Hill-Rom, a global provider of medical technologies and the world’s leading hospital bed manufacturer, today announced that EarlySense, the market leader in contact-free continuous monitoring solutions across the care continuum, has integrated its continuous contact-free heart rate and respiratory rate sensing and analytics technology into Hill-Rom’s Centrella® Smart+ bed platform.The Rise of the Smart Hospital BedThe hospital bed -a consistent fixture in every hospital room- now takes on an
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MaxQ AI Partners with EnvoyAI to Distribute Accipio Artificial Intelligence Solutions to Acute Care Market
MaxQ AI, a clinical diagnostics intelligence platform announced that it has completed a distribution agreement with EnvoyAI, a subsidiary of TeraRecon. This partnership will give physicians access to its full Accipio intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) detection platform.Coming out of this year’s RSNA annual meeting in Chicago, MaxQ continues to build momentum and strategic partnerships that will rapidly bring the company’s AI solutions to the acute care market. Leading up to and during RSNA, MaxQ
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How Longitudinal Data Mining Can Help Payers Achieve the Triple Aim
Investing in longitudinal data mining can help payers achieve the triple aim of lowering costs and drive healthier outcomes for its members. Overpayment of healthcare providers has always been an area of concern for health payers. But it has never held the urgency it does today. Rising costs and the ever-increasing complexity of the healthcare delivery and payment system can cause overpayment losses to health plans in the millions of dollars. Payers are then forced to raise premiums to the point
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HSHS integrates SeamlessMD with Epic EHR Using New SMART on FHIR
Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) has announced its first ever integration using the new SMART on FHIR platform with Epic and SeamlessMD to deliver a unified experience for patient engagement. Starting with the Prairie Heart Institute at HSHS St. John’s Hospital, the health system is using SeamlessMD within the EpicCare environment to deliver patient engagement, enable care management, and leverage artificial intelligence to improve patient outcomes.Since 2017, Prairie Heart Institute has
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Artificial Intelligence at RSNA18 Shows Signs of Maturity, But a Long Way to Go
AI was once again the hot topic at this year’s RSNA. With close to 60 AI start-ups in the Machine Learning Showcase and most of the incumbent modality and imaging IT vendors marketing AI to varying degrees, the technology was hard to ignore at this year’s meeting. Cutting through the inevitable hype, it was clear that vendors are making progress with bringing AI solutions into the daily workflows of radiologists and other imaging specialists. From our discussions with radiologists and from the
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Pillo Health Launches Voice-Activated Home Health Companion to Dispense Medication, Track Adherence, Deliver Care Plans
Pillo Health, a Boston-based digital health company bringing medication adherence to the forefront of healthcare has announced the official launch of Pillo, a voice-activated in-home companion with facial recognition that lets consumers better manage their health and stay connected to their caregivers. The home health assistant helps users better adhere to medication regimens, reminding them about dosages at set times, and offers them research-backed care plans to remain active and empowered in
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Betterment Through Automated Benchmarking in the Era of Value-based Care
In the era of value-based care provision, automated benchmarking technology in hospitals enables real-world, reliable data insights for understanding, improving and promoting provider performance.Value-based healthcare is here to stay. Hospitals across the U.S. are on a quest to deliver successful outcomes at the lowest overall cost, improving care delivery and patient wellness. Nationwide, 34 percent of total healthcare payments were tied to alternative payment models in 2017, a steady
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Intelligent Health Monitoring Platform Myia Raises $6.75M to Improve Patients Lives Using Apple Watch, Fitbit, Motiv Ring
Intelligent health monitoring platform Myia Labs Inc. today announced it has raised $6.75M in seed funding led by applied artificial intelligence investors BootstrapLabs and Zetta Venture Partners with participation from the American College of Cardiology and The Boston Consulting Group. Myia harnesses the power of market wearables such as Apple Watch, Fitbit and Motiv’s Ring to monitor chronically ill patients and predict relapses before they happen. According to the American College of
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Robotic Process Automation Saves Steward Health Care Systems $2.75M in Operational Costs
The use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA)-a robotics precursor to artificial intelligence in the past two years has led to drastic improvements in productivity at Steward Health Choice Network (SHCN) Health Plan Division, a division of Steward Health Care Systems. Steward Health Choice Network (SHCN) implemented RPA. Within 30 days of implementing its first RPA script, SHCN began realizing an ROI. Since that time, the labor automation—Foxtrot RPA from EnableSoft—has processed 4.5 million
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Ambra Health and Google Cloud Partner to Leverage AI with Secure Access to Medical Imaging for Researchers
Ambra Health, makers of the leading cloud-based, medical image management suite, today announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud to advance healthcare research with anonymized medical imaging data. The partnership will leverage Google Cloud’s Healthcare API for their Ambra Health Cloud PACS solution for Google Cloud allows researchers to turn data into insights by easily de-identifying patient medical imaging data for use in research studies. Anonymized Medical Imaging DataIn order for
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