Global venture capital (VC) funding in digital health/health IT, including private equity and corporate venture capital, reach $2 billion in funding in Q1 2019, according to market research firm Mercom Capital. The Q1 2019 Digital Health (Healthcare IT) Funding and M&A Report reveals $2B in funding across 149 deals compared to $1.4B across 142 deals in Q4 2018. VC funding in Q1 2019 was down 19% compared to the same quarter of last year (Q1 2018) when nearly $2.5 billion was raised in 187
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Cityblock Raises $65M to Address Social Determinants of Health in Underserved Communities
Cityblock, a Brooklyn, NY-based company building sustainable, scalable systems that provide high-quality, cost-effective care for underserved populations with complex health needs has raised $65 million in Series B funding. The funding was led by Redpoint Ventures, 8VC (affiliate venture fund with Cambia Health Solutions and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina), Echo Health Ventures and StartUp Health including existing investors Sidewalk Labs, Thrive Capital, Maverick Ventures, Town
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Imprivata Integrates Biometric ID with Verato’s Patient Matching
Imprivata, a healthcare IT security company, and Verato, a provider of patient identity matching solutions, today announced an integration partnership to offer a comprehensive solution for patient identification and record matching challenges. The integration will link links Imprivata PatientSecure, a positive patient identification solution for healthcare, with Verato Universal™ MPI, a cloud-based master patient index (MPI) solution powered by Verato’s proprietary referential matching
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EBSCO Health Acquires Clinical Decision Support Tool HealthDecision
EBSCO Health, a provider of evidence-based clinical information tools has acquired HealthDecision, a decision support and shared decision-making tool for clinicians and patients. Founded in 2004, HealthDecision’s visual representation of medical outcomes is educational, easy-to-use and facilitates discussion between the clinician and patient to mutually agree on a personalized treatment plan.Developed by clinicians with subject matter expertise, HealthDecision integrates medical literature
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Change Healthcare Unveils Clinical Decision Support Tool, InterQual 2018
Change Healthcare unveiled InterQual 2018, a clinical decision support solution, that delivers updates and enhanced clinical criteria, as well as new disruptive technology, such as InterQual AutoReview. InterQual is regularly updated with rigorously objective clinical criteria. This year's release benefits from a new proprietary literature surveillance system that automatically analyzes over 3,000 medical literature sources daily and flags newly published information for the clinical team to
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OptimizeRx Partners with EvidenceCare to Deliver Real-time Medication Messaging
OptimizeRx Corp., a provider of digital health messaging for the pharmaceutical industry, has partnered with EvidenceCare, a Nashville-based provider of a cloud-based clinical decision support (CDS) tool for individual clinicians, hospitals and clinics.EvidenceCare’s network consists of more than 5,000 users, including hospitals, that layer the EvidenceCare CDS tool onto electronic health records (EHRs). The partnership allows EvidenceCare to deliver OptimizeRx’s digital health messaging to
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Elsevier Acquires Clinical Decision Support Solution Via Oncology
Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, and part of RELX Group, today announced that it has acquired Via Oncology, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company that provides clinical decision support and best practices in cancer care management. A former subsidiary of UPMC, one of the nation's leading integrated healthcare delivery and financing systems, Via Oncology helps cancer centers demonstrate the value of their care to patients, referring physicians
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What Dogs Can Teach Providers about Designing Care Plans
Several studies have shown that if dog owners are told to walk their overweight dog more often to improve the dog’s health, the dog owners will comply, and also lose weight themselves. Their concern for their dog’s health makes the goal of increased exercise an easy one to follow. The regimen combines the pleasurable activity of spending time with a pet with a healthy activity–walking. In this way, the dogs become accidental health coaches for the human patients, encouraging them to be more
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UCHealth Launches Innovation Center to Develop AI-Powered Decision Support Solutions
Nonprofit health system UC Health has formed an innovation lab focused on developing more effective ways to use decision support science to reduce clinical variation, streamline provider workflows, enhance clinician decision making and improve overall patient care. The UCHealth CARE Innovation Center’s new Applied Decision Science Lab (ADSL) will collaborate with both internal and external innovators, as well as industry partners, to better understand how these stakeholders can both contribute
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Healthy Interactions Inks 10-Year Agreement with MedCurrent to Implement Clinical Decision Support Solutions
Healthy Interactions, LP has inked a ten-year license agreement with MedCurrent Corporation to provide Clinical Decision Support (CDS) solutions to manage chronic conditions, starting with diabetes. Healthy Interactions programs uniquely integrate in-person sessions with a complimentary digital engagement platform.The Healthy Interactions Integrated CDS Platform connects into EHR systems to seamlessly capture relevant patient data and provide real-time, evidence-based decision support to
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