- Surgical stapler misuse and point-of-care ultrasound tops ECRI Institute’s 2020 health technology hazards list that warrant attention from healthcare leaders. - Hazards selected are based on a rigorous review of ECRI’s incident investigations, medical device testing, and public and private incident reporting databases.ECRI Institute identified surgical stapler misuse as the number one health technology hazard in its Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2020 report. ECRI Institute’s Top 10
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CareSelect Imaging Now Uses Change Healthcare AI in EHR Workflow
- CareSelect Imaging now uses Change Healthcare AI in EHR workflow to help physicians streamline imaging orders. - The new AI capabilities will help healthcare providers using EHR systems enhance workflow efficiency, improve patient safety, provide higher-value care, and meet pending regulatory requirements governing Medicare patients.Change Healthcare, today announced that its artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been added to the CareSelect™ Imaging decision support solution. The new AI
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RLDatix to Acquire Quantros’ Patient Safety Business to Extend Reach Into GRC
- RLDatix has acquired Quantros Inc.’s patient safety business with more than 800 hospitals and health system customers across the United States. - All Quantros Safety Suite customers leveraging their safety solutions and modules will transition to RLDatix. - Quantros staff focusing on the patient safety business will also join RLDatix to ensure no disruption in service or support for Safety Suite users.RLDatix, a provider of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions that drive patient
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Livongo Inks $50M Diabetes Contract Through Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP)
- Livongo has been awarded a contract to provide the Livongo for Diabetes solution to eligible members covered by the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP ) under one health plan.- The contract is Livongo’s biggest contract in company history and will account for $20-25M in revenue in 2020 and $30-35M in revenue for 2021, representing a total of $50-60M including both years.- The announcement reflects Livongo’s overall market traction and how they are expanding from working primarily
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Cerner Designates ResMed’s Home Health & Hospital Platform As Its Preferred Solution
- Cerner forms a collaboration with ResMed to designate ResMed’s Brightree Home Health and Hospice platform as its preferred solution.- Cerner also plans to connect other ResMed digital health data platforms—including those that support 10 million-plus cloud-connectable sleep apnea and respiratory care devices—to its EHR and HealtheIntent population health platform.Cerner and ResMed, a world-leading digital health company, today announced a new collaboration agreement to help providers make more
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To Address Quality Reporting Challenges for Providers, Innovaccer Launches Web Interface Reporting Solution
- Innovaccer launches its GPRO reporting solution that aims to automate quality reporting and assists providers in closing the prevalent care gaps.- Build on top of the Data Activation Platform, the solution simplifies reporting by integrating data from multiple sites, automating quality measures evaluation, and delivering actionable analytics at a patient level. - The solution offers drilled down analytics at the patient level to evaluate performance for each measure and close the existing
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Nuance Expands AI-Powered Clinical Guidance for Dragon Medical Advisor
- Nuance Communications has expanded Clinical Guidance for Dragon Medical Advisor (DMA), an AI-powered documentation service accessible through Dragon Medical One, a voice assistant tool trusted by more than 500,000 clinicians worldwide and 90 percent of U.S. hospitals.- This expansion addresses the causes of burnout head-on by saving time and alleviating the administrative burden placed on physicians. - DMA enables doctors to focus on what they do best – care for patients – rather than fill out
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InterSystems Normalizes Healthcare Data for Analytics with Clean Data Service Offering
- Intersystem unveils its newest offering, Clean Data as a Solution at InterSystems Global Summit 2019, the company’s annual conference held in Boston.- A clean data set means there are no duplicate records, formatting errors, incorrect information, or mismatched terminology.- Clean Data as a Solution ingests, cleans, and normalizes healthcare data for use in analytics and machine learning applications.InterSystems, a provider of information technology platforms for health, business, and
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HP Rolls Out Expanded Healthcare Portfolio to Address Patient Safety, Care Coordination, Data Security
- HP expands its healthcare portfolio of end-to-end print and PC products to address patient safety, care coordination, clinical efficiency, and security.
- HP’s new innovations assist with three critical areas of patient safety: Health-care associated infections, electromagnetic interference, and patient identification.
- HP Healthcare Edition MFPs also include the Biscom for Healthcare app, which is completely integrated with the Epic and Cerner EHR platform.
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Emory Healthcare Breaks Ground on New Innovative Musculoskeletal Institute
- Emory Healthcare breaks ground on the new Emory Musculoskeletal Institute to provide innovative orthopedics and spine care, physical therapy, imaging, ambulatory surgery, with clinical and discovery research support space.
- The Institute is the newest addition to Emory’s Executive Park health innovation district located in Brookhaven, GA.
Emory Healthcare has announced the groundbreaking of the new Emory Musculoskeletal Institute, located in Brookhaven, Georgia, to continue its
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