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- Greenway Health, a leading health information technology services provider, announced an expanded partnership with HealthLinc, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health care for the residents of northern Indiana.
- A Greenway client for more than 10 years, the center will be leveraging Greenway Telehealth, the first tool in the company’s virtual care portfolio, to remove care delivery barriers, enabling greater provider productivity and improved patient
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Andor Health Joins athenahealth’s Marketplace Program to Orchestrate Virtual Health Experiences
What You Should Know:
- Andor Health, the company that harnesses machine and human intelligence to configure and orchestrate the way care teams connect and collaborate, today announced a partnership with athenahealth, Inc. through the company's Marketplace program.
- As part of the athenahealth® Marketplace, ThinkAndor® is now available to athenahealth's growing network of healthcare providers to configure discrete workflows to enable a wide range of virtual health
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Nym Health Raises $25M to Expand Automated Medical Coding Platform
- Today, Nym Health, a leader in explainable AI and automated medical coding, announced an additional $25M in funding, led by Addition brings the company’s total funding to $47.5M. Addition joins existing investors GV, Dynamic Loop Capital, Tiger Global, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Lightspeed, as well as angel investors Zach Weinberg and Nat Turner.
- The new investment will be used to scale product development and accelerate the rapid adoption of Nym's automated medical coding
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Infor Launches FHIR Server to Support Interoperability
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- Infor, the industry cloud company, announced its FHIR Server, the company’s vision for helping healthcare organizations better leverage and analyze their data. Built on the latest web technologies, Infor FHIR Server is one of the most advanced, modern, and scalable FHIR servers commercially available.
- With the new solution, organizations can extend their EHR and clinical systems’ FHIR and API capabilities beyond their current limited support, streamline care
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Leveraging Digital Health to Assist Developing Countries’ Health Systems
Vaccine rollouts are picking up steam and many parts of the world are gradually beginning to relax restrictions and reopen their economies. While this welcome news is cause for celebration, it is crucial for decision-makers in developed countries to understand the reality: for the most part, it is only developed countries that are really moving through this. Less fortunate parts of the world—notably Brazil and India—have practically served these past few months as petri dishes for mutations that
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Positioning Your Health System for Digital Transformation
In my last article, I discussed how an incomplete picture of patient health can lower the quality and raise the cost of care. Healthcare has been fully digitized but the complete picture is stored in multiple data silos across hospitals, practices, health plans, consumer devices, and more. A data platform can unify these sources of information and provide a holistic view of the network and its patients’ health.
This aggregated and normalized patient health record is activated into analytics
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4 Key Ways 5G Technology is Transforming Patient Care
We hear a lot about 5G technology, but for many of us, its 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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Cybersecurity: The Hidden Health Tech Crisis No One’s Talking About
The life-saving capabilities of technology in a healthcare environment are beyond dispute. Medical professionals in hospital environments rely on networked medical devices to access and share patient information rapidly to reduce the time it takes to make life-saving decisions and deliver essential patient care.
Connected devices in healthcare environments allow medical professionals to monitor patients more closely, improve medical assistance and use data for analytics and medical research.
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Teladoc Health Integrates Solo platform with Microsoft Teams for Health Systems
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- Teladoc Health announced a collaboration with Microsoft in which Teladoc Health’s Solo platform for hospitals and health systems will be integrated into the Microsoft Teams environment to strengthen physician and patient access to best-in-class virtual healthcare.
- The combination of communications and workflows in Microsoft Teams with Teladoc Health’s medical-grade whole-person virtual care delivery solutions will simplify
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Unite Us Launches Social Care Solution to Improve SDoH
What You Should Know:
- Unite Us today announced the release of its new end-to-end social care solution that will accelerate both the growth and impact of social care and services in local communities nationwide.
- The new solution will expand far beyond patient referrals, to now identify and predict social care needs in communities, coordinate necessary care, leverage data to further improve systems at large, and enable sustainable and impactful funding of social care nationwide.
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