What You Should Know:
- MedStar Health has received a nearly $2 million telehealth research grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to expand its research collaboration with Stanford Medicine and Intermountain Healthcare focused on telehealth access, safety, and equity.
- The grant will allow researchers to establish a patient safety learning laboratory over a four-year funding period to apply a cross-disciplinary, human factors and systems
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Analysis: 2022 Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review
Executive Summary
Act III of COVID: Navigating the Crosscurrents of Post-Inflation
2022 ushered in Act III of the market’s latest transitionary period: The Post-Inflation Era. Since 2008, the US economy functioned with remarkably low inflation and interest rates. As the cost of capital went lower and lower during the decade, valuations steadily rose. Between 2010 and 2020, the NASDAQ experienced a 17.1% annual growth rate, with no small share of the growth a result of expanding valuation
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COTA Promotes Miruna Sasu to President and CEO
What You Should Know:
- COTA, Inc., an oncology real-world data and analytics company, announced today that Miruna Sasu, Ph.D., MBA, has been appointed president and chief executive officer.
- Since April 2021 when she was hired as the company’s chief strategy officer, Miruna has helped spearhead a series of research collaborations focused on investigating racial disparities in cancer care and the drug development process, including partnerships with the University of Chicago
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GHX Names The Top 50 Hospitals for Supply Chain Excellence
What You Should Know:
GHX today announced its annual list of the Best 50 supply chains, which recognizes the highest performing healthcare provider organizations in North America. These honorees set the standard for supply chain excellence by improving operational performance while driving down costs through supply chain automation.
Healthcare Providers Modernizing Supply Chain Operations
Selected among more than 4,100 hospitals connected to the GHX digital trading network (Exchange) in
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MedStar Health Launches Patient Experience Platform Powered by b.well
What You Should Know:
- MedStar Health launches a new patient experience platform, a patient-focused tool that has the most comprehensive product features available in the region to greatly improve the patient experience and access to care, powered by b.well Connected Health, a Baltimore-based digital health platform company focused on re-imagining the consumer healthcare experience and supporting healthcare stakeholders with their digital transformation efforts.
- Using a smartphone,
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MedStar Health, MercyOne, Moffitt Cancer Center, Others Double Down on Digital Transformation
What You Should Know:
- AVIA, the nation’s leading healthcare innovation network, today announced that the following six new health system Members joined the AVIA Network to accelerate their digital strategies and advance digital capabilities: Lee Health, LifeBridge Health, MedStar Health, MercyOne, Moffitt Cancer Center, Multicare. Additionally, AVIA had a record of 100% plus renewal rate from
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TransformativeMed Expands Free COVID-19 EHR App to 10 Additional Health Systems
What You Need to Know:
- Today, TransformativeMed announced that it has expanded its free Cores COVID-19 App to an additional 10 health systems and medical centers across the U.S., as well as King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Saudi Arabia.
- The Cores COVID-19 App is embedded in Cerner’s EHR and allows physicians and clinicians to track patient tests, segment them based on results, monitor symptoms checklists, track lab results, and summarize and react to comments and other information.
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MedStar Health Joins Cerner Learning Health Network to Leverage Cerner EHR & HealtheIntent to Support Clinical Research
- MedStar Health is the first provider to join the Cerner Learning Health Network to provide health systems and clinical research organization with resources to more efficiently conduct medical studies.- As a member of the network, MedStar Health has the opportunity to leverage the Cerner EHR and HealtheIntent to support research.- The network automates de-identified clinical data collection from participating members into a database that health systems can access for approved clinical
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HealthStream Launches Virtual Reality-Based Education Pilot Program to Improve Resuscitation Outcomes
- Healthstream launches an innovative virtual reality (VR)-based education pilot program through the HealthStream Resuscitation Innovation Lab. - Unique program focuses on leadership capabilities of the clinical team leader in improving resuscitation outcomes, a largely overlooked, critical component of training for code blue events.HealthStream announced today that CHSPSC, LLC (CHS), an affiliate of Community Health Systems, Inc., one of the nation’s leading operators of general acute care
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SCI Solutions Acquires Mobile Patient Data Collection & Payments Platform Tonic Health
- SCI Solutions (SCI) acquires patient data collection and payments platform Tonic Health to meaningfully engage consumers at every step in their digital healthcare journey. - The acquisition will allow SCI to offer a comprehensive suite of patient self-service technologies to deliver maximum value to their combined client base. SCI Solutions (SCI), a Seattle, WA-based EHR-agnostic online care coordination marketplace, today announced it has acquired Tonic Health, a leading SaaS-based digital
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