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- PerfectServe, a clinical communication and provider scheduling provider, today announced the acquisition of AnesthesiaGo, creator of the only solution on the market that automatically matches available anesthesia staff with the best daily case schedule.Los Angeles-based AnesthesiaGo went live in 2021 after extensive research and product testing. Creating daily anesthesia case assignments is almost always a complex, stressful, and time-consuming affair, and the duty
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mPulse Mobile Acquires HealthCrowd, Receives Growth Investment
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mPulse Mobile, a leader in conversational AI and digital engagement solutions for the healthcare industry, released 2 major announcements:
- acquired HealthCrowd, a leading communications platform-as-a-service innovator focused primarily on the Medicaid market
- received a growth investment from PSG, a leading growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies.
Acquisition Impact for mPulse
mPulse took part in
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Carenet Health Acquires Provider Scheduling Platform OpenMed
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- Carenet Health – a provider of 24/7 healthcare engagement and on-demand telehealth solutions—announced today that they have acquired OpenMed, a digital innovator in closing care gaps, enabling access to care and supporting real-time collaboration between healthcare payers/risk-bearing entities (RBOs) and providers.
- The acquisition will add a state-of-the-art communications and scheduling
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Bamboo Health Streamlines Care Collaboration for Oak Street Health for Real-Time Patient Event Notifications
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- Bamboo Health announced that it has expanded its care coordination partnership with Oak Street Health intended to arm the network of value-based primary care centers (for Medicare) with an additional level of resources for managing real-time patient event notifications.
Real-Time Patient Event Notifications
Pings real-time data provides Oak Street Health with a better understanding of where patients are in the care continuum across Bamboo Health’s network of
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4 Strategies for Urgent Care to Thrive During the Pandemic and Beyond
A year of constantly shifting gears to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and meet patient needs further solidified the essential role urgent cares play during large-scale public health crises. Subsequently, the pandemic is continuing to change the way patients use and view urgent care. By the end of 2020, urgent care saw a 58% increase in visit volumes on average, and Covid-19 testing and vaccinations had accounted for 60% of all visits. New patient volumes increased by 23% over the same year,
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Dept. of Defense Awards Prenosis $4.3M Contract for Early Sepsis Detection
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- U.S. Department of Defense awards Prenosis up to $4.3M to improve early sepsis identification for warfighters using point-of-care predictive diagnostics.
- According to the World Health Organization, more than 11 million people die from sepsis worldwide annually, more than the deaths caused by all cancers combined. Studies show that sepsis is the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals with annual costs of treatment and rehabilitation estimated at
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Olive, ClosedLoop Integrate to Bring Predictive Analytics to Hospitals
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- Today, healthcare automation company Olive announced their partnership with ClosedLoop, a healthcare-specific data science platform that allows hospitals to implement artificial intelligence (AI) technology. As part of the partnership, Olive will be able to leverage ClosedLoop’s technology within Olive Helps to help deliver better patient outcomes, such as reducing unplanned hospitalizations, readmission rates and hospital-acquired infections.
- This partnership
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Bright Health, MedArrive Partner to Deliver Preventative In-Home Care
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- Bright HealthCare (“Bright Health”), a tech-enabled health insurance carrier, announced a new partnership with MedArrive, a healthcare platform that enables payers and providers to extend medical services into the home. Through the program, which recently kicked off in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bright Health is tapping MedArrive’s network of highly skilled EMS professionals within the community to conduct in-home preventive health visits coupled with physician-led
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Transplant Connect and Cerner Streamline Organ Donation and Transplant Process
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Transplant Connect, a Los Angeles-based medical software company that has introduced innovative new technology known as iReferral, and Cerner Corporation announce their new collaboration to enable automated donor referrals.
- For years, matching transplant donors with those who need them has been a manual process that typically takes 20 to 30 minutes of healthcare workers making calls. Slowing this process are staffing shortages and
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Mount Sinai Uses Machine Learning to Improve Postpartum Hemorrhage Risk Prediction
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- Sema4, an AI-driven genomic and clinical data intelligence platform company, recently published two studies demonstrating the utility of machine learning to predict clinical outcomes for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). The studies, which will appear in a special “Informatics for Sex- and Gender-Related Health” print issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), were conducted in collaboration with clinicians from
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