3M Health Information Systems and Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google Life Sciences), an Alphabet company has signed a strategic partnership to develop new population health measurement technology for managing clinical and financial performance.The joint technology platform will be designed to analyze quality performance data across healthcare delivery systems and patient populations, and deliver meaningful information that can be used to promote real and sustainable improvements in healthcare
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peer60: Physicians are Extremely Unhappy With All Major EHR Vendors
Physicians are extremely unhappy with all major EHR vendors, including market leader Epic, according to a new report from peer60. The report reveals physicians EHR vendor frustrations are driven by poor usability and lack of desired functionality. Other key findings include the EHR market for acute care facilities is consolidating quickly and while fragmented, Epic continues to make inroads in the ambulatory EHR market. Report Background/MethodologyIn August 2016, peer60 surveyed 1,053
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Mount Sinai Selects Kaigo Health for Digital Personal Care Assistants
Mount Sinai hospital System in New York has selected healthcare assistant startup Kaigo Health to improve hospital experiences for patients. As part of the partnership, Kaigo Health will work closely with care teams to ensure optimal results for patients in New York City and the surrounding boroughs.Kaigo Health takes the complexities out of the healthcare experience and helps users reach their health goals with a detailed action plan, handcrafted by a crack team of health professionals. For
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Mount Sinai Researchers Crowdsource Gene Expression Data for Drug & Target Discovery
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have crowdsourced the annotation and analysis of a large number of gene expression profiles from the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s (NCBI) Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). For the project, more than 70 volunteers from 25 countries helped Mount Sinai researchers analyze the data, enabling the identification of new associations between genes, diseases, and drugs – something that a smaller number of unaided researchers, or an
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AAP, Kognito Launch Expanded Version of Childhood Obesity App
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight and Kognito (a client of The Drapin Group LLC) has teamed up again to launch an expanded version of its free Change Talk: Childhood Obesity app. Developed using Kognito's Conversation Platform, Change Talk: Childhood Obesity™ uses motivational interviewing techniques to evoke “change talk” to prepare pediatricians and other health care professionals to lead real-life conversations with children and their parents about
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Infographic: 3 Ways Hospitals Are Throwing Away Money
A study in Health Affairs shows more than half (55 percent) of U.S. hospitals lose money on each patient they serve. Why is this? SCI Solutions has highlighted three major areas where revenue and patient volume are often lost: ill-managed referral networks, unused scheduling capacity, and insurance authorization denials. Too often, healthcare organizations cling to outdated operations that actually create barriers for patients and referring providers, eating away at profit margins. The
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AMA Unveils MACRA Payment Model Evaluator for Physicians
With physicians facing the most notable changes in Medicare in a generation, the American Medical Association (AMA) has unveiled several online tools to help physicians through pending Medicare payment and delivery changes and to improve their opportunity for success under the new program that will go into effect in 2017.These new tools were designed to build on earlier, significant AMA efforts to ensure that physicians and their practices are prepared for MACRA: The MACRA webpage on the AMA’s
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Welltok Nabs $33.7M for CaféWell Health Optimization Platform
Health optimization platform Welltok has raised $33.7 million in Series E funding with participation from new and existing investors including securing a a new debt facility providing the company with $13 million of expanded borrowing capacity. The company plans to utilize the funding to accelerate development of its CaféWell Health Optimization Platform™ and complementary technology-enabled healthcare service offerings, as well as expansion into new market segments. The latest round brings the
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Startup Incubator 1776, Accenture Partner to Help Digital Health Startups
Startup incubator 1776 has teamed up with Accenture to provide guidance and insights to its growing roster of digital health startups. As part of the partnership, Accenture will assign some of its health consultants to the 1776 campuses in D.C. and New York to help evaluate new portfolio companies for future viability and advise and engage with these and other emerging digital health companies.Launched by co-CEOs Donna Harris and Evan Burfield and headquartered in Washington, D.C., with
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Andrew Mellin Named Chief Medical Officer for Spok, Inc.
Spok Holdings, Inc., a secure message provider for healthcare has appointed Andrew Mellin, M.D. its new Chief Medical Officer. In his new role, Dr. Mellin will be responsible for representing physician’s needs for communications software solutions to drive improvements in provider efficiency and patient care. Dr. Mellin joins recently appointed Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Dr. Nat’e Guyton, in creating a clinical leadership team focused on using communication technologies to enable more effective
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