OM1(formerly known as Better Outcomes), a Boston, MA-based healthcare outcome analytics company has raised $15M in Series A funding led by General Catalyst with participation from Glikvest, 7wire Ventures and Wanxiang Healthcare Investments. The company plans to utilize the funding to build out its tech platform that leverages big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide stakeholders with an analytics platform to have a holistic view and better understanding of real-world healthcare
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Why NLP-Driven Platforms Are Vital For Next-Gen Healthcare Analytics
Years ago, you’d ask your doctor during his house call, “What’s in your black bag?” and you’d get to peek inside.Old Faithful: The Medical “Black Bag”Now that MD has been replaced by a telehealth practitioner who arrives by video. And the “black bag” is virtual, attracting many providers and executives who are beginning to use it. It’s harder to peek in, but a more relevant question is, “How will the new technologies inside drive value-based care for providers and health plan payers alike?”It
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drchrono Lands $12M for Mobile EHR Platform to Create A Better Experience for Physicians & Patients
Mobile EHR provider drchrono has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Runa Capital with participation from Maxfield Capital, Eric Dunn (CEO of Quicken Inc. and Intuit’s first CTO), and FundersClub. Andre Bliznyuk from Runa Capital and Oleg Koujikov from Maxfield Capital have joined the drchrono board of directors as part of this funding round. The company plans to utilize the funding to invest in their EHR platform, talent acquisition, operation expansion to support their growth demand
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Bon Secours Taps Tonic Health to Implement Patient Intake And Payments Platform Across Ambulatory Network
Bon Secours Virginia Health System has selected Tonic Health to implement its cloud-based patient data collection and payments platform across its ambulatory network. Bon Secours Virginia chose Tonic to digitize and integrate its largely paper-based intake and payments process. By simplifying patient check-in, Bon Secours frees up staff and clinicians to spend more time directly helping patients rather than being burdened with administrative tasks. The Tonic platform will be integrated with Bon
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Mercy ACO Taps Innovaccer to Drive End-To-End Value-Based Care Initiatives in Iowa
Mercy Accountable Care Organization (ACO), one of the largest ACOs in the state of Iowa has selected Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare analytics company to drive end-to-end value-based care initiatives statewide. As part of the selection, Mercy ACO will implement Innovaccer’s proprietary platform ‘Datashop’ which is an integrated data warehouse for all clinical, financial, lab, pharmacy, and immunization data and port data. This will enable Mercy ACO to manage all of their
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Intermedix Acquires WPC Healthcare to Optimize Revenue Cycle Through Predictive Analytics
Intermedix Corporation, a provider of data analytics and cloud-based technology has acquired healthcare data analytics provider WPC Healthcare. The Nashville, TN-based data analytics company uses machine learning to make predictions about health care conditions providing early notification to health care providers and, ultimately, saving lives while decreasing costs. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. In 2015, Intermedix announced the creation of its analytics business
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Voxiva and Sense Health Merge to Launch Wellpass Messaging Platform for Healthcare
Voxiva and Sense Health has merged to form a new venture, Wellpass, Inc., a new digital health platform serving payers, providers and people. Wellpass combines Voxiva's proven mobile health and wellness programs with the innovative and flexible patient engagement platform developed by Sense Health. The companies' digital health services have supported over 3 million people and delivered proven clinical outcomes documented in extensive published research. The Wellpass platform is launching with
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Baystate Innovation Center Launches Software Development Environment to Accelerate Health IT Innovation
Health IT innovation center TechSpring, in partnership with InterSystems and J2 Interactive, has just announced the launch of a new software development environment to accelerate innovation for healthcare technology leaders by providing them with access to real healthcare resources and data. The environment is built on the InterSystems HealthShare® interoperability platform, and was implemented by the IT services firm J2 Interactive.HealthShare expands TechSpring’s ability to engage with its
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ABILITY Network Acquires SaaS Healthcare Workforce Management Provider ShiftHound
ABILITY Network, a Minneapolis-based IT company helping providers and payers simplify the administrative and clinical complexities of healthcare through innovative apps and data analytics has acquired ShiftHound, a provider of cloud-based SaaS healthcare workforce management solutions. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. ShiftHound is based in San Diego and will become an ABILITY Center of Excellence. ABILITY provides apps and analytics that are integral in helping with
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Pomona Valley Hospital To Implement Cerner Millennium EHR, Replacing Cerner Soarian Clinicals
Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, a 437-bed, acute care, nationally accredited not-for-profit medical center serving eastern Los Angeles and western San Bernardino counties has selected Cerner to implement its integrated EHR system. The implementation of Cerner Millennium EHR will replace Cerner Soarian Clinicals® platform, the NextGen®ambulatory system and several additional legacy suppliers in its hospital and outpatient facilities PVHMC will retain its investment in Cerner Soarian
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