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- Foundation Medicine (FMI) announced today a partnership to integrate its comprehensive genomic testing services into Epic’s electronic medical record (EMR) platform, making it easier for oncologists to order comprehensive genomic tests (CGP), review results, continually access clinical and genomic information and share among their care teams in order to develop personalized treatment plans quickly and efficiently for their patients. See the full release
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Olive Launches In-House Venture Studio for Digital Health Startups
Olive Launches In-House Venture Studio for Digital Health Startups
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- Olive, the $4B healthcare automation company, today announced Olive Ventures, a new in-house venture studio that works hand-in-hand with early-stage entrepreneurs to create digital health companies through Olive’s platform.
- Olive Ventures offers visionaries a secure, compliant tech environment (i.e. Olive’s tech stack) that’s designed to rapidly validate, deploy, distribute and
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Why Healthcare Orgs Need to Take a Practice-Centered Approach to IT
Over the past year, we’ve all witnessed the dramatic impact that healthcare IT had on both the selfless clinicians who power our health systems and their patients. The Covid-19 crisis accelerated innovation and led to increased adoption of the cloud and telehealth technologies that helped organizations continue to provide care no matter where they or their patients were.
However, several shortfalls were just as apparent. The 2020 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey found that 70 percent of
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Antidote Health Raises $12M to Build First Virtual HMO in the U.S.
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- AntidoteHealth, a New York City-based telehealth provider making quality healthcare accessible to all Americans, today announced it has raised $12 million in seed funding to build an AI-based virtual Health maintenance organization (HMO). The seed round was led by iAngels, Well-Tech Ventures, and Flint Capital, along with other angel investors.
- Antidote is an HMO, which means it cuts out the middleman, connecting simply patients to doctors. By offering a more
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Experity Launches $50M Urgent Care EMR/PM to Power On-Demand Care
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- Experity, the chosen partner of 50% of U.S. urgent care clinics, announced their new EMR and PM operating system in direct response to the pivotal, pandemic-driven movement towards on-demand healthcare. The company
has committed over $50 million in product and development to bring this new urgent care-focused EMR/PM to market in under two years.
- With Experity’s new EMR/PM solutions, on-demand care and urgent care facilities can keep up
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Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, Independence Blue Cross Foundation Launches Program to Address Nursing Burnout
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- Independence Blue Cross Foundation, Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, and NeuroFlow have joined forces to implement a new technology program to create better pathways to care for nurses and frontline workers suffering from symptoms of burnout.
- The initial rollout will include Nazareth Hospital, Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, and St. Mary Medical Center in the Greater Philadelphia region. As registrations increase and more users engage with the
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Engagement, Interoperability, and the Future of the Healthcare Tech Stack
For all of the advanced clinical technology hospitals across the country leverage to stay on the bleeding edge of innovative patient care, healthcare, as an industry, has been extremely slow to adapt when it comes to implementing modern technology to improve everyday processes—both inside and outside clinical settings. In many hospitals, manual phone calls and fax machines are still some of the most relied upon methods for exchanging information.
Healthcare IT, meanwhile, has traditionally
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Delta Variant Raises New Uncertainties for Hospitals Nationwide
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- In May, U.S. hospitals, health systems, and physician groups were beginning to recover from COVID-19’s impact on their operations, but the dramatic spread of the Delta variant and an increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations caused new setbacks, according to two reports from Kaufman Hall.
- Hospitals and health systems experienced setbacks in July as the variant drove dramatic spikes in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Margins and volumes both fell
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How Built-In Financial Services Can Help Healthcare Providers Rebound Post-Pandemic
While their staff grappled with the medical toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare provider’s financial struggles went largely uncovered. But a 2021 KaufmanHall report revealed that hospital operating margins lag well behind pre-outbreak levels—a gap even the CARES Act assistance couldn’t help bridge. To make matters worse, cash flow has been bogged down in bureaucracy, further highlighting the need for providers to ensure fiscal stability.
Yet this recent financial blow is only part of a
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Google Shuts Down Health Division After VP Joins Cerner
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- Google is eliminating its health division after VP, David Feinberg, MD, joins Cerner as its newest President and CEO, according to an internal memo, Insider first reports. In an internal memo sent by Jeff Dean, head of Google’s research division to employees stated Google Health will no longer function as a unit. Formed in 2018, Google Heath which included artificial-intelligence research teams Google Brain and DeepMind, as well as health teams from Nest Labs, the
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