Glucometrics – the system-wide analysis of inpatient glucose data – should be of fundamental interest for hospital administrators striving to improve the outcomes of their patients.
Why is this data so important? Proper glycemic control has been linked to improved outcomes and decreased length of stay time and time again across a myriad of conditions – whether it’s someone recuperating from a heart attack, battling pneumonia, or recovering from surgery.
The U.S. health system lacks
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Medigate Raises $30M for Medical & IoT Device Security Solution
What You Should Know:
- Medigate announced $30M in Series B financing to expand its medical and IoT device security solution to ensure patient privacy and safety.
- Medigate fuses the knowledge and understanding of
medical workflow and device identity and protocols with the reality of today’s
cybersecurity threats. With Medigate, hospital networks can safely operate all
medical devices on their network, enabling deployment of existing and new
devices to patients while ensuring privacy and
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Intel, Samsung Collaborate on AI-Powered Fetal Ultrasound Smart Workflow
What You Should Know:
- Samsung Medison and Intel collaborate on AI-powered new
smart workflow solutions to improve obstetric measurements that contribute to
maternal and fetal safety.
- BiometryAssist automates and standardizes fetal
measurements in approximately 85 milliseconds with a single click, providing
over 97% accuracy.
- BiometryAssist and LaborAssist are already in use in 80
countries, including the United States, Korea, Italy, France, Brazil and
Russia. The solutions
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AI Collaboration Saves Pharmacies 5.5 Hours Monthly on Critical Administrative Tasks
What You Should Know:
- DrFirst partners with a Kansas-based pharmacy management system (PMS) provider to improve safety and efficiency in hundreds of pharmacies across the country.
- Speed Script is integrating DrFirst’s SmartSig technology into its suite of pharmacy management solutions (PMS) used by the community and long-term care pharmacies countrywide.
- Using the two technologies could save pharmacies processing
more than 250 prescriptions a day
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Keck Medicine of USC Deploys Virtual Check-Ins to Reduce Risk of COVID-19 Exposure
What You Should Know:
- Keck Medicine of USC, a world-class academic medical
center in Los Angeles, has deployed Lumeon’s SMS-based virtual check-in
solution to support physical distancing and reduce the risk of COVID-19
exposure at its facilities.
- Keck Medicine is now more safely managing check-ins for more than 80,000 patients per month. During the first ten days of system operation, 67% of eligible patients checked-in virtually for their appointments.
To support physical
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How ADT-Based E-Notifications Can Enable Better Safety for COVID-19 Patients
As COVID-19 continues to impact the country, providers across the continuum face new challenges delivering care and ensuring safety for their patients and themselves. During this period, sharing real-time information about patients’ care encounters across provider types and care settings matter more than ever. In particular, hospitals sharing admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) events with COVID-19 patients’ community-based providers is critical to ensure the best treatment course and
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Telehealth’s Time Has Come. And It’s Here to Stay.
“The numbers don’t lie,” is a famous old adage and quite appropriate with regard to the rapid rise and deployment of telehealth solutions in the medical community. It may have taken a global pandemic for society to recognize and investigate the rewards of its adoption, but statistics reveal that telehealth’s moment has indeed come. And it certainly seems like it’s here to stay.
How did we come so far, so fast? By undertaking forward-thinking policies and bold action, the health care industry
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Noteworth Lands $5M to Expand All-in-One Care Delivery Platform
What You Should Know:
- Noteworth, a first-of-its-kind Digital Healthcare
platform for modernizing Digital Medicine delivery operations, secured a $5
million oversubscribed seed funding round led by Laconia Capital Group
- With this investment, the company will continue to
build upon the delivery of Noteworth’s first-of-its-kind Digital Healthcare
platform.
Noteworth,
a Hoboken, NJ-based all-in-one-care delivery platform for modernizing digital medicine
delivery
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Health Catalyst Acquires Clinical Workflow Optimization Solution healthfinch
What You Should Know:
- Health Catalyst announces an agreement to acquire
clinical workflow optimization solution healthfinch using a mix of stock and
cash.
- As part of the acquisition, healthfinch will be a new
application suite category called EMR Embedded Insights and its refills, care
gaps closure, and visit planning applications will continue to be available in
their original configuration.
Health
Catalyst, Inc., a provider of data and analytics technology and services
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New CVS Pharmacy App Feature Can Read Prescription Labels Out Loud for Visually Impaired
What You Should Know:
- CVS introduced Spoken Rx™, a new feature of the
CVS Pharmacy app that can read important prescription information out loud. It
is vitally important for patient safety and adherence that prescription labels
are clear and visible, but for patients with visual impairments or those who
can’t read standard print labels, that’s not always the case.
- Spoken Rx provides an audible label option that reads
important info such as patient name, medication name,
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