Philips has announced the debut of its eCareManager 4.1 enterprise telehealth software that allows intensivists to provide more efficient care across a larger patient population, allowing for greater scale and potentially reducing operating costs. The new platform builds on Philips success in delivering population health management solutions to help combat shortages of critical care teams by providing actionable insights to help improve outcomes in the most complex patient cases.Designed to be
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Zoom Launches Epic EHR Integration Enabled Telehealth Platform
Zoom Video Communication, a San Jose, CA-based provider of enterprise video and web communications technology has launched its Epic EHR-integration enabled cloud-based video telehealth platform. The platform named Zoom for Health offers a standard feature set for healthcare enterprises and providers, enabling reliable, HIPAA-compliant communications between organizations, care teams, and patients.The Epic EHR integration incorporates Zoom into Epic record and communications workflows.
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Zillion Health Integrates with Vidyo’s Video Collaboration Platform to Help Doctors Engage with Patients
Zillion® Health, an integrated patient engagement platform for care providers and health systems has announced an integration partnership with video collaboration technology provider Vidyo. The integration will allow Zillion to power its the face-to-face video communications component of their platform through the Vidyo.io API platform-as-a-service.As part of the integration, Zillion will embed Vidyo APIs into their engagement platform to let medical professionals and patients easily connect
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Vivify Health Awarded Digital Health Patent for Extending EMRs to Digital Health Ecosystem
Vivify Health, a provider of remote care via mobile devices, has been awarded a very significant patent for the advancement of healthcare delivery from episodic care via EMRs to continual care via digital health. For Vivify, the new patent will provide the company with broad protection of key intellectual property and help further cement Vivify's position as a major leader in remote care. "We are thrilled to be awarded this extensive digital health patent. It is the most important in our
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PlushCare Launches Fully Comprehensive EMR for Telehealth
PlushCare, a direct-to-consumer online urgent care provider, today announced the launch of Lemur, a EMR platform specifically for the telehealth industry. Lemur - the cloud-based and HIPAA compliant EMR platform - allows PlushCare doctors to diagnose, treat, prescribe and provide ongoing treatment throughout the course of a medical issue directly from the platform itself.Lemur requires the fewest clicks in the industry to complete tasks such as writing a note, sending a prescription (eRx),
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Siemens Healthineers Acquires Medicalis to Expands Its Population Health Portfolio
Siemens Healthineers, today announced the acquisition of Medicalis Corporation, a provider of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Solutions at the point of order entry, Imaging Workflow (IW) management, and Referral Management (RM). Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.For Siemens Healthineers—the separately managed healthcare business of Siemens AG— the acquisition will expand its Population Health Management (PHM) portfolio to enable healthcare providers to effectively bridge
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Surescripts Launches Sentinel to Measure E-prescription Accuracy
Health information network Surescripts has announced the launch of Sentinel™ which measures e-prescription accuracy to help patient safety and care quality. Sentinel will raise the bar for patient safety, care quality and workflow efficiency by pinpointing specific areas for improvement and providing analysis of electronic prescribing trends to inform better patient care.With 70% of prescriptions being filled electronically, 1.5 billion on the Surescripts network annually, this monitoring
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HIMSS Acquires Health 2.0 Conferences: 6 Things to Know
HIMSS has acquired the conference component of Health 2.0 to expand its global educational offerings to familiar and new audiences, effective immediately. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Since its first conference in 2007, Health 2.0 2007 and now hosts three annual conferences in the US, with others in Europe and Asia. To date, Health 2.0 has welcomed more than 25,000 conference attendees worldwide, hosted over 4,000 demos, and introduced hundreds of new companies to the
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Health IT VC Funding Reaches $1.6B for Q1 2017: 10 Trends to Know
Health IT VC funding reached $1.6 billion in 165 deals compared to $845 million in 154 deals in Q4 2016, almost doubled quarter-over-quarter (QoQ), according to the latest report from Mercom Capital Group. The report finds that VC funding in Q1 2017 was also up compared to Q1 2016 when nearly $1.4 billion was raised in 146 deals. Since 2010, VC funding in the Healthcare IT sector has now crossed $20 billion (2010 - Q1 2017).Here are ten key trends to know from the Mercom’s latest report:1. The
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Northwell Health Develops Homegrown Real-Time Care Navigation Tool for Patients
Northwell Health’s IT department, in conjunction with Northwell Health’s Population Health Management department has developed a new care navigation tools changing the way health care workers assess, monitor and coordinate patient care. The new tool is designed to helped close the care loop for patients while hospitalized – and more importantly – after they are discharged.Available to staff on their laptops through Northwell’s secure network, the care tool delivers real-time notifications to
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