What You Should Know:
- Wellstar Health System extends its partnership with Moth+Flame to further utilize its virtual reality (VR) training technology.
- The VR emotional intelligence training encourages Wellstar's employees to build composure and gain practical experience in a highly realistic scenario by navigating difficult conversations and testing resiliency in an emotionally charged environment.
- The experience helps Wellstar's workforce development
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Situational Awareness
Palo Alto Networks Launches Medical IoT Security for Medical Devices
What You Should Know:
What You Should Know:
- Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) announced Medical IoT Security — the most comprehensive Zero Trust security solution for medical devices — enabling healthcare organizations to quickly and securely deploy and manage new connected technologies. Zero Trust is a strategic approach to cybersecurity that secures an organization by eliminating implicit trust by continuously verifying every user and device.
- As healthcare providers use digital
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We Need to Use Data to Maximize Home and Community-Based Services for Our Most Vulnerable
Millions of children and adults living with intellectual or developmental disabilities (ID/DD) rely on long-term services and support (LTSS) offered through the state Medicaid program to meet their complex health needs. Medicaid LTSS enables many to achieve personal goals and lead fulfilling lives. These individuals are often some of the most vulnerable, highest-cost clients in the healthcare system.
But for many, these services are not attainable, nor is the process easy to
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Avive Raises $22M for Connected AED Platform for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
What You Should Know:
Avive Solutions, Inc., developer of an intelligent AED and connected response platform for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) emergencies, today announced that it closed a $22 million Series A round of financing co-led by Questa Capital, Catalyst Health Ventures and repeat investor Laerdal Million Lives Fund.
- This funding will be used to advance a new technology-enabled approach for improving OHCA survival rates. Ryan Drant, founder and managing partner of Questa
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IBM Watson Health, OrbitalRX Launches Solution to Combat U.S. Drug Shortage
What You Should Know:
- IBM Watson Health and OrbitalRX launches an integrated solution to assist hospital pharmacy providers in managing drug shortages.
- Joint offering pairs pharmacy supply chain management
capabilities with evidence-based drug content, designed to help hospital pharmacy
teams manage drug shortages.
- OrbitalRX with Micromedex will create a single source
for healthcare providers and pharmacists to access the latest evidence-based
clinical information alongside a
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Nuance Advances Virtual Assistant Tech for Customers Using Epic EHR
What You Should Know:
- Nuance advances conversational AI with Dragon Medical virtual
assistant for Hey Epic! virtual assistant in Epic Hyperspace.
- Building upon Nuance’s Dragon Medical solution already
used by more than 550,000 physicians, this integration with Hey Epic! enables
clinicians to conversationally navigate the EHR, search for information, place
orders, and seamlessly switch hands-free between voice assistant and dictation.
Nuance®
Communications, Inc., today
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Cerner Launches AI-Powered Command Center Dashboard for COVID-19 Response
What You Should Know:
- Cerner launches a new Command Center dashboard to help organizations visualize and optimize operations in a centralized location by leveraging real-time data and predictive analytics to provide situational awareness and decision support during COVID-19.
- Powered by AI and predictive models, helps organizations align patient needs, staffing, and resources to improve care and operational efficiency.
Healthcare IT leader Cerner recently launched a new tool to
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Built on Google Cloud Platform, The National Response Portal Launches for COVID-19 Insights
What You Should Know:
National Response Portal launches to ensure healthcare providers and policymakers have access to the most up-to-date COVID-19 analytics.
The open data platform built on Google Cloud enables decision-makers in healthcare and the government to make data-driven decisions toward ending the COVID-19 crisis and restarting the economy.
SADA, a leading global business and technology
consultancy, announces the official launch of the National Response Portal
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Hospital IQ & Cerner Partner to Deliver Predictive Analytics for OR
What You Should Know:
- Hospital IQ and Cerner just announced a relationship to support health systems with predictive analytics to improve clinical and operational awareness.
- Together, the companies will provide health systems with near real-time analytics and predictive capabilities to gain insight into where resources are being used, where they may be needed, and how they can be deployed more efficiently.
- Health system operators, administrators, and clinical leaders can
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Health Scholars Nabs $17M to Expand Clinical Virtual Reality Training Platform
- Health Scholars, a Westminister, CO-based virtual reality healthcare training platform raises $17M in Series B funding. - Funding will be utilized for the expansion of clinical training simulations and virtual simulation technologies.Health Scholars, known for their VR simulations and cloud-based training platform utilized for management, delivery, and analysis of clinical training, is excited to announce the successful completion of a $17M round of fundraising with investments from Arboretum
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