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Emory Healthcare has announced the appointment of Dr. Nitu Kashyap, MD, FAMIA, as its Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO), effective from February 5, 2024.
In her new role, Dr. Kashyap will be responsible for overseeing technology projects spanning clinical disciplines to ensure alignment with Emory's strategic goals in patient experience, care, teaching, and research. Dr. Kashyap will collaborate closely with Emory University's information technology clinical and
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Emory Health Taps DrFirst to Leverage Clinical-Grade AI for Medication Adherence & Affordability
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- Emory Healthcare, a comprehensive academic health system in Georgia, is collaborating with healthcare technology pioneer DrFirst to help patients access and adhere to affordable, appropriate prescription medications for their health conditions and ailments.
- As part of the collaboration, Emory Healthcare will leverage three medication management services offered within Fuzion by DrFirst, a software platform that uses clinical-grade artificial
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Emory Healthcare and DispatchHealth Partner to Offer In-Home Care to Patients in Metro-Atlanta
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Emory Healthcare and DispatchHealth collaborate to offer patients a new option to receive convenient and safe follow-up and/or high acuity medical care in the comfort of their own homes. The collaboration is designed to improve access to health care and reduce the total cost of care for patients throughout Atlanta, Georgia and surrounding communities. Additionally, in collaboration with Emory Healthcare, DispatchHealth will supplement the health system's
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Vital Secures $24.7M for AI-Driven Solutions for Hospitals, Health Systems
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- Vital, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven digital health company improving the patient experience, today announced that it has raised $24.7M in Series B funding to fuel expansion and support the rapid growth of its modern software. The investment round led by Transformation Capital, with support from Threshold Ventures, strategic health system investors and Vital CEO / Mint.com creator Aaron Patzer, brings Vital’s total funding to over
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UCI Health Partners with Luna to Expand Access to Care with In-Home Outpatient Physical Therapy
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- Luna, the leading provider of in-home physical therapy, has teamed up with UCI Health, to expand access to patient care by providing in-home physical therapy across Orange County, California.
- With a focus on evidence-based care, UCI Health is the only academic health system in Orange County and the clinical arm of the University of California, Irvine. Through the collaboration, UCI Health will leverage Luna’s platform to coordinate and deliver in-home physical
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Emory Healthcare Taps Rimidi to Create FHIR-Based Apps for Orthopedic Surgery and Deep Brain Stimulation
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- Rimidi, a cloud-based software platform that enables personalized management of health conditions across populations, today announced a strategic collaboration with Emory Healthcare to develop new patient and provider-facing FHIR apps.
- Specifically, the apps will create a more collaborative and transparent experience for patients undergoing orthopedic surgery, as well as for those referred to the deep brain stimulation (DBS) program for Parkinson’s and other
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Emory Healthcare, Verizon Opens Nation’s First 5G Healthcare Innovation Lab
- The Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband network is now live at the Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub (EHIH) in Atlanta, becoming the nation’s first 5G healthcare innovation lab.
- The 5G healthcare innovation lab at EHIH will test how 5G could enhance augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications for medical training, enable telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, and provide a point of care diagnostic and imaging systems from the ambulance to the ER.
- Verizon joins EHIH’s partner
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SCI Solutions Acquires Mobile Patient Data Collection & Payments Platform Tonic Health
- SCI Solutions (SCI) acquires patient data collection and payments platform Tonic Health to meaningfully engage consumers at every step in their digital healthcare journey. - The acquisition will allow SCI to offer a comprehensive suite of patient self-service technologies to deliver maximum value to their combined client base. SCI Solutions (SCI), a Seattle, WA-based EHR-agnostic online care coordination marketplace, today announced it has acquired Tonic Health, a leading SaaS-based digital
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Primary Care Doctors Use Autonomous AI to Instantly Detect Eye Disease
- A Georgia Primary Care Clinic is now using an autonomous AI system called IDx-DR to test patients for diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness.
- IDx-DR is cleared by the FDA to make an assessment without the need for a clinician to also interpret the image or results, making it usable by healthcare providers who may not normally be involved in eye care.
- The exam typically takes 5-10 minutes. Nurses use an automated fundus camera to take pictures of the patient’s retinas –
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Emory Healthcare Breaks Ground on New Innovative Musculoskeletal Institute
- Emory Healthcare breaks ground on the new Emory Musculoskeletal Institute to provide innovative orthopedics and spine care, physical therapy, imaging, ambulatory surgery, with clinical and discovery research support space.
- The Institute is the newest addition to Emory’s Executive Park health innovation district located in Brookhaven, GA.
Emory Healthcare has announced the groundbreaking of the new Emory Musculoskeletal Institute, located in Brookhaven, Georgia, to continue its
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