Redox, a Madison, WI-based company that
is changing the way healthcare providers and software vendors share data has
raised $33 million in Series C funding led by Battery Ventures. The Series C
round also included participation from existing investors .406 Ventures, RRE
Ventures, and Intermountain Ventures.
Finally. A Scalable Way to Exchange Healthcare Data
Currently, inconsistent data formats and redundant connections slow, or completely prevent the flow of critical health information,
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Bridge Connector Raises $20M to Solve Health IT Interoperability Challenges
Bridge Connector, a Nashville, TN-based company offering data-driven workflow automation to solve health IT interoperability challenges, has raised $20 million in funding from Axioma Ventures. Their business model aims to create an ecosystem where all health care organizations, regardless of size, can equitably reap the benefits of connected data systems.Sense of Urgency to Achieve Data Interoperability in HealthcareA shared sense of urgency to achieve data interoperability in healthcare,
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AMIA Presents ‘Socio-Technical Interoperability Stack’ to Outline Why HIT Interoperability Is Not Occurring
AMIA presents "Socio-TechnicalInteroperability Stack" – developed to help communicate categorical reasons why health interoperability is not occurring.
In comments submitted last week to the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) supported their future vision for interoperability among medical devices, electronic health records, and other systems within the
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HIMSS Survey: Optimizing Clinical Workflows Top Goal for Interoperability
According to a new market insight survey of healthcare professionals conducted by HIMSS Media for Hyland Healthcare finds optimizing clinical workflows as their top goal for achieving health IT interoperability. However, 56 percent of healthcare professionals said the inability to effectively manage unstructured data is a key obstacle to achieving this goal. Survey Background/OverviewMore than 145 healthcare professionals representing IT, business and clinical roles within provider organizations
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HHS Proposes New Interoperability Rules to Publicly Report “Information Blocking”
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today proposed new rules to support seamless and secure access, exchange, and use of electronic health information. The rules, issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), would increase choice and competition while fostering innovation that promotes patient access to and control over their health information. The proposed ONC rule would
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Health Data Platform Human API Raises $10M to Fuel Market Expansion
Human API, a San Mateo, CA-based health data network has raised $10 million funding from new investors Guardian Life Insurance Company and SCOR Life and Health Ventures, as well as returning backers BlueRun Ventures and Max Levchin's SciFi VC. The company plans to utilize the latest round of funding to accelerate product development and market expansion. Founded in 2013, Human API's data platform allows users to access, centralize and share their health data from a rapidly expanding network of
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Change Healthcare Offers Free Healthcare Data Interoperability Services for Healthcare Industry
Change Healthcare today announced free clinical data interoperability services for the healthcare industry. The foundational, infrastructure services, namely record locator service, identity management, and document retrieval solution with the protection of patient privacy, support a comprehensive range of use cases. Change Healthcare Interoperability Powered by AWSThe interoperability services will run on the secure, scalable, and agile Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, providing Change
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CommonWell Launches CommonWell Connector Program to Improve Health IT Interoperability
CommonWell Health Alliance today announced a new option for health IT vendors and healthcare practitioners looking to connect to the nationwide CommonWell interoperability network. Through the creation of this new CommonWell Connector program, participating CommonWell members who provide health data integration platforms and services will now be able to offer CommonWell services to their customers, including both to provider organizations and to other end-user facing platforms such as
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Intermountain and MDClone Integrate to Transform Patient Data into Actionable Insights
Intermountain Healthcare, today announced it is teaming up with Israeli healthcare IT company MDClone to increase caregivers’ ability to transform patient data into information they can use to help people lead the healthiest lives possible. As part of the collaboration, MDClone will share a new approach to healthcare data access, analytics, and research with Intermountain. The new partnership will further transform its existing rich data sources into more meaningful information that will enable
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Health Gorilla Brings Data Interoperability to 24 Hospitals in Mexico
Health Gorilla and Grupo Ángeles Servicios de Salud, a major health system in Mexico, just announced a new partnership to enable interoperability across its 24-hospital system. This creates the largest interoperable network in Mexico and will improve care for millions of patients by making it easy for providers to access all of their health data at the point of care.As part of this initiative, Grupo Angeles Servicios de Salud will bring together data from multiple disparate IT systems across the
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