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Challenges of Operationalizing Remote Patient Monitoring Data

by Roberto Martinez, President, Mexico, Encora 01/21/2021 Leave a Comment

Challenges of Operationalizing Remote Patient Monitoring Data

Among the many evolving technologies in the healthcare industry, there may be none more important or impactful than remote patient monitoring (RPM) hardware and software solutions. This technology is opening up new possibilities in extended healthcare – saving patients money, limiting visits to the doctor’s office, and providing healthcare professionals with powerful tools for diagnosing and treating patients. As these tools continue to mature, software and hardware developers are solving
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Traditional RESTful APIs Will Not Solve Healthcare’s Biggest Interoperability Problems

by Brian Platz, Co-CEO and Co-Chairman of Fluree 01/12/2021 Leave a Comment

Traditional RESTful APIs Will Not Solve Healthcare's Biggest Interoperability Problems

Interoperability is a big discussion in health care, with new regulations requiring interoperability for patient data. Most approaches follow the typical RESTful API approach that has become the standard method for data exchange. Yet Health Level Seven (HL7), with its new Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for the electronic transfer of health data, is leading to a rash of implementations that, to date, are not solving core interoperability issues.  Data is still
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TigerConnect Acquires Hospital Middleware Solution Critical Alert – M&A

by Fred Pennic 01/06/2021 Leave a Comment

M&A: TigerConnect Acquires Hospital Middleware Solution Critical Alert

What You Should Know: - TigerConnect has announced an expansion in their suite through the acquisition of Critical Alert, a leading provider of enterprise-grade middleware for hospitals and health systems. - For the hundreds of thousands of nurses that currently use TigerConnect, these new capabilities will deliver real-time, contextual information to their mobile device or desktop to allow them to work smarter, prioritize responses, and efficiently coordinate care, all within the
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Welltok Appoints Bob Fabbio CEO, Jeff Margolis to Serve as Chairman of the Board

by Jasmine Pennic 04/13/2020 Leave a Comment

Welltok Appoints Bob Fabbio CEO, Jeff Margolis to Serve as Chairman of the Board

What You Should Know: - Welltok appoints COO Bob Fabbio to CEO to lead the next stage of growth. - Outgoing CEO, Jeff Margolis, will continue in his role as Welltok’s Chairman of the Board. Welltok, the consumer health activation company, announced today that COO Bob Fabbio, has succeeded Jeff Margolis as chief executive officer. Margolis, who led the company as CEO for seven years, will remain involved strategically and continue in his role as Welltok’s Chairman of the Board.
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b.well Connected Health Raises $16M for Personalized Health Platform

by Fred Pennic 03/11/2020 Leave a Comment

b.well Connected Health Raises $16M for Personalized Health Platform

What You Need to Know: - b.well raises $16 million in Series A funding led by UnityPoint Health Ventures, bringing the company's total funding to over $27 million. - b.well provides a configurable digital platform to healthcare stakeholders to solve for interoperability and consolidation of point solutions through the lens of a consumer. b.well Connected Health, a Baltimore, MD-based platform designed to provide consumers a new front end to healthcare, announced it has raised $16
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Vocera Vina Smartphone App Launches to Optimize Patient Safety

by Jasmine Pennic 09/04/2019 Leave a Comment

Vocera Vina Smartphone App Launches to Optimize Patient Safety

- Vocera Vina smartphone app launches to help improve clinical communications and enhance patient safety by reducing the clerical burdens that lead to burnout. - The customizable communication app presents prioritized patient-centric calls, secure messages, and alerts in a unified inbox, and provides an intuitive user experience for clinicians inside and outside the hospital. - Drawing from the hospital EHR, this the vendor-agnostic platform works alongside all other Vocera products to
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Paging Dr. Siri: How AI-Integrated Digital Health Could One Day Diagnose Your Melanoma

by Jon Michaeli, EVP of Strategic Partnerships at Medisafe 01/03/2018 Leave a Comment

Paging Dr. Siri: How AI-Integrated Mobile Tech Could One Day Diagnose Your Melanoma

Alexa is surging. An upgraded Siri and Samsung’s upcoming Bixby may soon compete in the home. Google is successfully catching up.Today’s virtual assistants make it feel like Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more pervasive than ever. And it is – with some substantial caveats. These agents are all powered by a combination of machine learning software and behavioral algorithms. Their “learning” is based on finding patterns in data, then (a) adjusting themselves by applying lessons learned to newly
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CareSkore Unveils Population Health Management as a Service App (PHMaaS )

by HITC Staff 02/09/2017 Leave a Comment

CareSkore Population Health

CareSkore, a provider of end-to-end personalized population health management, announced today the release of its Population Health Management as a ServiceTM (PHMaaSTM), providing direct access to its extensive machine-learning analytics engine to 3rd-party applications through an API.“PHMaaS completely changes the game for how organizations adopt population health management,” said Jaspinder Grewal, CEO of CareSkore.  “We have too many proprietary application interfaces in health care.  PHMaaS
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Middleware Shows Potential for Solving Health IT Interoperability Issues

by HITC Staff 10/25/2016 Leave a Comment

EHR Optimization EHRs Meaningful Use Stage 3_Ambulatory EHR_Specialty-Driven EHRs

One of the standards for meaningful use of electronic health data is the interoperability of that data; in other words, can the data be accessed and used by providers in any location, as long as they have the proper clearance. This interoperability was the cornerstone of the push for electronic health records, yet it’s proven to be more challenging than most expected. While hospitals and healthcare systems scramble to find solutions, one has risen to the top: Middleware, a type of software that
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Is The Health IT Gap Driving Medical Errors into the 3rd Leading Cause of Death?

by Fred Pennic 06/07/2016 Leave a Comment

Dr. Donald Voltz_Electronic Medical Records

Hardly a day goes by without some new revelation of a US IT mess that seems like an endless round of the old radio show joke contest, “Can You Top This”, except increasingly the joke is on us. From nuclear weapons updated with floppy disks to needless medical deaths, many of which are still caused by preventable interoperability communication errors as has been the case for decades.According to a report released to Congress, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that the US
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