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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Cerner, Banner Health, Xealth Partner to Simplify How Clinicians Prescribe Digital Health
What You Should Know: - Cerner Corporation today announced with Xealth new
centralized digital ordering and monitoring for health systems, starting with
Banner Health, to foster digital innovation. - Health systems can prescribe digital therapeutics, smartphones, and internet apps directly within the EHR to address areas such as chronic disease management, behavioral health, maternity care, and surgery prep. Cerner, today announced it’s building on the recent collaboration with
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Addressing Social Determinants of Health: IT Solutions to Engage Community Resources
What You Should Know: - The latest report from Chilmark Research examines the
new approaches and tools for utilizing community resources that can address
social determinants of health, giving providers the ability to extend care
beyond the confines of the clinic. - This research indicates that the next two years will largely bring an expansion of product capabilities with slow and steady growth in implementation as the market better defines key variables and sets standards for
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Cerner Invests in Xealth to Jointly Develop Digital Health Solutions for Clinicians
What You Should Know: - Cerner and Xealth announce a collaboration to foster
tighter physician-patient relationships by giving patients easier access to
digital health tools. - These assets will be prescribed directly within the physician’s EHR workflow to manage conditions including chronic diseases, behavioral health, maternity care, and surgery preparation. - Cerner and LRVHealth have together invested $6 million
in Xealth as part of this agreement, with Cerner and Xealth planning
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Q/A: Xealth’s CEO Talks Preparing for the Digital Health Avalanche
Xealth’s CEO and Cofounder Mike McSherry explain how healthcare systems can leverage the right data with the right digital health tools. There’s no
doubt the swell that is big data has been building for some time. However, the
question of how useful and all that data will continue to plague healthcare
providers. The overwhelm of information is real, but so is the potential for providers
to make actionable use of it, according to tech innovators. With doctors now prescribing more than
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Providence Uses Remote Patient Monitoring For 700+ COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know: - Providence is monitoring patients suffering from COVID-19 symptoms using Xealth’s digital health platform to deliver Twistle’s care automation and remote patient monitoring platform. - So far, more than 700 positive or presumptive positive COVID-19 patients are already being helped with this solution at home, keeping patients safe while reducing additional stress on hospitals, emergency rooms, and front-line health care teams. - Patients who are exhibiting
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Xealth Joins Epic App Orchard for EHR-Driven Digital Health Engagement
What You Need to Know: - Xealth announces it has joined the Epic App Orchard Marketplace to drive digital health engagement for health systems using Epic EHR by optimizing the ordering, delivery, and monitoring of your digital health apps, content, products, and services across the enterprise. - Through the secure Xealth platform, clinicians can find and order the right digital health tools and programs for patients direct from the EHR workflow, send these digital health orders to the
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Hospitals Are Failing to Meet New Moms’ Expectations for Digital Health, Xealth Survey Finds
What You Need to Know: - Hospitals are failing to meet new moms’ expectations for digital health services from their healthcare providers, according to a new Xealth survey. - Conducted among nearly 1,000 U.S. women who are new or expectant mothers, a majority (53%) who are familiar with digital health see online information as a key factor in choosing a hospital. Xealth, a Seattle, WA-based provider enabling digital health at scale, announced recent survey findings that examine the
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Capital Rx Wins Top Award at Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge
- Capital Rx has been named first-place Innovation Champion and Carrot Health as second-place Top Innovator of the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge. - Capital Rx’s clearinghouse model connects pharmacies and employers to establish a marketplace for drug pricing to reduce costs and create a better experience for both plan sponsors and patients. Capital Rx has been
named Innovation Champion of the Accenture
HealthTech Innovation Challenge, which recognizes innovative approaches
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Accenture Names 11 Finalists from Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge
- Accenture names 11 company finalists from the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge, which seeks to support innovative approaches and solutions for improving the way people access, manage and finance healthcare in North America. - Selected finalists presented to an exclusive panel of judges comprised of senior executives from globally recognized health companies at one of two regional events. One was held in Boston on Nov. 7 and the second in San Francisco on Dec. 5. For those selected as
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