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Medisafe Launches New Platform for Medication Management to Improve Patient Journey

by Jasmine Pennic 09/11/2020 Leave a Comment

Medisafe Launches New Platform for Medication Management to Improve Patient Journey

What You Should Know: - Medisafe launches a new Medisafe Maestro platform that brings precision and speed to patient journeys. - The new platform aims to revolutionize digital health platforms by combining a host of resources to help patients through any hurdle in their journey and updates and monitoring happen in real-time to meet patients in their moments. Medisafe, a Boston, MA-based digital therapeutics companion platform, announced the immediate deployment of its new Medisafe
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New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs

by Fred Pennic 06/30/2020 Leave a Comment

New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs

What You Should Know: - Healthcare technology company DrFirst has announced the release of its next generation, patented SmartSig AI technology to improve the quality of patient medication history when it is imported into hospitals’ and health systems’ electronic health records (EHRs). - Simple prescription instructions, called “sigs,” can have hundreds of variations or be missing entirely from patients’ medication histories when they are imported into hospitals’ EHRs. The missing
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DrFirst, MARQUIS Med Rec Partner to Help Hospitals Improve Patient Safety Through Better Medication Reconciliation

by Jasmine Pennic 06/19/2020 Leave a Comment

DrFirst, MARQUIS Med Rec Partner to Help Hospitals Improve Patient Safety Through Better Medication Reconciliation

What You Should Know: - DrFirst and the Society for Hospital Medicine, through its MARQUIS Med Rec Collaborative forms partnership, to work with hospitals to reduce these discrepancies in the medication reconciliation process—one of the most important steps to improve patient safety during transitions of care. - DrFirst will customize The Collaborative’s current toolkit, illustrating how its MedHx solution—the healthcare industry’s broadest source of medication history data available,
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DrFirst’s Patent-Pending AI-Based Tech Solves Major Hurdles to Medication Reconciliation

by Jasmine Pennic 12/19/2019 Leave a Comment

Key Dates to Maximize Meaningful Use and MIPAA Incentive Payments Infographic

- DrFirst announced a pending patent for AI technology today that breaks down the “prescription language barriers” between different EHRs – a crucial step in the process to avoid adverse drug events – solving a once intractable problem faced by hospitals.  - The new U.S. patented tech uses an advanced approach for applying AI to unstructured medical information to process free text into appropriate data fields of the EHRs, infer missing prescription elements based on context, and convert free
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Amazon Comprehend Medical Adds Ontology Linking to Help Clinicians Detect Medication and Medical Conditions in Unstructured Clinical Text

by Fred Pennic 12/18/2019 Leave a Comment

Amazon Comprehend Medical Adds Ontology Linking to Detect Medication and Medical Conditions in Unstructured Clinical Text

- Amazon Comprehend Medical, Amazon’s HIPAA eligible natural language processing service that uses machine learning to find insights in unstructured texts, announced a new capability of linking information to medical ontologies. - The new ontology-linking feature will help clinicians to detect medication and medical conditions in unstructured clinical text. Amazon will now support ICD-10-CM and RxNorm ontologies through Comprehend Medical. Amazon Comprehend, a HIPAA eligible natural language
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American Samoa Medical Center Authority Extends Contract with Medsphere and CareVue EHR/RCM Solution

by Jasmine Pennic 10/17/2019 Leave a Comment

American Samoa Medical Center Authority Extends Contract with Medsphere and CareVue EHR/RCM Solution

- American Samoa Medical Center Authority (ASMCA) and the American Samoa Department of Health (DOH) extends their contract with Medsphere and CareVue EHR/RCM Solution- South Pacific island group’s safety-net healthcare system signs on for seven more years plans to implement Medsphere enhancements of CareVue platformMedsphere Systems Corporation, a provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare IT platform solutions, today announced that the American Samoa Medical Center Authority (ASMCA)
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Reducing Preventable Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events

by Dr. Chris Hobson, MD MBA, Chief Medical Officer at Orion Health 07/25/2019 Leave a Comment

Top 5 Roadblocks to Population Health Management for Providers

Dr. Chris Hobson, MD MBA, Chief Medical Officer at Orion Health Using a Health Information Exchange (HIE), clinicians across multidisciplinary care teams can access a patient’s medications, reconcile the list and monitor their progress, thereby reducing medication errors and future costs from preventable hospital admissions. Multiple factors combine to make the prescribing, supplying and taking of medications a perilous and costly issue for patients and the healthcare sector. Prescription
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Accenture: Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Market to Reach $6.6B by 2021

by Fred Pennic 06/23/2017 Leave a Comment

Accenture: Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Market to Reach $6.6B by 2021

The artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare market is expected reach $6.6 billion by 2021, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40 percent over the next five years, according to a new report from Accenture. The report reveals key clinical health AI apps can potentially create $150 billion in annual savings for the US healthcare economy by 2026.AI in health represents a collection of multiple technologies enabling machines to sense, comprehend, act and learn so they can perform
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Infographic: Bridging the Medication Reconciliation Gap

by HITC Staff 06/23/2017 Leave a Comment

Infographic: Bridging the Medication Reconciliation Gap

Adverse drug events (ADEs) cost up to $5.6 million each year per hospital, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The same agency estimates that anywhere from 28 percent to 95 percent of ADEs can be prevented by reducing medication errors through computerized monitoring systems.With inpatient medication errors costing hospitals $16.4 billion each year, hospital leaders have turned their attention to identifying proven technologies and processes to help reduce the risk of
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6 Medication Reconciliation Challenges for Hospital Executives to Watch

by Jasmine Pennic 06/22/2017 Leave a Comment

Medication Reconciliation is Not A Trivial Task

A new survey released today reveals that hospitals need true partnerships with their technology providers to successfully close any gaps around driving improved medication reconciliation and patient safety. The survey of hospital CIOs, CMIOs, Directors of Informatics and other hospital administrators, conducted by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Foundation on behalf of DrFirst identifies key medication reconciliation challenges faced by hospitals
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