What You Should Know: - DrChrono Inc., an EverHealth® solution that is developing an essential platform and services for modern medical practices, today announced an integration partnership with Solv, an app that delivers everyday healthcare on-demand, equipping providers with the technology they need to improve patient access to quality healthcare, virtually or in person. - The integration aims to ultimately provide a simple, friendly, and transparent experience that increases
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iSpecimen Expands COVID-19 Research with Sequences Specimens to Detect Variants
What You Should Know: - iSpecimen, the developer of an online marketplace that connects human biospecimen with researchers, announced that is has expanded its supplier capabilities in support of COVID-19 researchers. - Through a new partnership with a reference lab in New York, researchers looking to validate their own COVID variant identification assays can obtain sequenced and unsequenced COVID-19 positive and negative swabs in a variety of media types through iSpecimen. This lab is
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6 Top Reasons to Consider In-Home Care For Elderly
Your aging loved ones need special care and attention. Whether it is taking care of their health or helping them with daily chores, your elderly parents may require assistance to live healthily and comfortably. It’s possible that you cannot be there for 24x7 assistance, but you can look for different in-home care options. Home care proves to be the best solution for many families as it allows their elderly loved ones to stay within the comfort of their homes and seek proper healthcare. Some
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Greenway Health Appoints Pratap Sarker as CEO
What You Should Know: - Pratap Sarker to succeed Richard Atkin as CEO of Greenway Health, Atkin to transition to the role of Executive Chairman of the Greenway Health Board. Health information technology services provider, Greenway Health, today announced that Pratap Sarker had been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Richard Atkin who has served as CEO since 2018. Mr. Atkin will transition to the role of Executive Chairman of the Greenway Health board. In his new role,
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How Near-Infrared Imaging Technology is Improving the Patient Experience
Imaging technologies are continuously improving. In some cases, imaging advancement allows for enhanced diagnostics, such as using a CT scan to classify a tumor. However, imaging advancements are also showing promise as a way to improve patient experience at the time of the procedure. In particular, their benefits are being showcased in the blood work field to expedite the blood drawing or IV placement experience and reduce patient discomfort. One of the most common complaints when
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Search & Referral Platform Aunt Bertha Rebrands as findhelp
What You Should Know: - Aunt Bertha, an Austin-TX-based search and referral platform for social services in the US, announced it has rebranded as findhelp - a name shift that helps customers, organizations, and those seeking care to instantly understand the company's mission: to connect all people seeking help and the programs that serve them with dignity and ease. - The location-based network of free and reduced-cost resources for food, housing, goods, transit, health, money,
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“We Must Eliminate the Noise,” Reflected Cerner’s New President and CEO
What You Should Know: - During the opening keynote at Cerner Health Conference, Cerner’s new President and CEO, David Feinberg, M.D., expressed the need to improve the usability of health records to help patients avoid unnecessary tests and medications, enable nurses and doctors to eliminate errors and predict what’s to come to improve the health of communities around the world. - “Healthcare technology needs to be reliable, understandable, complementary – we all must work to address
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Sentara Healthcare Taps Sensyne to Deploy Clinical Algorithms for CKD & CHF
What You Should Know: - Sentara Healthcare, a health system in NC and VA, just partnered with Sensyne Health to drive clinical research with ethical AI. - As part of a collaboration agreement, Sentara also becomes the first of several U.S. health systems that will partner with Sensyne to implement new clinical algorithms to support patients with CKD and CHF. The agreement will enable the ethical application of clinical AI research by Sensyne through analyzing Sentara’s patient dataset to
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How Logmore’s Condition Monitoring System Is Securing COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
With the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in high gear, innovative data technologies are critical to the success of the most ambitious inoculation effort in human history. There are many challenges involved with trying to vaccinate so many people in such a short amount of time. It hasn’t helped that the leading vaccines require extra cold temperatures in order to remain effective. The “cold chain” is a significant challenge even in the most developed countries in the world. In the US, safe
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Plastic Surgery 2021 Industry Trends to Watch
Every industry will experience trends that affect everything from marketing to demand for services. This includes the healthcare industry. However, the plastic surgery industry is unusual for the sheer number of new products and procedures coming out. These may cater to new markets, improve on classic methods, or solve problems that couldn’t be addressed before. Here are the top plastic surgery trends for 2021 and beyond. A New Focus on Eyes For many years, eyelid surgeries have been the
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