- Quest Diagnostics and hc1 collaborate to unveil Quest Lab Stewardship powered by hc1, an innovative new service that employs machine learning to harmonize laboratory testing.
- Quest Lab Stewardship enables progressive health systems to help improve patient care through better laboratory utilization.
- Quest Lab Stewardship integrates in real-time with enterprise systems and leverages hc1’s machine learning capabilities to ingest, organize and normalize lab data, alleviating the
Read More
Healthy.io Nabs $60M for FDA-cleared Smartphone-Based Urinalysis for Chronic Kidney Disease
- Healthy.io raises $60M led by Corner Ventures for its FDA 510(k) cleared smartphone-based ACR test to be used in the aid of diagnosing chronic kidney disease (CKD).
- The funding round will be used to accelerate Healthy.io’s global expansion and product development.
- Healthy.io’s solution allows immediate electronic medical record (EMR) connectivity through the automated smartphone scan.
Healthy.io, the fast-growing Israeli digital health company that has
Read More
Apixio Launches AI-Powered Solution to Advance Personalized Medicine
- Quality Identifier uses Apixio’s proprietary AI algorithms to analyze electronic medical record notes, scanned charts, and other patient documents to identify evidence of measure compliance.
- Algorithm results and supporting evidence are then presented to clinical abstractors for review in a secure web-based application.
- The future of quality measurement in healthcare will be outcomes-oriented, prioritizing quality measures that require patient data from medical documents to
Read More
UCI Institute for Clinical & Translational Awarded NIH Grant to Establish EHR-Integrated Clinical Data Warehouse
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards The Institute for Clinical & Translational Science at the University of California with a $25M grant over 5 years.
- Grant will be used to establish an EHR-integrated enterprise clinical data warehouse (CDW) to support healthcare breakthroughs.
Dr. Dan Cooper is the chair of the department of pediatrics and principal investigator at the Pediatric Exercise Research Center.
photo : Steve Zylius/UC Irvine Communications
The
Read More
How Tech Giants are Helping Providers Reinvent Patient Care
Alyssa Rapp, CEO of Surgical Solutions
Healthcare costs are on the rise, and they show no signs of leveling off. According to the latest data available from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, healthcare spending in the United States reached $3.5 trillion in 2017, or $10,739 per person. Those costs are projected to rise by about five percent year-over-year.
As expenditures continue to skyrocket, healthcare providers are looking to new technologies and care strategies that can help
Read More
SafeKeeping Raises $330k for Long-Term Care Coordination Dashboard
SafeKeeping, an Evansville, Indiana-based integrated care dashboard for long-term care providers that utilizes facilities' electronic medical record (EMR) data to improve health outcomes for caregivers, family members and residents announced it has raised $330k in seed funding led by Solidea Capital. The company plans to use the seed funding to expand offerings, support additional long-term care facilities and meet urgent industry demands for an engagement channel that puts facility efficiency
Read More
UCHealth Offers Virtual Assistant “Livi” to Patients Through Amazon Alexa
UCHealth announced this week it now offers a virtual assistant called “Livi” who allows patients to interact universally across the healthcare system using conversational AI, accessed through smart speakers.Introducing Virtual Assistant "Livi"Livi is a fully functional, all-inclusive virtual assistant sets the healthcare system apart from others that have launched virtual assistants only for a few services or specific tasks. Visitors to www.uchealth.org can chat with Livi through text commands,
Read More
UCLA Spin Out DEARhealth Lands $6M for AI-Powered Pathways for Chronic Care
DEARhealth, a health IT spin-out
from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has raised $6.8 million
in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered pathway platform for chronic care.
Participants in the Series A funding round include Philips Health Technology
Ventures, Vesalius Biocapital III and Health Innovations.
DEARhealth was founded in
2011 by Daniel Hommes as a research project when a team of UCLA specialists
designed a value-based care program for the management of chronic
Read More
Allscripts Acquires Prescription & Prior Authorization Platform ZappRx
EHR vendor Allscripts has reached an agreement to acquire prescription and prior authorization platform ZappRx, according to CNBC. The acquisition will help Allscripts diversify its business outside of electronic medical record (EHR). The company has raised a total of $40M in funding to date.Founded in 2012 by Zoe Barry who previously worked at athenahealth, ZappRx streamlines the complex process required to order specialty medications, increasing efficiencies when collecting and maintaining the
Read More
How Patients Suffer From The Worst Kept Secret in Health IT
Recently, articles in The Atlantic and Fortune highlighted a risk that plagues the healthcare system but is rarely talked about. The in-depth pieces uncover real-life patient stories resulting from mismatched and incorrect patient medical records. These tragic stories unfold in the articles and highlight scenarios that include permanent brain damage in a 5-year old; a cancer scare due to an incomplete radiological history; the missed diagnosis of a fatal brain aneurysm in a 47-year old woman;
Read More