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HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions

by Fred Pennic 03/15/2022 Leave a Comment

HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions,

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform OptimizeRx, a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and stay on therapy announced a definitive agreement to acquire the EvinceMed platform and related assets. EvinceMed is a provider in delivering end-to-end automation for specialty pharmaceutical transactions. The acquisition includes the full Market Access Management Platform
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VA Taps Evidation for Personalized Heart Health Program for Veterans

by Strategic Partnerships 03/15/2022 Leave a Comment

VA Taps Evidation for Personalized Heart Health Program for Veterans

What You Should Know: - Evidation, the company enabling anyone to participate in ground-breaking health programs, launches a new program in collaboration with the VA. The program -- Heart Health on Evidation -- will encourage veterans to understand and engage with their cardiovascular health using their smartphones and wearables. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of hospitalization in the VA health care system. - Veterans who opt to participate in the program, which was
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RapidSOS Secures $85M to Scale Emergency Response Data Platform

by Fred Pennic 02/11/2021 Leave a Comment

RapidSOS Secures $85M to Scale Emergency Response Data Platform

What You Should Know: - RapidSOS, NYC-based digital health announced it has raised $85M in Series C funding led by Insight Partners, bringing the company’s total funding to $200M - Founded in 2012, RapidSOS has created the world's first emergency response data platform that securely links life-saving data from 350M+ connected devices to emergency services and first responders. Through the platform, RapidSOS provides intelligent data that supports over 4,800 Emergency Communications Centers
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3 Steps to Maintain Telehealth’s Momentum Post-Pandemic

by Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Leader for Post-Acute and Home, Philips 01/19/2021 Leave a Comment

3 Steps to Maintain Telehealth’s Momentum Post-Pandemic

In the face of COVID-19, healthcare witnessed how crises can become the long-awaited push for creativity and innovation that the industry needs. When our healthcare infrastructure’s weaknesses were exposed, telehealth helped to stitch them up, with the number of telehealth claims increasing 8,336% nationally from April 2019 to April 2020. Out of need, patients quickly turned to telehealth as a new model of care delivery; clinicians adapted to a new avenue for engaging with patients, policymakers
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Xealth’s CEO Shares Impact of Digital Health in 2020 and What’s Ahead in 2021

by Fred Pennic 01/07/2021 Leave a Comment

Xealth’s CEO Shares Impact of Digital Health in 2020 and What’s Ahead in 2021

HIT Consultant sat down with Mike McSherry, CEO, and co-founder of Seattle-based digital prescription platform Xealth to discuss digital health lessons learned in 2020 and what we can expect in 2021. As Xealth’s CEO, Mike also works with Duke Health, UPMC, Atrium Health, and The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network where he uses his background in digital health to connect patients and care teams outside of traditional care settings.  HITC: In 2021, How can digital
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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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DoD Awards $2.8M to Philips & BioIntelliSense to Validate Wearable for Early COVID-19 Detection

by Jasmine Pennic 12/23/2020 Leave a Comment

DoD Awards $2.8M to Philips & BioIntelliSense to Validate Wearable for Early COVID-19 Detection

What You Should Know: - Philips and BioIntelliSense has been selected by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) to receive nearly $2.8M from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to validate BioIntelliSense’s FDA-cleared BioSticker device for the early detection of COVID-19 symptoms. - Working with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, the clinical study will consist of 2,500 eligible participants with a recent, known COVID-19 exposure and/or a
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Ensuring Telehealth Providers’ Virtual Care Dollars Make Sense

by Don Godbee, Mobile Solutions Architect at Stratix 12/09/2020 Leave a Comment

Ensuring Telehealth Providers’ Virtual Care Dollars Make Sense

Telehealth and virtual care are not brand-new phenomena suddenly cobbled together as a rapid response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the average US patient could be forgiven for thinking that it is. Indeed, virtual visits to care providers and remote patient monitoring have been available for quite some time, delivering two key benefits:  - Providing a platform to address cost-efficiencies and accessibility to quality healthcare for the populace at large  - Playing a
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Future of Femtech and Technology: An Emerging Innovative Crossroads

by Jasmine Pennic 11/17/2020 Leave a Comment

Analysis: Why Digital Health Investors are Falling in Love with Femtech

In recent years the technological field has taken revolutionary steps to balance out gender disparities. This has led to the advent of a female-centric health technology market that utilizes tech as a proponent for women's health and overall wellness. You must have seen (or at least heard of) an app that focuses explicitly on women's issues. These tools are part of a growing collaboration between health and technology known as femtech. Areas that are currently represented include sex and
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Why Hasn’t A More Holistic Approach to Patient Care Become The Norm?

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 09/30/2020 Leave a Comment

Why Holistic Healthcare Is Worth the Cost

When food production technology made it possible, wheat flour processors started to eliminate the tough exterior (bran) and nutrient-rich core (germ) of the kernel to get at the large, starchy part (the endosperm) only. The bread produced from this process is white and fluffy, and it makes great PB&Js and takes forever to grow mold, but it is almost totally lacking nutritional value. Nutrition experts eventually pointed this out, of course, after which commercial bakers tried fortifying
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