What You Should Know:
DrChrono Launches fully integrated telemedicine app exclusively
to its network of providers and is the one of the first EHRs to build a telemedicine
physician marketplace for patients.
Over 10,000 medical providers on the DrChrono platform
will have access to more telehealth options and receive more inbound requests
to provide virtual care visits to patients, especially during COVID-19.
DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical
practice of the
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The Impending Artificial Intelligence Revolution in Healthcare
For at least a decade, healthcare luminaries have been predicting the coming AI revolution. In other fields, AI has evolved beyond the hype and has begun to showcase real and transformative applications: autonomous vehicles, fraud detection, personalized shopping, virtual assistants, and so on. The list is long and impressive. But in healthcare, despite the expectations and the tremendous potential in improving the delivery of care, the AI revolution is just getting started. There have been
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Coding in Age of COVID-19: Deciphering Coding Nuances, Best Practices
Without much warning, the novel Coronavirus, or COVID-19, has taken over our healthcare system. It has taxed our healthcare workers, our national stockpiles of PPE, and affected millions of Americans nationwide. In addition to healthcare workers on the front lines, the pandemic has also impacted the healthcare revenue cycle, causing major confusion, questions, and inconsistencies as coding specialists learn the latest COVID-19 codes and guidelines at warp speed. With cases rising by the tens of
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Seattle Children’s Develops Nation’s First Opioid-Free” Surgery Center
What You Should Know:
- Seattle Children’s Hospital and its Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center (BCSC) leveraged AI-based technology from Seattle-based MDmetrix to develop the nation’s first “opioid-free” surgery center.
- The MDmetrix Mission Control platform was used to visualize and evaluate outcomes data so that physicians could quickly adapt their surgical protocols, incorporating evidence-based best practices, to effectively manage surgical pain while reducing
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COVID-19 Trend Report Reveals Which States Have Reached or Passed their Peaks
What You Should Know:
- New COVID-19 Trend Report created by Sermo displays states/regions that have reached or passed the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic based on physician reports.
- The COVID-19 Real Time Barometer Study provides exclusive access into the perspectives and expertise of over 20,000 total physicians across 30 countries, tracked over time.
- Majority of physicians in many COVID-19 Hotspots including Korea, Spain, China and Italy believe their countries have passed or
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HeartVista Raises $8.65M to Expand One Click, AI-Guided MRI Platform
What You Should Know:
HeartVista, a pioneer in AI-assisted MRI solutions raises
$8.65M in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, Jeff Rothschild, Leslie
Ventures, Open Field Capital, and additional investors.
The startup plans to use the funding to fuel new
musculoskeletal and neural products, expand internationally, and deepen
strategic alliances with the world’s leading cardiology centers.
HeartVista,
a pioneer in AI-assisted MRI solutions, today announced the closing of a
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How AR and MR Technology Can Reduce Medical Vulnerability to Improve the Patient Experience
Hospitals and health systems work hard every day to deliver patient-centered care. In fact, “the patient experience” is something now being measured, monitored and discussed throughout the healthcare continuum. Yet for most patients, moments of anxiety and medical vulnerability still abound, and the conversation rarely addresses this important fact.
Patients awaiting an X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) scan, for instance, maybe fearful of the results.
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Boston Medical, Rimidi Partner to Tackle High-Risk Pregnancy During COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- To help overcome the challenges of high-risk pregnancies, Boston Medical Center announced a partnership with Rimidi, a cloud-based software platform, to enable physicians to remotely collect and analyze patient-generated data to better treat patients remotely.
- Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, the adoption of Rimidi’s platform will ease fears and provide an extra layer of medical support by leveraging remote monitoring capabilities.
Boston
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Fear of Changing EHRs? Here’s What You Should be Concerned About
Over the years, the EHR has developed a poor reputation as a time-waster, a source of frustration for staff and a significant contributor of burnout in the healthcare industry. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 59% of physicians said their EHR negatively impacted their time at work. This is because EHRs can be inflexible, hard to use and lack interoperability with other systems.
With so many problems surrounding the reputation of these tools, its
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Digital Health Contagion: How COVID-19 Accelerated The Positive Spread of Digital Solutions
Remember – just three short but world-changing months ago – when many of us were at the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The date was January 13th, 2020. Coronavirus was a problem in China, of vague interest – perhaps like SARS, unlikely to have a big impact in the U.S. Our community of healthcare executives, investors, and entrepreneurs were once again gathering in San Francisco. And the adoption of digital health? Well, there was still more talk than action.
The arguments for
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