- CVS Health announced it will invest $2.5M over the next three years to build healthier communities across the state of Ohio.
- Investments will support key initiatives across Ohio including increasing access to healthcare, preventing prescription opioid misuse and supporting tobacco-free living for at-risk populations.
CVS Health, today announced it and its private charity will be donating more than $2.5 million in Ohio over the next three years to improve the health and wellness of
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Human API Joins Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program to Accelerate Innovation
- Human API today announced it has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program.- Human API’s collaboration with Google Cloud will focus on accelerating healthcare innovation in digital health and life sciences. - Human API's platform is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace which ensures that customers running applications in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) can integrate consumer data from across the healthcare ecosystem.Human API - a real-time consumer health data platform - today
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The Health IT Staffing Shortage Is a Problem Morphing Into a Crisis
Staffing shortages have plagued the healthcare industry for years, and this year hospital IT departments are feeling more pain than ever. The shortfall in physicians and nurses understandably gets the most press attention, but two phenomenons are pushing scarcity of specialized IT workers into the stratosphere: computer and IT jobs across all industries are projected to grow 12% from 2018 to 2028, and healthcare is projected to add 3.5 million jobs during the period, about one-third of all new
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AristaMD Joins Epic App Orchard Marketplace to Streamline eConsult Process
- AristaMD’s eConsult solution is now available in the Epic App Orchard marketplace - AristaMD’s integration onto Epic makes the eConsult process even more streamline for health system specialists using Epic. - Providers can now quickly launch the eConsult platform directly through Epic’s electronic health record (EHR), creating a user-friendly experience for answering eConsults with minimal provider burden and workflow changes.AristaMD, an innovative telehealth platform that delivers primary
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Aunt Bertha Taps Innovaccer to Boost Its SDOH Program
- Aunt Bertha, the nation’s largest resource search platform has collaboration with Innovaccer to enhance its social determinants of health solution with seamless community resource referrals. - The two organizations aim to empower healthcare stakeholders with access to navigate on behalf of people in need to ensure that positive health outcomes are not hampered by social needs.Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare data activation company has launched a collaboration with Aunt Bertha, the nation’s
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Integrated Behavioral Health: Expectations vs Realities?
When patients go to the doctor, they’re putting their trust in a highly-trained professional. They trust that professional to provide them with the necessary care and attention to improve or sustain their health.
However, some underlying health issues can’t be detected with a simple blood test or CAT scan. Behavioral health problems can impact every part of a person’s life. Some can develop as a result of physical problems, and vice versa.
This is why the integration of physical and behavioral
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Using Patient Relationship Management Tools to Improve Preventive & Chronic Care
Every year, another 1.5 million people learn they have diabetes. The number of people in the U.S. managing chronic diseases has been growing steadily for several years. In addition, there is more and more pressure on providers to help patients manage these conditions to improve outcomes and avoid complications or readmissions.
The challenge providers face is that visits are short, often just 15 minutes, and patients struggle to retain the information given to them during the appointment.
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NYC Health + Hospitals to Invest $224M to Upgrade Medical Imaging Technology Over 10 Years
- NYC Health + Hospitals plans to invest $224M over the next 10 years to upgrade its medical imaging technology across the health system. - 230 medical imaging units will be replaced and updated within first four years- Equipment will support the public health system’s goal of standardizing care and providing patients modernized, state-of-the-art imaging technologyNYC Health + Hospitals, the nation’s largest public healthcare system today announced that it is investing $224 million over
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Rimidi Adds Obesity View to EHR-Integrated Platform for Clinicians
- Rimidi adds Obesity disease view to its platform to preemptively identify and manage cardiometabolic diseases by combining data from multiple sources into disease ‘views’ that provide a holistic overview of a patient.- With the obesity view, clinicians are better equipped to identify and lower the potential health risks impacting patients- The addition of obesity to Rimidi’s platform addresses the evolving policies and care around obesity, as the chronic disease requires increased medical
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Canvas Medical Licenses Health Gorilla’s FHIR-based API to Streamline Lab Ordering
- Health Gorilla and Canvas Medical announce collaboration to enable data exchange capabilities within the Canvas health technology platform.- Canvas Medical is licensing Health Gorilla’s FHIR-based APIs to exchange data with our network of diagnostic vendors to support new workflows for their providers and power population health insights within their EMR platform.Health Gorilla, a provider of clinical data APIs, and Canvas Medical, the health IT partner that champions independent primary care
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