Yale New Haven Hospital’s (YNHH) Center for Musculoskeletal Care (CMC) has partnered with digital health startup Reflexion Health Inc. to deliver New England’s first in-home virtual exercise rehabilitation program starting this month.The rehab program is designed to help YNHH patients recover more easily, quickly and efficiently from joint replacement surgery via an FDA-cleared Virtual Exercise Rehabilitation Assistant called VERA™. Additionally, recognizing that post-acute care (PAC) costs
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CareSkore Unveils Population Health Management as a Service App (PHMaaS )
CareSkore, a provider of end-to-end personalized population health management, announced today the release of its Population Health Management as a ServiceTM (PHMaaSTM), providing direct access to its extensive machine-learning analytics engine to 3rd-party applications through an API.“PHMaaS completely changes the game for how organizations adopt population health management,” said Jaspinder Grewal, CEO of CareSkore. “We have too many proprietary application interfaces in health care. PHMaaS
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Accenture: 78% of Consumers Are Interested in Receiving Virtual Healthcare Services
More than three-quarters (78 percent) of consumers say they’d be interested in receiving virtual healthcare services, but only one in five (21 percent) have had the opportunity to receive services in this way, according to a new survey from Accenture. The Accenture survey of 1,501 U.S. consumers reveals that growing consumer demand for virtual healthcare services is putting increasing pressure on providers and payers to expand delivery options for on-demand health services. The research
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Propeller Health, Novartis Partner to Develop Custom Add-On Sensor for Breezhaler Inhahler
Propeller Health and Novartis Pharma are collaborating to develop a custom add-on sensor for the Breezhaler inhahler, a device used for the company’s portfolio of COPD treatments (UltibroTM BreezhalerTM, OnbrezTM BreezhalerTM and SeebriTM BreezhalerTM), integrating these medications into Propeller’s digital health platform in Europe. The partnership reinforces Propeller’s position as the leading platform in respiratory digital health and position as the partner of choice for major respiratory
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Grady Health System Earns HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Award
Grady Health System has earned the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Award on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) SM, becoming Georgia’s only adult acute care hospital to earn the highest rating for improving patient care and safety through health information technology.Grady leverages an integrated EMR and many innovative technologies to provide high quality care. Through actionable analytics and guided pathways, Grady patients are benefitting. One example involves Grady’s infectious
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BloodCenter of Wisconsin Launches Pilot Program to Digitally Track Blood Via RFID
BloodCenter of Wisconsin, part of Versiti, and Fresenius Kabi, have launched a pilot program at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin using radio frequency identification technology (RFID) to digitally track blood usage and inventory. As part of the pilot, the program will use specialized RFID tags applied to blood bags prior to shipment to hospitals that can automatically as the blood moves through the hospital, and to the point at which it is used to treat patients. This process allows for
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LifeDojo Nabs $51M for Employee Health Engagement & Coaching Platform
LifeDojo Inc., a provider of person-centered corporate health behavior change has raised $5.1 million in Series A funding led by Sodexo Ventures, the strategic venture capital fund of Sodexo, with participation from Launchpad Digital Health, GP Ventures, JD Investments and the Telluride Venture Fund. The company plans to utilize the funding to expand its employee-led health improvement platform, mobile app and health coaching in order to better serve employers. Founded in 2013, LifeDojo offers
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Verato Lands $12.5M for Cloud-based Identity Matching Platform
Verato, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based identity matching and Master Patient Index (MPI) solutions has raised $12.5 million in Series B funding led jointly by Bessemer Venture Partners and Columbia Capital. The McLean, VA-based company plans to utilize the funding to to support continued growth and to accelerate technology development. In addition to the funding announcement, Verato has signed on five new healthcare organizations as customers which includes a national payer organization,
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Career Step Acquires Panacea Healthcare Solution’s Revenue Cycle Management Divisions
Career Step, LLC, a portfolio company of Revelstoke Capital Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm has acquired the Revenue Capture and Coding and Documentation Divisions of Panacea Healthcare Solutions. After completion of the acquisition, Career Step and Panacea will now provide end-to-end education, consulting and data analytics solution to the revenue cycle and healthcare financial marketplaces. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.For Career Step, the acquisition
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Cota, Hackensack Meridian Integrates “Digital Map of Cancer” Into Epic EHR
Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH), a New Jersey-based integrated health care system and Cota, a leading data and technology platform for value-based precision medicine has teamed up to improve clinical and cost outcomes for cancer patients.As part of the partnership, HMH will integrate Cota Nodal Addresses™ (CNAs) directly into its Epic EHR to help support decision-making by oncologists at the point of care. CNAs are generated by a unique, patented digital data classification methodology that
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