As the coronavirus pandemic has swept across the world, hospitals and healthcare systems have attempted to keep up with community needs via IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) devices. Federal agencies have even authorized emergency use of certain types of IoMT devices in order to monitor and reduce coronavirus disease exposure.
The benefits of IoMT are sufficiently appealing that the IoMT market is poised to hit a valuation of $158
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Q-Centrix & Realyze Intelligence Partner to Advance the Clinical Data Automation
What You Should Know:
- Q-Centrix®, the largest exclusive provider of clinical data management solutions to hospitals and health systems, announced a partnership with Realyze Intelligence, a company using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to capture unstructured clinical data, ensuring patient populations with heart conditions or cancer receive the most beneficial treatments.
- By partnering with Realyze, Q-Centrix will bring a sophisticated AI and machine
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Carenet Health Acquires Provider Scheduling Platform OpenMed
What You Should Know:
- Carenet Health – a provider of 24/7 healthcare engagement and on-demand telehealth solutions—announced today that they have acquired OpenMed, a digital innovator in closing care gaps, enabling access to care and supporting real-time collaboration between healthcare payers/risk-bearing entities (RBOs) and providers.
- The acquisition will add a state-of-the-art communications and scheduling
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symplr Acquires Midas Health Analytics Solutions for $340M
What You Should Know:
- symplr, a global leader in enterprise healthcare operations including governance, risk management, and compliance (“GRC”) SaaS solutions announced it has agreed to acquire Midas Health Analytics Solutions (“Midas”) from Conduent Incorporated for $340M. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
- The acquisition
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Aetion Acquires Synthetic Data Platform Replica Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Aetion, a real-world evidence (RWE) tech platform, has just announced its acquisition of Replica Analytics, a pioneer in using ML to generate synthetic data. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- This acquisition allows Aetion to solve for one of the toughest problems in RWE: access to fit-for-purpose data. Synthetic data acts as a “digital clone” of real-world data by maintaining the source data’s statistical properties, while also protecting
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Bamboo Health Promotes Rob Cohen to CEO
What You Should Know:
- Bamboo Health™, formerly Appriss Health and PatientPing, today announced that Rob Cohen, president and general manager of Bamboo Health, is assuming the role of CEO effective December 16, 2021. Appriss CEO Krishnan Sastry is now executive chairman for Bamboo Health and serves as an advisor to Cohen.
- The promotion comes as Bamboo Health transitions from one of several business units under the Appriss Inc. name to an independent health technology company. Instead,
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Clear Arch Health Acquires Life Care Solutions to Expand RPM Marketshare
What You Should Know:
- Clear Arch Health, a division of MobileHelp and a leading provider of remote patient monitoring (RPM) and mobile personal emergency response system (mPERS) solutions, today announced the company acquired Life Care Solutions (LCS), a division of Resideo.
- Life Care Solutions has been a global leader in the remote patient monitoring industry for two decades, with a complete RPM solution to help streamline care coordination and improve outcomes.
Life Care Solutions
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Role of Engaging Physicians in Data-Driven Healthcare Environment in 2022
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians were attuned to the operational and financial challenges faced by most hospitals and healthcare systems. They just weren’t necessarily living those challenges firsthand.
However, when procedures were canceled and demand for supplies soared, the experience became more personal. Many physicians experienced steep revenue decline as well as the challenges of securing the right medical supplies when they were needed. They also saw how the industry’s
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CareMetx Acquires Patient Adherence Platform Human Care Systems
What You Should Know:
- Strategic acquisition of leading patient adherence technology and services provider to complement CareMetx current suite of patient access products.
CareMetx, LLC, a leading technology-enabled hub services company focused on improving patient access to specialty medications, announced today the acquisition of Human Care Systems, Inc. (HCS), a company focused on helping patients adhere to and benefit from pharmaceutical and biotechnology products. Details of the
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Clinical Simulation and its Integral Role in Healthcare Training
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a major shift in medical education. Since students were not classified as critical employees of hospitals, it became difficult for them to gain clinical hours with patients. With soaring demand for medical professionals to address the pandemic and students without access to hands-on training in hospitals, a new technique rose to prominence: remote learning with patient simulators.
Patient simulators for healthcare providers and educators
For many years,
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