Stryker announced today the opening of its Digital Platform Services Centre of Excellence in Dublin, Ireland, and a strategic collaboration with RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) to develop digital health solutions for use in emergency and specialist care settings to provide more seamless care coordination for patients suffering from time critical medical emergencies.As part of the collaboration, Stryker will locate its Digital Platform Services Innovation and Ideation Hub in RCSI’s
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Georgia Hospitals Partner with CarePort to Improve Patient Outcomes
Georgia Hospital Health Services, a subsidiary of the Georgia Hospital Association has selected CarePort Health to provide hospitals across the state with a complete suite of solutions to improve care coordination by educating, guiding and monitoring patients moving across the continuum of care.GHHS formally endorses vendors that bring value to their system and understands the importance of transparency throughout care transitions by providing real-time patient data to improve patient outcomes.
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EHR Documentation Named Key Driver of Cognitive Overload for Clinicians
A recent study finds 77% of clinicians overwhelmingly identified documenting and charting in the EHR as a source of cognitive overload. When you were a student cramming for a test, remember that feeling of your brain just being unable to gather more information? You probably didn’t perform at your best. Imagine that stress every day. That’s the life of today’s clinicians, who are tasked with not only caring for multiple patients but also with burdensome clerical work from EHRs and other hospital
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CommonWell Health Alliance Taps Change Healthcare for Clinical Interoperability Services
Change Healthcare has been awarded a six-year contract by CommonWell Health Alliance to continue to provide clinical interoperability services. This agreement allows Change Healthcare to pave the way for health IT interoperability that reduces cost barriers, meets federally mandated requirements and sets the stage for innovations to better address value-based payment and patient needs.Value-based Payment & Transparency Driving the Need for Clinical Interoperability ServicesIn recent years,
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Digital Prescribing Platform Xealth Raises Additional $3M to Close $14M Series A Round
Xealth, a Seattle-based digital prescribing platform has raised an additional $3 million in its Series A financing, bringing the amount raised in this round to $14 million total. New investors Atrium Health, Cleveland Clinic and MemorialCare Innovation Fund join McKesson Ventures, Novartis, Philips, ResMed, Threshold Ventures (formerly DFJ Venture), Providence Ventures, UPMC and Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin health network. Investments from this round will be used to advance the
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VisualDx Joins Epic App Orchard Marketplace to Support Diagnostic Accuracy
VisualDx, a Rochester, NY-based diagnostic clinical decisions support tool for physicians announced that it has joined the Epic App Orchard marketplace to support diagnostic accuracy, save clinicians’ time and enhance patient care.
Improve Clinical Decisions & Enhance Clinical Workflow
The VisualDx SMART app employs the HL7® standard SMART® on FHIR® technology and the integration extracts the sex, age, medications, and problem lists from the patient's record. This information is used to
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Care Management Platform VirtualHealth Closes Series B Round to Fuel Growth
VirtualHealth, a NYC-based care management platform, today announced it has closed a Series B financing round bringing the total amount raised by the company to more than $25 million. Led by Edison Partners and existing investors, the latest funding provides strategic capital to fuel the company’s rapid growth and product innovations.One Platform for the Entire Care TeamFounded in 2012, the VirtualHealth HELIOS solution is the first comprehensive care management platform purpose-built to provide
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Optima Health Taps Cardinal Analytx for AI-Enabled Health Insights
Optima Health, the health plan arm of integrated health system Sentara Healthcare has signed an agreement with Cardinal Analytx Solutions, an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled health insights company to deliver more proactive care to Optima Health members throughout Virginia. The deal marks Cardinal’s first relationship with an integrated health system.AI-enabled Health Insights to Identify Potential High-Risk Members for Early Intervention and Proactive CareThe implementation of Cardinal’s
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Telegenomics Company Genome Medical Nabs $23M to Bring Genomic Medicine to Everyday Care
Genome Medical, a leading nationwide telegenomics company providing genomic-based medicine, today announced that it has raised $23 million in Series B financing to accelerate the development of its technology and medical services which support patients, physicians and healthcare systems in all 50 states. The Series B round was led by Echo Health Ventures, a strategic collaboration of Cambia Health Solutions and Mosaic Health Solutions with additional new investors LRVHealth, Casdin
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Mothers in the U.S. Are Dying: What Are We Doing to Save Them?
The maternal mortality rate in the United States is the highest of any developed country – and the rate is rising. The US is currently the most dangerous place to give birth in the developed world.
Few to none of these maternal deaths are due to medical mismanagement. Instead, problems of access, care coordination, and inequities in health care resources and social services are at the heart of maternal death rates.
Minority women, particularly those facing socioeconomic challenges, are the
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