What You Should Know:
- Accenture announced Ellipsis Health as the “Innovation Champion” of its fifth annual Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge-North America, a competition that supports new and novel solutions from startups to improve the way people access, manage and finance healthcare in North America.
- Based in San Francisco, CA, Ellipsis Health was named this year’s Innovation Champion for pioneering an artificial intelligence-powered, speech-based vital sign to
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axialHealthcare Rebrands as Wayspring, Raises $75M for Value-Based Care Solution
- Wayspring, formerly axialHealthcare, announced today its new name and a $75M investment from Valtruis, Centene Corporation, CareSource, HLM Venture Partners, and existing investors Highmark Ventures, .406 Ventures, the Blue Venture Fund, and Oak HC/FT. Wayspring will use the capital to scale its value-based care solution, a full-risk medical home model for substance use disorder (SUD).
- Using data analytics to drive high-touch, high-impact outreach to the most at-risk
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Rimidi Launches EHR-Integrated Patient Reported Outcomes Tool, Survé
What You Should Know:
- Today, Rimidi, a leading clinical management platform designed to optimize clinical workflows, announced the official launch of its EHR-integrated Patient Reported Outcomes tool, Survé by Rimidi.
- While originally deployed as a virtual screening and triage tool to help limit the spread of COVID-19 in healthcare settings, Survé has since been enhanced to work across a number of different clinical areas and use cases, such as dermatology, orthopedics and
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Learning from Financial Fraud Detection to Tackle Opioid Abuse Amid COVID-19
Despite falling from its prominent place in the headlines, America’s opioid crisis is still raging. Anxiety, stress, depression, and isolation caused by the pandemic have contributed to substance use disorders. At the same time, the Drug Enforcement Administration has loosened prescribing restrictions, including waiving the requirement for in-person visits and allowing clinicians to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine alone.
Given these conditions, it is not surprising that over
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Vital Raises $15M to Expand AI-Powered Emergency Department Platform
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- Vital, an Atlanta-based artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solution improving patient experience and follow-up visit loyalty in hospital emergency departments (ED) and into inpatient stays, has secured $15M in Series A funding led by Transformation Capital, with a strategic health system joining the round alongside existing investors First Round Capital and Threshold Ventures. Vital’s new ERAdvisor application gives patients and their caregivers in the ED real-time,
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Walmart to Deploy Epic EHR Platform in 4 New Health Centers
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- Walmart announces a new partnership with Epic to deploy a single enterprise EHR platform in four new Walmart Health Centers opening in Florida in early 2022.
- The Epic deployment will engage patients, healthcare professionals, insurance carriers and other stakeholders while enhancing communication, personalization and information sharing amongst healthcare professionals and patients utilizing a patient portal.
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Innovaccer, Roche Partner to Develop Clinical Decision Support Solutions
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- Innovaccer Inc. the Health Cloud company, announced it has entered into a three-year collaboration with Roche to partner in the development of innovative clinical decision support solutions on the InnovaccerⓇ Health Cloud for the U.S. market.
- As part of the strategic collaboration, the Innovaccer Health Cloud and its core Data Activation Platform will be used to integrate disparate data from EHRs, labs, claims, pharmacy—virtually any healthcare data
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Augmedix Partners with Google Cloud to Rehumanize the Patient-Clinician Interaction
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- Augmedix, Inc., a provider of virtual medical documentation and live clinical support, today announced that it has partnered with Google Cloud to optimize and integrate automated speech recognition (“ASR”) technology for use in real-world clinical settings. ASR technology is a critical component in the Augmedix technology stack, and Augmedix is now integrating Google Cloud Speech-to-Text into its Notebuilder technology platform, which provides natural language
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TailorMed Raises Additional $5M to Close $25M Round for Patient Financial Navigation Platform
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– TailorMed Medical Ltd., a New York City-based patient financial navigation technology company, today announced it has raised an additional $5M of funding, increasing the overall investment to $25 million. The new strategic investors, American Cancer Society’s impact investment fund, BrightEdge, OSF Healthcare’s corporate investment arm, OSF Ventures, and Citi via their Citi Impact Fund, seek to reduce medical costs through TailorMed’s platform across all treatments and
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4 Ways 5G is Transforming Healthcare & Patient Care
We hear a lot about 5G technology, but for many of us, it's link to our lives goes as far as our smartphones and mobile service providers. But to think that 5G technology is only valuable for making our data speeds faster is like saying that electricity is great because it allows us to read books before bed. Sure, both are favorable side effects, but the impacts of each invention are far more widespread than that.
A lot of industries have been disrupted by 5G technology — the video game
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