Startups should co-develop products with healthcare providers and figure out how to plant themselves into hospitals and clinics’ operating models. This will allow them to create effective technology, according to the healthcare executives speaking at a Monday panel on alleviating healthcare inefficiencies through innovation.
The program from IBM Israel and Hadassah Medical Center, which will begin in the first quarter of 2019 and last six months, is open to startups that have completed a post-seed round of financing, according to Israeli publication Globes.
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.
Tackling the problem of the lack of reliable data when it comes to tracking whether a patient is following their medication plan.
Year-old Lexigram is positioning itself as an "on-demand" software-as-a-service provider of natural language processing and machine learning.
The two-day Health IT Summit in San Francisco yielded a great deal of interesting talks about the most intriguing challenges and opportunities confronting hospitals and providers, ranging from the incorporation of big data into EHRs, using technologies to improve outcomes and reimbursement rates. There was broad consensus that the industry has a long way’s to […]
Clinical drug data and medication adherence are being melded together in a deal between First Databank and startup Polyglot Systems, which has developed a cloud-based adherence platform for hospitals, ambulatory care centers and pharmacies across the U.S. and Canada. South San Francisco-based First Databank, part of Hearst Health, will use North Carolina-based Polyglot’s Meducation platform, which provides medication instructions […]
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.
An ER doctor wanted help documenting patient care, so she started a scribe business. Kathleen Myers, MD started Scribes Stat in 2011. In 2012, customers started asking for help in converting to electronic medical records and that created a new clinical informatics business to support that health IT work. Earlier this year, the two companies […]
Joining a startup operation requires certain traits that aren’t always essential for other jobs. In order to be successful, and maybe move on to creating a separate startup, employees have a couple of essential resume requirements. In the healthcare industry, it’s a little bit more specific, so we pulled out a few applicable ones from […]
With so much focus being shifted to post-hospitalization care coordination, who’s the most effective provider to lead that coordination? And how do provider organizations make sure the best protocols are being employed? Perhaps it’s not providers at all who should be following up with patients. Instead, wouldn’t it be far more efficient to deploy the […]
Human anatomy class is a right of passage for medical school students, but the bodies they dissect tend to be an afterthought. Who can know the story behind this person on the lab table before them and the choices that ultimately brought them there? The opportunity to go to med school tuition free? A strong […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
A Philadelphia health IT company that developed a predictive analytics tool to help hospitals get a handle on care coordination to reduce readmissions has raised $4 million to support its national expansion. NewSpring Capital provided the funding and general partner Brian Murphy will join the board. RightCare Solutions’ platform uses technology developed by University of […]