to
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Apple Quietly Acquires Sleep Monitoring App Beddit
Apple has quietly acquired Finland-based sleep tracking hardware and software company Beddit, CNBC first reported. The acquisition was confirmed in an update to Beddit’s privacy policy on its website stating, "Your personal data will be collected, used and disclosed in accordance with the Apple Privacy Policy." Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in 2007, Beddit technology is based upon a scientific principle known as ballistocardiography (BCG), an unobtrusive,
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FNFV Group to Sell One Digital Health and Benefits for $560M, New Mountain Acquires Majority Stake
Fidelity National Financial Ventures (“FNFV”) has signed a definitive agreement to sell One Digital Health and Benefits for $560 million in an all-cash transaction. OneDigital, the nation’s largest company focuses exclusively on employee benefits, combines people and technology to deliver the new generation of health and benefits. OneDigital offers employers a sophisticated combination of strategic advisory services, analytics, compliance support, HR capital management tools and comprehensive
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Penn Medicine Center for Healthcare Innovation Wins ECRI Institute Award for Innovative Dashboard and Clinician Alert Platform
Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation in Philadelphia, PA, has been named the winner of the ECRI Institute 11th Health Devices Achievement Award. The award recognizes innovative and effective initiatives undertaken by ECRI Institute member healthcare institutions to improve patient safety, reduce costs, or otherwise facilitate better strategic management of health technology.The award recognizes Penn Medicine's Center for Health Care Innovation’s technology platform it designed for
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drchrono EHR Adds Prenatal Flow Sheets for OB/GYN Practices
Mobile EHR provider drchrono, today announced it has added new Flow Sheets and medical forms specialized for OB/GYN physicians and practices to its EHR platform.Using Prenatal Flow Sheet in drchrono, providers and their staff can easily enter patients’ medical records from each visit and visualize pregnancy progress across multiple visits in one glance on an iPhone, iPad or via the web. The drchrono Flow Sheet can also be further customized to meet providers’ specific needs. Flow Sheet and other
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Doctor On Demand Integrates With LabCorp & Quest Diagnostics for Patient Lab Results
On-demand telehealth provider Doctor On Demand has partnered with LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics to offer fully integrated laboratory services to its more than one million patients. By electronically integrating the lab experience into its platform, Doctor On Demand gives doctors direct access to a comprehensive array of tests without having to go through separate lab provider platforms, while offering patients a seamless, paperless experience.“Our mission is to improve the world’s health through
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Verato Unveils Universal MPI with New Referential Matching Algorithms for EHR Integration
Verato, Inc., a provider of cloud-based identity matching solutions has announced the availability of the Verato Universal MPI, a revolutionary master patient index (MPI) that represents a different approach to the problem of patient identity resolution.Unlike conventional MPI technologies that must be laboriously deployed and populated with patient data, the Verato Universal MPI is a pre-built, cloud-based, nationwide master patient index that enterprises can simply “plug into”—without the need
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