While most of the public’s attention is focused on the horse race for an approved COVID-19 vaccine, another major hurdle lies just around the corner: the distribution of hundreds of millions of vaccine doses. In today’s highly complex and disconnected health data landscape, technologies like AI, Machine Learning, and robotic process automation (RPA) will be essential to making sure that the highest-risk patients receive the vaccine first.
Why identifying at-risk patients is
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Innovaccer Launches AI-Enabled Patient Relationship Management Solution
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer launches its artificial
intelligence (AI)-enabled patient relationship management solution to
streamline communication between patients and their care teams.
- The solution enables
providers and member teams to move beyond treating illness to facilitating
proactive care by building productive, long-term relationships with patients.
Innovaccer, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based healthcare technology
company, today launched its artificial
intelligence
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Making the Case: Why Pagers and Smartphones Should Wed
Clinicians in healthcare settings typically have information coming at them from all directions, at all times, and often with little distinction as to the level of urgency. It makes for inefficiency and confusion for today’s busy doctor.
In today’s hospital setting, that disjointed communication creates dissonance and distraction. Even though the world has gravitated to the ubiquitous use of smartphones, that’s not the dominant form of connection for physicians. The vast majority of hospitals
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UCSF, Fortanix, Intel, Microsoft Team Up to Accelerate Development of Clinical AI Algorithms by 1000X
What You Should Know:
- UCSF, in partnership with Fortanix, Intel, and Microsoft, will announce BeeKeeperAI, a Privacy-Preserving Analytics Platform that will accelerate the development of clinical AI algorithms by 1000X (from 30 months to 1 day).
- This will help get life-saving clinical applications to
all patients faster, such as predicting the need for blood transfusions or
detecting tumors on X-rays, while maintaining patient privacy using
Confidential Computing technology.
UC
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3 Telemedicine Security and Compliance Best Practices
The coronavirus pandemic accelerated telemedicine exponentially as patients and doctors switched from in-person visits to remote consultations. Health providers rapidly scaled virtual offerings in March and April and traffic volumes soared to unprecedented levels, with practices “seeing 50 to 175 times the number of patients by telehealth than before the outbreak,” according to McKinsey. By early August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expanded the list of
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Remote Medical Documentation Startup Augmedix Closes $25M, Reverse Merger with Malo Holding
What You Should Know:
- Augmedix closes $25 million in private placement
funding and completion of a reverse merger transaction with Malo Holdings Corp.
- Following the transaction, the merged entity will be
named "Augmedix, Inc.", and will continue the historic and innovative
business of Augmedix.
Augmedix, a company
specializing in providing remote medical documentation and live clinical
support services, today announced the closing of a $25 million private
placement
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Getting Beyond the Telehealth ‘Stop-Gap’ Mentality
Since COVID-19 emerged as a major health threat, virtual care has taken off. As many as 46% of patients reported in late April that they had used telehealth to replace a canceled healthcare visit in 2020, while 48% of physicians said they had started using telehealth to treat patients.
While a shift in care models was necessary to address business continuity amid the pandemic, these trends also represent positive movements as a growing body of evidence supports the real-life benefits of
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Microsoft Teams, Epic Integrate to Power EHR-Connected Virtual Visits
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft Teams joins Epic App Orchard
Marketplace to enable clinicians to launch a virtual patient visit or
consultation with another provider in Teams directly from the EHR system.
- By integrating Epic’s context-aware linking, this solution helps clinicians embed Microsoft Teams' meeting capabilities directly into the EHR.
Microsoft
Teams has joined Epic’s
App Orchard marketplace to power telehealth workflows within a provider’s
organizations through
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Nuance Integrates with Microsoft Teams for Virtual Telehealth Consults
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications Inc. and Microsoft
Corp. announced that Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX), an
ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) solution, is now integrated into Microsoft
Teams for virtual health consults.
- The ongoing strategic partnership between Microsoft and
Nuance aims to combat burnout while supporting the telehealth movement by
improving healthcare experiences—for patients and physicians—with seamlessly
integrated
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M&A: Provation Acquires Perioperative Care Coordination Platform ePreop
What You Should Know:
- Provation announces the acquisition of ePreop, a comprehensive perioperative care coordination, and quality reporting solutions for an undisclosed sum.
- Acquisition creates a comprehensive clinical productivity SaaS platform, streamlining workflows, and documentation from patient intake and pre-op through recovery and follow-up.
Provation, a
software provider of procedure documentation and clinical decision support
solutions, backed by Clearlake Capital
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