What You Should Know:
- Cloudticity and Sapphire Health announced a strategic partnership to help hospitals and healthcare providers that use Epic EHR to undergo a seamless transition into the AWS Cloud.
- This first-ever strategic alliance enables hospital systems to leverage cloud power to ensure their infrastructure can achieve high levels of availability, resilience, and agility.
Seamless Epic EHR Deployment to the Cloud
Hospitals face unique IT challenges. They have EHRs
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ThedaCare Invests $3M in Qventus to Deploy AI-Enabled Care Operations Automation
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Health system ThedaCare announced it has invested $3M in Qventus and it also deploying the technology to drive operational efficiencies in inpatient and perioperative care settings and across its organization.
Through the investment, ThedaCare will collaborate with Qventus to develop new solutions and innovations, as well as support Qventus in expanding its technology to additional hospitals and health systems across the United
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UNC Health, Partners with WELL Health/Gozio to Improve Mobile App
What You Should Know:
- UNC Health has announced that it is releasing new features within its mobile platform.
- Partnering with industry leaders, Gozio Health and WELL Health, UNC Health is integrating Gozio-powered wayfinding with the WELL Health patient communications platform to create a more seamless, integrated digital experience for patients. The result is a 443% increase in mobile downloads and interactions with a consumer-facing digital front door.
Digital Elements to
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Get Well’s Remote Monitoring Program Improved COVID-19 Outcomes
What You Should Know:
- Get Well, a global digital health company, released a new study that found patients who used its digital care management solution for COVID-19 had a 32% lower rate of being hospitalized.
- The study published in the Journal of the American Medical Associate Network Open also found that patients who were hospitalized had stays that were on average 2.7 days shorter and spent fewer days in intensive care.
Digital Solutions for COVID-19
Patients using a remote
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Welcoming Patients Through The Digital Front Door
When patients contact their healthcare providers, they look for efficiency, convenience, and compassion. But often, the reality is far more clunky and impersonal when they find that an out-of-date phone system or a long hold queue are their only options.
The secret to giving patients a more user-friendly experience and increasing engagement is to take a page from the corporate playbook. Emulating the modern conveniences patients get in other parts of their lives can help ensure
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Availity to Acquire Diameter Health to Expand Clinical Data Interoperability
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- One of the nation’s largest real-time health information networks Availity announced an agreement to acquire Diameter Health, a national leader in clinical data quality and interoperability.
- This strategic deal expands Availity’s clinical portfolio to deliver the strongest integrated clinical and claims data network and interoperability platforms in healthcare.
Streamlining Clinical Data Interoperability
Founded in 2013, Diameter
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Velatura Services Selected for Amazon Web Services Health Equity Initiative
What You Should Know:
- Velatura Services (Velatura) today announced that it has been selected as part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Health Equity Initiative, a $40M, three-year commitment supporting organizations that are developing solutions to advance health equity.
- Participation in the initiative will enhance Velatura’s efforts to provide essential data management infrastructure, advance data exchange, improve well-being, and reduce disparities.
Amazon Web
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GHX Launches Lumere Consulting Services for Clinically Integrated Supply Chain
What You Should Know:
- GHX Lumere announced the launch of its consulting service to support healthcare providers that want to optimize savings and reduce clinical variation.
- This premium service combines clinical expertise, data, evidence and technology to help hospitals and health systems improve supply chain performance.
Lumere Consulting Services Offering
As hospital operating margins continue to lag, many organizations are looking to achieve savings through
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Netsmart Acquires SNF Claims Data Analytics Solution CORE Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Netsmart announced that it has acquired CORE Analytics, the industry-leading skilled nursing facility (SNF) claims data analytics offering from Zimmet Healthcare.
- With the addition of Core Analytics, Netsmart Simple™is now the only solution suite in the market capable of calculating quality measures and Five-Star ratings leveraging Minimum Data Set (MDS), Payroll-Based Journaling (PBJ) and UB-04 claims data.
Software Solutions to Problems in
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What is the Potential for Digital Twins in Healthcare?
Digital twins are virtual representations of an object or system that spans its lifecycle, is updated from real-time data, and use simulation, machine learning and reasoning to help decision-making (IBM). In most cases, this helps data scientists understand how products are operating in production environments and anticipate how they may behave overtime. But what happens when a digital twin is that of a human being?
By using digital twins to model a person, you can use technologies like
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