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Death by Ransomware: Poor Healthcare Cybersecurity

by Babur Khan, Technical Marketing Engineer at A10 Networks 01/05/2021 Leave a Comment

Death by Ransomware: Poor Healthcare Cybersecurity

If hackers attack your organization and you’re in an industry such as financial services, engineering, or manufacturing your risks are mostly monetary. But when it comes to healthcare cybersecurity, not only is there significant financial jeopardy, people’s health and wellbeing are also at risk so the stakes are much, much higher. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, there has been an almost 50 percent increase in healthcare cybersecurity data breaches between February
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New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs

by Fred Pennic 06/30/2020 Leave a Comment

New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs

What You Should Know: - Healthcare technology company DrFirst has announced the release of its next generation, patented SmartSig AI technology to improve the quality of patient medication history when it is imported into hospitals’ and health systems’ electronic health records (EHRs). - Simple prescription instructions, called “sigs,” can have hundreds of variations or be missing entirely from patients’ medication histories when they are imported into hospitals’ EHRs. The missing
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Walmart Acquires Medication Management Platform CareZone for $200M to Enhance Digital Health & Wellness Capabilities

by Fred Pennic 06/16/2020 Leave a Comment

Walmart Acquires Medication Management Platform CareZone for $200M to Enhance Digital Health & Wellness Capabilities

What You Should Know: - Walmart acquires app-based patient medication management platform CareZone for reportedly $200M to enhance its digital health and wellness capabilities. - CareZone’s technology and team members will join Walmart to augment their current Health & Wellness capabilities and support its focus on digital health care solutions. CareZone will remain a separate company unrelated to Walmart. Walmart announced it has acquired CareZone, a San Francisco,
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DrFirst’s Patent-Pending AI-Based Tech Solves Major Hurdles to Medication Reconciliation

by Jasmine Pennic 12/19/2019 Leave a Comment

- DrFirst announced a pending patent for AI technology today that breaks down the “prescription language barriers” between different EHRs – a crucial step in the process to avoid adverse drug events – solving a once intractable problem faced by hospitals.  - The new U.S. patented tech uses an advanced approach for applying AI to unstructured medical information to process free text into appropriate data fields of the EHRs, infer missing prescription elements based on context, and convert free
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HP Rolls Out Expanded Healthcare Portfolio to Address Patient Safety, Care Coordination, Data Security

by Jasmine Pennic 10/07/2019 Leave a Comment

HP Rolls Out Expanded Healthcare Portfolio to Address Patient Safety, Care Coordination, Data Security

- HP expands its healthcare portfolio of end-to-end print and PC products to address patient safety, care coordination, clinical efficiency, and security. - HP’s new innovations assist with three critical areas of patient safety: Health-care associated infections, electromagnetic interference, and patient identification. - HP Healthcare Edition MFPs also include the Biscom for Healthcare app, which is completely integrated with the Epic and Cerner EHR platform. Today at the
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Does Physician Dispensing Contribute To The Opioid Crisis?

by Nicholas Benedict, MBA and Jonathan Ni 10/02/2019 Leave a Comment

Why The Opioid Epidemic Makes EHRs Essential To Public Health

According to the Center for Disease Control, an average of 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose.  Although illicit opiates such as heroin and fentanyl are the primary drivers of the opioid crisis, prescription opiates still play a large role.  The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that 21-29 percent of patients who receive prescriptions for opioids will misuse the drug and 8 to 12 percent of opioid recipients will develop a disorder.  Almost all heroin users have misused
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DrFirst Integrates Adobe Sign With Backline Secure Care Collaboration Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 09/10/2019 Leave a Comment

DrFirst Integrates Adobe Sign With Backline Secure Care Collaboration Platform

- DrFirst and Adobe Sign has announced the integration of Adobe Sign e-signature solution with DrFirst’s Backline secure care collaboration platform, producing the first mobile solution for the healthcare market to offer an e-signature capability. - Using the joint solution, providers can send SMS messages to the mobile devices of patients, caregivers, or other clinicians to share documents that require signatures. - Once received, the patient or provider can tap a link in the text
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Redox, FDB Partner to Enable Interoperability of Critical Patient Medication Information

by Fred Pennic 09/04/2019 Leave a Comment

Redox Lands $33M for Scalable Healthcare Data Interoperability Platform

Redox today announced it has partnered with FDB (First Databank, Inc.) to enable scalability and accessibility of critical patient medication information from FDB’s industry-leading SMART on FHIR® app, Meducation®, now listed in the Epic App Orchard.The Bigger PictureClinicians using Meducation to document a patient’s medication regimen access, generate and review Meducation content at various points within the workflow—including for bedside counseling and at discharge. Using Redox, clinicians
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Sandoz to Use Pilloxa’s Smart Pillbox to Improve Transplant Patient Medication Compliance

by Fred Pennic 05/10/2019 Leave a Comment

Sandoz to Use Pilloxa's Smart Pillbox to Improve Transplant Patient Medication Compliance

Swedish digital health startup company Pilloxa has announced a strategic collaboration with Sandoz Nordics on using Pilloxa’s smart pillbox in the field of transplantation. The initial phase aims to support Swedish transplant clinics with Pilloxa's innovation in order to facilitate improved medication adherence by transplanted patients.Pilloxa Background Founded in 2015, Pilloxa recognized the need to facilitate medication adherence during Clinical Innovation Fellowships; a joint venture program
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Missouri Health Connection, DrFirst Partner to Offer Clinicians Turnkey Access to Medication History Data

by Jasmine Pennic 03/12/2019 Leave a Comment

Missouri Health Connection, DrFirst Partner to Offer Clinicians Turnkey Access to Medication History Data

DrFirst, a provider of e-prescribing, price transparency, and medication management solutions, announced today that it has successfully implemented an interoperability gateway with Missouri Health Connection (MHC) that will give clinicians easy access to medication data history. MHC is the only secure, statewide HIE in Missouri supporting over 8,000 clinicians, hundreds of clinics and community health centers and more than 75 hospitals, and health plans with access to comprehensive patient
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