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- Accuhealth’s remote patient monitoring platform and 2bPrecise’s precision genetic/genomic data platform announced that it is available in the Epic App Orchard. The App Orchard program enables developers to integrate their healthcare IT solutions with the Epic electronic health record (EHR) using standards-based APIs.
- The 2bPrecise platform consumes genetic/genomic data from molecular labs and clinical information from EHRs. It synthesizes
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Why “Just in Time” is “Just Not Right” for Optimizing the Healthcare Supply Chain
The ongoing shortage of COVID-19-related masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) has sent shockwaves through the healthcare industry; we’ve all seen the newscasts and forecasts predicting these supply chain disruptions aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Since China implemented its first lockdown at the start of the pandemic, it created a cascading effect of redirecting a reduced supply to their own country amplifying supply chain issues around the world – and unprepared hospitals have
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Transplant Connect and Cerner Streamline Organ Donation and Transplant Process
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Transplant Connect, a Los Angeles-based medical software company that has introduced innovative new technology known as iReferral, and Cerner Corporation announce their new collaboration to enable automated donor referrals.
- For years, matching transplant donors with those who need them has been a manual process that typically takes 20 to 30 minutes of healthcare workers making calls. Slowing this process are staffing shortages and
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Mount Sinai Uses Machine Learning to Improve Postpartum Hemorrhage Risk Prediction
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- Sema4, an AI-driven genomic and clinical data intelligence platform company, recently published two studies demonstrating the utility of machine learning to predict clinical outcomes for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). The studies, which will appear in a special “Informatics for Sex- and Gender-Related Health” print issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), were conducted in collaboration with clinicians from
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Collective Medical, Nuance Launches PowerShare to Provide ED Physicians Real-Time Notifications
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- Today, Collective Medical, a PointClickCare Company, was chosen for a collaboration with Nuance with the launch of Naunce PowerShare Image Aware.
- The collaboration will provide emergency department (ED) physicians with real-time notifications of a patient's prior radiology studies within existing clinical workflows. Point-of-care access to previous diagnostic images reduces unnecessary imaging, healthcare costs, and ED waiting times while
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State of Healthcare IT/EHR Staffing in a World with COVID-19
After a year dominated by COVID-19, and even with the rising challenges of the delta variant, Healthcare IT staffing is rebounding. To complicate matters more, the rising number of vaccine mandates across hospital systems has the potential to put the entire industry in a serious bind.
Throughout 2020, the majority of US hospital systems were stopped in their tracks. Spending on capital projects was paused indefinitely, and leaders were forced to significantly
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How to Detect and Address Friction in the Healthcare Employee Journey Leveraging the Latest Technology
Whether you call it the great resignation, pandemic burnout, or the great discontent, the medical profession is not immune to the rising wave of employee turnover that's currently shaking up organizations across industries. In fact, the churn rate for staff nurses has grown by nearly 3% to just under 19%, costing hospitals between roughly $4 million to $6.5 million annually. Among physicians, 69% report feeling disengaged and 54% say they're planning to leave their current employer, with each
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Notable Secures $100M to Expand Intelligent Automation in Healthcare
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- Notable, a San Mateo, CA-based leader in healthcare intelligent automation, today announced it has raised $100M in Series B funding led by ICONIQ Growth, including participation by Greylock, F-Prime Capital, and Oak HC/FT to accelerate growth and innovation within the healthcare industry.
- The company plans to use the new round of funding to pioneer a novel intelligent automation approach for healthcare with the mission of reducing administrative burden
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Gundersen Health, Kyruus Partner to Propel Digital Access Transformation
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- Gundersen Health System, an integrated healthcare network, is revamping its digital front door to simplify how patients access care across its network with Kyruus. New and existing patients now have access to an online search experience with a robust directory of nearly 1,000 providers to more easily find care that best fits their needs.
- Kyruus offered the deep implementation experience Gundersen sought to help it build a new, system-wide directory of nearly 1,000
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A State Roadmap To Successfully Deploy Medicaid Modularity (MMIS)
In 2010, the Affordable Care Act ushered in a new era for Medicaid Modularity, an approach anchored by breaking down large, monolith systems into smaller, more nimble and self-contained modules that can de-risk healthcare delivery and unlock innovation. More broadly, Medicaid Modularity is about improving states’ Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS).
In 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) followed by issuing guidance on how states should move forward with
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