What You Should Know:
- Today, Redox announced the availability of the Redox
EHR Integration in AWS Marketplace. Now, healthcare providers and vendors can
access the largest package of pre-built EHR integrations and achieve value from
applications more quickly and easily.
- The digital transformation of healthcare has gained
momentum this year, and AWS is one of many tech giants working to spur
innovation in healthcare. AWS Marketplace is a platform that helps healthcare
organizations
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Grand Rounds Nabs $175M to Expand Clinical Navigation Platform
What You Should Know:
- Grand Rounds raises $175 million in funding, led by The
Carlyle Group, to accelerate clinical navigation and virtual primary care.
- Grand Rounds has raised over $270 million to date,
allowing the business to continue scaling its operations across the country.
Grand Rounds, a San Francisco, CA-based healthcare company that matches employers and employees to high-quality healthcare, announced today it raised $175M in funding led by The Carlyle Group. The
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Humana Taps Salesforce to Power its Enterprise Clinical Operating Model
What You Should Know:
Health insurer Humana has selected Salesforce to deliver
a more connected, personalized healthcare experience for its members.
- Through a new multi-year agreement, Humana will
capitalize on infrastructure and capabilities offered by Salesforce Health
Cloud to create an integrated health experience for its members.
Health insurer Humana has inked a new multi-year agreement with Salesforce to deploy Salesforce Health Cloud to help power its Enterprise Clinical
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Why EHR Interoperability is Critical for Telehealth
Khalid Al-Maskari, CEO at Health Information Management Systems (HiMS)
Telehealth has recently taken off as a way to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, but even though telehealth has been around for several years, clinics had difficulty adopting it pre-COVID-19. This caused clinics to not view telehealth as a viable option, and it was often seen as a last resort approach to healthcare.
As reducing the spread of COVID-19 became paramount, Medicare and Medicaid were forced to
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Elevate Health Taps Innovaccer to Automate Care Management Processes
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with Elevate Health
to strengthen care management in Washington. Innovaccer’s solution set will be
part of a broader population health stratification toolkit Elevate Health is
fashioning to achieve a comprehensive and data-agnostic ecosystem supporting
improved health outcomes.
- Elevate Health’s partnered care coordinators, in both
clinical and social services settings, will be able to use InCare, Innocaccer’s
automated care
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The Coronavirus Crisis’ Silent Death Toll: Chronically Ill Patients
Dr. Kayur Patel, Chief Medical Officer of Proactive MD
The impact of the coronavirus crisis is shining a bright light on many of the challenges facing the U.S. healthcare system.
So much more than a lack of primary care physicians and hospital beds, the all-hands-on-deck approach to combating the spread of COVID-19 has forced patients fearful of engaging with the healthcare system for needs unrelated to the virus to put elective procedures, routine care and timely treatment for chronic or
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VA Announces First Go-Live of the VA Electronic Health Record Modernization Program
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced
its first go-live of the VA Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM)
program – launching the new Centralized Scheduling Solution (CSS) at the VA
Central Ohio Healthcare System in Columbus, OH to make medical visits more
efficient for care providers and Veterans.
- CSS streamlines patient scheduling by coordinating clinician availability and resources in a single system, allowing VA schedulers to identify
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Vocera Acquires Secure Communications Platform EASE Applications
What You Should Know:
- Today Vocera Communications acquires EASE Applications,
a provider of a secure communication platform and mobile application that
delivers updates, messages to patients’ loved ones, during surgeries and at
other times.
- The Orlando-based EASE offers a cloud-based service
that is built to improve the patient experience by enabling friends and family
members to receive timely updates about the progress of loved ones in the
hospitals. Care team members can send
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Cerner Technology to Support COVID-19 Testing for HBCUs Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- Cerner announces a commitment to help expand COVID-19 testing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the U.S through a partnership with Testing for America.
- As part of the partnership, Cerner will serve as the national technology partner for a return to school effort led by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and The United Negro College Fund (UNCF). The strategic initiative aims to support HBCUs in their COVID-19 testing of
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Lumeon Lands $30M to Expand Care Pathway Management Platform
What You Should Know:
- Lumeon, the leader in care pathway orchestration
announced it has raised $30M in Series D funding to extend the reach of its
Care Pathway Management (CPM) platform.
- The platform empowers providers to improve care
quality, deliver better outcomes, reduce costs, and ultimately develop and
scale new models of care delivery – particularly important right now as
COVID-19 accelerates the technology-driven transformation of healthcare.
Lumeon, a Boston,
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