Clinical communication and collaboration platform Doc Halo announced it has rebranded as Halo Communcations. Founded in 2010 by Dr. Barreau and Dr. Amit Gupta, Halo provides secure messaging, VoIP calling, alert management and system-wide on-call scheduling to some of the most prestigious health systems in the country. “Our vision for the company remains the same: Simplify clinical communication so clinicians can focus on care,” said Dr. Jose Barreau, CEO and Co-Founder of Halo
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SwipeSense Acquires Mobile App iScrub Lite for Recording Hand Hygiene Observations
SwipeSense, a Chicago-based healthcare technology company, today announced the acquisition of iScrub Lite, the leading mobile app for hand hygiene observation. Originally conceived and developed by the Computational Epidemiology Research Group at the University of Iowa, iScrub Lite was launched to simplify the time-consuming and error-prone process of recording hand hygiene observations and sharing the results with health care professionals. In fact, the CDC has recommended iScrub Lite as a part
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Suki Lands $20M to Create AI-Driven Alexa for Doctors Platform
Suki, an n AI-powered, voice-enabled digital assistant for doctors that lifts the burden of documentation has raised $20 million that comes from a Series A round led by Venrock with participation from First Round and Social Capital, as well as individual Googlers and angels, Nat Turner of Flatiron Health, and Marc Benioff. Venrock also led the seed round.Founder by former Google and Salesforce executives Punit Soni and Karthik Rajan, Suki's AI-driven voice-enabled digital assistant for doctors
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Highmark Health’s VITAL Innovation Program to Evaluate WellDoc’s BlueStar Mobile App for Type 2 Diabetes
The second largest integrated delivery and financing network in the nation, Highmark Health, today announced that through its VITAL Innovation Program, it will be evaluating WellDoc’s® BlueStar® mobile app, an FDA-cleared, proven digital therapeutic for individuals with type 2 diabetes. VITAL facilitates real-world evaluations of medical innovations through Allegheny Health Network (AHN), its physicians and patients who enroll—producing evidence related to patient experience, as well as
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Fitbit and Google Team Up to Develop Consumer and Enterprise Health Solutions
Fitbit and Google are exploring the development of consumer and enterprise health solutions. Fitbit intends to use Google’s new Cloud Healthcare API to help the company integrate further into the healthcare system, such as by connecting user data with electronic medical records (EMR). Combining Fitbit data with EMRs can provide patients and clinicians a more comprehensive view of the patient profile, leading to more personalized care. The companies will also look to help better manage chronic
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Doximity Dialer Integration Allows Physicians to Call Patients in App
Doximity, a social network for physicians has announced the integration of Doximity Dialer into the Doximity app. In the past, this tool has been its own application, separate from the main network. With this integration, physicians will be able to privately call patients, read news, and connect with colleagues all in one place - making their lives a little easier and more productive. According to the 2017 Connected Patient Report commissioned by Salesforce, Americans currently communicate with
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ResApp Develops Sound-based Algorithm to Diagnose Sleep Apnea via Smartphone
ResApp Health, the Australian digital health startup that has been working on software for smartphones that can diagnose respiratory diseases from the sound signatures of coughs (US clinical trials underway), has announced a new area of development – a diagnostic test to diagnose obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) using a smartphone – simply by leaving the smartphone next to one’s bed to record sounds of the subject while sleeping – and then the algorithms provide a diagnosis (similar AI use to the
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Oracle Health Unveils mHealth Connector Cloud Service to Collect Patient Data During Clinical Trials
Oracle Health Sciences releases its new mHealth Connector Cloud Service that will enable clinical study teams to remotely collect e-Source data from patient sensors, wearables and apps during their clinical trials, all while delivering a new level of patient engagement and centricity.“We are thrilled to announce our new mHealth Connector as it holds great promise in speeding clinical trials and bringing more drugs to market faster. Being able to take what used to be patient-recorded data and
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AMA and Google Launch Healthcare Interoperability and Innovation Challenge to Foster Data Sharing
The American Medical Association (AMA) and Google are teaming up to launch the AMA Health Care Interoperability and Innovation Challenge. Sponsored by Google, the challenge aims to inspire novel examples of mobile health technology - such as wearable devices and applications - that effectively monitor and share medical data between patients and physicians to improve the management of chronic diseases.“The AMA is working to unleash a new era of patient care through its Integrated Health Model
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5 Must-Have Features for a Hospital Clinical Communications Platform
According to a newly released report from Spyglass Consulting Group, 90% of hospitals surveyed are making significant enterprise-wide investments in Smartphones and secure mobile communications platforms to drive clinical transformation and address the mission- and patient-critical communications requirements of clinical and non-clinical mobile workers within the hospital and across the care continuum. Report Background/OverviewConducted over a three-month period starting in September 2017, the
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