St. Joseph’s Healthcare System has selected Cerner to implement its integrated EHR and revenue cycle management system across its acute, long-term care and ambulatory facilities. The Cerner Millennium EHR and HealtheIntentS, Cerner’s near real-time population health management system that aggregates data from multiple sources, will support St. Joseph’s nearly 1,000 beds. HealtheIntent will establish a longitudinal record, which will provide St. Joseph’s clinicians with a comprehensive, unified
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Hartford HealthCare, GE Healthcare Ink 7-Year Deal: 5 Things to Know: 5 Things to Know
Hartford HealthCare and GE Healthcare are teaming up on a 7-year innovation collaboration to launch a series of projects aimed at getting patients the care they need more quickly and safely. Over the course of the seven-year project, both organizations have committed to achieving measurable improvements and outcomes. Here are five things to know about the collaboration: 1. Over the next seven years, GE Healthcare and Hartford HealthCare will work together to help patients avoid unnecessary
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HL7 Publishes Domain Analysis Model for Clinical Sequencing: 5 Things to Know
Health Level Seven® International (HL7), an authority for health IT interoperability and provider of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard, today announced that it has published the HL7 Domain Analysis Model: Clinical Sequencing, a model which captures precision medicine’s use cases to facilitate interoperability of genetic and genomic data. Here are five things to know about the new model: 1. . This domain analysis model (DAM) was the basis for the design of FHIR
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CUNY Receives $1.3M Grant to Design And Fabricate Prosthetic & Medical Devices
City Tech’s Department of Mechanical Engineering & Industrial Design Technology has recently received STEM research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), totaling more than $1.3 million in support. Students will work alongside faculty and collaborators on projects to design and fabricate medical devices as well as participate in space additive manufacturing and electron beam freeform fabrication.In this three-year
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Median Technologies and inVentiv Health Partner to Provide Medical Image Analysis for Clinical Trials
Median Technologies, the Imaging Phenomics Company, and inVentiv Health, a biopharmaceutical professional services company, announced a strategic alliance to offer biopharmaceutical clients with best-in-class medical image analysis and management services for early to late stage oncology clinical trials. The alliance will provide inVentiv clients with the most advanced imaging biomarkers, at a time when 73 percent of cancer compounds in clinical trials involve biomarkers in their research and
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Bon Secours Taps Tonic Health to Implement Patient Intake And Payments Platform Across Ambulatory Network
Bon Secours Virginia Health System has selected Tonic Health to implement its cloud-based patient data collection and payments platform across its ambulatory network. Bon Secours Virginia chose Tonic to digitize and integrate its largely paper-based intake and payments process. By simplifying patient check-in, Bon Secours frees up staff and clinicians to spend more time directly helping patients rather than being burdened with administrative tasks. The Tonic platform will be integrated with Bon
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Mercy ACO Taps Innovaccer to Drive End-To-End Value-Based Care Initiatives in Iowa
Mercy Accountable Care Organization (ACO), one of the largest ACOs in the state of Iowa has selected Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare analytics company to drive end-to-end value-based care initiatives statewide. As part of the selection, Mercy ACO will implement Innovaccer’s proprietary platform ‘Datashop’ which is an integrated data warehouse for all clinical, financial, lab, pharmacy, and immunization data and port data. This will enable Mercy ACO to manage all of their
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Intermedix Acquires WPC Healthcare to Optimize Revenue Cycle Through Predictive Analytics
Intermedix Corporation, a provider of data analytics and cloud-based technology has acquired healthcare data analytics provider WPC Healthcare. The Nashville, TN-based data analytics company uses machine learning to make predictions about health care conditions providing early notification to health care providers and, ultimately, saving lives while decreasing costs. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. In 2015, Intermedix announced the creation of its analytics business
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Medable Launches Machine Learning Solution Specifically for Healthcare Apps
Medable, a Palo Alto-based healthcare app and analytics platform has unveiled Cerebrum, the first cloud-based machine learning solution created specifically for healthcare apps. Cerebrum leverages data gathering smartphones with a first-of-its-kind machine learning engine, resulting in health events becoming more easily predicted, such as warning an elderly relative when he is at greatest risk of a fall, or preventing an asthmatic child from triggering a life threatening episode.The new
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Voxiva and Sense Health Merge to Launch Wellpass Messaging Platform for Healthcare
Voxiva and Sense Health has merged to form a new venture, Wellpass, Inc., a new digital health platform serving payers, providers and people. Wellpass combines Voxiva's proven mobile health and wellness programs with the innovative and flexible patient engagement platform developed by Sense Health. The companies' digital health services have supported over 3 million people and delivered proven clinical outcomes documented in extensive published research. The Wellpass platform is launching with
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