The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) and Blue Health Intelligence® (BHI) has announced the launch of the BlueCross BlueShield Data Innovation Challenge to develop solutions that increase access to care, enhance patient engagement, and improve care delivery and outcomes. BCBSA and BHI are collaborating with HIMSS and Healthbox, a HIMSS Innovation company, to implement the BlueCross BlueShield Data Innovation Challenge.BlueCross BlueShield Data Innovation Challenge OverviewTo advance
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Vital Lands $5.2M for AI-Powered Emergency Department Platform
Vital, an Atlanta, GA-based AI-powered software increasing productivity and improving patient health in hospital emergency rooms has raised $5.2M led by First Round Capital and Threshold Ventures (formerly DFJ Venture). The seed round also includes participation from Bragiel Brothers, Meridian Street Capital, Refactor Capital, and SV Angel, with angel investment from Vivek Garipalli, CEO of CloverHealth; and Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg, founders of Flatiron Health. Josh Kopelman, founder, and
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Security Vulnerabilities Detected in ICDs: Addressing Ransomware Risk in Medical Devices
Medical device usage is on the rise, and that reality potentially puts people at risk if those gadgets have security flaws. It's crucial for device manufacturers, industry regulators and health practitioners to work together to ensure safety are paramount as adoption rises.Internal health devices are particularly at risk, especially since patients and providers may not immediately notice issues. The people who use or prescribe them assume they'll work as expected and typically don't have ways to
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Vonage Launches New API Platform for Healthcare Market
Vonage, a global business cloud communications leader, has launched a new Enterprise Service Package and APIs via Nexmo, the Vonage API Platform, designed specifically for the healthcare market. With APIs that align to strict healthcare guidelines, this new addition to Nexmo’s global Enterprise Plan provides healthcare businesses with consultative and development support, service delivery, and service level agreements (SLAs), to create custom solutions that deliver a secure, compliant and
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Canadian Virtual Care Startup OnCall Health Raises $1.5M to Expand Operations in North America
OnCall Health, a Toronto, CA-based platform that provides simple, secure virtual care technology and services for healthcare providers, today announced it has raised $2 million CAD ($1.5M USD) in seed funding led by Ripple Ventures with participation from Panache Ventures, Stout Street Capital, and Maple Leaf Angels.OnCall Health BackgroundFounded in 2016, OnCall’s secure virtual care (telemedicine) technology facilitates video or text-based consultations for healthcare practices and streamlines
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Ontellus Acquires Secure Medical Records Exchange Portal ChartSwap
Ontellus, a nationwide full-service procurer of medical, billing, employment records, and other claims related data services has acquired Chartswap, a cloud-based HIPAA compliant medical record exchange portal.ChartSwap BackgroundFounded in 2012 by Randy Haynes, Chartswap’s (B2B) health information exchange portal connects provides hospitals and other medical care facilities with the ability to securely delivery patient records. From a single cloud-based platform, requestors can safely order,
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Vuzix, VSee Launches Telemedicine Smart Glasses Solution
Vusix, a supplier of Smart Glasses
and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, today announced it is
partnering with VSee, San Jose-based telemedicine
company, to provide a smart glasses telemedicine solution for real-time video. Adding
HIPAA-compliant live video chat to the Vuzix smart glasses line means real-time
video doctor visits, surgical training, medical equipment training, and more. VSee provides a HIPAA-compliant video telehealth and
telemedicine video conferencing solution
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Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall Goes Live on Mobile Physician Query Solution
Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall (MSLC) announced today that MSLC is live on Artifact Health's mobile physician query solution to improve workflow for its clinicians and expedite the accurate coding of patient records. Artifact was able to accommodate the hospital’s requirement to implement, integrate with Meditech’s EHR system and go live within four weeks.Optimizing the Physician Query Process for PhysiciansTraditionally, the query process is onerous and time-consuming for physicians, clinical
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Amazon Alexa Is Now HIPAA-Eligible, What’s Next for Healthcare?
Big News, But Just The Beginning These days, big news stories in healthcare are just as likely to come from large technology companies as from major healthcare institutions. Case in point: In early 2018, Amazon created a huge stir in the industry early by announcing a venture with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway that promised to go after the “hungry tapeworm” that is the cost of healthcare in the
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InstaMed Launches Blockchain App Prototype for Healthcare Payments
InstaMed, a healthcare payments network, announced that it released a blockchain app prototype to demonstrate how blockchain technology could be leveraged for the interaction points among providers, payers and consumers including claim submission, claim adjudication, claim payment, patient billing, and patient payment. InstaMed built the blockchain prototype on HL7 FIHR v4. Full Visibility into Full Lifecycle of A Patient EncounterProviders and payers nationwide are challenged to find ways to
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