North Carolina Hospital Association (NCHA) is partnering with healthcare technology company PatientPing to state-wide, real-time patient care coordination in North Carolina. The implementation will enable providers across the continuum in North Carolina to strengthen collaborative relationships and improve patient health by more effectively guiding care protocol for at-risk patients with chronic health conditions, better utilizing appropriate community health resources, and reducing unnecessary
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Boston Children’s IDHA Launch Secure “Task Manager” App for Clinical Teams to Avoid Burnout
Boston Children’s Hospital’s Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA) today unveiled Dock Health, a secure mobile and web application that gives clinicians and their teams an essential tool for managing the numerous tasks that are part of clinical care. Founded by Michael Docktor, MD and Keather Roemhildt , Dock Health received an accelerator grant from IDHA in 2016. As of early September, the app is being piloted in several Boston Children’s departments (Gastroenterology,
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Samsung, TigerText Partner to Offer Mobile Clinical Collaboration Solution for Care Teams
Samsung and TigerText today announced a new strategic partnership and joint offering to improve communication and coordination efforts among care teams, offering CNOs and CNIOs a top of the line, enterprise-grade smartphone that meets the consumer-expectations of staff. Improvements in efficiency allows clinicians to streamline continuity of care and spend more time caring for patients and less time tracking down colleagues or completing redundant administrative tasks. The new all-in-one
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Bellin Health Taps PatientPing for Care Coordination Network
Bellin Health, an integrated healthcare delivery system based in Green Bay, WI has ) announced a new partnership with PatientPing, a Boston-based technology company building a national care coordination network. The new partnership will help Bellin Health collaborate on shared patients with other providers outside their network and across the care continuum, enabling a team-based, coordinated approach to patient care.Bellin is comprised of Bellin Hospital, Bellin Psychiatric Center, 32 Bellin
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5 Best Practices for Establishing a Unified Mobile Clinical Communications Strategy
Doc Halo’s CIO Jon Jansen explains why it’s time health organizations establish clear lines of communication.Thanks to the myriad of emerging devices and apps, it has never been easier for clinicians to communicate, so why is there still so much disconnect in healthcare delivery? Maybe it’s because not all tech is created equal—and while variety is the spice of life—it turns out that using too many communication tools is a recipe for disaster when it comes to productivity.According to a Ponemon
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DocHalo Lands $11M to Expand Real-Time Clinical Communication Platform
DocHalo, a Cincinnati, OH-based provider of clinical communication has raised $11M in Series A funding led by Bain Capital Ventures with additional investment from Refinery Ventures. The company plans to utilize the funding to scale its clinical communication platform functionality and growth in the marketplace. The announcement marks the first time, the company has raised outside capital since its inception seven years ago.Founded by physicians who deeply understand communication in the
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Zynx Health Integrate Health Plans with Healthwise Content to Enhance Care Coordination
Zynx Health, a provider of clinical improvement solutions has announced a partnership to integrate Zynx Health Plans with Healthwise’s patient education and engagement content. The seamless integration of Healthwise content within Zynx Health plans of care will create more efficient workflows and place evidence-based education resources at the fingertips of providers. As part of the integration, Healthwise educational content is mapped to each step of the Zynx plan of care. As a result, care
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PatientPing Expands Care Coordination Network in Massachusetts for Real-Time Clinical Event Notification
PatientPing, a Boston-based health technology company that connects providers to seamlessly coordinate patient care has announced an expansion of their care coordination network in their home state of Massachusetts with the addition of Tufts Medical Center. The expansion of its data-sharing initiative in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will help facilitate higher quality care through better patient care coordination. To date, PatientPing currently partners with more than 25 hospitals, 29
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TigerText Unveils Role-based Scheduling Automation, Amazon Alexa integration
TigerText, a provider of clinical communication solutions for the healthcare industry has unveiled role-based scheduling automation that dynamically populates role assignments and user profiles within the TigerText messaging app in an elegant, highly intuitive way. Role-based Scheduling Automation was developed in tight coordination with TigerText client feedback and refined through rounds of interviews, marketplace research, and user testing. Because the app leverages data from popular
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MCG Health Taps InterSystems to Streamline Evidence-based Decision Making for Health Plans, Care Providers
MCG Health, a leading provider of informed care solutions has tapped InterSystems to leverage its InterSystems HealthShare® as the interoperability platform to share its evidence-based care guidelines and analytics with health plans and providers. Built on InterSystems Interoperability Platform, MCG’s new cloud-based Care Net solution will connect payers and providers to enable more efficient care processes and more informed medical decisions based on healthcare best practices.The exchange of
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