What You Should Know: - Wellstar Health System has launched Catalyst by Wellstar, a global digital health and innovation center to connect and collaborate with industry-leading corporations, enterprise startups, and universities to fuel innovation. - To foster meaningful discussion, action, and philanthropy around healthcare innovation, the Catalyst by Wellstar leadership team will participate in a Wellstar Foundation-hosted Innovation Series virtual event on June 15. - The first
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Johnson & Johnson Innovation Launches 3 Collaborations to Advance Healthcare in China
What You Should Know: - Johnson & Johnson Innovation announces three strategic
collaborations with a focus on advancing healthcare solutions in China. - The three strategic collaborations are focused on leveraging advances in science and technology to address areas of high unmet medical need across several areas, including discovery science, lung cancer, and medical devices Johnson & Johnson Innovation, a division of Johnson & Johnson (China) Investment Limited, today
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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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Cone Health Launches Innovation Center to Develop & Launch Ideas
- Cone Health forms an innovation center named Cone Health Ventures to serve as a testing ground for new products and services focused on health and wellness. - Cone Health Ventures will serve as the innovation framework bringing together entrepreneurial insight, healthcare expertise and a human-centered approach to innovation.Cone Health, a Greensboro, NC-based integrated not-for-profit network of providers serving people in central North Carolina has announced the launch of Cone Health
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Valley Children’s Healthcare Launches Healthcare Innovation Lab
- Valley Children’s launches healthcare innovation lab named George’s Idea Lab to accelerate new digital health solutions that will transform pediatric healthcare. - Innovation program builds off Valley Children’s recent partnership with The Innovation Institute and will operate as part of The Innovation Lab.Valley Children’s Healthcare, one of the largest pediatric healthcare networks in the nation has announced today the launch of a new healthcare innovation program. The innovation program
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Research: Doctors More Likely to Prescribe Therapies Using EMR Dashboards
Purely educating doctors about the importance of prescribing certain therapies may not be enough to make a meaningful impact, according to a new Penn Medicine study published in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. Using acid suppression therapy--an effective method of reducing the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding in vulnerable cardiac patients--Penn researchers tested interventions that utilized both education and an EMR dashboard to provide doctors with up-to-date
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Hackensack Meridian Health Expands $25M Healthcare Innovation Program to all Network Hospitals
Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey’s largest and most integrated health network is expanding their healthcare innovation program, Bear’s Den, to all hospitals to encourage the network’s 34,000 team members to bring forth their best ideas to transform care delivery and enhance patient satisfaction. Bear's Den Overview Launched in 2017, Bear’s Den features a panel of experts, including CEO Robert C. Garrett, leading physicians, key network executives, venture capitalists,
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CHIME Launches Innovation Center to Foster Health IT Innovation
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) today launched CHIME Innovation to facilitate the creation and adoption of healthcare technology innovation and to improve health and care globally. The launch marks the completion of the buildout of the Intermountain and CHIME Innovation Center powered by Sirius Healthcare within the Kem C. Gardner Intermountain Transformation Center in Murray, Utah.CHIME Innovation Center OverviewCHIME Innovation will serve as an educational
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R1, Intermountain to Build Innovation Center in Salt Lake City to Foster Revenue Cycle Innovation
In collaboration with Intermountain Healthcare, R1 plans to build a state-of-the-art Technology and Innovation Center in Salt Lake City to foster revenue cycle management (RCM) innovation. This move reflects the industry’s ongoing effort to offer patient-centric care across the healthcare continuum – starting with an improved patient financial experience. Innovation Center Opening DateScheduled to open in May 2019, the 30,000 square foot facility will be used to evaluate patient needs, test
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Hackensack Invests in Home Care Robot, Pillo Through $25M Innovation Fund
Hackensack Meridian Health, today announced it has invested in Pillo, an AI-powered home care robot companion that empowers patients to better manage their health at home, connecting them to caregivers and family members. The investment marks the first product funded through Hackensack Meridian Health’s $25 million innovation program to support the improvement of health care delivery. The health network’s novel incubator has vetted many products and strategies to streamline care delivery, reduce
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