What You Should Know:
- Jump Technologies offers new supply chain solution free of charge to help hospitals manage utilization of critical supplies and avoid stockouts during high volume COVID-19 response.
- From a single screen, hospitals can easily see where existing supplies are located (in hospital storage or in a warehouse); track consumption by department, clinic, or user; and forecast potential stockouts.
The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has placed unique
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IBM Watson Health, EBSCO Information Services Launch Integrated Clinical Decision Support Solution
What You to Need to Know:
IBM Watson Health and EBSCO Health Resources will
announce the merging of their respective platforms – DynaMed and IBM Micromedex
– into a single, high-value global solution called DynaMed and Micromedex with
Watson.
By combining the real-world evidence available on these
platforms, with AI and natural language processing, this new solution will
enable care providers to easily access information to inform both diagnostic
and operational decisions.
IBM
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Matternet Launches Secure Medical Drone Delivery Portal for Hospitals
What You Need to Know:
- Matternet announces the launch of its new Matternet Station, a secure medical drone delivery portal for hospital campuses in the United States and Switzerland.
- The Matternet Station provides a safe, fully-automated medical payload exchange for Matternet drone networks on hospital campuses.
- Matternet’s system is made available to hospital systems on an annual subscription model, enabling hospitals to fulfill on-demand and routine delivery requests at a
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Using Health IT to Preserve Antibiotics and Fight Drug-Resistance
In its latest report on antibiotic resistance, the CDC revealed that infection rates for many threat pathogens are stagnant or in a nominal decline. While this is promising news, there are still a startling 2.8 million cases of drug-resistant infections predicted this year, which will result in an estimated 35,000 deaths. What’s more, the speed at which some patients are developing resistance to last-resort antibiotics – those that are often reserved for special scenarios and designed
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Rimidi Launches COVID-19 Screening App to Identify At-Risk Patients & Limit Exposure
What You Need to Know:
- To limit the spread of COVID-19 in healthcare settings, Rimidi has developed a Coronavirus (COVID-19) screening application for health systems to identify at-risk patients and direct them to appropriate locations.
- The EHR-integrated app is one of the first designed specifically to flag patients with possible Coronavirus symptoms, enabling health systems to mitigate the spread and optimize treatment.
Rimidi, a cloud-based
software platform, today announced
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Amazon Alexa Devices Can Now Answer Medication-Related Questions
What You Need to Know:
- In a new collaboration between First Databank and Amazon, consumers will have access to a wide variety of FDB’s drug information through simple queries via Alexa, Amazon’s cloud-based voice service.
- A subset of FDB’s drug information, trusted for more than 40 years by healthcare professionals, can now be accessed by consumers from any Alexa-enabled device.
- The Amazon Alexa integration provides custom content that allows consumers to ask about a drug’s
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The Many Faces of AI in Clinical Trials
AI is being applied in several aspects for the clinical trial process today. From analyzing real-world data and scientific information to providing improved patient stratification and predictive outcomes, and assisting with different aspects of clinical trial operations. Here are some of the technologies using AI and machine learning in the clinical trial space today, outlining how they fit within the clinical trial ecosystem and discuss the impact on future clinical trial designs.
The
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Pillo Health Launches Population Health Data & Device Manager to Improve Visibility into Home Health Habits
- Pillo Health launches Pillo Remotely, a population health data and device manager to improve engagement and visibility into in-home health habits.
- Pillo Remotely offers versatile configurations to deploy disease-state or population-specific engagement workflows and allows care professionals to schedule interactions that enable patients to better participate in their care plans and treatments.
Pillo Health, a Boston-based
technology company improving longevity and quality of life for
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Sharecare Acquires Value-Based Care Platform Visualize Health
- Sharecare acquires Visualize Health, a Franklin, Tenn.-based population health and quality measure platform that enables payers and providers to close gaps in patient care to maximize value-based care.
- The acquisition will enhance Sharecare’s capabilities for medical records management and is the 14th acquisition since Sharecare was founded in 2010.
Sharecare, the digital health
company that helps people manage all their health in one place, today announced
its acquisition
of
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KLAS Healthcare BI & Analytics Report: Is Microsoft Gaining Momentum?
- New KLAS report finds Microsoft’s business intelligence (BI) solution has surged in the healthcare BI and analytics market, due largely to the option of packaging the solution with Azure, Microsoft’s cloud data storage solution.
- KLAS report finds Microsoft is tied with Health Catalyst for the second most considerations in healthcare BI and wins nearly all deals in which they are considered.
The healthcare business intelligence (BI) and analytics
market has become crowded, with
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