Livongo Health, a consumer digital health company empowering people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, today announced that it will be the first comprehensive offering for people with diabetes to integrate continuous glucose data from Abbott’s FreeStyle® Libre Pro System, a revolutionary continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system for healthcare professionals.Through this integration collaboration, Livongo will offer, where appropriate and prescribed, the FreeStyle Libre
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OnlyBoth Launches AI-Driven Hospital Benchmarking Engine
OnlyBoth Inc., a Pittsburg, PA-based healthcare performance company has launch an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven benchmarking engine BenchMine.com that provides objective, data-based comparisons of U.S. hospital performance. The Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based technology makes use of 130 consumer-friendly data attributes on 4,797 hospitals from CMS Hospital Compare to help the community evaluate hospitals and compare them to others nearby and nationally.Enhanced with geolocation
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What The Patient Engagement Metrics Aren’t Telling You
The tech industry loves to tout high-level metrics to garner attention for apps: the success of an app is often demonstrated by quoting staggering numbers of subscribers, weekly views, in-app session length, number of downloads, monthly average users, etc. And these statistics are not irrelevant -- they are useful for gauging product performance and often correlate to a successful product. For apps driven by ad-revenue, they are sometimes the most important metrics.But as I address elsewhere,
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Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management – What Will It Take to Get There?
The U.S. healthcare system is undergoing a major transformation, from many freestanding hospitals and individual practices to fewer large, integrated healthcare systems. One motivating factor is the promise of greater efficiencies when it comes to delivering more holistic patient care and improving core operational processes.Revenue cycle management is one process that’s primed for improvement. Poor billing practices can cost hospitals millions of dollars due to lost reimbursement or the
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MEDITECH Integrates Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP) Within Expanse EHR
EHR provider MEDITECH, today announced it is integrating one-tap access to state-regulated electronic Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP) that track controlled substance prescriptions, from directly within the MEDITECH Expanse EHR.MEDITECH Expanse EHR Integration DetailsAvailable from DrFirst, the PDMP database link allows prescribers to view controlled substance histories effortlessly from multiple PDMPs simultaneously as allowed by cooperating states, within the EHR prior to
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Innovaccer Launches EHR-Agnostic Physician Engagement Solution
The role of physicians is instrumental in the rapidly-transforming healthcare. There have been many strategic initiatives or restructured payment models- but the physicians have almost always been disconnected. Physicians are either overburdened with the data around them or have limited real-time visibility into the analyzed data.Limited access to the right data at the right time has dramatically increased the number of burned out physicians in the country. Additionally, the time-taking tasks of
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4 Ways Healthcare IT Can Save Rural Hospitals
In business, disruption is often seen as a good thing, e.g., digital photography disrupting Eastman Kodak’s business so significantly that the company has scrambled in recent years just to stay afloat, the thing they once did better than anyone now largely irrelevant.So, disruption is negative for employees of old technology companies, but it’s a boon for workers in cutting-edge businesses and generally for consumers as well. Those who benefit greatly outnumber those who don’t.And disruption
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M*Modal Integrates AI Platform with Epic EHR to Support Clinical Workflows
M*Modal integration with Epic EHR supports virtual assistants and nursing applications for an advanced workflow in EpicM*Modal, a provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding solutions, announced that it is integrating its artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform with the Epic EHR to support clinical workflows. Creating time to care through smarter, more unified workflows, M*Modal® speech and AI enabled solutions are designed to significantly improve the productivity of the
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Healthcare Data Integration Startup Bridge Connector Raises $5.5M, Following $4.5M Seed Round
Bridge Connector, a healthcare data integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that delivers streamlined integration solutions for healthcare organizations, today announced it has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding led by Axioma Ventures LLC, following a $4.5M seed round in May 2018. The latest round brings the company’s total investment to $10M in funding. The health IT startup plans to use the funding to help further expand Bridge Connector’s sales, marketing, and client-services efforts,
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MUSC and Siemens Healthineers Form Strategic Value-based Care Partnership
The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and Siemens Healthineers have formed a first-of-its-kind strategic partnership to advance the quality of care in South Carolina. The value-based care partnership will capitalize on the coupling of MUSC’s clinical care, research and education expertise with Siemens Healthineers’ engineering innovations and workflow-improvement capabilities.The partnership with a focus on driving performance excellence at MUSC and generating significant clinical and
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