Erin Dietsche covers the hospitals and health IT beats for MedCity News. She previously worked as a writer/reporter for Becker's Hospital Review, where she covered everything from payer issues to health IT to leadership. Erin grew up in Minnesota, graduated from the University of Iowa and now calls Indiana home. You can email her at [email protected].
The Salvation Army Toronto Grace Health Centre will utilize the home care company's approach and technology solutions to reduce emergency department visits and hospital readmissions.
A new report from Accenture outlines how distributed ledger technology, artificial intelligence, extended reality and quantum computing will have an impact on healthcare processes and stakeholders.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The company creates video games for doctors that allow them to assist virtual patients in an effort to improve their clinical decision-making skills.
The submission deadline for the 2019 code App Challenge, which encourages participants to build apps on Cerner's platforms, is August 16, 2019.
A new report by the Center for Connected Medicine and The Health Management Academy suggests health systems should define innovation, empower their decision-makers and maximize their strengths, among other practices.
In addition to its seven Bay Area clinics that offer in-person care, the startup has a mobile app through which patients can conduct video visits or get treated for conditions by messaging Carbon providers.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Scheduling appointments, viewing lab results and requesting prescriptions emerged as the top three functions patients use mobile apps for, according to a SOTI survey of 552 U.S. consumers.
Other investors in the Series A round included the University of Virginia LVG Venture Fund, Presbyterian Healthcare Services (NM), Inception Health/Froedtert Health, Children's Hospital Colorado, UnityPoint Health and JAZZ Venture Partners.
Through the funding round, which was led by Dioko Ventures, the health tech startup, Feedtrail, intends to hire sales and marketing employees and scale its platform.
The Biden Cancer Initiative has announced that multiple healthcare organizations — including BreastCancerTrials.org, IBM Watson Health, Massive Bio and Syapse — are creating a shared platform called the Oncology Clinical Trial Information Commons, which will help cancer patients to know their clinical trial options.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
United Way of Metro Chicago is implementing a pilot of the NowPow tool, which connects people to resources for chronic health and social conditions, in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago.
Called the Center for Discovery and Innovation, the facility will give researchers the support to develop therapies for diabetes, dementia, cancer, auto-immune disorders and antibiotic-resistant infection.
Altos Ventures led the round while existing investors Thrive Capital, Red Swan Ventures and Asset Management Ventures also participated.
Medscape has launched the beta Oncology Decision Point tool for lung cancer. The full launch of the tool will include all major cancer types and will happen later this year.
The Banner Innovation Group, or BIG, is a way to bring together the health system's existing innovation efforts — like its emergency department chatbot — under one umbrella, as well as to expand into new areas.