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Amazon Rolls Out New Alexa Healthcare Features
What You Should Know:
Today at HIMSS23, Amazon announced a new suite of Alexa Smart Properties (ASP) for Healthcare capabilities designed to improve the patient and medical staff experience at hospitals.
- With these new capabilities, healthcare and solution providers have even more ways to enable device fleet management and build Alexa capabilities at scale for patient care.
The new Alexa features include:
Upcoming availability of WebRTC support: will help patients
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Allina Health Partners with Epic-based KeyCare Platform
What You Should Know:
- KeyCare, the nation's first and only Epic-based virtual care company, announced today its partnership with Allina Health to deliver high-quality virtual care with licensed providers whenever and wherever patients need it.
- Allina Health patients can access care by scheduling a virtual visit through the Allina Health MyChart patient portal.
- KeyCare offers health systems the ability to easily augment their care teams, optimize capacity, and widen their digital
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Rimidi Announces Integration with MEDITECH Greenfield
What You Should Know:
Rimidi, a leading clinical management platform designed to optimize clinical workflows, enhance patient experiences and achieve quality objectives, today announced the company is now integrated with MEDITECH Greenfield.MEDITECH customers will now able to utilize Rimidi’s cloud-based software platform within their existing workflow, further enhancing efforts to support efficient models of care for chronic disease management through Fast Healthcare Interoperability
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Innovaccer Launches Self-Serve Conversational AI Assistant
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer is unveiling six new breakthrough solutions that help providers accelerate their success with population health, consumerism, and value-based care.
- Leading the lineup is Sara, the first conversational AI for healthcare analytics. Sara is a conversational AI assistant that literally puts the full breadth and depth of enterprise healthcare analytics into the hands of healthcare managers, physicians, and care teams. Anyone can ask Sara complex questions
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Caregility & Xandar Kardian Partner for Virtual Acute Care Solution
What You Should Know:
- Xandar Kardian, a Toronto-based leader in developing radar signal processing technology for vital sign monitoring, has formally announced an integrated partnership with Caregility, an enterprise telehealth leader dedicated to connecting care for patients and clinicians everywhere.
- For the first time ever, Xandar Kardian will embed its radar technology and data into a partner’s existing product line, joining Caregility’s Best in KLAS Caregility Cloud™ virtual
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M&A: GHX to Acquire Prodigo Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Today, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pittsburgh, Penn.-based Prodigo Solutions, Inc. (Prodigo), a supply chain and data enablement technology company.
- Prodigo was founded in 2008 by UPMC, the world-renowned Pittsburgh-based healthcare provider and insurer. Prodigo’s offerings help to broaden the healthcare supply chain’s span of control, expanding the potential for savings
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KLAS: Clinical Documentation Strategies 2023
What You Should Know:
For years, documentation has been a pain point that has led to clinician frustration and burnout, but numerous strategies have emerged to ease that burden and enhance patient care. COVID-19 has exacerbated burnout, leading organizations to renew their focus on improving documentation.A new report by KLAS examines physician-facing documentation technology and services, along with how vendors compare in overall scores, and the key performance metrics of value and
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Patient Violence is the Top Safety Concern For Healthcare Workers
What You Should Know:
Patient violence is a top safety concern for healthcare workers, according to recent Motorola Healthcare Worker Safety report.Overall, the data shows that healthcare workers feel safe in their respective medical environments, but are grappling with safety issues that have dominated headlines in recent years. Those that have healthcare professionals most concerned include: patients becoming violent (72%), the impacts of burnout/mental health (61%) and active
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IntleyCare Integrates with UKG to Alleviate Nursing Workforce Challenges
What You Should Know:
IntelyCare, the leading total healthcare talent solution in post-acute care, today introduced a new technology partnership with UKG, a leading provider of HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions for all people.IntelyCare's AI-based platform and per-diem matching technology enable healthcare organizations to increase census revenue and cut staffing costs. With more than 315 technology and services partners, UKG provides one of the largest and most
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