What You Should Know:
- Abacus Insights raises $35M in Series B funding for its data integration platform that enables health insurers to reconcile thousands of unique attributes to create a more personalized healthcare experience in everything from diabetes care and wellness programs to managing the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Abacus Insights’ data platform standardizes, curates, and enriches valuable healthcare data that is currently sitting idle, moving it out of restrictive silos, and
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Redox, Curative Partner to Connect COVID-19 Test Results to Public Health Depts.
What You Should Know:
- Curative and Redox have found a way to easily send COVID-19 test results to state officials for reporting, contact tracing programs, and to inform policies as regions move through phases for re-opening the economy.
- Since formalizing the partnership in May, the duo has kicked off projects with 24 states, with two, Illinois and Delaware, now fully live.
- In this novel use case, Curative uses the Redox API to allow for a secure, efficient flow of data between
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athenahealth Launches Its First Embedded Telehealth Solution at No Additional Cost
What You Should Know:
- Today, athenahealth unveiled athenaTelehealth, a new embedded offering that empowers healthcare providers to seamlessly conduct telemedicine visits with their patients. athenaTelehealth will be available at no additional cost for a limited time to allow providers to deliver care during COVID-19 and beyond.
- As stay-at-home orders and fear of exposure to coronavirus took root, government deregulation and high patient demand led to a surge in telehealth
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Israel Aerospace Develops AI-Based Model to Predict Progression of COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) scientists develop an AI-based model to predict the progression of COVID-19 patients using information from the Sheba Medical Center’s cloud database, harnesses advanced AI, big data, and machine learning technologies.
- The predictive capabilities of the model can alert
medical staff on the deterioration of the patient’s condition, thus enhancing
patient care and flagging the cases with higher chances of medical
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How Direct Digital Fax Can Improve System Usability for EHRs
The lack of EHR usability is a huge concern for the healthcare industry. According to a study conducted by Mayo Clinic researchers, modern electronic health records (EHR) are less user-friendly than Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel, and Google. Using the System Usability Scale (SUS), Electronic Health Records were marked with an unsettling “F” and a SUS score of 45 while Excel received a SUS score of 57 and Microsoft Word received a SUS score of 76. Google search came in on top with an “A” and a
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Telehealth After COVID-19: What’s Next for the Healthcare Industry?
Like the rest of the economy, healthcare has been upended by the coronavirus. Not just emergency rooms, but primary care physicians, specialists, and long-term care facilities, too.
Struggling to continue providing care in a time of social distancing, many have turned to telehealth in record numbers. Even providers who may have previously viewed telehealth skeptically – perhaps because of the technology’s perceived complexity or reimbursement challenges before COVID-19 – have now become
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Adobe, Change Healthcare and Microsoft Launch Consumer Healthcare Platform
What You Should Know:
- Collaboration with Adobe and Microsoft creates a unique, scalable, and more secure consumer solution to address rising demand for more transparent and streamlined healthcare experience.
- The Connected Consumer Health™ suite is delivered in a software-as-a-service model, with speedy deployment, no hardware to procure, and minimal IT resources required for customers to access and use the platform.
Today Change Healthcare unveiled the
Connected Consumer Health
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What’s the Secret to Building the Hospital of the Future? Simplicity.
As the healthcare industry becomes more connected, executives are increasingly looking for ways to digitally transform and provide next-level, life-saving care to patients. But it comes at a cost — and it’s not just monetary. The spiraling complexity of hospital networks is becoming a massive problem for health IT staff, and it’s inhibiting hospitals’ ability to advance. Brought on by years of network technologies and applications being layered onto the existing hospital infrastructure,
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Cerner Appoints Jerome Labat New Chief Technology Officer
What You Should Know:
Cerner appoints former HPE Software executive Jerome
Labat Chief Technology Officer to strengthen Cerner’s technology focus and
accelerate cloud-enabled SaaS platforms and solutions.
Cerner Corporation announced today that Jerome Labat has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). As CTO, Labat will lead efforts to strengthen Cerner’s technology focus and accelerate cloud-enabled SaaS platforms and solutions. Labat has extensive experience in
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Picking Up the Pace: Healthcare’s Evolution to Social Media
Take a look at the social media feeds of your favorite store or restaurant. For B2C brands, social media is, undoubtedly, a “where-it’s-at” customer service platform as much for networking or advertising as for engaging consumers with a personality and story that captures new customers and builds affinity. Now, imagine this same social care experience from your healthcare payer or provider. Why is this such an unlikely scenario?
Undoubtedly, healthcare has room to grow in providing
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