Mount Sinai Health System has created an Imaging Research Warehouse (IRW) to revolutionize clinical care and translational research to ultimately improve human health. Developed by the Mount Sinai Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute (TMII), the image database integrates clinical imaging with EHRs to enable researchers new access to information about more than 1 million Mount Sinai patients. The IRW is supported by a National Institute of Health pilot program. For researchers, the
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Mount Sinai Taps Salesforce Health Cloud to Coordinate & Manage Care of 350k Medicare Recipients
Mount Sinai Health System, an integrated health system announced it is using Salesforce Health Cloud to to coordinate and manage the care of 350k Medicaid recipients in its Performing Provider System (PPS) in New York City. Salesforce Health Cloud enables providers to get a more precise view of patient demographic, lifestyle and health information to better serve their needs. With Salesforce Health Cloud, more than 10,000 Medicaid service providers and 200 community organizations will gain
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Mount Sinai Taps Kyruus’ Patient-Provider Matching to Streamline Referral Process
Mount Sinai Health System has selected Kyruus, a provider search and scheduling solution to implement its ProviderMatch for Access Centers and KyruusOne provider data management to help streamline the referral process and help match referrals to the most clinical appropriate provider. The partnership ensures that Mount Sinai’s Physician Access Services team, which currently handles appointments for nearly 700 providers, has detailed provider profiles, user-friendly Smart Search capabilities,
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KPMG: Data Aggregation Biggest Barrier to Population Health Implementation for Payers, Providers
]The biggest individual barrier to implementing a population health program is data aggregation and standardization from multiple sources for providers and payers, according to a recent KPMG survey. The survey results that population health management programs aimed at improving quality and access to care while reducing costs for a designated group of patients, are taking hold at health plans and providers. Healthcare provider and health plans see this happening despite challenges associated
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Mount Sinai Launches 3D Printing Services for Clinicians, Researchers
Mount Sinai Health System has announced the creation of the Medical Modeling Core, a collaboration led by the Department of Neurosurgery, where clinicians can confer and order 3D printing models for their cases. Virtual reality, simulation and 3D printing services will be provided on a low-cost, fee-for-service basis with quick turnaround times. This resource will be the first of its kind catering to the unique patient-specific modeling requirements of clinicians at Mount Sinai.The team
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Mount Sinai, CityMD Partner to Expand Urgent Care Services in NYC
Mount Sinai Health System has teamed up with urgent care provider CityMD to expand urgent care service throughout New York. The partnership will combine Mount Sinai’s network of providers with CityMD’s urgent and clinical care management expertise to develop a unique model that ensures patients have timely access to healthcare. A key component of the partnership will establish quality metrics for a shared preferred provider network to ensure patients receive high-quality care and immediate
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Mount Sinai Researchers Use Computer Algorithms to Diagnose HCM
Computer algorithms can automatically interpret echocardiographic images and distinguish between pathological hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and physiological changes in athletes’ hearts, according to researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.The team included researchers from both Dr. Sengupta’s and Dr. Dudley’s labs, including medical student Sukrit Narula, Khader Shameer, PhD, and Alaa Mabrouk
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Mount Sinai Establishes Robotics Institute to Accelerate Robotic Surgery
Mount Sinai Health System announced this week it has established the Mount Sinai Robotics Institute (MSRI) to advance patient care and augment research and training. Since the first minimally invasive robotic surgery to treat head and neck cancer at Mount Sinai in 2008 surgeons at Mount Sinai have been on the forefront of pioneering robotic surgery techniques. Groundbreaking work such as new techniques and refinements, and complication reduction programs in these areas has distinguished MSRI as
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Mount Sinai Taps CloudMedx to Use Predictive Analytics for CHF Patients
Mount Sinai Hospital and CloudMedx, today announced a collaborate on congestive heart failure to improve workflows and patients care management. As part of the collaboration, Mount Sinai will leverage intelligent predictive insights from CloudMedx in order to identify patients who are at higher risk of CHF and use evidence based care interventions to improve their outcomes such as reduced readmissions and overall well-being.Mount Sinai wanted to combine evidence based digital medicine technology
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Mount Sinai Selects Kaigo Health for Digital Personal Care Assistants
Mount Sinai hospital System in New York has selected healthcare assistant startup Kaigo Health to improve hospital experiences for patients. As part of the partnership, Kaigo Health will work closely with care teams to ensure optimal results for patients in New York City and the surrounding boroughs.Kaigo Health takes the complexities out of the healthcare experience and helps users reach their health goals with a detailed action plan, handcrafted by a crack team of health professionals. For
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