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St. Peter’s Health, a regional nonprofit healthcare system in Helena, Montana, is moving to the InnovaccerⓇ Health Cloud's Data Activation Platform to support its mission of providing exceptional and compassionate care that treats the whole person and improves the health, wellness, and quality of life for the communities it serves.
The health system, an integrated network with more than 100 providers, a 99-bed acute care hospital, physician and urgent care
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Taking the Pulse on eCME – What’s Next for Continued Medical Education
Over the past two years, we’ve witnessed the massive digital disruption in healthcare that was spurred by the pandemic. The most frequent example tends to be in the rapid adoption of technology like telemedicine, but this disruption has touched even the most seemingly small pieces of the healthcare ecosystem and will have long lasting consequences.
Just consider the conferences that once used to draw large crowds of physicians seeking to attain their continuing medical education (CME)
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Analysis: The Role of Compact Systems in Today’s Ultrasound Market
Much of the focus in the ultrasound market in the last few years has been on the handheld market. This is justified, considering its role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the spate of innovation in the sector, both in terms of new product releases and partnerships. As a result, there is less mention of the other ultrasound product segments, especially the compact market. However, the compact market has also been active, with the release of Fujifilm SonoSite’s SonoSite LX in February
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UpStream Selects Innovaccer Health Cloud for 360-Degree Patient Views
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- Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced that UpStream Healthcare, the fastest-growing primary healthcare solution provider in the country, has chosen the Innovaccer Health Cloud, its Data Activation Platform, and the entire application suite to accelerate UpStream’s mission to transform U.S. healthcare by driving better outcomes for patients and improving financial outcomes for providers.
- UpStream will be able to equip these unified care teams with
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Salignostics Raises $8M for Rapid Saliva-Based Test Kits That Detect Pregnancy, COVID-19, Cardiac Risk, and Malaria
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- Israeli startup Salignostics, the developer and provider of rapid saliva-based tests for early pregnancy detection, as well as COVID-19, cardiac risk, malaria, and other diseases, has closed an $8 million Series A funding round from private investors headed by angel investor Avigdor Orlinsky.
- The company has raised $16M to date to support development, commercialization, and marketing efforts for the tests in Israel and overseas. It will also support the launch of
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Next Generation of Risk Adjustment: Uniting Health Plans and Providers
Up until now, risk adjustment has been addressed as a mechanism to accurately represent the overall risk profile of a health plan’s membership. A function that will still facilitate a health plan’s payment for taking on at-risk populations is about to go through its first major transformation – the use of risk adjustment data to drive value-based program initiatives.
Now that the functional aspects
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Why Mainstream Precision Medicine Hinges on Healthcare HPC Storage
The healthcare industry is experiencing a data deluge, and it shows no sign of slowing down.
In 2020, estimates reported that healthcare data comprised a staggering 30% of the world’s total data volume; projections for 2025 bump that number up to 36%, a growth rate outpacing every other industry.
This is promising news for precision medicine, the data-driven healthcare initiative that promotes the right treatment for the right patient at the right time.
Precision (or personalized)
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Tift Medical Integrates Sepsis Monitoring with Cerner EHR to Improve Early Detection
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- Clinicians now access Wolters Kluwer’s real-time sepsis monitoring alerts within Cerner EHR at Tift Regional Medical Center.
- POC Advisor’s highly accurate alerts and guidance are automatically delivered to the point of care to improve sepsis patient outcomes.
Wolters Kluwer, Health today announced that Tift Regional Medical Center, the flagship hospital of Southwell, a Georgia not-for-profit health system, has integrated POC Advisor, its sophisticated sepsis
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MediQuant® DataArk Awarded Project to Archive All Military Health Records
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MediQuant®, a provider of enterprise active archiving and conversion solutions, has been selected by the US Defense Health Agency (DHA) to help consolidate all clinical data across the Military Health System as it transitions to a new enterprise electronic health records (EHR) platform by 2024.
- The contract to deploy MediQuant’s DataArk solution for the DHA “Genesis” rollout was secured by ECS, a leading provider of science, engineering, and advanced technology
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Butterfly Launches System-Wide Ultrasound w/AI-Guided Option
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- Butterfly Network today launched Butterfly Blueprint, a system-wide platform that supports scaled deployment of ultrasound across hospitals and health systems.
- Blueprint integrates ultrasound information into health systems’ clinical and administrative systems and workflows. That means clinicians across all disciplines now have a tool that allows them to see and know results sooner to drive better care
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