Erin Dietsche
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 edietsche@medcitynews.com.
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Advance care planning company Vynca lands $10.3M in Series B funding
The funding came from various investors, including First Trust Capital Partners, OCA Ventures and Spectrum Health Ventures, among others.
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Hospitals, Startups, Social Determinants
Northwell partners with NowPow to address social determinants of health
The health system will offer NowPow’s services to about 1,200 Medicaid patients who are part of Health Home, its care coordination program that provides medical, mental health, substance abuse, social and family support services.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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McKesson UK acquires British medication management startup Echo
Through its app, London-based Echo, which was founded in 2015, offers prescription fulfillment and reminders to take medications.
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Health IT, Hospitals, Startups
Seattle startup Xealth secures $3M from Atrium Health, Cleveland Clinic and MemorialCare
The Seattle-based company, which spun out of Providence St. Joseph Health, has a platform that allows clinicians to prescribe and monitor digital health tools from their EHR workflows.
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Hospitals, Artificial Intelligence
This Colorado hospital is using Qventus’ AI to improve operations
Wheat Ridge, Colorado-based Lutheran Medical Center, which is part of SCL Health, is using Qventus’ technology in the inpatient setting to better coordinate patient discharges.
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Google, Sanofi use technology to better understand diseases and treatments
The two organizations have teamed up to establish an innovation lab, which will apply technology and analytics to Sanofi’s real-world database in an effort to better understand diseases and which treatments work for patients.
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Vizient and nonprofit generic drug company Civica Rx tackle drug shortages
Vizient, a healthcare performance improvement company, will use its analytics and data capabilities to help Civica Rx anticipate gaps in drug availability and affordability.
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New York City care management company VirtualHealth closes Series B round
VirtualHealth founder and CEO Adam Sabloff said the company is not disclosing the dollar amount of the round at this time but noted that the financing round brings the total amount raised by VirtualHealth to more than $25 million.
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Accumen buys clinical data exchange company Halfpenny Technologies
Accumen, which assists organizations with outreach services, imaging, clinical laboratory operations and patient blood management, has scooped up Pennsylvania-based Halfpenny for an undisclosed amount.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Uber Health will provide injured workers with transportation to medical appointments
Specialty risk transfer care coordination company Carisk Partners has selected Uber Health to provide medical transportation to injured workers.
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Ochsner Health System is addressing innovation inside and outside the hospital
A visit to the Louisiana health system sheds some light on how it is innovatively addressing chronic diseases like hypertension and diabetes, the inpatient experience and more.
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Intermountain Healthcare opens new innovation center with partner
The 30,000-square-foot facility in Salt Lake City will be used for evaluating, testing and designing new revenue cycle management technologies for hospitals, health systems and physician groups and will also serve as a client experience center.
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Health IT, Startups, Health Tech
IBM launches accelerator program to help startups grow and prioritize security
The program is open to early-stage health tech and fintech startups that are pre-Series A, less than five years old and have less than $1 million in revenue. The application deadline is 5 PM PT on July 31, 2019.
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Health IT, Artificial Intelligence
Nuance’s AI makeover to clinical documentation takes exam room to the future
At the annual HIMSS conference this year, Nuance revealed its Ambient Clinical Intelligence technology, which brings AI into the whole exam room to promote natural language interaction.
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Cleveland Clinic study finds Propeller Health platform helps reduce hospitalizations among COPD patients
The research, which was published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, involved 39 patients who have COPD and had at least one hospitalization or emergency room visit during the year prior to enrollment.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
