Able Health is a health IT company dedicated to making value-based care work for providers has launched an end-to-end MIPS solution enabling providers to improve performance and submit data to CMS with less time, money, and stress. The new platform can ingest patient data from electronic health records and data warehouses, calculate any MIPS registry quality measure or eCQM, and provide a dashboard for administrators to track and improve a group or provider's MIPS Composite Performance Score.
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Avizia Launches Virtual Care SDK for Providers to Enable Telehealth Visits on Mobile Apps
Avizia, a provider of end-to-end telehealth solutions has unveiled a new software development kit (SDK) that enables health systems to integrate Avizia's premier telehealth capabilities into their own mobile apps . A solution for providers looking to improve the consumer health experience, the Avizia Virtual Care SDK adds valuable features to mobile apps while connecting to the Avizia ONE telehealth platform to effectively and efficiently scale and manage telehealth services.As a part of this
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Emerging Role of Open APIs in Healthcare: 5 Trends to Know
Clinical and other leaders see APIs in healthcare as technology-enablers of process change and evolving care models, according to Chilmark Research latest report. The latest report, APIs for a Healthcare App Economy: Paths to Market Success, finds high expectations for APIs to support healthcare innovation and more dynamic engagement across stakeholders.The API Opportunity in HealthcareSponsored by Cerner, InterSystems, Orion Health and PokitDok, Chilmark conducted a broad survey of the
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Stratus Video Launches Telehealth Division, Partners with Adventist Health
Stratus Video, a provider of language service and video technology has announced its expansion into the telehealth market with a next generation communication platform. Stratus Telehealth solutions are built with intelligent call routing which engages the right people, at the right time. Healthcare providers, patients, and interpreters will be able to use their own devices to communicate with each other via video, SMS text messaging and email. For Stratus, these expanded capabilities position
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BD Taps BERG’s AI Platform to Reduce Medication Non-Adherence
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) a leader in medical technology, will use BERG's artificial intelligence platform to improve patient health by minimizing challenges associated with medication adherence for patients. The partnership will leverage BD's healthcare IT expertise and BERG's AI platform to develop a medication adherence algorithm that will help healthcare workers identify certain patient populations that are at the highest risk for nonadherence post-discharge.Estimates show that the
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PatientPoint, American Heart Association Partner to Educate Patients on Heart Health at Point of Care
PatientPoint, a provider of patient and physician engagement solutions at the point of care has teamed up with the American Heart Association to help educate patients and physicians on heart health and stroke prevention at the point of care. As part of the collaboration, PatientPoint will utilize its network of more than 290,000 healthcare providers to share American Heart Association public service announcements and educational content. By leveraging this content through its digital and mobile
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Clearwater Clinical Nabs $6M for Clinically Validated iPad Audiometer
Clearwater Clinical Limited, a provider of medical-grade mobile devices and cloud-based data management solutions for the hearing health industry has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Whitecap Venture Partners. Whitecap Venture Partners will work closely with Clearwater Clinical on a number of strategic initiatives including product development, go to market programs, and future financing strategy. BDC Capital Healthcare Venture Fund also participated in the round, and along with
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StartUp Health, Allianz Partner to Co-develop Custom Healthcare Innovation Portfolio
StartUp Health, a global entrepreneurship development company for Healthcare Transformers, today announced a three-year partnership with global insurance provider Allianz to co-develop a Custom Innovation Portfolio of at least two dozen companies. Over the next three years through strategic calls for innovations, both companies will focus on solutions to critical health issues on individual, community and global levels.Specific themes for the Portfolio will be later announced after a Call for
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IBM Watson Health, FDA Launch 2-Year Study to Explore Blockchain for Secure Patient Data Exchange
IBM Watson Health has signed a 2-year research initiative with the FDA to leverage blockchain technology to define a secure, efficient, and scalable exchange of patient data. As part of the two-year agreement, IBM and the FDA will explore the exchange of owner mediated data from several sources, such as EMRs, clinical trials, genomic data, and health data from mobile devices, wearables and the "Internet of Things." The initial focus will be on oncology-related data with plans to share initial
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ResApp Expands Research Collaboration With Mass General for Diagnostic App
ResApp, a Australian-based digital health startup that has developed a smartphone app that can diagnose respiratory diseases based on the sound signatures of the coughs has entered into a two-year expanded research collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). As part of the research collaboration, ResApp and MGH will perform additional analysis of the SMARTCOUGH-C study data, use the SMARTCOUGH-C dataset to investigate the state of respiratory disease clinical practice today and
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