For many hospitals and health systems, creating a culture of high reliability is a priority. As healthcare shifts toward value-based care models that reward strong clinical outcomes, using repeatable, standardized processes to avoid errors and deliver safe, high-quality care is vital.
Despite dedicated efforts, however, the healthcare industry still struggles to achieve consistent, widespread quality. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 1.7
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WellVia Integrates with Health Gorilla’s FHIR API to Enable Clinical Data Exchange
- Health Gorilla and WellVia partner to enable new data exchange capabilities to power clinical record retrieval and lab ordering. - Through this collaboration, WellVia can control its user experience while using Health Gorilla’s APIs on the back-end to power new product functionality.Today, Health Gorilla, a provider of clinical data APIs, and WellVia, a telehealth company announced a partnership that enables new data exchange capabilities within the WellVia telehealth platform. As part of the
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Mount Sinai Launches Diversity Innovation Hub to Tackle Racism, Bias, and Gender Equity in Medicine
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai launches first of its kind Diversity and Inclusion Hub spearheaded by the Mount Sinai’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.- Groundbreaking program to engage the local Harlem community and critical neighborhood stakeholders through innovation to tackle racism, bias, and gender equity in medicine and healthcare.The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – an international leader in medical and scientific training, biomedical research, and patient care –
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Partners HealthCare Launches $80M Investment Funds Towards AI & Digital Translation
- Partners HealthCare launches two new investment funds aimed at addressing the lack of translational funding in pre-clinical life sciences, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital technology development. - The Partners HealthCare Artificial Intelligence and Digital Translation Fund (AIDIF) has an initial funding of $30M over five years and the Translational Innovation Fund (TIF) has funding of $50M over six years.Partners HealthCare today announced the creation of two new investment venture
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SwipseSense Combines EHR Data With RTLS Data to Deliver Operational Insights
- Redox announced a partnership with SwipeSense to help eliminate waste and improve patient outcomes in healthcare delivery networks.- The partnership ensures that SwipeSense’s growing portfolio of applications is fully interoperable with any EHR system, while greatly reducing the time and effort required to integrate into a hospital’s existing suite of tools.- With Redox, SwipeSense will be automatically notified of all relevant patient admission, discharge, and transfer events, enhancing their
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BCBS Kansas City to Offer Livongo for Diabetes Program to All Fully Insured Clients
- Livongo announced an expanded partnership with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City to provide Livongo for Diabetes program to all Blue KC fully insured clients. - Blue KC was an early Livongo adopter and this expansion provides momentum as we continue to expand from working primarily with self-insured employers to broader markets including fully insured populations of our health plan clients.Livongo Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: LVGO), an Applied Health Signals company empowering people with
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The Health IT Staffing Shortage Is a Problem Morphing Into a Crisis
Staffing shortages have plagued the healthcare industry for years, and this year hospital IT departments are feeling more pain than ever. The shortfall in physicians and nurses understandably gets the most press attention, but two phenomenons are pushing scarcity of specialized IT workers into the stratosphere: computer and IT jobs across all industries are projected to grow 12% from 2018 to 2028, and healthcare is projected to add 3.5 million jobs during the period, about one-third of all new
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Using the 3M’s to Get Physicians to Embrace Telehealth: Metrics, Money & eMotion
Telehealth utilization is on track to explode due to consumer demand, reimbursement alignment and an improved regulatory environment.
But for health systems to reap telehealth’s financial and clinical benefits, organizational leaders must demonstrate strong leadership, provide relevant education, align financial incentives and change daily culture to help physicians fully embrace this disruption.
Many physicians are starting to understand the benefits of telehealth, which include better access
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AristaMD Joins Epic App Orchard Marketplace to Streamline eConsult Process
- AristaMD’s eConsult solution is now available in the Epic App Orchard marketplace - AristaMD’s integration onto Epic makes the eConsult process even more streamline for health system specialists using Epic. - Providers can now quickly launch the eConsult platform directly through Epic’s electronic health record (EHR), creating a user-friendly experience for answering eConsults with minimal provider burden and workflow changes.AristaMD, an innovative telehealth platform that delivers primary
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Aunt Bertha Taps Innovaccer to Boost Its SDOH Program
- Aunt Bertha, the nation’s largest resource search platform has collaboration with Innovaccer to enhance its social determinants of health solution with seamless community resource referrals. - The two organizations aim to empower healthcare stakeholders with access to navigate on behalf of people in need to ensure that positive health outcomes are not hampered by social needs.Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare data activation company has launched a collaboration with Aunt Bertha, the nation’s
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