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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5 Critical Considerations for Patient Privacy in Telehealth
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous ripple effect across all industries, with one of the most impacted being healthcare. Providers have had to quickly adapt to supporting patients ‘virtually’ in a secure manner, while simultaneously developing procedures to support accurate reporting to government organizations. These changes have placed added pressure on security and privacy professionals, as they struggle to keep up with urgent demand.
Mature healthcare organizations already have
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Commure Launches FHIR-Native Open Platform for Healthcare Developers
- Commure launches an FHIR-native open platform for healthcare developers that makes it easy to build and deploy the next generation of healthcare apps by providing a secure, reliable, and interoperable foundation.
- The Commure Platform provides REST APIs, SDKs and cloud services that support healthcare application development by the broadest range of developers across the application life cycle.
Commure, a San Francisco, CA-based healthcare technology company, announced the launch of
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Quartet Health, Blue Cross NC Collaborate on Value-Based Care Payment Model for Mental Health
- Mental health technology company Quartet Health announced a new technology that helps install a value-based quality measurement system for mental healthcare. - Achieved in collaboration with Blue Cross of North Carolina -- an insurer known for being on the forefront of improving mental health access and a tech leader -- Quartet and BCNC are introducing it as the market's first and will serve as a framework for all insurer adoption. Quartet Health, an innovative mental healthcare technology,
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In-app Chat: The Future of Secure Doctor/Patient Communications?
It has not been easy for technology to permeate the healthcare industry, primarily due to stringent regulations that protect patient privacy— specifically HIPAA and HITECH. These regulations are both good and necessary, pushing technology providers to become more secure and private in order to gain entry into a market that touches nearly everyone’s life in some capacity. The bar is high.
As such, it has taken some time for new technologies to take hold safely within healthcare. But
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Executive Insights: Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2020
As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare industry executives to share their predictions and trends for 2020.
Robbie Hughes, Founder, and CEO, Lumeon
“Following the announcement of the Trump administration's price transparency requirement – and the ensuing backlash from hospital groups – the issue of price transparency will dominate the healthcare industry next year. Regardless of the outcome of the lawsuit, I expect we'll see more attention around the importance of the
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Identity and Access Management – Bridging the Efficiency and Security Gap in Healthcare
The healthcare sector is charged with preserving some of the most sensitive information of any industry. Hospitals and clinics are required to securely store data, such as social security numbers, patient medical records, insurance policy details, and credit card numbers. Although healthcare administrators are confronted with copious amounts of sensitive information, it would be incorrect to assume that the industry is a beacon of cybersecurity best practices. In fact, 13.2 million patient
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AI-Powered ED Platform Vital Inks Pilot with Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub
- Vital launches pilot program with Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub for its AI-powered emergency department platform.
- Vital will deploy it’s ED platform in the emergency departments of Emory University Hospital, Emory Johns Creek Hospital, Emory University Hospital Midtown, and Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital.
- The pilot program marks the first partnership out of the Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub.
Vital, an Atlanta, GA-based AI-powered software increasing productivity and
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MedAnswers Raises $5M for Scientifically, Clinically Validated FertilityAnswers App
MedAnswers, a health tech company has raised $5 million in seed round funding led by Special Situations’ Life Sciences Innovation (LSI) Fund, managed by David Sable, with Viking Global Investors also participating. MedAnswers is leveraging technology, genetics and other health data to match those struggling to conceive to a curated network of fertility experts and solutions to help users conceive faster. The company is a graduate of the 7th cycle of Illumina Accelerator. FertilityAnswers AppThe
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