The combination would rank among the top 15 largest nonprofit health systems in the country and span 76 hospitals across 26 states and nine countries, employing 83,000 staffers and 2,600 physicians.
West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health, a network of hospitals, clinics and home care services, has launched the fund, which will focus on early-stage growth companies across digital health, medical devices, therapeutic spaces and healthcare services.
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 Iowa Clinic in West Des Moines implemented IKS Health's Scribble tool, an asynchronous virtual scribe service, and it is helping physicians save time and see more patients.
Through its IoT Guardian solution, Zingbox provides real-time risk assessment across the health system's network of more than 45,000 connected medical devices.
Mercy ACO lacked a solid way to connect its data from disparate sources, so it worked with Innovaccer and its data platform to help solve the issue.
The marketing clearance follows the FDA's decision to approve a "breakthrough device" designation for IDx-DR, accelerating the review process for the product based on its ability to address an unmet medical need.
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.
The system has an artificial intelligence algorithm that evaluates the images coming from the camera and determines whether or not there's diabetic retinopathy in them,” explained IDx Founder and President Michael Abràmoff. “So it makes a clinical decision, without someone like me being involved — it's fully autonomous.”
The goal of the remote home health program is to reduce visits to the emergency room as well as inpatient admissions for high-risk patients.
Finally, a 2016 presidential candidate has said something about healthcare other than repealing Obamacare (pretty much every Republican) or single-payer "Medicare for all" (Bernie Sanders).
When Pennsylvania got the Obama administration’s sign-off on its Medicaid expansion plans last week, it became the ninth state with a Republican governor to agree to broaden coverage for low-income residents – a key component of Obama’s healthcare reform law. Getting to that point, though, wasn’t easy. The Obama administration has made itself open to […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
CoOportunity Health, a nonprofit health insurance cooperative based in Des Moines, Iowa, has had a front-row seat to the ups and downs of healthcare.gov, the federal exchange website that got off to a notoriously poor start. With the fixes to the federal website, CoOportunity officials report that the exchange enrollment numbers are improving rapidly. “We’ve […]
The big buzz word around corporate wellness solutions is complete: being not just a food journal or a workplace wellness program but a comprehensive solution that can engage someone at any time, make them healthy, increase productivity and someday cut healthcare costs. BettrLife is inching closer toward its first customers with such a vision: combine […]
What cloud-based health information exchange providers like AT&T, Verizon and DR Systems are doing for health systems, eDossea aims to do for dentist offices. The cloud-based, file-sharing and storage platform is designed specifically to enable dentists, specialists and oral surgeons to share electronic dental records in the form of patient information, X-rays and follow-up reports […]
Terpenoid is developing two drugs -- one to treat metastatic bone disease associated with prostate and breast cancer and multiple myeloma, and the second to treat brain cancers.
Its lead drug lasts longer in the body than many ADHD treatments and won't produce the same "high" if recreationally snorted or injected.