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Virtual sitting and virtual nursing solutions are receiving attention from healthcare organizations. Although the use of virtual nursing especially is not yet widespread, and although both use cases often require a significant up-front investment in equipment, organizations are interested in their potential to improve patient outcomes, alleviate staffing shortages, and reduce costs.This report—KLAS’ first about virtual sitting and nursing—is an early look at customer
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Atropos Health Goes Global With New Funding from Samsung, Presido Ventures
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Atropos Health, a pioneer in evidence-based healthcare known for its Green Button Clinical Informatics Consult Service, today announced that it has completed strategic financing from Presidio Ventures, the venture arm of Sumitomo Corporation, Samsung Next, a venture arm of Samsung Electronics, Gaingels, and others.The funding enables Atropos Health to accelerate commercial and development opportunities outside the U.S., using its proprietary technology and approach. The
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ATA Launches 3 Telehealth Tools to Address Health Disparities
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The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) announced this week that its CEO’s Advisory Group on Using Telehealth to Eliminate Disparities and Inequities is releasing three new tools this week, to inform ways in which telehealth can impact disparities and inequities.All three tools were released today, to commemorate the third annual Telehealth Awareness Week. This year’s events will highlight the value telehealth brings to patients and helps to expand access to quality
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Q/A: LookDeep Health CEO Talks AI Adoption & Tackling Clinical Staff Skepticism
The potential of AI in clinical settings is clear, yet adoption of the technology continues to lag. Despite the myriad ways it can alleviate the burden placed on healthcare professionals, there is still significant staff skepticism to embrace AI. Narinder Singh, co-founder and CEO at LookDeep Health, believes that this reluctance and skepticism is a result of ambiguity over what AI even means. We recently spoke with Nardiner to discuss how clinical executives can address the hesitation to
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The Froedtert & MCW Health Network Taps AWS to Deliver Personalized Patient Care
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Inception Health, the innovation arm of the Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin health network, announced today that it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to advance the personalization of care and improve value to patients and communities served by the Froedtert & MCW health network.Through new services from within the Froedtert & MCW mobile application, patients are able to take steps to manage their health at their convenience, anywhere,
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How Digital Health Tools Can Help Promote Vaccine Adherence
A so-called “tripledemic” — the convergence of flu, RSV and COVID-19 — led to significant morbidity and mortality, and it also forced the cancellation or delay of numerous medical procedures at overwhelmed health systems. This year, there’s an RSV vaccine joining flu and COVID-19 vaccines, and it could help Americans avoid repeating history — but only if patients get recommended vaccines.
The events over the last several years have impacted the way many people view vaccines, sometimes
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CardioOne Secures $8M, Expands Cardiology Care Delivery Enablement Platform In 5 Markets
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CardioOne, a cardiology care delivery enablement platform for independent cardiology practices, $8M in initial funding and three new partnerships with independent cardiology practices in New Jersey, Florida and Pennsylvania– Cardiac Associates of New Jersey, Twin Hearts LLC and Corrieius Cardiology– joining its existing partner practices in Texas and Maryland. The partnership and platform provides these practices with the advantage of a national
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Arcadia Launches Point of Care Generative AI Assistant to Improve Care Team Efficiency
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- Healthcare data analytics company Arcadia launches a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant powered by Open AI, that will help boost productivity and improve care team efficiency.
- Care managers play a critical role in the healthcare delivery system, but they are stretched thin, having to quickly review and interpret massive amounts of information from complex medical records. Arcadia’s AI assistant does the heavy lifting with the ability to catch
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Vivante Health Closes $31M to Advance Digital Digestive Health Platform
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– Vivante Health, a Chicago-based provider of digital digestive health raises $31M in Series B funding led by Mercato Partners with participation from Health Catalyst Capital as well as returning investors 7wireVentures, Intermountain Ventures, Distributed Ventures, Human Capital, and SemperVirens.
- The latest funding round brings the total capital raised by Vivante to date to $47M, following a $16M Series A round in late 2021.
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Amenities Health Closes $10M to Modernize Health System Digital Front Doors
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- Amenities Health, a Dallas, TX-based healthcare digital front door platform secured an additional $6.25M, putting Amenities' total Series A amount raised to date at $10M.
- The Series A round was led by MemorialCare Innovation Fund, and Epic Ventures with additional participation from HealthTech CEOs Chris Gibson, Blake Marggraff, Kyle Robertson, Tom White, Kulmeet Singh, Harjinder Sandhu, and Buzz White.
- Amenities plans to use the additional
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