First venture launched by an academic medical center to use blockchain technology to solve healthcare and medical science problems. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Institute for Next Generation Healthcare has announced the official opening of the Center for Biomedical Blockchain Research. The center is the first of its kind at any academic medical center to utilize blockchain technology, a distributed, decentralized secure database system originally developed for Bitcoin, to
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Identity Automation Acquires Single Sign-On Technology Provider HealthCast
Identity Automation, a leading provider of Access Management (AM), Identity Governance (IGA), and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) software, today announced its acquisition of Boise, ID-based HealthCast Inc., provider of award-winning enterprise single sign-on (eSSO) and virtual desktop technology for the healthcare industry. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.Increased regulation and the shift from paper-based to digital records has created new challenges in securing and
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Loopback Analytics Joins Epic App Orchard to Simplify Data Integration
Loopback Analytics, a leading provider of data-driven solutions for hospital and health systems, today announces its availability in the Epic App Orchard Marketplace to enable turnkey integration between Epic EMR clients and the Loopback Analytics platform. The company’s comprehensive management platform helps identify at-risk patient populations, match interventions and measure efficacy to improve clinical and financial outcomes.Loopback Analytics customers can now use the Loopback Connector
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Madaket Health Raises $10M for Automated Healthcare Provider Enrollment Platform
Madaket Health lands $10M for automated healthcare provider enrollment platform to accelerate its growth, expand platform solutions for payer-provider collaboration.Madaket Health, a Cambridge, MA-based healthcare SaaS platform solution that simplifies administrative data exchange between payers and provider has raised $10 million in Series B funding Qiming Venture Partners. The round also included participation from Experian Ventures, The PNC Financial Services Group, and Salesforce Ventures.
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8 Tips for Urgent Care Clinics to Optimize Revenue & Remain Profitable
As the 2017-18 flu season winds down, it’s become clear that it was one for the record books. With the onset coming early and strong, emergency departments, primary care physicians, and urgent care clinics all over the country were overrun with patients waiting in line to see a doctor.While this had a negative impact on a large portion of the U.S. population, anyone involved in the on-demand healthcare space knows that the flu season and resulting increase in patient volume tends to feed the
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MedStar-AMA Study Reveals EHR Usability and Safety Challenges for Physicians
New MedStar-AMA study points to need for performance standards for EHR usability and safety for physicians, finds huge variability in completion efficiency and accuracy. A new study published by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) involving clinicians using electronic health records (EHRs) to perform certain common tasks provides compelling evidence that the design, development and implementation of these systems need to be improved to make them easier to use by
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UCSF and Dignity Health to Develop Digital Patient Experience Platform
Dignity Health and UCSF, announced a collaboration partnership to develop a digital patient experience platform that will provide information and access to patients when and where they need it as they navigate primary and preventive care, as well as more acute or specialty care. The new platform will utilize Dignity Health’s cloud-based infrastructure for its 40 hospitals, while UCSF will contribute its extensive knowledge of the patient experience in specialty care.Collaboration DetailsDuring
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Centivo Raises $34M to Launch Next-Gen Self-Funded Health Plan
Centivo, a new type of self-funded health plan built specifically for employers and their employees and families has raised $34 million in Series A funding led by Bain Capital Ventures. The round also included participation from F-Prime Capital Partners, Maverick Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Ingleside Investors, Rand Capital, Grand Central Tech Ventures, Oxeon Investments, and several individual investors, including industry veterans Jim Foreman, Ken Goulet, and Kevin Hill.Founded in
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Puerto Rico’s Largest MSO Goes Live on Innovaccer’s Healthcare Data Platform
Inmediata, Puerto Rico's largest Management Service Organization (MSO), went live on Innovaccer’s healthcare data platform to drive analytics-powered healthcare, gain insights into provider performance and deliver value-based care. Inmediata currently manages around 70% of patient data across the island of Puerto Rico. Using rapid integration and advanced data analytics provided by Innovaccer's healthcare data platform company, Inmediata will be able to bring their data together and identify
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University of Louisville Hospital Goes Live on Integration Engine to Support Interoperability
Orion Health announced that the University of Louisville Hospital has selected and gone-live with its newly-launched Rhapsody as a Service (RaaS). RaaS is a cloud-based integration engine that University of Louisville Hospital uses to support critical interoperability and security initiatives, and realize major time savings. This news follows Orion Health’s recent acquisition of its Rhapsody business by Hg, a private equity technology investor. While the Hg agreement will not be fully completed
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