What You Should Know:
- U.S. Department of Defense awards Prenosis up to $4.3M to improve early sepsis identification for warfighters using point-of-care predictive diagnostics.
- According to the World Health Organization, more than 11 million people die from sepsis worldwide annually, more than the deaths caused by all cancers combined. Studies show that sepsis is the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals with annual costs of treatment and rehabilitation estimated at
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Alexa, Can You Call My Nurse? Amazon to Build Vocera Skill for Alexa
What You Should Know:
- Vocera announced a collaboration with Amazon to deliver Vocera skill for Alexa. This HIPAA-compliant solution provides an easy, personal, and direct way for hospitalized patients and aged care residents to connect with their caregivers and more.
- Through the hands-free Vocera skill, Alexa clarifies the nature of patient requests, establishes urgency, and updates the patient on the status of the care team’s response in a personalized, conversational manner. Vocera
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QGenda Acquires Nurse & Staff Scheduling Platform Schedule360 – M&A
What You Should Know:
- QGenda today announced the acquisition of Schedule360, the provider of cloud-based software to automate nurse and staff scheduling.
- With the addition of nurse and staff scheduling, QGenda will enable healthcare organizations to manage, schedule and optimize the deployment of their entire workforce. Now, organizations can streamline scheduling processes across the enterprise to better optimize capacity and to improve outcomes through more
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Florence Health Adopts Innovaccer Health Cloud to Scale R&D
What You Should Know:
- Florence Health, a next-generation, fully risk-bearing, primary care provider, has partnered with Innovaccer to move its proprietary technology development to the Innovaccer Health Cloud.
- Florence, which will enter 2022 at full risk for more than 25,000 Medicare patients across multiple states and annual revenues of over $350 million, selected the Innovaccer Health Cloud after an extensive search that included all major public cloud providers.
Adopting
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Time is Money in Healthcare Administration. How Much Are You Losing?
Administrative complexity is a billion-dollar problem, riddled with human-led, hand-done steps that simply don’t need to exist.
In a given year, approximately a quarter to one-third of our healthcare spending comes from waste across the system. Sometimes, the cause of money waste is obvious, such as duplicated tests, misdiagnosis, extended ER stays, overtreatment, or failures in care coordination. The less obvious contributor: time.
Time is wasted at nearly every step of the
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Lightbeam Health Solutions Acquires RPM Platform CareSignal
What You Should Know:
- Lightbeam Health Solutions, Inc., a provider of end-to-end population health management solutions, announced today the acquisition of CareSignal, the pioneer of Deviceless Remote Patient Monitoring technology. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition enables Lightbeam to integrate scalable, evidence-based remote engagement and monitoring capabilities into its core population health offering, which serves more than 42 million patient
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Key Ingredient to Improving Outcomes in Behavioral Health: Measurement-Based Care
The burden of mental disorders is well known. Mental disorders are common, resulting in significant disability as well as contributing to -- and complicating -- chronic health conditions. Most mental disorders are untreated, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only further highlighted significant disparities in access to treatment. Effective pharmacologic and psychological treatments are available, yet outcomes in routine practice are often weaker than what is found in randomized controlled
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Top 5 Digital Transformation Priorities for Healthcare Leaders
What You Should Know:
- Today Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, released the 2021 edition of “The Science of Digital Transformation in Healthcare and Why It’s Vital for Payer-Provider Collaboration.”
- The survey report assessed more than 4,000 survey responses from healthcare professionals over the first six months of 2021 for their insights into healthcare organizations’ progress toward digital transformation. It also explores how cloud computing fits into payers’ and providers’
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CareDx Acquires Medication Adherence Platform MedActionPlan
What You Should Know:
- CareDx, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNA), a precision medicine company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of clinically differentiated, high-value healthcare solutions for transplant patients and caregivers, today announced it has acquired MedActionPlan®, a New Jersey-based provider of medication safety and adherence technology and patient education.
- MedActionPlan programs have been proven to improve adherence, reduce healthcare costs, and increase
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Olive, ClosedLoop Integrate to Bring Predictive Analytics to Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- Today, healthcare automation company Olive announced their partnership with ClosedLoop, a healthcare-specific data science platform that allows hospitals to implement artificial intelligence (AI) technology. As part of the partnership, Olive will be able to leverage ClosedLoop’s technology within Olive Helps to help deliver better patient outcomes, such as reducing unplanned hospitalizations, readmission rates and hospital-acquired infections.
- This partnership
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