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MediQuant®, a provider of enterprise active archiving and conversion solutions, has been selected by the US Defense Health Agency (DHA) to help consolidate all clinical data across the Military Health System as it transitions to a new enterprise electronic health records (EHR) platform by 2024.
- The contract to deploy MediQuant’s DataArk solution for the DHA “Genesis” rollout was secured by ECS, a leading provider of science, engineering, and advanced technology
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Cedar Launches Cedar Pre to Transform Patient Financial Experience
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- Cedar launches Cedar Pre to deliver seamless and comprehensive healthcare experiences to consumers preparing for care.
- By leveraging Cedar’s expanded patient engagement suite, providers can empower patients with unprecedented access and affordability from pre-registration and intake through final payment.
Cedar, a New York City-based healthcare financial technology platform built for today’s consumers, today announced the launch of Cedar Pre, an
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MD Anderson Taps Syntrophy to Aggregate Disparate Data, Enable Team Science
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center announced efforts to advance its capabilities to seamlessly connect basic science, translational and clinical research data for the benefit of patients through a technology collaboration with Syntropy and the Foundry platform.
- This initiative is part of MD Anderson’s new Strategy aimed at focusing its mission to end cancer on approaches that maximize the impact on humanity, which
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How Health Systems Can Use AI to Optimize Resources and Maximize Patient Satisfaction
Over the past several years, nearly all of the leading health systems in the United States have adopted some form of AI, such as machine learning (ML) or natural language processing (NLP), to assist in managing healthcare operations. The unprecedented growth and development of AI has been instrumental in transforming health system administration, healthcare data analytics and patient diagnosis and treatment.
Despite this growth, health systems have yet to maximize the potential of AI to
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Unite Us Launches Social Care Payments Platform
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- Unite Us, the enterprise technology company providing the digital infrastructure to power integrated health and social care, today announced the launch of its Social Care Payments solution.
- Social Care Payments is a first-of-its-kind solution designed to bridge the gap between healthcare funders and community-based organizations (CBOs), enabling social care funding at scale. It is the only end-to-end solution for social care that streamlines the
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Massachusetts General Hospital to Co-Develop VR Digital Therapeutic for Stem Cell Patients
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- Massachusetts General Hospital ("MGH") announced a research agreement with Rocket VR Health, an emerging digital therapeutics company developing clinically validated virtual reality therapies that enhance the quality of life of cancer patients, their families and their caregivers.
- The research will study the effects of daily Virtual Reality Therapy's effect on patients during their entire hospital stay.
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Validic’s Integrated RPM Platform Now Available on Epic App Orchard
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- Validic today announced that its remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform, Validic Impact, is available on the Epic App Orchard.
- Through the App Orchard, organizations using Epic can easily integrate Validic's solution into their existing user workflow.
Platform-First Approach to RPM and Condition Management
Validic Impact takes a platform-first approach to RPM and condition management. Clinicians and care teams leverage streamlined workflows and access to
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Social Determinants of Health: Finding the Solutions Beyond the Buzzword
Health plans are on a constant quest to learn what they can do to help their member populations. Unfortunately, there is a scarcity of practical information for health plans to act upon when scanning media coverage and internet sites that purport to provide helpful guidance.
For example, the World Health Organization actually describes social determinants of health, or SDoH, as “non-medical factors that influence health outcomes.” This simple designation complicates matters, as non-medical
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Mount Sinai Selects Accenture and Microsoft on Five-Year Transformation Journey to Cloud
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- Accenture and Microsoft will assist the Mount Sinai Health System (Mount Sinai) with its transition to the cloud to help enable innovation at a much faster pace.
- By modernizing its infrastructure, Mount Sinai will be able to reinvest cost-savings and focus on its healthcare mission.
The migration to Microsoft Azure could deliver millions in savings
Accenture will collaborate with New York City’s largest academic medical system to help devise and securely
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MEDITECH Expands Expanse Ambulatory to Independent and Physician-Owned Practices
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- MEDITECH today announced the availability of Expanse Ambulatory in independent and physician-owned practices, without requiring an Expanse EHR in the hospital setting.
- The subscription-based solution lives in the cloud, so there is no significant IT footprint required.
Expanse Ambulatory’s Practice Management
Expanse Ambulatory’s Practice Management solution offers efficient office workflows and intuitive features like drag-and-drop scheduling, automated
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