- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai launches first of its kind Diversity and Inclusion Hub spearheaded by the Mount Sinai’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.- Groundbreaking program to engage the local Harlem community and critical neighborhood stakeholders through innovation to tackle racism, bias, and gender equity in medicine and healthcare.The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – an international leader in medical and scientific training, biomedical research, and patient care –
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Partners
Partners HealthCare Launches $80M Investment Funds Towards AI & Digital Translation
- Partners HealthCare launches two new investment funds aimed at addressing the lack of translational funding in pre-clinical life sciences, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital technology development. - The Partners HealthCare Artificial Intelligence and Digital Translation Fund (AIDIF) has an initial funding of $30M over five years and the Translational Innovation Fund (TIF) has funding of $50M over six years.Partners HealthCare today announced the creation of two new investment venture
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DrChrono Launches EHR Services Directory for Medical Practices
- DrChrono launches new EHR Services Directory that will allow providers and medical practices to connect with third-party companies to outsource their business tasks. - Medical professionals will be able to find services in the directory such as third-party developers to help build on the DrChrono healthcare API, expertise on technology configuration to maintain a local network, etc.Today, DrChrono announced the launch of a new EHR Services Directory with third-party companies that will allow
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7 Best Practices to Improve Professional Fee Revenue Cycle for Better ED Bottom Lines
Most healthcare organizations partner with physician services groups for niche coverage. While outsourced medical services are available across all specialties, common areas for external physician support include anesthesia, radiology, wound care, and emergency medicine. However, when outsourced physician services are used, challenges to ensure accurate reimbursement for both components of care—the hospital portion and the physician’s professional fee—increase.
Snafus are largely attributable
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Microsoft, Nuance Partner to Develop Ambient Clinical Intelligence to Combat Clinician Burnout
- Nuance and Microsoft have joined forces to accelerate the delivery of ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) technologies that will power the exam room of the future where clinical documentation writes itself.
- Strategic partnership's focus is to reduce clinician burnout by enabling doctors to focus on patients, while AI focuses on administrative tasks.
Today, Microsoft and Nuance Communications announced a
strategic partnership to accelerate the
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Valley Children’s Healthcare Launches Healthcare Innovation Lab
- Valley Children’s launches healthcare innovation lab named George’s Idea Lab to accelerate new digital health solutions that will transform pediatric healthcare. - Innovation program builds off Valley Children’s recent partnership with The Innovation Institute and will operate as part of The Innovation Lab.Valley Children’s Healthcare, one of the largest pediatric healthcare networks in the nation has announced today the launch of a new healthcare innovation program. The innovation program
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CVS Health to Invest $2.5M to Build Healthier Communities in Ohio
- CVS Health announced it will invest $2.5M over the next three years to build healthier communities across the state of Ohio.
- Investments will support key initiatives across Ohio including increasing access to healthcare, preventing prescription opioid misuse and supporting tobacco-free living for at-risk populations.
CVS Health, today announced it and its private charity will be donating more than $2.5 million in Ohio over the next three years to improve the health and wellness of
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Sony Unveils Wearable for Secure Mobile Health & Remote Monitoring
- Sony unveils mSafety mobile health platform in the U.S. for the first time at Connected Health Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.- mSafety platform combines a programmable wearable with a backend solution so any organization can easily build unique, scalable, and secure mobile health and remote monitoring applications.Sony, today announced it will preview its mSafety mobile health platform in the U.S. for the first time today at Connected Health Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Sony’s
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Using the 3M’s to Get Physicians to Embrace Telehealth: Metrics, Money & eMotion
Telehealth utilization is on track to explode due to consumer demand, reimbursement alignment and an improved regulatory environment.
But for health systems to reap telehealth’s financial and clinical benefits, organizational leaders must demonstrate strong leadership, provide relevant education, align financial incentives and change daily culture to help physicians fully embrace this disruption.
Many physicians are starting to understand the benefits of telehealth, which include better access
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California Physician Practices to Use Apple Watches to Advance Physician-Patient Communication
- Healthcare services company for physicians Altais partners with Notable Health to use intelligent automation to enhance the patient experience.- Notable Health’s A.I.-driven platform uses Apple Watches and smartphone devices to advance physician-patient communications and streamline administrative tasks.- Notable’s AI-powered platform is a game-changer for clinicians previously spending hours on redundant administrative tasks. The platform—which seamlessly integrates with legacy EHR
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