Caresyntax Inc., a Boston, MA-based surgical analytics and integration services company has raised $11.9 million in funding led by Norgine Ventures. The company plans to utilize the funding to establish its first full-time U.S. operations and headquarters in downtown Boston in October with plans to add more than 10 employees by the end of 2017.Partnering with GE, Medtronic and Siemens in the U.S., caresyntax is a sister company of Berlin-based S-CAPE GmbH, a global operating room integration
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Health2047 Partners With Celgene to Enhance Data Liquidity in Healthcare
Health2047, a Silicon Valley-based healthcare innovation enterprise has announced a partnership with Celgene Corporation to develop a new data transfer protocol for healthcare that will be secure, trusted and connected. Given Celgene's deep history and expertise in developing and commercializing life-changing medicines for cancers and inflammatory diseases, Health2047 is excited about collaborating with Celgene as it builds a new data transfer protocol tuned for healthcare.Working together,
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Accenture Joins Hashed Health Blockchain Consortium to Develop Industry Use Cases for Blockchain
Hashed Health has added Accenture as a member of the Hashed Health Blockchain Consortium, a group of leading health companies focused on accelerating innovation with blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, as announced today at the Distributed: Health 2017 conference. As a consortium member, Accenture will focus its efforts on developing industry use cases for blockchain and distributed ledger technologies and identify opportunities where organizations can implement solutions at
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PatientSafe Solutions Raises $25M for Point-of-Care Mobile Solutions
PatientSafe Solutions, a provider of mobile clinical workflow and communication solutions has raised $25 million in funding led by HighBar Partners with participation from existing investors Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Camden Partners, Psilos Group, and TPG. The company plans to utilize the latest round of funding to accelerate its operations, sales and customer success. In addition, the funding will help Patient Safe drive further innovation in clinical communications and care
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Merck Manuals Integrates Authoritative Medical Info With Allscripts EHR
Merck Manuals, a comprehensive electronic medical reference, will now integrate its provider reference and patient education content into the Allscripts EHR platforms: Allscripts Sunrise, Allscripts Professional EHR and Allscripts TouchWorks EHR.Made seamlessly accessible by an HL7-compliant Infobutton, the materials are readily available to clinicians within the Allscripts EHR workflow. The Merck programs have automatically been authorized for all Allscripts clients and they simply need to
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Change Healthcare Unveils Enterprise Blockchain to Boost Revenue Cycle Efficiency
Change Healthcare today announced the launch of the first blockchain solution for enterprise-scale use in healthcare during Distributed: Health 2017 in Nashville, TN. The new blockchain solution will enable payers and providers to boost revenue cycle efficiency, improve real-time analytics, cut costs, and create innovative new services.How it WorksChange Healthcare will employ Hyperledger Fabric 1.0, an open source blockchain framework hosted by The Linux Foundation, to create a distributed
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Capital Health’s Specialized Rehab to Implement InterSystems EMR to Become Digital Hospital
Capital Health's Specialized Rehabilitation Hospital (SRH), a United Arab Emirates-based 166-bed specialty hospital has selected Intersystems to become a fully digital hospital. SRH will implement the InterSystems TrakCare EMR system to support the clinicians in making better informed decisions and improving patient safety.In addition, the TrakCare will also enable SRH to create a consolidated view of each patient's history on any authorized Internet-connected device.SRH is managed and operated
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iVantage Health Analytics Launches Market Intelligence Platform for Health Systems
iVantage Health Analytics (iVantage), a provider of healthcare analytic and performance management solutions, today announced the launch of iVantage Market Intelligence, a strategic market intelligence platform to address a growing need for a comprehensive, strategic market intelligence platform for healthcare system and hospital market planning. The new market intelligence platform provides a platform for accessing integrated analytics for market size, market share, outmigration, utilization,
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Florence, Verady Partner to Develop Healthcare Blockchain Apps for Managing Patient & Clinical Trial Data
Florence, the company advancing clinical research through software, and Verady, a Blockchain asset assurance company, has announced a partnership to develop healthcare blockchain apps for advancing healthcare and clinical research. As part of the partnership, Verady's Application Programming Interface (API) will provide an easy-to-use, standardized Representational State Transfer (ReST) interface to abstract away the complexities of Blockchain for Florence's customers. The partnership will be
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Hearst Makes Equity Investment in Moffitt Cancer Center Subsidiary M2Gen
Hearst, a market leader in healthcare technology has announced an equity investment in M2Gen, a health informatics subsidiary of Moffitt Cancer Center, one of the top comprehensive cancer centers in the United States. This partnership will help accelerate the discovery of innovative cancer therapies and improve care for patients nationwide. In addition, the collaboration will provide funding to expand the efforts of the nation’s first major data sharing network among leading cancer
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