WELL Health Technologies to acquire EHR maker Aware MD for $4.5M
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
The company says this new acquisition will help bolster its EHR work in the cardiology space.
Digital Health Technologies for Maternal and Neonatal Infection Management
Digital Health Global
MARCH 3, 2025
A recent article in The Lancet Digital Health explores how digital health technologies (DHTs) are transforming infection management, highlighting their potential to improve health outcomes and reduce disparities, especially in underserved regions. Additionally, AI-powered imaging (e.g.,
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Canadian provider WELL Health Technologies snaps up EHR-focused Intrahealth Systems
Mobi Health News
APRIL 5, 2021
WELL Health plans on keeping Intrahealth a stand-alone business in its EMR group. .
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“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Note that the patient sample was limited to consumers who had seen a health care provider in the past two years and who also owned and used a personal wearable health device such as an Apple Watch or Fitbit. And, one-half would also prefer to send “screenshots” of their health data between visits.
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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – November 27, 2024
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Privacy Consultant – Health Care Service Corporation Clinical Informatics Specialist – Insight Global Chief Medical Officer – Clinicas del Camino Real, Inc.
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Bonus Features – November 3, 2024 – 95% of consumers want an easier way to pay medical bills, 90% of medical devices aren’t running anti-malware software, plus 35 more stories
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
Oracle Health News Plenty of headlines from Nashville and the Oracle Health Summit. The biggest news: Oracle Health previewed previewed a next-generation EHR “designed to embed AI across the entire clinical workflow,” with conversational search, voice-driven navigation, and automated chart review.
Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The proliferation of such wearable sensors and remote patient monitoring technologies helps set the technology stage for HaH. But a key limiting factor of these many sensors generating data has been inadequate backend algorithms that address signal noise and limited EHR integration, the authors observe.
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TigerConnect Acquires Twiage, Enhancing Real-Time EMS to Hospital Communication for Streamlined Emergency Care
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 30, 2024
The acquisition strengthens TigerConnects portfolio by introducing pre-hospital communication and transfer center workflows, that go beyond what can be achieved via EHR-based chat systems.
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Epic launches new telehealth service with Twilio
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 1, 2020
Based on Twilio’s Programmable Video API, the service will give healthcare professionals the ability to launch video visits with patients and to update clinical documentation and review patient histories within Epic EHR workflows. It was designed in collaboration with the nonprofit health technology organization OCHIN.
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What to expect in Asia-Pacific health IT in 2025?
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 8, 2025
How could digital health transformations proceed in the new year? Healthcare IT News sought predictions from and expectations of healthcare providers and technology vendors in APAC for health IT this 2025. Which trend in health technology in your country will you see continuing in 2025?
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Tuva Health Launches Open-Source Platform to Transform Healthcare Analytics Industry
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 10, 2025
The Company Comes Out of Stealth with $5M and in Collaboration with 25+ Partners to Support Transparent and Accessible Data Analytics Tuva Health , the world’s first open-source healthcare data transformation platform, launched out of stealth today with $5M in seed funding.
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AMA sees surge in health IT adoption, 'rise of the digital-native physician'
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Physicians' use and appreciation of information technology and digital health tools has seen a big uptick over the past five years, according to a new survey from the American Medical Association. Clinical decision support. Adoption was up from 28% in 2016 to 37% in 2019. ON THE RECORD.
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Bonus Features – February 2, 2025 – Only 14% of Americans confident with their health plan choice, hospitals end 2024 with 6% operating margins, plus 19 more stories
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
Behavioral health screening vendor Mental Health Technologies joined AdvancedMD’s marketplace. Perceptyx launched Activate for Healthcare to help health systems analyze and act on feedback from employee surveys. Lone Star Family Health Center selected athenaOne for EHR, RCM, and patient engagement.
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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology
The Digital Health Corner
APRIL 28, 2017
In his testimony on healthcare market’s consolidation effects on quality, cost and access, Paul Ginsberg, Director of Public Policy at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics cites some key drivers of consolidation. There are many considerations when EHRs collide. Other non-clinical considerations.
Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people. Still, over 50% of consumers ages 56 to 74 would like to download their EHR data. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S. consumers’ adoption of digital health technology stalled.
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AI: Patients Included
Health Populi
MARCH 13, 2024
adults’ levels of trust in health care services and suppliers, finding the greatest trust lies with a consumer’s local pharmacy (for 77% of consumers), followed by hospitals (for 73% of people) and in third rank, health technology (63%). Layered on top of this is health citizens’ eroding trust in other aspects of U.S.
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Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – March 5, 2025 – News from Epic, Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce, plus 33 more stories
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 5, 2025
Decision support platform Avo is now integrated with Juno Health ‘s EHR system. Fujifilm Healthcare is partnering with Tiger Health Technology to improve PACS workflows in pathology. Altera Digital Health unveiled ambient listening AI tools built for Sunrise, Paragon Denali, and TouchWorks EHR.
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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – April 10, 2024
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 10, 2024
Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Application Coordinator – State University of New York Upstate Medical University Epic Certified Cupid Analyst – Engage Partners Inc.
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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Being Philips, what underpins that quality and experience is technology; Philips explored telehealth, AI, digital health records (DHRs), and other digital health tools that can engage patients. Think of APIs as tunnels into the clinical data warehouses that have been created by EHRs.
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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
"The level of complexity in virtual health was high and prevented a consistent approach and consistent support; it has been a complex experience for patients. "Consolidating onto a single video, portal and EHR has been both strategic and required substantial investment." " Cara Babachicos, South Shore Health.
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Amwell Releases Open Platform for Integrating Multiple Virtual Care Applications
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 6, 2021
Telehealth vendor Amwell has released a platform allowing providers to integrate multiple types of virtual health services using a single infrastructure. Amwell’s Converge platform is designed to integrate with existing workflows, EHRs, patient portals and consumer digital health technologies. Its goal is to […].
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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people. Still, over 50% of consumers ages 56 to 74 would like to download their EHR data. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.
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How one 500-doc physicians group scaled up telehealth to 130 clinics in a week
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 14, 2020
“The platform they had developed allowed us to create a fully integrated solution into our EHR, giving birth to our MPG Connect platform, with the ability to support Millennium’s mission while preparing us for the future of the changing healthcare cycle.” ” MARKETPLACE. ” RESULTS.
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Roundup: Monash Health sets up virtual clinic for blood pressure management and more briefs
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 21, 2022
Yarram District Health Service adopts Global Health's EMR, patient engagement tools. The Yarram District Health Service in Victoria has signed a contract with health technology company Global Health for the implementation of several MasterCare clinical solutions.
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Grow Therapy Raises $88M Sequoia Capital-Led Series C to Advance Effective Mental Healthcare
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 10, 2024
Grow Therapy is a three-sided platform dedicated to empowering access to effective mental healthcare by providing integrated vertical software and services to patients, providers, and payors, including seamless patient-provider matching, insurance billing, electronic health records (EHR) & telehealth software, and care navigation.
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ATA launches Center of Digital Excellence with health system heavy-hitters
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 13, 2024
Virtual care companies Access TeleCare and AvaSure have also joined as founding sponsors and will help advance CODE’s product development and support its goal to advance digital health technologies across different care settings.
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Navigating AI Adoption in Healthcare: Overcoming Key Challenges for Sustainable Growth
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Additionally, testing new strategies through small-scale pilot programs can provide essential feedback before scaling up, making sure that AI solutions integrate smoothly with existing systems, such as EHRs and clinical workflows, to minimize data silos.
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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health
Health Populi
AUGUST 27, 2018
At the other end of the health data trust spectrum are government agencies and pharmaceutical companies, who rank low on consumer confidence for keeping personal health information secure. It’s good news and bad news that physicians are so highly trusted as health data shepherds. In the meantime, in the U.S.,
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Health IT Roundup—ONC issues EHR safety challenge; LifeBridge reports breach impacting 500,000 patients
FierceHealthIT
MAY 23, 2018
ONC calls on developers to build an app that can report EHR safety concerns; LifeBridge sends breach notification letter to 500,000 patients; Congress wants to keep a close eye on the VA's EHR modernization efforts; plus more health technology news of note.
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Latest from the Tech Tonics Podcast: Griffin Weber: Bringing Clinical Sense & Sensibility to Healthcare Data
Digital Health
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Inspired by health technology from the age of five, Griffin Weber has pursued this passion both doggedly and joyfully. Now an associate professor of medicine and bioinformaticist at Harvard, Griffin spends his days doing what he loves, leveraging technology to pragmatically improve the health and the care of patients.
Bonus Features – January 14, 2024 – Epic Research shows telehealth results in more follow-up visits that in-office care, Elevance Health to offer smartphones to qualified Medicaid beneficiaries, plus 21 more stories
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 14, 2024
In a letter, the EHR Association warned that ONC’s proposed information blocking disincentives may be less effective than intended. Mayo Clinic is deploying TruLite Health’s software for addressing clinical bias through a know-how agreement. Sales Michigan-based McKenzie Health System implemented eClinicalWorks EHR v12.
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Wearable Devices and Mobile Applications – 2025 Health IT Predictions
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 15, 2025
Pramila Srinivasan, CEO at CharmHealth As the nation faces an increasing shortage of primary care providers, especially in rural and underserved areas, healthcare technology is set to undergo a transformation that will redefine how patients access care.
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Federal Innovation Hubs Can Jump-Start Healthcare Technology Adoption
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
So slow, it may be decades before the benefits of one of today’s new technologies make a measurable impact in healthcare. In the early 2000’s, healthcare organizations began using electronic health records (EHRs).
Digital solutions in pediatric sepsis
Digital Health Global
AUGUST 27, 2024
Current state, challenges, and opportunities Digital health technologies hold immense potential to transform the management of pediatric sepsis. In pediatric sepsis, CDS includes clinical guidelines, EHR order sets, alerts, best practice recommendations, and data dashboards.
Netsmart Advances Substance Use Disorder Solution Offerings Through Acquisition of Netalytics
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Netalytics plans to enhance the Methasoft+SMART electronic health records (EHRs) with its integration into the Netsmart CareFabric platform with digitized, real-time referrals, patient health record history and alerts. Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial advisor to Netalytics on this transaction.
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Healthcare CIOs plan increased IT investments in the year ahead
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 20, 2023
WHY IT MATTERS More than 88% of hospital chief information officers and other IT leaders plan to increase their investments in third-party technology in 2023-24, according to a new poll from IDC and sponsored by Redox.
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Resurgens Technology Partners Invests in Valant – An Industry Leader in Software Supporting the Behavioral Health Industry
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 26, 2023
Resurgens Technology Partners , a software-focused private equity firm, today announced its investment in Valant , a cloud-based EHR for behavioral health practices. Resurgens invested in Valant alongside the firm’s Operating Partner, Trey Carter.
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How UCHealth's Virtual Health Center has enabled innovation, scaled capability and capacity
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 2, 2022
Suddenly the demand was more than the health system ever conceived it would be. "Scaling this virtual visit capability and capacity was an extreme effort by our virtual health technology team to add on the infrastructure to support the new demand that no one could have predicted." " Kathy Deanda, UCHealth.
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Groups doubles down on telehealth with a mobile app to treat opioid addiction
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 19, 2022
To accomplish this, Groups provided its members with a number of different digital health technologies that enabled them to continue their treatment virtually and do all of the form submissions, drug screens and insurance processes that are part of the Groups recovery program.
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5 Reasons Medical Technology Appears to Fail
33 Charts - Digital Health
AUGUST 21, 2018
In medicine there’s an endemic mindset that if medical technology doesn’t work it will never work. The EHR, of course, is the poster child for technology’s failure in health care. It may not be the technology or its design, but us. We need to overcome the health technology outcomes gap.
CharmHealth Adding Features for Larger Practices & Encouraging Innovation
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 28, 2024
The company made a slew of announcements, including: More features for larger practices New AI capabilities Continued investment in integration with other platforms Charm Health Integration with Salesforce Telemynd is a mental health provider that serves patients from coast to coast. Learn more about CharmHealth at [link]
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Bonus Features – September 8, 2024 – 96% of healthcare tech leaders said effectively using AI provides a competitive edge, 72% of organizations are satisfied with their cloud migrations, plus 19 more stories
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
The EHR Association supports the extension , noting that the majority of hospitals have been struggling to meet these requirements. Digestive health technology vendor Cylinder named Jared Scharen as Chief Operations Officer. Urgent care software maker Experity appointed Saji Rajasekharan as Chief Technology Officer.
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Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
Fourteen professional healthcare, life science, and consumer organizations formed the Digital Health Collaborative to advance evidence and value in digital health technology. A survey published in JAMIA found 73% of digital health vendors are using standards-based FHIR APIs when integrating with EHR systems.
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Building resilient, connected and prepared health systems in the Nordics
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
“The percentage of video and phone medical consultations were very low before the pandemic but reached a peak in March – partly due to a change in the reimbursement scheme set up the Ministry of Health. You need to work across fields with health technology for instance and we’re not really prepared for that.”
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