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Analysis: 2022 Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review

by Healthcare Growth Partners 07/29/2022 Leave a Comment

HGP Releases its July 2022 Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review

Executive Summary Act III of COVID: Navigating the Crosscurrents of Post-Inflation 2022 ushered in Act III of the market’s latest transitionary period: The Post-Inflation Era. Since 2008, the US economy functioned with remarkably low inflation and interest rates. As the cost of capital went lower and lower during the decade, valuations steadily rose. Between 2010 and 2020, the NASDAQ experienced a 17.1% annual growth rate, with no small share of the growth a result of expanding valuation
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Executive Roundtable: Can Innovation Alleviate Clinician Burnout?

by Fred Pennic 07/18/2022 Leave a Comment

Physician Burnout Report: Understanding The Impact of Burnout on Healthcare Executives

The U.S. Surgeon General’s recent advisory about clinician burnout cited numerous societal, cultural, structural, and organizational causes—including excessive workloads, administrative burden, and lack of organizational support. The potential fallout of this trajectory is alarming: The advisory cites the Association of American Medical Colleges’ estimate on clinician demand outpacing supply, with an anticipated shortage of between
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Alexa, Can You Call My Nurse? Amazon to Build Vocera Skill for Alexa

by Fred Pennic 11/17/2021 Leave a Comment

Alexa, Can You Call My Nurse? Amazon to Build Vocera Skill for Alexa

What You Should Know: - Vocera announced a collaboration with Amazon to deliver Vocera skill for Alexa. This HIPAA-compliant solution provides an easy, personal, and direct way for hospitalized patients and aged care residents to connect with their caregivers and more. - Through the hands-free Vocera skill, Alexa clarifies the nature of patient requests, establishes urgency, and updates the patient on the status of the care team’s response in a personalized, conversational manner. Vocera
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Cone Health Transforms Maternity Campus into COVID-19 Only Hospital in 28 Days

by Jasmine Pennic 01/05/2021 Leave a Comment

Cone Health Transforms Maternity Campus into COVID-19 Only Hospital in 28 Days

What You Should Know: - Cone Health transforms its maternity campus into North Carolina’s first designated COVID-19 hospital in 28 days. Cone Health transformed its former women’s health campus into a designated COVID-19 hospital in 28 days. Using teamwork and technology, the Cone Health Green Valley campus in Greensboro, North Carolina became the area’s first specialized COVID-19 hospital, boasting the latest development in coronavirus
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30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

by Fred Pennic 12/30/2020 Leave a Comment

30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare executives to share their predictions and trends for 2021. Kimberly Powell, Vice President & General Manager, NVIDIA Healthcare Federated Learning: The clinical community will increase their use of federated learning approaches to build robust AI models across various institutions, geographies, patient demographics, and medical scanners. The sensitivity and selectivity of these models are outperforming AI models
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Vocera Acquires Secure Communications Platform EASE Applications

by Fred Pennic 08/19/2020 Leave a Comment

Vocera Acquires Secure Communications Platform EASE Applications

What You Should Know: - Today Vocera Communications acquires EASE Applications, a provider of a secure communication platform and mobile application that delivers updates, messages to patients’ loved ones, during surgeries and at other times. - The Orlando-based EASE offers a cloud-based service that is built to improve the patient experience by enabling friends and family members to receive timely updates about the progress of loved ones in the hospitals. Care team members can send
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2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners Announced

by Fred Pennic 05/21/2020 Leave a Comment

2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners Announced

What You Should Know: - MedTech Breakthrough announces 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners that recognizes the top companies, people, platforms, and products in the health, fitness, and medical technology industries today. - The 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Awards program is open to all individuals, companies, and organizations involved in producing digital health and medical technology products and services.  MedTech Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization that recognizes
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What Health IT Thought Leaders Say HIMSS20 Would Have Focused On—If It Had Happened

by Jasmine Pennic 03/13/2020 Leave a Comment

Coronavirus Forces Cancellation of 2020 HIMSS Conference: 6 Things to Know

What You Need to Know: Health IT thought leaders share what HIMSS20 would have focused On—if It had happened. - Hot topics include health IT to address COVID-19; artificial intelligence; EHR interoperability and usability; and more. –Kuldeep Singh Rajput, CEO of Biofourmis, Boston, Mass., which provides digital therapeutics that power personalized predictive care “Remote monitoring platforms and clinical-grade wearables combined with artificial intelligence [AI]-based
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Cleveland Clinic London Taps Vocera to Build Clinical Communications Platform

by Fred Pennic 12/05/2019 Leave a Comment

Cleveland Clinic London Taps Vocera to Build Clinical Communications Platform

- Cleveland Clinic London will use the Vocera Platform to standardize care team communication across the hospital when it opens in 2021.- The Vocera Platform integrates with more than 150 clinical and operational systems, including EHRs, physiologic monitors, ventilators and more.- Cleveland Clinic London is planning a two-way integration with Epic, the hospital’s EHR system. Additional integrations with a real-time location system and nurse call solution also are planned. Cleveland Clinic
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Vocera Vina Smartphone App Launches to Optimize Patient Safety

by Jasmine Pennic 09/04/2019 Leave a Comment

Vocera Vina Smartphone App Launches to Optimize Patient Safety

- Vocera Vina smartphone app launches to help improve clinical communications and enhance patient safety by reducing the clerical burdens that lead to burnout. - The customizable communication app presents prioritized patient-centric calls, secure messages, and alerts in a unified inbox, and provides an intuitive user experience for clinicians inside and outside the hospital. - Drawing from the hospital EHR, this the vendor-agnostic platform works alongside all other Vocera products to
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