What You Should Know: - MEDITECH announces that Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare (GVMH) is their first client to go live on Expanse Genomics, opening the organization’s possibilities for delivering precision medicine by allowing them to analyze and parse genetic results into discrete, actionable data, displayed directly in patient charts. - Providers can order genetic testing directly in Expanse, and the results will be received and stored in a codified format along with full PDF reports
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Suki Adds “Show Me” Command to its Voice-Enabled Digital Assistant
What You Should Know: Suki, a provider of voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare launches new “show me” commands for its voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare. - The commands allow clinicians to quickly retrieve a wide set of patient information, including vital signs, medications, allergies, and medical and surgical histories -- untethered from the electronic health record (EHR) -- enabling them to be more present with their patients. The
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NCODA & XIFIN Launch Initiative to Expand Oncology Patient Care Options
What You Should Know: - XIFIN has partnered with NCODA, Inc., a globally recognized association that develops unique resources to help medically integrated oncology teams deliver top-tier care. This new strategic partnership “NCODA Informatics Initiative Powered by VisualStrata” provides the use of VisualStrata as part of the NCODA membership. - As oncology groups work to find and secure clinical trials – thereby expanding patient care options within their practice – purpose-built
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Doceree Lands $11M for Physician-Only Platform for Precision Marketing
What You Should Know: - Doceree, a global network of HCP-only platforms for programmatic messaging raises $11M in a Series A funding round led by Eight Roads Ventures to enrich programmatic messaging offerings for health information technology (HIT) platforms to improve the distribution of hyper-relevant messages to prescribers. The round also included participation from F-Prime Capital and Alkemi Growth Capital. -
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Why Digital Transformation Is Imperative to Combat Healthcare’s Labor Crisis
As the coronavirus pandemic first spread across the globe, health systems turned to technology and virtual care while focusing their efforts on COVID-19 and its consequences. Physicians deployed digital tools to keep the worried well out of hospitals, to keep beds open for COVID-19 patients, and to support and manage conditions like pregnancy from the safety of patients’ homes. Now the healthcare sector faces a new challenge. The so-called “Great Resignation” is causing workers to leave their
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Invitae Launches Genomics-Forward Digital Health Platform
What You Should Know: - Invitae launches a seamless digital platform to enhance patient and provider experiences and further bring genetics to mainstream medicine. - Offering seamless integrations with EHR solutions, Invitae Digital Health will provide healthcare systems with a customizable suite of tools in a single, intuitive platform. Invitae, a San Francisco, CA, based medical genetics company, announced the launch of Invitae Digital Health—a connected
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What The Finance Industry Can Teach Healthcare About Digital Transformation
The COVID-19 pandemic feels like a once-in-a-lifetime event for those of us involved in healthcare, but the patterns of how the crisis affected our industry feel familiar. Stop me if you have heard this before: incumbent players in a broad industry made very slow and fragmented technological advances for years with no real threat to their business. Then, a sudden and transformational event catapulted direct-to-consumer technologies, forcing the incumbents to fundamentally alter their business
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Researchers Develop AI Method for Personalized Diabetes Treatment
What You Should Know: - Hitachi, U of U Health, and Regenstrief researchers partnered to develop and test a new AI method to improve personalized care for diabetes patients needing complex drug treatment. - The new AI method can now be used to help determine an optimal drug regimen for a specific patient. Hitachi, University of Utah Health, and Regenstrief Institute today announced the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) method to improve care for patients with type 2
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OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform
What You Should Know: - OptimizeRx, a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and stay on therapy announced a definitive agreement to acquire the EvinceMed platform and related assets. Financial details were not disclosed. - EvinceMed is a provider in delivering end-to-end automation for specialty pharmaceutical transactions. The acquisition includes the full Market Access Management Platform supporting pharma manufacturers, hub providers and pharmacies to
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UPMC Invests in Kyruus’ Provider Match To Optimize Patient Access
- UPMC, a Pittsburgh-based healthcare provider and insurer, announced it is expanding its strategic partnership with Kyruus to further optimize patient access. - UPMC has been a Kyruus customer since 2019 and now will be directly investing in the company and collaborating on the future development of Kyruus’ ProviderMatch platform. Last year, UPMC expanded its relationship with Kyruus to enable consumers to find care and book appointments — directly into the health system’s electronic
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