Impact Pediatric Health, a startup pitch competition held annually at SXSW dedicated to showcasing and supporting the best pediatric healthcare innovations has announced the ten startup company finalists who will compete March 13 for one of two $15,000 prizes. The ten finalist startup CEOs will have three minutes to pitch how their company is solving unique health care needs of children, from babies to teens.Eight leading U.S. Children’s Hospitals – Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Boston
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M*Modal Launches Virtual Scribing Program to Increase EHR & Physician Engagement
M*Modal, a provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions has announced the launch of its Scribing Services solution that utilizes its Virtual Provider Assistant to increase EHR and physician-patient engagement while significantly reducing the documentation burden on clinicians. M*Modal's innovative approach enables clincians to completely and accurately document care in the EHR during the patient encounter and not after it, thereby saving precious time and
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Welltok: 4 Strategies to Improve Employee Health Engagement
Welltok announced findings around the value of employee wellness program engagement. The research confirms that employee health and well-being programs are not only good for employees, but for the company’s bottom line. According to the research, an employer group with 10,000 employees could drive almost $3 million in annual new value by increasing engagement by 10 percent in key health activities among employees and dependents. High value activities include better management of chronic
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RegimenMD, SkyMD Partner to Create End-to-End Telehealth, Dispensing Platform
RegimenMD and SkyMD announced that they established a strategic alliance to integrate their technologies and create an end-to-end platform to blend telehealth, dispensing and patient education. This integration provides both doctors and their patients an integrated telehealth experience. This includes everything from online consultation, diagnosis, treatment, dispensing of skincare products and continuity of care.The RegimenMD – SkyMD alliance empowers doctors to see patients on a more
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Report: 58% of Patients Finds Two-Way At-Home Monitoring Devices Useful
58% of patients believe two-way, at-home monitoring devices are very useful to interact with their healthcare provider than a more basic one-way at-home device, according to a report from West. The report, Strengthening Chronic Care reveals while (50%) of patients feel an at-home medical device that measures their health using sensors and sends information back to providers for an evaluation would be extremely beneficial, nearly three in five believe a two-way at-home medical device that allows
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Evidation Health, Shepherd Center Partner to Measure Real-Life Experiences of People with Neurological Conditions
Shepherd Center, a private, not-for-profit hospital specializing in medical treatment, research and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury or brain injury has announced a collaboration with Evidation Health. The collaboration will measure the real-life experiences of people with neurological diseases and injuries, as well as the impact of digital health interventions on clinical and economic outcomes.Collaboration DetailsThe initial goal of the partnership is to help quantify the
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HIMSS17 Day 3 Summary & Highlights
Survey: Patients Regard Open Access to Their Medical Records as Critical to Receiving High Quality Health Care 87% of patients believed provider access to their full medical history Is vital to personalized care, according to a new digital health survey released today by Transcend Insights. The survey found that a vast majority of patients (97 percent) believe it is important for any health institution, regardless of type or location, to have access to their full medical history in order to
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Survey: 87% of Patients Believed Provider Access to Their Full Medical History Is Vital to Personalized Care
87% of patients believed provider access to their full medical history Is vital to personalized care, according to a new digital health survey released today by Transcend Insights, a population health management company. The report reveals that in the era of digital health, patients have very high expectations for medical information sharing, but they may not be aware of the health care industry’s current limitations. To gather these and other insights, Transcend Insights conducted an online
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CloudMine, Redox to Optimize Secure Sharing of Healthcare Data in the Cloud
CloudMine, a secure, cloud-based platform that enables healthcare organizations to build connected digital health apps has partnered with Redox, a cloud-based healthcare integration and API services to enable users to seamlessly connect to many clinical systems while keeping data secure in the cloud. The digital health developers, and various healthcare organizations who use CloudMine need to access and share data with EHR systems using a modern and streamlined API. Redox does just that, acting
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Deloitte Launches Care Connect Accelerator for Healthcare Providers Built on Salesforce Health Cloud
Deloitte Consulting LLP's Deloitte Digital has announced the launch of Care Connect, an accelerator for health care providers built on Salesforce Health Cloud. Care Connect incorporates provider-specific user interfaces and use cases, and is designed to address specific challenges and shortcomings of patient engagement, focusing on the end-to-end interaction across the patient journey.Deloitte Digital's Care Connect accelerator helps to make patient-centered care a reality by providing a robust
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