- The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announces the first-ever ANSI-accredited standard for the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, developed by more than 50 organizations from tech giants to healthcare leaders.
- CTA convened 52 organizations – including IBM, Philips, BlackBerry, Doctor on Demand, Humetrix, American Medical Association, and AdvaMed – to develop this standard that provides a foundation to better
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GHX Names 50 Best Healthcare Providers for Supply Chain Excellence
GHX Names 50 Best Healthcare
Providers for Supply Chain Excellence
- Today, GHX recognized the top 50 performing U.S. and Canadian providers for supply chain excellence chosen from a pool of more than 4,100 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada based on their operational performance, ability to drive down costs through the supply chain.
- After labor, the supply chain is the second largest cost for hospitals and health systems. Improving supply chain processes and
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How Do We Make Dignity the Animating Principle in Healthcare?
Irv Lichtenwald, President & CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation
Dignity-focused organizations are not easy to define, but also not hard to recognize. Justice Stewart
It’s all about the patient. Well, unless that patient has been to particular hospitals for treatment and is having trouble paying the ensuing bills. Then it’s about the hospital and collections agents and wage garnishments and such.
For this approach to providing care, the Lown Institute, a nonpartisan think tank
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HIMSS Names The 6 Most Influential Women in Health IT
HIMSS names
Iris P. Frye, Kim Garriott, Dr. Lucienne Ide, Eva Karp, RN-BC, Dr. Geeta Nayyar,
and Tressa Springmann as the most influential women in health IT.
This week, HIMSS announced its Most Influential Women in Health IT, an annual recognition celebrating women striving to harness the power of information technology to drive healthcare transformation. The award winners will be honored at HIMSS20 in Orlando next month and will join other innovators, leaders, and entrepreneurs at the
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CareMount, Nuvance Partner to Expand Population Health Services in NY
- CareMount, New York's top Next-Gen accountable care organization, is partnering with Nuvance Health -- a system of seven hospitals that serve CT and NY -- to better share information for the purpose of providing improved population health services for both organizations.
- CareMount Health Solutions, a physician-owned management services organization, will deliver to Nuvance Health, a suite of population health management services including care coordination and clinical programs, data
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Lumos Diagnostics Raises $15M to Expand Point of Care Diagnostic Solutions Internationally
- Lumos Diagnostics raises $15M in Series A funding to support the international expansion of its point of care diagnostic solutions.
- Lumos provides assay development and manufacturing services for customized POC tests as well as directly develops, manufactures and will commercialize a suite of proprietary Lumos-branded POC tests that focus on the systemic host immune response.
Lumos Diagnostics, a Sarasota, FL-based health IT company, today announced it has raised $15M in Series A
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Verily Launches Joint Venture to Develop & Commercialize Ophthalmic Devices
- Alphabet company Verily and Santen Pharmaceutical launch joint venture focused on developing and commercializing ophthalmic devices and comprehensive tech-enabled solutions.
- The joint venture will focus on tackling ophthalmic conditions, such as glaucoma and dry eye.
Santen Pharmaceutical
Co., Ltd. and Verily, an Alphabet
company, announced the establishment of a joint venture focused on applying
microelectronics and scalable digital technologies to ophthalmology. The new
joint
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Research: Connected Inhalers Link Ozone Exposure to Asthma Symptoms
- Today, UCSF, CommonSpirit Health, UC Berkeley and Propeller announced research that uses data from connected inhalers to show that exposure to ozone in the air leads to more frequent asthma symptoms.
- This is the first study to use a digital health platform to study the impact of ozone on respiratory disease. By attaching sensors to the inhalers of 287 people with asthma in California, researchers were able to track their medication use.
- When ozone concentrations in the air
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UAB Health System, TransformativeMed Partners to Streamline Clinical Workflows
- The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System will implement three TransformativeMed apps to increase workflow efficiency, enhance clinical communications and improve clinician experience- The TransformativeMed applications that UAB is implementing are fully integrated, enabling residents and staff to quickly extract, evaluate, document and take action on data from multiple sources, regardless of their location.TransformativeMed, a Seattle, OR-based provider improving the
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Northwell Health Launches SMART on FHIR App to Monitor Premature Babies’ Development
- Northwell Health, New York’s largest private employer and healthcare provider, has released a new SMART on FHIR app to monitor premature babies’ development. - Powered by InterSystems and based on the Boston Children’s Hospital SMART on FHIR application, the app eliminates manual workflow so providers can more closely monitor Northwell Health patients.Northwell Health, one of the largest private health systems in the United States released a SMART on FHIR app that aggregates, normalizes and
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