In healthcare technology, there’s no such thing as a silver bullet solution, and each technology has its benefits and its limitation. Electronic health records (EHRs) are no exception.
On their own, EHRs provide insight into a patient’s visit history, medical background, and more, but when used in combination with other innovative, user-friendly technologies, clinicians’ experience with EHRs will only improve. One of the easiest—and most significant—ways
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Mount Sinai Launches First-Ever Dept. of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health
What You Should Know:
- The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has launched its first-ever department dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence (AI) to transform healthcare. The Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health mission is to lead the artificial intelligence-driven transformation of health care through innovative research, apply that knowledge to treatment in hospital and clinical settings, and provide personalized care for each patient, which will expand Mount
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Healthcare Executives’ Guide to Data-Driven Holistic Care for LTSS Populations
As healthcare leaders reflect on lessons learned during the pandemic, the need for more tech-driven and proactive care models is taking center stage. It has become clear that organizations that invested in robust technology infrastructure early on were better positioned to not just survive a global pandemic – but thrive--growing their reach and supporting their patients.
The Importance of Holistic Care Strategies
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Why Healthcare IT Must Embrace Full-Stack Observability for an Increasingly Digital Future
Long before the pandemic, digital applications were already incredibly important to healthcare organizations, but over the last few years, they have become essential. Applications can assist with scheduling appointments, virtual doctor visits, accessing medical records and conducting tests down to the most complex AI-powered technologies such as medical imaging. As COVID-19 fundamentally transformed the way industries operate, healthcare has been the world’s focus as physicians, nurses, EMTs,
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Pivotal Analytics Nabs $10.2M for Healthcare Data Analytics Platform
What You Should Know:
- Pivotal Analytics, a provider of strategic healthcare analytics solution Pivotal, announced it has raised $10.2M in a Series A funding round. This investment was led by one of the largest owner-operators of medical office buildings in the United States, with participation from three existing investors.
- Pivotal, the company's flagship business intelligence platform, is a strategic healthcare analytics solution that empowers healthcare
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Healthcare at the Crossroads: Value-Based Care and Interoperability
Amid the difficulties of the last year, a bright spot has emerged that may provide a strong indication of renewed movement toward the transformation of the healthcare industry that we know today. Value-based care, a model that rewards better patient health outcomes, has experienced a surge in interest amid heightened consumer awareness and among payers seeking to lower costs and stabilize reimbursement. This interest, along with the recent mandate from the Centers for
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Virgin Pulse to Acquire Welltok to Enhance Health Activation: 5 Things to Know
Virgin Pulse, a global provider of tech-enabled wellbeing solutions, today announced its intent to acquire Denver-based consumer activation company, Welltok, a leader in data analytics-based targeting and multi-channel outreach solutions.
Here are five things to know about the acquisition:
1. The Welltok acquisition will accelerate Virgin Pulse's ability to serve substantially more clients, consumers, patients and members across the full healthcare continuum – employer, health plans
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Cerner Launches RevElate Patient Accounting for Rev Cycle Portfolio
What You Should Know:
- Today Cerner announced the launch of Cerner RevElate™, the company’s go-forward patient accounting product that will bring new and enhanced capabilities to the Cerner® revenue cycle management portfolio.
- Cerner RevElate is expected to preserve and advance the clinically driven capabilities of Cerner Millennium® while adding scalable, enterprise capabilities of Soarian® Patient Accounting software.
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Why Family Caregivers Need Help from the Healthcare Establishment
I recently spoke with a woman whose husband contracted a serious, chronic illness that requires long-term use of a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line.
As her husband’s primary caregiver, this woman is responsible for cleaning and flushing the PICC line three times a day. And while she knows how to carry out these functions, she nonetheless remains fearful of inadvertently introducing bacteria into the line and the consequences that could result.
For this woman, the
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VUNO Inks Deal with Samsung to Integrate AI Chest X-Ray with Samsung’s Digital Radiography System
What You Should Know:
- South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) developer, VUNO Inc., announced today that the company closed a deal with global medical device manufacturer, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., to embed VUNO’s artificial intelligence-driven chest X-ray diagnostic solution, VUNO Med®-Chest X-ray™ into Samsung’s GC85A premium ceiling type digital radiography system.
- The latest contract follows an earlier deal in June with Samsung to supply the VUNO Med®-Chest
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