Stratus Video announced that its mobile video interpretation solution is now being utilized at all of Southcoast Health’s Southeastern Massachusetts hospitals. Stratus Video’s video remote interpretation (VRI) technology lets Southcoast Health easily provide improved care for LEP and Deaf patients, while ensuring compliance with ADA regulations.Ever-expanding language diversity, coupled with evolving federal regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has brought on-demand
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Cedars-Sinai Partners With Noteworth to Integrate Patient-Generated Data With Epic EMR
Cedars-Sinai has signed a three-year deal with Noteworth, a healthcare data software as a service (SaaS) company to integrate patient generated data into clinical decision-making. The digital health startup Noteworth was a part of the second cohort of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator powered by Techstars.As part of the three-year program, Cedars-Sinai will use Noteworth’s platform to integrate previously unavailable patient-generated data directly into their Epic EMR to help improve patient
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MAP Health Management Integrates With IBM Watson Health to Tackle Substance Abuse
IBM Watson Health and MAP Health Management are teaming up to bring the data prowess of Watson to curb substance abuse and addiction in the United States. MAP will integrate Watson cognitive technologies into the MAP Recovery Network Platform to enhance the platform’s existing capabilities around patient risk models. With this integration, it is anticipated that behavioral health and substance abuse treatment providers that use the MAP platform will be better able to predict and prevent
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WEGO Health Partners With CureClick to Accelerate Clinical Trial Recruitment
Today, WEGO Health, a network of more than 100,000 patient leaders, today announced it has partnered with CureClick to make patient influencers available through the CureClick clinical trial recruiting platform. Under the partnership, the two companies will leverage their combined expertise in crowd sourced patient recruitment to reduce the time, costs and friction associated with clinical trial enrollment.CureClick uses a proprietary crowdsourcing platform to enlist patient leaders to educate
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5 Emerging Biomedical Engineering Trends to Watch
Biomedical engineering has long been a driver of advances in healthcare. From new technologies to diagnose and treat some of the most complex disease to advances that improve quality of life for everyone, the work taking place in labs around the world right now is likely to change the face of healthcare in both the short- and long-term future. Although there are literally thousands of different projects taking place at this very moment, there are some definite trends taking place in biomedical
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Intermountain Healthcare to Implement Wound Tracking App Integrated with Cerner EHR
Intermountain Healthcare, one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems in US, announced that it will implement Tissue Analytics’ advanced imaging technology, integrated with its Cerner’s EHR system, across all of its hospitals, wound clinics, and home care group. The Tissue Analytics technology will be integrated into 22 hospitals, eight outpatient wound clinics, and the entire Intermountain Home Care group.Today, wound healing is measured manually with a ruler -- which introduces a 45%
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Cambia Health Solutions Integrates With Visa To Transform Reimbursement for Consumers
Cambia Health Solutions, a total health solutions company announced a new collaboration with Visa to help transform the reimbursement experience for consumers. As part of the collaboration, Cambia Health will integrate Visa Direct technology into its payment platform, allowing consumers to receive health care reimbursements directly to their eligible debit cards, speeding up the payment process.What Is Visa Direct?Visa Direct is a card-based platform that can deliver funds in near real-time to
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Mayo Clinic, Medibio Partner to Jointly Develop Digital Mental Health Platform
Mayo Clinic has signed a three year agreement with Melbourne, Australia-based Medibio to jointly develop new digital health solutions for mental illness. As part of the agreement, Mayo Clinic will utilize Medibio’s proprietary analytic platform that utilizes a patented panel of circadian, sleep and autonomic system biomarkers to objectively quantify and characterize mental illness. Mayo Clinic will work with Medibio’s team to provide clinical expertise to validate its platform in the
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Medullan to Offer Users Access to Harvard Health Publications for Consumer Health Insights
Medullan, a digital health firm that designs and builds powerful solutions that achieve high rates of adoption for payers, providers, life sciences, and pharma, announced a collaboration with Harvard Health Publications (HHP), a division of Harvard Medical School. This relationship will provide consumers access to Harvard’s consumer health information via the digital tools and mobile apps Medullan envisions, designs, and builds for its clients.HHP’s content covers thousands of health
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Livongo Launches New Direct-to-Consumer Diabetes Management Program
Livongo Health, a consumer digital health company focused on empowering people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, today announced partnerships with the American Diabetes Association, Beyond Type 1, Diabetes Hands Foundation, and JDRF to launch the Livongo Family Care Plan. The Family Care Plan is a comprehensive direct-to-consumer diabetes management program for people with diabetes and those who love them.The partnership also provides everyone who subscribes to the
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