What You Need to Know:
- Matternet announces the launch of its new Matternet Station, a secure medical drone delivery portal for hospital campuses in the United States and Switzerland.
- The Matternet Station provides a safe, fully-automated medical payload exchange for Matternet drone networks on hospital campuses.
- Matternet’s system is made available to hospital systems on an annual subscription model, enabling hospitals to fulfill on-demand and routine delivery requests at a
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Revenue Cycle Startup Rivet Lands $8.25M to Expand Price Transparency Platform
What You Need to Know:
- Revenue cycle management startup Rivet raises $8.25M Series A funding to expand its healthcare price transparency platform.
- The price transparency platform enables providers to give patients upfront pricing with the ability to pay prior to care via text while at the same time helping providers navigate the complex process that grants “in-network” status with insurance companies.
Rivet, a Salt Lake City, UT-based modern healthcare revenue cycle management
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Health Gorilla Launches EMR-Integrated Electronic Ordering for COVID-19 Testing for LabCorp and Quest
What You Need to Know:
- Health Gorilla announces the launch of electronic ordering for COVID-19 testing for LabCorp and Quest that will allow thousands of providers, who currently rely on Health Gorilla to place lab orders, to seamlessly order COVID-19 tests for their patients.
- Providers and developers can begin placing orders through API and web-based interface, expanding access to COVID-19 testing within their existing product/EMR workflow.
Health
Gorilla, a Sunnyvale,
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Hospital Execs Believe Their EMRs Will Fail to Meet Their Future Needs, Report Finds
What You Need to Know:
- New Sage Growth Partners report reveals more than a quarter (27 percent) of respondents believe their EMR will fail to meet their future needs. COOs are the most pessimistic (67 percent) followed by CEOs (37 percent), and CFOs (34 percent).
- Hospital Technology Forecast 2020 market survey report reveals hospital leaders’ top health IT investment priorities, challenges, and opportunities.
- 35 percent of hospital executives say if they could go back in time,
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Suki Raises $20M to Expand AI-powered, Voice-Enabled Digital Assistant for Doctors
What You Need to Know:
- Today, Suki announced a Series B funding round of $20 million, led by new investor Flare Capital Partners and including top investors like First Round and Venrock.
- In just two years, Suki has established its product as a leading solution to address the urgent crisis of physician burnout and is already trusted by independent and group practices as well as leading systems like Sutter Health and Ascension.
- Suki will use the funding to expand its user base
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Due to Coronavirus Outbreak, Medicomp Systems Pulls Out of HIMSS20
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Need to Know:
Medicomp Systems cancels its participation in the HIMSS 2020 conference due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak posing an unacceptable health risk for its staff.
Medicomp Systems, a Washington, D.C.-based provider
of clinician-driven, point-of-care solutions that fix EHRs, announced today that the company is
canceling its participation in the 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference &
Exhibition, March 9–13, 2020 in Orlando to protect the health and safety of
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Emory Healthcare, Verizon Opens Nation’s First 5G Healthcare Innovation Lab
- The Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband network is now live at the Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub (EHIH) in Atlanta, becoming the nation’s first 5G healthcare innovation lab.
- The 5G healthcare innovation lab at EHIH will test how 5G could enhance augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications for medical training, enable telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, and provide a point of care diagnostic and imaging systems from the ambulance to the ER.
- Verizon joins EHIH’s partner
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InterSystems Launches HealthShare Managed Connections to Improve Data Exchange
What You Need to Know:
- InterSystems launches InterSystems HealthShare® Managed Connections, a service that enables healthcare organizations to take advantage of a network of connections to a vast number of patient records via a central hub and exchange data easily.
- As a CommonWell ConnectorTM product, HealthShare Managed Connections empowers users with the ability to access the CommonWell Health Alliance network—representing more than 15,000 provider sites and 76
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AMA, Nuance to Pilot Innovations to Reduce Physician Documentation Overload
- Today, Nuance and the American Medical Association announced a partnership to pilot innovations preventing physician burnout from documentation overload.
- This partnership is a step forward in solving physician burnout and the associated costs by piloting the combination of each organization’s technologies to reduce distractions from patient care caused by increasing administrative demands.
Nuance®
Communications, Inc and the American Medical Association (AMA)
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Catholic Medical Partners Taps Innovaccer to Deliver Value-Based Care to IPA
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with Catholic Medical Partners (CMP), the largest Independent Physician Association (IPA) in Buffalo, New York to empower the IPA to deliver value-based care and help healthcare care as one.
- CMP is the largest network of physicians in the entire region, comprised of nearly 1,000 primary and specialty care providers in Erie and Niagara counties.
- With Innovaccer as their latest partner, CMP will have new access to unique, longitudinal patient 360
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