As the pandemic heads toward a second year with no further financial stimulus guaranteed, hospitals and health systems are seeking ways to reduce costs and improve revenue cycle performance. Intelligent process automation (IPA) is an emerging solution designed to optimize operations and increase productivity through a combination of process modeling, process automation, and artificial intelligence.
IPA in the revenue cycle enables healthcare organizations to shift manual, repetitive work to
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Medigate, Ordr Emerge as Leaders in Growing Healthcare IoT Market, KLAS Report Finds
What You Should Know:
- As the buying wave of healthcare IoT solutions
continues, strong technology offerings and numerous new wins in the last year
have established Medigate and Ordr as leaders in the growing market.
- KLAS finds that the adoption of security solutions for the healthcare internet of things (IoT) continues to grow as healthcare organizations look for ways to understand and manage the risk associated with connected devices.
The adoption of security solutions for the
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KLAS Spotlight on Zoom for Healthcare Examines Early Outcomes
KLAS recently issued a Spotlight on Zoom for healthcare. KLAS Spotlights are first looks at new and emerging technology. Everyone knows Zoom, but how well does the solution perform for healthcare organizations looking to handle the immediate demands created by COVID-19 as well as develop long-term strategic initiatives? In this Spotlight, KLAS examines the early outcomes and satisfaction of some of Zoom’s healthcare customers.
Zoom Key Strengths & Challenges for
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Sony Updates NUCLeUS Medical Imaging Platform to Support Remote Patient Observation
What You Should Know:
- Today, Sony announced an update to our NUCLeUS medical
imaging platform, which improves support for remote patient observation.
- NUCLeUS has added new functionality and features,
including powerful bi-directional telestration capabilities allowing multiple
remote users to simultaneously annotate, draw or highlight areas of interest in
a live stream video or still image.
Sony today
announced an update to its vendor-neutral medical imaging platform NUCLeUS.
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COVID-19 Underscores Need for Identity Governance Administration
If you work in healthcare, chances are that the COVID-19 pandemic forced you to quickly scale up or move staff around to manage the onslaught of patients. The demand for clinicians and support staff grew alongside the spread of the virus, making organizations add clinicians or reassign employees with new or modified roles: Ambulatory nurses went down in the Emergency Department or Isolation Ward, revenue cycle folks started doing transport, and so on. In some cases, former staff or retired
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Redox Integrates Voluntis’ Digital Therapeutics Within EHR
What You Should Know:
- Voluntis forms a strategic partnership with Redox to integrate Voluntis' digital therapeutics within existing clinical workflows and EHRs.
- Integration of Voluntis’ Theraxium platform with the
Redox Engine used by more than 900 healthcare organizations using 55 EHRs
across the country.
- The first area of this application will be in oncology,
with future extensions in other therapeutic areas. As a result, clinical staff
will be better equipped to serve each
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HHS Extends Compliance Dates for Information Blocking Requirements
What You Should Know:
- HHS released an interim final rule to extend compliance dates and timeframes to meet information blocking beyond those identified in April 21, 2020, enforcement discretion announcement and establishes new future applicability dates for information blocking provisions.
- The interim final rule also adopts updated standards
and makes technical corrections and clarifications to the ONC Cures Act Final
Rule.
Today the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services’
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Northwestern to Deploy FDA-Cleared Deploy AI-Guided Cardiac Ultrasounds
What You Should Know:
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital is the first in the
nation to deploy FDA-cleared AI-guided ultrasound by Caption Health, including
measurement of ejection fraction – the most widely used measurement to assess
cardiac function.
- Caption Health's AI-guided cardiac ultrasound enables clinicians – including those without experience – to accurately perform diagnostic-quality exams -- accelerating the availability of information and saving lives.
- Caption AI has been
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KēlaHealth Lands $12.9M to Expand AI-Powered Surgical Intelligence Platform
What You Should Know:
- KēlaHealth
announced their Series A round (combined seed and Series A) of $12.9M led by
Sante Ventures and new innovation VC, Intuitive Ventures.
- KēlaHealth, is a surgical intelligence engine that
applies a dynamic cycle of patient-specific predictions, stratified
interventions, and outcomes tracking to reduce surgical complications
- KēlaHealth is the first investment for Intuitive
Ventures, a new innovation fund spun out of Intuitive Surgical,
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Innovaccer Launches Member Engagement Solution to Scale-Up Digital Transformation Efforts with Payers
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer
launches member engagement solution for healthcare payers to drive improvement
in healthcare cost and quality boosts member satisfaction and enhances member
enrollment and retention.
- Innovaccer's solution create member-oriented care
plans, enhance connectivity with care managers, and drive interventions for
social determinants of health risks through the solution.
Innovaccer, Inc., a
leading healthcare
technology company, has launched its
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