With new administrative requirements and an increasingly competitive market, the job of a healthcare professional is no longer just about providing care to patients. In fact, healthcare professionals now spend an average of 10 hours per week on paperwork and administrative tasks, according to a 2018 survey from Medscape. This can be frustrating, and it’s only compounded when healthcare workers have to enter the same exact information over and over again—a tedious reality for many healthcare
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Optimize.health Raises $15.6M for Remote Patient Monitoring Platform
What You Should Know:
- Optimize.health raises $15.6M in Series A funding to accelerate access to and adoption of its remote patient monitoring platform.
- Optimize.Health enables improved access to care, more
favorable health outcomes, and contained healthcare costs through the
combination of high-quality monitoring devices and a user-friendly,
HIPAA-compliant digital platform that supports two-way video calls and text
conversations between patients and their
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Why EHR Interoperability is Critical for Telehealth
Telehealth has recently taken off as a way to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, but even though telehealth has been around for several years, clinics had difficulty adopting it pre-COVID-19. This caused clinics to not view telehealth as a viable option, and it was often seen as a last resort approach to healthcare.
As reducing the spread of COVID-19 became paramount, Medicare and Medicaid were forced to develop telehealth service codes, and clinics were tasked with finding an
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New Voice-Based App Enables Behavioral Health Measurement Anytime, Anywhere
What You Should Know:
- Ellipsis Health launches new voice-based Rising
Higher app, enabling behavioral health measurement anytime, anywhere.
- The
HIPAA-compliant platform facilitates longitudinal visibility into behavioral health symptoms
for enhanced clinical decision support.
Ellipsis Health,
pioneer of the first commercial-grade voice-based vital signs to
quantify and manage depression and anxiety symptoms at scale, has announced
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How Contactless Technologies Can Propel Healthcare Towards the Future
With the continued spread of COVID-19, health organizations around the world are accelerating their adoption of tech solutions that mitigate the need for physical contact between healthcare providers and patients. Contactless innovations like automated robots and the Internet of Things (IoT) not only reduce the spread of disease in medical facilities, though; they also have the potential to improve overall organizational performance due to their advanced data-collecting and protecting
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Vocera Acquires Secure Communications Platform EASE Applications
What You Should Know:
- Today Vocera Communications acquires EASE Applications,
a provider of a secure communication platform and mobile application that
delivers updates, messages to patients’ loved ones, during surgeries and at
other times.
- The Orlando-based EASE offers a cloud-based service
that is built to improve the patient experience by enabling friends and family
members to receive timely updates about the progress of loved ones in the
hospitals. Care team members can send
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CurieAI Launches AI-Driven Platform for COVID-19 Respiratory Monitoring and Management
What You Should Know:
- SRI Ventures spin-off CurieAI announces the launch of
its AI-driven COVID-19 case management platform
- The Curie solution has been deployed to monitor
inpatients and outpatients at San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation (SCAHC).
CurieAI, a Menlo
Park, CA-based healthcare startup spun-off from SRI
Ventures, the corporate venture arm of SRI International, today announced
the release of CurieAI’s first-of-its-kind AI-driven
platform specifically designed for
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New Attacks, Regulations, and Stakes Call for New Security Strategies
The amount of data generated by the healthcare industry is staggering—and constantly increasing. Healthcare data encompasses the personal information of patients, doctors, nurses, and administrators. It includes diagnostic information, test results, ultrasound images, x-ray images, and of course insurance and financial information. With so much sensitive patient information there for the taking, it comes as little surprise that the healthcare industry—perhaps more than any other sector—has
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Greenway Health to Launch EHR-Integrated Telehealth Solution to Support Virtual Care
What You Should Know:
- Greenway announced the company will be developing and
launching Greenway Telehealth, a secure, HIPAA-compliant solution designed with
an easy-to-use interface for both providers and patients.
- Powered by Twilio, the EHR integrated solution is among
the first in Greenway’s larger virtual care portfolio.
Greenway Health, a health information technology, and services provider, today announced the company is also working to develop innovative virtual care
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The Adoption of Telehealth During the Pandemic will Shape Healthcare’s New Normal
COVID-19 has presented healthcare with a challenge like no other, with nearly nine million cases all over the world and over 470,000 lives lost. The speed of the outbreak and the disruption caused by it has created unforeseen challenges for communities and economies, and it’s especially apparent in healthcare delivery. Healthcare systems in nations around the globe have dedicated substantial resources to respond to the pandemic and the growth has only somewhat stymied.
While the U.S.
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