What You Should Know:
- Diligent Robotics raises over $30M to deploy its collaborative robots to healthcare systems across the nation.
- Company plans to use the funding will accelerate product development to meet the demand for healthcare service robots and enhance interoperability, integrations and efficiency in healthcare institutions.
Diligent Robotics, an Austin, TX-based robotic automation company today announced it has closed over $30 million in Series B funding led by Tiger
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Azalea Health Launches Azalea Apps Marketplace to Improve Patient Care & Profitability
What You Should Know:
- Azalea Health Innovations Inc. (Azalea Health or Azalea), a provider of cloud-based patient management and health IT solutions, today launched Azalea Apps Marketplace, a one-stop app library of approved third-party vendors that are integrated with Azalea Health.
- The Azalea Apps Marketplace allows users to search through a library of third-party applications that are connected with Azalea’s
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Why Digital Transformation Is Imperative to Combat Healthcare’s Labor Crisis
As the coronavirus pandemic first spread across the globe, health systems turned to technology and virtual care while focusing their efforts on COVID-19 and its consequences. Physicians deployed digital tools to keep the worried well out of hospitals, to keep beds open for COVID-19 patients, and to support and manage conditions like pregnancy from the safety of patients’ homes.
Now the healthcare sector faces a new challenge. The so-called “Great Resignation” is causing workers to leave their
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At-Home Digital Health Innovations Transforming Diabetes Care
If you’re looking for a silver lining in the COVID-19 dark cloud still enshrouding the world, consider this: The pandemic has turbocharged widespread acceptance of at-home digital health solutions. Forced to function in a world of social distancing, healthcare providers and physicians have quickly discovered how easily telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) and digital therapeutics can improve patient care.
Many of these digital health innovations are designed to address
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The Need and Value for Connected Virtual Care
Patients today have more options than ever for accessing care outside of their traditional health systems and physician practices. While access to care has no doubt improved, the addition of new channels has
created new problems and exacerbated longstanding ones, notably with care coordination, consistency and continuity of care, patient and clinician satisfaction, and ensuring both HIPAA compliance and organizational privacy and security policies.
Telehealth is meeting the need for
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Researchers Develop AI Method for Personalized Diabetes Treatment
What You Should Know:
- Hitachi, U of U Health, and Regenstrief researchers partnered to develop and test a new AI method to improve personalized care for diabetes patients needing complex drug treatment.
- The new AI method can now be used to help determine an optimal drug regimen for a specific patient.
Hitachi, University of Utah Health, and Regenstrief Institute today announced the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) method to improve care for patients with type 2
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9am.health, Ascensia Partner to Expand Virtual Diabetes Clinic
What You Should Know:
- 9am.health today announced it is expanding its virtual diabetes clinic through a strategic partnership with Ascensia to add the CONTOUR®NEXT ONE Blood Glucose Meter to Its patient toolkit.
- 9am.health patients can now conveniently add Ascensia Diabetes Care’s blood glucose meter and test strips to their personalized treatment plan, with the meter offered free of charge to all patient care plans. The test strip add-on is available through a
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Day 3 HIMSS Roundup: Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT, GE Healthcare/AliveCor Integration
Venture Capital, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity
Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT® to Expand Diabetes Offerings in France
Glooko, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring and data management solutions for diabetes and related chronic conditions, today announced the acquisition of DIABNEXT, a Paris-based company whose digital health platform helps people with diabetes better manage their conditions and connects to their healthcare providers, so they can
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Nuance Integrates DAX Tech with Cerner EHR to Optimize Clinician & Patient Experience
What You Should Know:
- Nuance and Cerner announced that they have expanded their collaboration to integrate the Nuance® Dragon® Ambient eXperience™ (DAX™) system into the Cerner Millennium EHR.
- The collaboration deepens the existing integration of Nuance and Cerner technologies and is expected to help manage administrative workloads that lead to clinician burnout, expand access to care for patients, and enhance healthcare outcomes with clinical
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GE Healthcare & AliveCor Integrate Data from ECGs Into Clinical Workflow
What You Should Know:
- AliveCor and GE Healthcare announced they are partnering to integrate data from AliveCor’s KardiaMobile 6L electrocardiogram (ECG) device directly into GE Healthcare’s MUSE Cardiac Management System (MUSE).
- Today, cardiologists often rely on real-time data from personal electrocardiogram (ECG) devices to help manage patients with cardiac conditions like atrial fibrillation (AFib). AliveCor’s KardiaMobile 6L ECG offers the only
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