What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH launches Expanse Virtual Assistant, enabling
users to quickly access, navigate, and control the EHR using advanced Nuance
Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant technology.
- Physicians can leverage Expanse Virtual Assistant to
navigate and search patient charts for key areas of information including lab
results, medications, allergies, radiology images, and more.
MEDITECH and Nuance Communications Inc. (Nuance),
today announced a collaboration to
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AI Collaboration Saves Pharmacies 5.5 Hours Monthly on Critical Administrative Tasks
What You Should Know:
- DrFirst partners with a Kansas-based pharmacy management system (PMS) provider to improve safety and efficiency in hundreds of pharmacies across the country.
- Speed Script is integrating DrFirst’s SmartSig technology into its suite of pharmacy management solutions (PMS) used by the community and long-term care pharmacies countrywide.
- Using the two technologies could save pharmacies processing
more than 250 prescriptions a day
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Israeli Startup Deploys AI-based Solution for Prostate Cancer Detection
What You Should Know:
- Ibex Medical Analytics announces the first U.S.
deployment of its AI-powered solution for cancer detection in pathology, at the
CorePlus Servicios Clínicos y Patológicos, LLC, a leading clinical and anatomic
pathology lab in Puerto Rico.
- The deployment will improve cancer care in the U.S.,
where the number of pathologists decreased by nearly 20% in the past decade.
This comes shortly after the first implementation of such technology in both
France and the UK.
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Change Healthcare Acquires Cloud-Native Imaging Platform Nucleus.io
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare acquires Nucleus.io to create the first of its kind end-to-end, cloud-native Enterprise Imaging to integrate Change Healthcare’s next-generation medical imaging platform.
- The acquisition will accelerate Change Healthcare’s
timeline to implement a complete cloud-based, end-to-end Enterprise Imaging
solution with customers by leveraging the 7,500+ organizations Nucleus.io
currently serves.
Change Healthcare (Nasdaq: CHNG) today announced the
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Castor Raises $12M to Advance COVID-19 Research Through Clinical Trial and Data Automation
What You Should Know:
- Castor raises $12M in Series A funding to further their
support for COVID-19 research through clinical trial and data automation.
- With 4,000 live studies and 2,000,000 enrolled patients
across 90 countries, Castor will use the funding to further invest in enabling
patient-centric, data-powered clinical trials.
Castor, a Hoboken,
New Jersey startup using automation and data reuse to simplify the entire
clinical trial process, announced $12M in Series A
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CurieAI Launches AI-Driven Platform for COVID-19 Respiratory Monitoring and Management
What You Should Know:
- SRI Ventures spin-off CurieAI announces the launch of
its AI-driven COVID-19 case management platform
- The Curie solution has been deployed to monitor
inpatients and outpatients at San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation (SCAHC).
CurieAI, a Menlo
Park, CA-based healthcare startup spun-off from SRI
Ventures, the corporate venture arm of SRI International, today announced
the release of CurieAI’s first-of-its-kind AI-driven
platform specifically designed for
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Memorial Health Deploys Chatbots to Virtualize Waiting Room Experience
What You Should Know:
- Memorial Health System selects LifeLink Conversational
AI technology to virtualize the waiting room experience for patients
- Mobile chatbots to automate intake for telehealth and
in-person visits, while maintaining COVID-19 social distancing and safety
protocols.
Memorial Health System
, a community-based, not-for-profit corporation serving the people and
communities of central Illinois through five hospitals has selected LifeLink to deploy advanced
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Cerner Launches AI-Powered Command Center Dashboard for COVID-19 Response
What You Should Know:
- Cerner launches a new Command Center dashboard to help organizations visualize and optimize operations in a centralized location by leveraging real-time data and predictive analytics to provide situational awareness and decision support during COVID-19.
- Powered by AI and predictive models, helps organizations align patient needs, staffing, and resources to improve care and operational efficiency.
Healthcare IT leader Cerner recently launched a new tool to
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Waystar Acquires Medicare RCM Company eSolutions at $1.3B Valuation
What You Should Know:
- Revenue cycle management provider Waystar acquires eSolutions, a provider of Medicare and Multi-Payer revenue cycle management, workflow automation, and data analytics tools at a $1.3B valuation.
- The acquisition will create the first unified
healthcare payments platform with both commercial and government payer
connectivity, resulting in greater value for providers.
Waystar, a provider of healthcare payments software, today
announced a definitive agreement
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4 Ways Businesses Will Adapt Their Healthcare Landscape
The coronavirus pandemic has affected every aspect of our lives, from how we work to how we get our health care. The crisis has put the creativity of many small businesses to the test after being forced to move operations online once social distancing became the norm. As economies reopen, many aspects of our life that changed in response to the virus will likely return to the way they were.
However, we have the opportunity to emerge stronger from this crisis if the salient shortcomings from
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