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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Chilmark Report: Accessing The Growing Market for Condition Management Solutions
Key healthcare stakeholders are accelerating the adoption of more personalized and holistic approaches to chronic condition management, driven by continuing concerns about rising healthcare costs. Health insurers and self-insured employers continue to lead in adoption with providers continuing to be laggards according to the latest report from ChilmarkResearch.The Assessing the Market for Condition Management Solutions Market Scan Report describes the critical market trends in the healthcare
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Doximity Integrates With Epic’s Mobile EHR to Enable Physicians to Easily Call Patients
Doximity, a social network for U.S. physicians and advanced practice clinicians has announced integration partnership with EHR provider Epic. The new integration will enable one-touch dialing of patients directly from within Epic’s mobile EHR solution, Haiku.Integration DetailsThe integration between Doximity Dialer and Epic Haiku allows to doctors quickly and conveniently access patient records and communicate with patients directly from their cell phones without exposing their personal phone
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How Recent Hurricanes Highlights Health IT Improvement & Exposes Gaps
Yes, Katrina was already losing appeal as a girl’s name by 2005, when it had fallen to 247th most popular in the United States. But the so-named hurricane that swamped New Orleans in August of that year pushed it off a ledge. By May of 2007 Katrina had fallen more than 100 spots to number 382, its lowest level since the 1950s.Less trivial is the impact of Katrina on hospitals and healthcare, which has regularly measured itself against the ghost of a seemingly manageable Category 3 storm that
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