There’s a crispness in the air that marks fall’s arrival. But autumn’s appearance isn’t the only thing on calendars across the U.S. this week: September 23-27 marks National Health IT Week. The 2019 theme focuses on supporting healthy communities, and what better way to support communities than to learn more about the people in them?
Decision-makers who analyze healthcare data have a habit of focusing on numbers, pouring over pages of claims and diagnostic codes. Yet disease diagnoses are often
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Patient Care| Health IT, Digital Health Impact | News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Central Logic, Conduit Health Partners Team Up to Improve Patient Care Access and Transfer Centers
- The partnership allows health systems that don’t have their own transfer center to benefit from a comprehensive technology platform via Central Logic by outsourcing Access Center functions.
- Conduit Health Partners’ nurses have diverse clinical experience with adult and pediatric competencies, multi-state licensure, critical thinking skills, and clinical judgment skills.
- Client organizations typically achieve a 12-20% first-year transfer volume increase with sustained year over
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Navigating Cancer Lands $26M to Expand Oncology Patient Relationship Management Platform
- Navigating Cancer raises $26M in Series D funding in an over-subscribed round (TTCP) for its comprehensive oncology patient relationship management solution.
- Navigating Cancer’s PRM platform helps providers manage patient interactions, improve the patient experience, and deliver value-based care more effectively – increasing the flow of communications between in-office visits, which, in turn, boosts patient engagement in their own care.
- Funding will enable NC to accelerate innovation of
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Quest Diagnostics, hc1 Collaborate on ML-Driven Lab Testing Utilization
- Quest Diagnostics and hc1 collaborate to unveil Quest Lab Stewardship powered by hc1, an innovative new service that employs machine learning to harmonize laboratory testing.
- Quest Lab Stewardship enables progressive health systems to help improve patient care through better laboratory utilization.
- Quest Lab Stewardship integrates in real-time with enterprise systems and leverages hc1’s machine learning capabilities to ingest, organize and normalize lab data, alleviating the time
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UnitedHealthcare Accelerator + Techstars Unveils Inaugural 2019 Class of 10 Startups
- UnitedHealthcare Accelerator powered by Techstars unveils 2019 class of 10 health tech startups focused on innovation in digital health and wellness. - Final group of 10 was narrowed down from hundreds of startups from 33 different countries across the globe. - Three-month accelerator will provide mentorship and access to capital to help iterate on their business models.UnitedHealthcare Accelerator powered by Techstars, today announced inaugural 2019 class of ten health tech startups focused
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Hospital IQ Launches AI-Enabled Workforce Management Solution
- Hospital IQ launches an AI-enabled workforce management solution to help staffing managers more accurately align staff to forecasted patient demand.
- Using accurate forecasts of patient demand, Hospital IQ enables staffing managers to proactively plan staffing needs, ensuring appropriate levels of patient care.
- Hospital IQ also announced the addition of Shawn Sefton, MBA, RN, vice president, client operations, and John Zapf, senior director, sales, to support the company’s
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Montana Awarded $19M Grant for Statewide Health Information Exchange
- CMS awards the state of Montana with a $19M grant to support a statewide health information exchange (HIE).
- Montana Governor Steve Bullock names Big Sky Care Connect as the operator of the statewide HIE.
- Big Sky Care Connect plans to start sharing healthcare data in 2020.
Montana Governor Steve
Bullock announced
the state has received $19 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS) to support a statewide health information exchange (HIE). The
funding
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Northwell Health Goes Live on Microsoft Teams for Secure Messaging
- Northwell Health goes live on Microsoft Teams solution for clinicians for secure texting and helps improve care coordination across the enterprise.
- A total of 8,300 Northwell staff currently use Microsoft Teams with future rollouts plan across the health system this year and into early 2020.
Glen Cove Hospital, part of the Northwell Health network has gone live on the Microsoft Teams solution for nurses, physicians, and other health care providers to securely text one other about
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4 Areas Where Big Data is Transforming Healthcare Right Now
Leveraging technology in the right ways can make or break the future of healthcare. One of the ways that healthcare will become more efficient, more affordable, and save more lives is through the use of big data.
What is Big Data?
Big data refers to a large amount of information being digitized, consolidated, standardized, analyzed and modeled. In healthcare, big data uses specific statistics from a population or an individual to research new advancements, reduce costs, and even cure or prevent
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Why Healthcare Is Finally Moving To The Cloud
When I started in this industry, the idea that we would put patient information in the cloud was an absurdity. How on earth could anyone justify putting the most sensitive information in our personal lives somewhere other than a locked cupboard, in the safety of a hospital? We would never dream of letting paper patient charts leave the hospital or clinic, so why would we let them leave simply because they are electronic?
Historically, security was tied to proximity and direct control, nowhere
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