What You Should Know:
- Medical genetics company Invitae today announced its $325M acquisition of Ciitizen, a patient-centric consumer health tech company that offers a global platform to help patients collect, organize, store and share their medical records digitally.
- Ciitizen is a patient-centric consumer health technology platform that enables patients to collect, store and share their medical records in a single location. Ciitizen developed proprietary machine learning and AI
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Mayo Clinic, Verily Partner to Develop Clinical Decision Support Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Today, Mayo Clinic and Verily, an Alphabet company announced a strategic two-year collaboration to develop clinical decision support solutions. This modular, evidence-based decision support solution, will provide contextualized and validated knowledge on disease management, care guidelines, and treatment to help clinicians make decisions.
- The clinical decision support tool will be developed based on a broad range of health-relevant data sources, including
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Foundation Medicine Integrates with Epic EMR for Genomic Insights for Precision Cancer Care
What You Should Know:
- Foundation Medicine (FMI) announced today a partnership to integrate its comprehensive genomic testing services into Epic’s electronic medical record (EMR) platform, making it easier for oncologists to order comprehensive genomic tests (CGP), review results, continually access clinical and genomic information and share among their care teams in order to develop personalized treatment plans quickly and efficiently for their patients. See the full release
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Experity Launches $50M Urgent Care EMR/PM to Power On-Demand Care
What You Should Know:
- Experity, the chosen partner of 50% of U.S. urgent care clinics, announced their new EMR and PM operating system in direct response to the pivotal, pandemic-driven movement towards on-demand healthcare. The company
has committed over $50 million in product and development to bring this new urgent care-focused EMR/PM to market in under two years.
- With Experity’s new EMR/PM solutions, on-demand care and urgent care facilities can keep up
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Semafone Integrates with Epic to Secure Healthcare Payments
What You Should Know:
- Today Semafone, a provider of data security solutions for call and contact centers, has announced an integration with EHR provider Epic to protect payment data and enhance the patient experience.
- Semafone’s Cardprotect Voice+ solution empowers customer-facing personnel in the healthcare industry to take secure, compliant payments over the telephone.
Cardprotect Voice+ Solution Overview
Utilizing patented dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) masking
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Moving Beyond EHRs: What Lies Ahead for Healthcare Digitization?
As our economy has become increasingly digitized, we are generating a massive influx of personal data. Across industries, the winning companies are those that have successfully harnessed the value of that data to create unique and personalized experiences for their customers. How we shop, travel, and handle our finances have been entirely transformed in ways that delight, engender loyalty, and generate repeat business.
Healthcare, however, has generally lagged behind other consumer industries
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Foundation Medicine Integrates Genomic Profiling with Flatiron Health’s EMR
What You Should Know:
- Foundation Medicine (FMI) announced today it will begin integrating with Flatiron Health and other electronic medical record (EMR) systems to make it easier for oncologists to order comprehensive genomic tests (CGP), review results, continually access clinical and genomic information and share among their care teams in order to quickly and efficiently develop personalized treatment plans for their patients.
- This integration, the first of a
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DrChrono Raises $12M to Expand Operations of Medical Practice Platform
What You Should Know:
- DrChrono Inc., a company developing an essential platform and services for modern medical practices, today announced it has raised a new round of over $12M in growth capital from ORIX Corporation USA’s Growth Capital team (ORIX Growth Capital.)
- The company plans to use the growth capital to expand all operations and provide enhancements across the other key product areas including EHR, practice management, medical billing and the company’s core partner
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How to Bolster EHR Efficiency and Access to Offer Better Patient Care
Over the past few decades, technology has advanced health care in incredible ways. Between robotic surgery, training through augmented reality, and the use of wearables to enhance health data, the industry has embraced numerous advances to improve patient care.
However, the industry’s relationship with technology hasn’t always been seamless. While doctors and nurses work diligently to keep patients informed, more than 50% of clinicians suffer from regular burnout. The leading culprit?
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Iodine Software Acquires Physician Query Platform Artifact Health – Health M&A
What You Should Know:
- Iodine Software, a leading healthcare AI company, today announced it has acquired physician engagement platform company Artifact Health. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition brings together two industry leaders and expands Iodine’s clinical predictions and insights platform beyond clinical documentation improvement (CDI) teams to directly engage physicians through Artifact’s HIPAA-compliant mobile platform.
- Artifact
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