What You Should Know: - Nuance Communications Inc. and Microsoft
Corp. announced that Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX), an
ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) solution, is now integrated into Microsoft
Teams for virtual health consults. - The ongoing strategic partnership between Microsoft and
Nuance aims to combat burnout while supporting the telehealth movement by
improving healthcare experiences—for patients and physicians—with seamlessly
integrated
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Why EHR Interoperability is Critical for Telehealth
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 develop telehealth service codes, and clinics were tasked with finding an
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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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Nuance Advances Virtual Assistant Tech for Customers Using Epic EHR
What You Should Know: - Nuance advances conversational AI with Dragon Medical virtual
assistant for Hey Epic! virtual assistant in Epic Hyperspace. - Building upon Nuance’s Dragon Medical solution already
used by more than 550,000 physicians, this integration with Hey Epic! enables
clinicians to conversationally navigate the EHR, search for information, place
orders, and seamlessly switch hands-free between voice assistant and dictation. Nuance®
Communications, Inc., today
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Providence Acquires MEDITECH Consulting Firm Navin, Haffty & Associates
What You Should Know: - Providence acquires MEDITECH Consulting Firm Navin,
Haffy & Associates to combine with Engage IT Services to become a leading
solutions and services provider for the healthcare industry. - The two firms are part of Providence Services Group (PSG), a family of top-tier healthcare technology services firms, brought together by Providence Health System, as part of Providence's broader ongoing strategy to launch an independent solutions and
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Greenway Health to Launch EHR-Integrated Telehealth Solution to Support Virtual Care
What You Should Know: - Greenway announced the company will be developing and
launching Greenway Telehealth, a secure, HIPAA-compliant solution designed with
an easy-to-use interface for both providers and patients. - Powered by Twilio, the EHR integrated solution is among
the first in Greenway’s larger virtual care portfolio. Greenway Health, a health information technology, and services provider, today announced the company is also working to develop innovative virtual care
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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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Cerner Invests in Xealth to Jointly Develop Digital Health Solutions for Clinicians
What You Should Know: - Cerner and Xealth announce a collaboration to foster
tighter physician-patient relationships by giving patients easier access to
digital health tools. - These assets will be prescribed directly within the physician’s EHR workflow to manage conditions including chronic diseases, behavioral health, maternity care, and surgery preparation. - Cerner and LRVHealth have together invested $6 million
in Xealth as part of this agreement, with Cerner and Xealth planning
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Cerner Integrates Nuance’s Virtual Assistant Platform with Millennium EHR to Reduce Physician Burnout
What You Should Know: - Cerner expands its AI collaboration with Nuance to
provide joint customers with more advanced natural language virtual assistant
technology to navigate electronic health records (EHRs) using just
their voice, giving clinicians more time to spend with patients and less time
with a computer. - As part of the expanded collaboration, Nuance will
offer Cerner deeply embedded virtual assistant technology that
delivers sophisticated conversational
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Redox Adds Access to More Than 500k Carequality-Enabled Physicians
What You Should Know: - As a Carequality Implementer, Redox has added access to
more than 500,000 Carequality-enabled physicians to its already extensive
network. - Redox members can use the same patient search query to
search all the participants in the Carequality framework as they would if they
used a direct patient search API provided by an electronic health record (EHR)
vendor. Redox
Inc., the leading interoperability platform for healthcare data exchange,
today announced that
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