HealthVerity, a Philadelphia, PA-based company focused on the rapid creation, exchange, and management of healthcare and consumer data has raised $25 million in Series C funding led by existing investor Foresite Capital with participation from Flare Capital Partners, Greycroft Partners, and other existing investors. The company plans to use the funding to support continued growth and investment in HealthVerity’s technology platform and go-to-market activities.HealthVerity BackgroundFounded in
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HealthAxis Group Acquires BI/Data Warehouse Company Analytics Partners
HealthAxis Group, an IT solutions provider for healthcare payers, including TPA's and insurance companies has acquired Analytics Partners, a provider of business intelligence and data warehouse solutions for healthcare organizations. Under terms of the acquisition, HealthAxis Group will acquire Analytics Partners stock and assets and will begin consolidating all business under the HealthAxis Group brand.Analytics Partners OverviewAnalytics Partners specializes in analytics solutions such as
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Imprivata Integrates Biometric ID with Verato’s Patient Matching
Imprivata, a healthcare IT security company, and Verato, a provider of patient identity matching solutions, today announced an integration partnership to offer a comprehensive solution for patient identification and record matching challenges. The integration will link links Imprivata PatientSecure, a positive patient identification solution for healthcare, with Verato Universal™ MPI, a cloud-based master patient index (MPI) solution powered by Verato’s proprietary referential matching
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EHR Fax Server Error Exposes Thousands of Physician Notes, Medical Records
Thousands of physicians’ notes and medical records were left exposed by a fax server error within Meditab, an all-in-one multi-specialty EHR, Practice Management and Billing software solution, TechCrunch first reports. Dubai-based cybersecurity firm SpiderSilk discovered the unsecured exposed fax server was running an Elasticsearch database with over 6 million records since its creation in March 2018. It is unknown if anyone else discovered the exposed fax server or how long the data was
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HIMSS19 Day 2 Announcements & Summary
Accenture: Millenials & Gen Z Are Shifting to Virtual, Retail, Clinic, Digital CareMillennial and Gen Z consumers in the U.S. are rapidly adopting non-traditional care models, such as retail clinics, virtual and digital services, according to results of an Accenture survey of 2,000 consumers.Key findings of the survey study include:- When considering traditional in-person care, millennials (ages 22 to 38 in 2019) were two to three times more likely than baby boomers (ages 55 to 73) to be
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Is The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) on Par With the IoT Market as a Whole?
The Internet of Things (IoT) has bred a variety of new technology solutions, used across just as many disparate industries. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is essentially IoT devices used within construction, development and industrial environments.Similarly, the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) involves connected devices used within the medical and health care industry.They differ from general IoT not just in terms of usage, but also in design. IoT is often more consumer-focused,
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Blockchain: Would You Trust an App to Protect Your Medical Records?
When it comes to medical records, privacy is paramount in the healthcare industry. It is for the very same reason that blockchain technology creates some amazing opportunities for innovation and disruption in the sector.Notorious as the technology powering up Bitcoin cryptocurrency transactions, blockchain is an encrypted ledger of digital transactions, distributed across multiple nodes through a peer-to-peer-type network that also leaves an auditable log trail of the events taking place. Every
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Change Healthcare Launches Automated Analytics Solution for Payers to Support Diagnosis Coding Accuracy
Change Healthcare today introduced Dx Gap Advisor, a new automated analytics solution on the company’s Intelligent Healthcare Network that helps health plans and their providers ensure complete, accurate, and compliant risk adjustment data capture. Dx Gap Advisor automatically identifies possible undocumented diagnosis codes and alerts providers to appropriately address the identified risk adjustment gaps. As a result, health plans can avoid manual chart reviews, ensure accurate and complete
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Utilizing Blockchain in Healthcare: 3 Lessons Learned from Abroad
According to the Edelman Trust Barometer, America is suffering from a serious trust issue, and one of the areas which Americans seem to have the least faith in is their healthcare system. According to a recent New York Times article, in 1966, more than three-fourths of Americans had great confidence in medical practitioners, compared to as little as 34 percent today.Many argue that the US healthcare system is deeply flawed and is designed to benefit medical providers and insurance carriers
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Zebra Technologies Unveils Barcode Label & Wristband Printers to Reduce Medical Errors
Zebra Technologies Corporation, a market leader in rugged mobile computers, barcode scanners and barcode printers enhanced with software and services to enable real-time enterprise visibility, today announced two new healthcare barcode printing solutions that can identify patients and specimens at the point of care. Zebra’s ZQ600-Healthcare series label printers and ZD510-HC direct thermal wristband printer enable the production of highly durable labels and patient identification wristbands
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