CVS Health Corporation names Neela Montgomery Executive Vice President and President of CVS Pharmacy/Retail, effective November 30, 2020. Montgomery will oversee the company's 10,000 pharmacies across the United States. Montgomery, currently a Board Partner at venture capital firm Greycroft, most recently served as chief executive officer of furniture retailer Crate & Barrel and has nearly 20 years of global retail experience. The Cleveland Clinic and Amwell joint venture appoint
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Nuance Sells Off Transcription and EHR-Go-Live Businesses to DeliverHealth
What You Should Know: - Nuance announced that it’s planning to sell two sections of its healthcare business – Health Information Management (HIM) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Go-Live Services to a new independent company, called DeliverHealth, in early 2021. - Nuance will be a minority shareholder of DeliverHealth and continue to provide its technology to the company. Nuance Communications, Inc., today announced the planned sale of the Health Information Management (HIM)
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Providence Taps Nuance to Develop AI-Powered Integrated Clinical Intelligence
What You Should Know: - Nuance Communications, Inc. and one of the country’s largest health systems, Providence, announced a strategic collaboration, supported by Microsoft, dedicated to creating better patient experiences and ease clinician burden. - The collaboration centers around Providence harnessing Nuance’s AI-powered solutions to securely and automatically capture patient-clinician conversations. - As part of the expanded partnership, Nuance and Providence will jointly
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Kettering Health to Deploy Nuance’s AI-Driven Physician Documentation for ED
What You Should Know: - Nuance Communications, Inc. announced the Kettering Health Network has selected ED Guidance for Nuance Dragon Medical Advisor. - This AI-powered computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD) solution will help reduce physicians’ administrative burden while lowering the risk of adverse safety events, missing diagnoses, and malpractice litigation – priorities for all physicians, especially in the ED where the nature of care presents special challenges and
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Cerner Releases Open Call for EHR-Integrated Voice Assist Testing Partners
Cerner announces an open call for additional health systems to sign on as testing partners of their EHR-integrated Voice Assist technology. Voice Assist will allow clinicians to interact with the EHR by just using their voice. Clinicians will be able to issue voice commands to complete a range of tasks that can save significant time and reduce the administrative burden on care teams by replacing manual data documentation. How Voice Assist Technology Works Using the phrase
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Veterans Affairs Expands Telehealth Services Using Nuance Dragon Medical One
What You Should Know: - Nuance Communications, Inc. announced the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is using the Nuance Dragon Medical One speech recognition cloud platform and its mobile app, PowerMic Mobile. - The solution helps VA doctors better document patient care in-person, and now remotely through expanded telehealth services necessary in the COVID-19 era. Nuance® Communications, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is using
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RADLogics Secures FDA Clearance for AI-Powered Chest X-Ray App for Triage & Prioritization
What You Should Know: - RADLogics today announced that it has secured 510(k) clearance from the FDA for the company’s novel AI-Powered chest X-ray pneumothorax application, which identifies and prioritizes chest X-ray scans that appear to contain a pneumothorax, a collapsed lung, for urgent radiologist review. - RADLogics’ FDA cleared CT and X-ray solutions – including this application – are
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Nuance Integrates with Microsoft Teams for Virtual Telehealth Consults
What You Should Know: - Nuance Communications Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced that Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX), an ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) solution, is now integrated into Microsoft Teams for virtual health consults. - The ongoing strategic partnership between Microsoft and Nuance aims to combat burnout while supporting the telehealth movement by improving healthcare experiences—for patients and physicians—with seamlessly integrated
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Monument Health Selects Nuance’s ACI Solution to Transform Physician-Patient Encounters
What You Should Know: - Nuance Communications, Inc. announced that Monument Health added another Nuance solution to their tech stack: Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX). - This new solution will further enable the healthcare facility’s physicians to focus on caring for patients and not on their computers. Nuance Communications, Inc. announced that Monument Health has chosen the Nuance® Dragon Ambient eXperience™ (DAX™) ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) solution to securely capture,
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MEDITECH Launches Expanse Virtual Assistant Through Nuance
What You Should Know: - MEDITECH launches Expanse Virtual Assistant, enabling users to quickly access, navigate, and control the EHR using advanced Nuance Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant technology. - Physicians can leverage Expanse Virtual Assistant to navigate and search patient charts for key areas of information including lab results, medications, allergies, radiology images, and more. MEDITECH and Nuance Communications Inc. (Nuance), today announced a collaboration to
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