Aprima, a physician pratice-focused EHR provider has announced an integration partnership with Genomic Decision Support platform ActX to bring precision medicine into the physician’s office. The addition of the ActX platform provides Aprima clients with access to genomics in everyday patient care and delivers clinically actionable insights that facilitate personalized medication and screening choices based on a patient’s unique genetic profile.Imagine, during your office visit, your physician
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CoverMyMeds Integrates With athenahealth EHR to Help Patients Fill Prescriptions Faster
athenahealth is teaming up with electronic prior authorization (“ePA”) platform CoverMyMeds for prescriptions that will automate the ePA process for providers using the athenaClinicals electronic health record service.Of the estimated 185 million prescriptions a year in the U.S. that require prior authorization from payers, 40 percent are eventually abandoned. One reason is because the process to determine insurance coverage is extremely time-consuming, involving phone calls and faxes between
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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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Intermountain Healthcare Innovation Fund Invests $1M In Redox to Leverage EHR API Integration
Redox, an EHR integration API platform for developers and healthcare organizations has received $1 million in strategic follow-on funding from Intermountain Innovation Fund, a strategic investment vehicle of Intermountain Healthcare. The additional $1 million closes the company's Series B round to $10 million. The Intermountain Healthcare Innovation Fund is managed by Healthbox , a platform for healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship that works with healthcare organizations to advance their
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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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University of Miami Health to Launch New Precision Medicine Initiative for Personalized Cancer Care
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of UHealth – the University of Miami Health System, announced today is it partnering with Syapse to launch a scalable precision medicine initiative that will benefit thousands of cancer patients in South Florida and improve survival rates. The partnership with Syapse will enable doctors at UMiami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center to deliver personalized care that matches patients with targeted, cutting-edge cancer therapies, resulting in better
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Emory Healthcare Saves $4.6M Through Leveraging Philips eICU Platform
A recent independent audit conducted at Emory Healthcare that illustrates leverages Philips eICU program saved an estimated $4.5 million over a 15-month period. The 15-month audit conducted by Abt Associates on behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) compared the Philips eICU program at Emory to nine other hospitals in the Atlanta area to determine the impact of the implementation. The audit’s results confirm the eICU’s beneficial effects on not only the cost of care,
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The Challenges and Potential Payoff of Integrating Virtual Healthcare Services
Zipnosis CEO Jon Pearce explains how companies like his are helping health providers tap into virtual healthcare—behind the screens.Consumer interest in virtual health services is growing, but are health providers ready to deliver them? A recent Accenture study revealed that more than three-quarters of its 1,501 respondents would use virtual services—however, only 21 percent of those same respondents noted receiving virtual services.Physicians could save big by providing virtual services in
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Insurtech Startup Wellthie Raises $5M to Become The Zillow for Small Business Health Insurance
Wellthie – an insurance technology company offering leading broker and comparison shopping tools that simplify insurance distribution and optimize choices for small businesses and individuals, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by IA Capital Groupwith participation from existing and new investors, including Aflac Ventures and top insurance industry executives. The company plans to use the funds to accelerate its nationwide growth and product development. Andy Lerner,
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