What You Should Know:
- Philips today announced the launch of its Rapid
Equipment Deployment Kits, which provide doctors with critical care patient
monitoring solutions they can quickly implement in the ICU. The Rapid Equipment
Deployment Kits use advanced patient monitoring technology to enable care teams
to swiftly scale up critical care capabilities within just a few hours, and
help hospitals meet on-demand access during these pressing times of COVID-19.
- Arriving at hospitals
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Providence Acquires MEDITECH Consulting Firm Navin, Haffty & Associates
What You Should Know:
- Providence acquires MEDITECH Consulting Firm Navin,
Haffy & Associates to combine with Engage IT Services to become a leading
solutions and services provider for the healthcare industry.
- The two firms are part of Providence Services Group (PSG), a family of top-tier healthcare technology services firms, brought together by Providence Health System, as part of Providence's broader ongoing strategy to launch an independent solutions and
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HHS Announces Investments for STAR HIE Program to Support State and Local Public Health Agencies
What You Should Know:
- HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will award up to five 5 cooperative
agreements under the Strengthening
the Technical Advancement and Readiness of Public Health Agencies via Health Information Exchange
(STAR HIE) Program.
The U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) today issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity to expand and
accelerate innovative
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Greenway Health to Launch EHR-Integrated Telehealth Solution to Support Virtual Care
What You Should Know:
- Greenway announced the company will be developing and
launching Greenway Telehealth, a secure, HIPAA-compliant solution designed with
an easy-to-use interface for both providers and patients.
- Powered by Twilio, the EHR integrated solution is among
the first in Greenway’s larger virtual care portfolio.
Greenway Health, a health information technology, and services provider, today announced the company is also working to develop innovative virtual care
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Lumeon Lands $30M to Expand Care Pathway Management Platform
What You Should Know:
- Lumeon, the leader in care pathway orchestration
announced it has raised $30M in Series D funding to extend the reach of its
Care Pathway Management (CPM) platform.
- The platform empowers providers to improve care
quality, deliver better outcomes, reduce costs, and ultimately develop and
scale new models of care delivery – particularly important right now as
COVID-19 accelerates the technology-driven transformation of healthcare.
Lumeon, a Boston,
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Top 5 RCM Challenges for Healthcare Executives in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
There have been many memorable “where were you?” events since the 21st century began. But few can match the COVID-19 pandemic, at least from a healthcare perspective.
The effect on healthcare (and healthcare executives) has been particularly profound since our industry is in the center of everything. From the search for personal protective equipment (PPE) to setting up secure wings and field hospitals to instantly redeploying nurses from other floors to the emergency department (ED),
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T2 Tech Group Acquires Remote Patient Scheduling Service from Revint Solutions
What You Should Know:
- T2 Tech Group, a Los-Angeles based leading IT consulting, advisory, and project management services provider, has just acquired the patient access and scheduling services division from Revint Solutions.
- The coronavirus pandemic has created a vast backlog of
patient appointments and compounded the strain on the healthcare industry. This
acquisition allows T2 Tech Group to implement a comprehensive solution, T2 Flex
Force, LLC, that brings cutting-edge virtual
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Verisk Launches EHR Triage Engine to Help Speed Approval of Life Insurance Apps
What You Should Know:
- Verisk launches its new EHR Triage Engine, a tool that
uses data from consumer-authorized electronic health records (EHRs) to help
life insurers fast-track many applications for coverage.
- The EHR Triage Engine bypasses manual workflows,
leveraging advanced predictive analytics and automation to digitally ingest and
analyze EHRs and the tool can evaluate 95,000 impairments in five minutes or
less.
Verisk, a data
analytics provider, announced today the launch
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Redox Adds Data on Demand, Single Sign-On Access to Interoperability Platform
What You Should Know:
- Redox adds data on demand and single sign-on access
features to its cloud interoperability platform to help to simplify the process
of developing software for healthcare.
- Both new features are now available to all customers on
the Redox platform.
Redox
Inc., a Madison, WI-based interoperability platform for healthcare data
exchange, unveiled Data on Demand, which enables software developers to query
any electronic health
record (EHR) or healthcare data source
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Analysis: July Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of July 2020.
While a pandemic ravages the country, technology valuations are soaring. The Nasdaq hit an all-time high during the month of July, sailing through the 10,000 mark to post YTD gains of nearly 20%, representing a 56% increase off the low water mark on March 23. More notably, the Nasdaq has outperformed
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