What You Should Know:
- Cerner is striking a deal with patient communication
hub company WELL Health to change its patient communication technology for its
provider customers.
- Through Cerner’s HealtheLife, the new capabilities will
pull from a myriad of systems and apps to help improve communication and reduce
administrative time for clinicians and staff.
Cerner Corporation, a global health care technology company, today announced new capabilities designed to take the interaction
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WHO, Wikipedia Expands Public Access to Trusted Info About COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Wikimedia
Foundation forms collaboration to expand public access to reliable, trusted information
about COVID-19.
- The collaboration is part of a shared commitment from
both organizations to ensure everyone has access to critical public health
information surrounding the global coronavirus pandemic.
The World Health Organization
(WHO) and the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that administers
Wikipedia,
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WellSky Acquires CarePort Health from Allscripts for $1.35B
What You Should Know:
- Health technology leader WellSky has agreed to acquire
CarePort Health to power coordinated care transitions for acute and post-acute
care patients for $1.35B.
- By providing end-to-end visibility across the
continuum, WellSky and CarePort can improve outcomes, lower costs, and increase
patient satisfaction.
WellSky, a global health, and community care technology company, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Allscripts to
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Raising the Bar for COVID-19 Data Integrity and Disease Surveillance
Just a few weeks ago, the mood among technologists in the Coronavirus pandemic remained cautiously optimistic about reopening society with the help of testing data, contact tracing apps, and other IT-enabled resources. But the recent spike in illness – 1.9 million new US cases in July, more than double any other month – is a sobering reboot on a crisis we now understand needs far more IT and data coordination than previously recognized.
The emerging consensus among epidemiologists is that
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Analysis: July Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of July 2020.
While a pandemic ravages the country, technology valuations are soaring. The Nasdaq hit an all-time high during the month of July, sailing through the 10,000 mark to post YTD gains of nearly 20%, representing a 56% increase off the low water mark on March 23. More notably, the Nasdaq has outperformed
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Telehealth’s Time Has Come. And It’s Here to Stay.
“The numbers don’t lie,” is a famous old adage and quite appropriate with regard to the rapid rise and deployment of telehealth solutions in the medical community. It may have taken a global pandemic for society to recognize and investigate the rewards of its adoption, but statistics reveal that telehealth’s moment has indeed come. And it certainly seems like it’s here to stay.
How did we come so far, so fast? By undertaking forward-thinking policies and bold action, the health care industry
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Vonage, Redox Integrate Telehealth Data with EHRs to Support Interoperability
What You Should
Know:
- Vonage and
Redox form partnership where Vonage API users can now leverage Redox APIs to
exchange telehealth data with electronic health records (EHRs).
- Together the
companies enable healthcare providers to connect effectively and privately with
patients via a platform that is fully interoperable with EHRs and other leading
healthcare data source systems.
Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital
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4 Ways Healthcare Leaders Can Use Data & Analytics to Prevent, Predict and Prepare for a Pandemic
COVID-19 has put a laser focus on how data and analytics are powerful tools for healthcare leaders to predict, prepare, and respond in a proactive and coordinated manner to a global health crisis. Throughout the pandemic, data has been used to document the spread of the virus, project the curve, and more.
Responses and actions to mitigate viral spread hinge on real-time data collection, governance, and analysis for instant decision making. The exchange of reliable, real-time data between
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NYC Hospitals Leverage Taxi App to Transport Frontline Health Workers, Patients During COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Curb, a taxi platform that connects two-thirds of the city’s
yellow and green taxis, has partnered with organizations like NY Langone,
Mount Sinai, American Cancer Society, and the NYC Department of Health &
Mental Hygiene to provide frontline workers with a safe alternative to public
transit and rideshares like Uber.
- Launched during the pandemic, the partnership has enabled Curb to power more
than 100,000 taxi rides for doctors,
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The Digital Front Door: The Gateway to Empathetic Patient Navigation
The healthcare experience can often feel lonely. Lengthy surveys, unnecessary appointments, long waiting times and tedious, paperwork all contribute to this potentially confusing and isolating patient experience. Now, amidst a global health crisis, any barriers or obstacles to care could be detrimental beyond loneliness and could be fatal. These impeding components should not define a patient’s journey. Fair access to quality care, accurate record-keeping, and empathy should be at the core of
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