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Quest Diagnostics announced that it has completed its $450M acquisition of Haystack Oncology.Haystack Oncology has developed a highly sensitive minimal-residual disease (MRD) testing technology, based on circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), to aid in the early detection of residual or recurring cancer and better inform therapy decisions.Acquired back in April, the acquisition will leverage Quest’s expertise and scale in oncology, genomics and pathology. Quest
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Verana Health Launches RWE-Driven Solution for Clinical Trial Site Selection
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Verana Health®—a digital health company elevating quality in real-world data (RWD)—today announced the launch of VeraSite, a solution for identifying potential clinical trial sites.The new subscription-based tool offers clinical trial sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) a secure way to quickly identify practices with clinical expertise and potential patient populations matched to unique study protocols. This data can guide site selection, ensuring
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Zocdoc Integrates With Elation Health for Seamless Online Schedule
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Zocdoc, a healthcare marketplace that makes it easy to find and book in-person or virtual care across over 250 specialties and more than 18,000 insurance plans, today announced its partnership with Elation Health, the clinical-first healthcare technology company powering innovation in primary care. Now, any healthcare provider or practice using the Elation EHR can seamlessly integrate its calendar with Zocdoc to automatically surface their real-time appointment
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Improving Medical Record Access Key to Unlocking Power of Data
Shannon West, Chief Product Officer for Datavant
The healthcare industry is facing immense pressure to provide patients with seamless and compliant access to their medical records. Despite recent regulations that discourage information blocking and promote interoperability for secure access, the medical records retrieval process remains confusing and difficult. This affects both patients and healthcare providers, who need a comprehensive understanding of the patient's record and context. Even
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Aledade Raises $260M to Expand Services for Network of Primary Care Practices
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Aledade, a Bethesda, MD-based network of independent primary care practices raises $260M in a Series F funding round led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Venrock, Avidity Partners, OMERS Growth Equity, and Fidelity Management & Research Company.The new funding will be used to further accelerate the growth of Aledade’s primary care network and strategic alliances with national and regional health plans while continuing to
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DexCare Raises $75M to Accelerate Care Access Platform
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DexCare, Inc., a Seattle-based patient demand and care access platform raises $75M in Series C funding led by ICONIQ Growth with participation from existing partners Transformation Capital, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, and others. The funding will advance DexCare’s platform, which extends limited health-system capacity to serve patients faster and to precisely manage the supply and demand of digital-care access. The new funding brings the total raised to
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Konica Minolta’s Microsoft Azure-Hosted Platform Automates Exchange of Healthcare Data
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Konica Minolta launches Konica Minolta Connected Care, a cloud-based workflow automation platform designed to streamline manual processes such as patient intake, care transitions and referral management across acute, post-acute and ambulatory care settings. Konica Minolta Connected Care is hosted in Microsoft Azure and is available through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
The solution automatically converts unstructured data to structured, automates manual
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AMA Names 9 Organizations for EHR Research Grant Program
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The American Medical Association (AMA) announced today nine organizations selected as recipients of the 2023 Electronic Health Record Use Research Grant Program. This year’s grant recipients will divide $589k to fund research examining patterns of EHR use to inform solutions that prevent clinician burnout and turnover, enhance high-quality patient care, and improve workflows, teamwork, and resource allocation at the practice level.
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University Hospitals Taps Nuance to Improve Patient Engagement
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Nuance Communications announced that Cleveland-based University Hospitals has chosen Nuance Patient Engagement Solutions to improve patient experiences by providing streamlined, secure, around-the-clock support to patients. The future of healthcare depends on the unified communication between patients and providers. Nuance's platform integrates directly into University Hospital’s existing infrastructure and extends the capabilities of the EHR to accelerate the
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5 Strategies for Providers to Overcome ePHI Security Challenges
The latest report from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) reveals a concerning trend: HIPAA violations and data breaches are drastically increasing.
According to the report, HIPAA violations surged by 39% between 2017 and 2021 and the number of large healthcare data breaches (those affecting 500 or more records) rose by 58%. More than 5,000 incidents were reported, compromising more than 382 million healthcare records and surpassing the population of the United States by 1.2 times. Small
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