Author: MobiHealthNews

Following COVID-19, Accenture and a team of companies crafted solutions to help Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) ensure long-term preparedness to address future public health challenges. Rachel Oldham, manager at Accenture, will discuss what the team has been working on to address DCHHS’s needs in a session at HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition in Orlando next week entitled “Dallas County Public Health Disease Surveillance and Investigation System.” Oldham shared highlights of the upcoming session with MobiHealthNews and what Oldham and her fellow panelists hope attendees will takeaway from the discussion.  MobiHealthNews: Can you tell us about your HIMSS24…

Magentus taps Google Cloud for genAI Magentus has engaged Google Cloud to help it build a “centralised and secure” foundation for customer data in the cloud, leveraging generative AI solutions and large language models. The health IT provider intends to assist clinicians in easily accessing information and simplifying the way they extract insights from complex, unstructured medical data, which usually take up to thousands of manual labour hours. In a statement, Magentus said it will help existing pathology, oncology, and radiology customers to integrate data with third-party systems via Apigee, Google Cloud’s API management platform.  Additionally, it will explore the use…

Nuance Communications, a Microsoft company, announced today that WellSpan Health, an integrated healthcare system based in Pennsylvania, will be adding Nuance’s Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) to its group of patient experience centered solutions.  DAX is a solution that automates and accelerates the creation of clinical documentation during exam room and telehealth visits for immediate entry into an electronic health record system.  York-based WellSpan Health first rolled out its partnership with Nuance in 2020, also with DAX, aiming to reduce administrative tasks that lead to provider burnout.  “Microsoft has long been committed to innovating AI solutions to help hospitals and health…

Tech company Salesforce announced it is launching a new healthcare AI assistant, Einstein Copilot, which delivers responses based on a healthcare organization’s private data.  The AI assistant will trigger workflows that send referrals, book appointments and other administrative tasks. Salesforce also announced the release of Assessment Generation and Data Cloud for Health, which allows caregivers to automate and streamline clinical summaries, personalize communication and to tailor patient assessments quicker.  The new resources are powered by Salesforce’s Einstein 1 platform, which helps organizations leverage data to create better patient experiences and augment employee productivity.  “These new data, AI and CRM features…

BrainCheck, a digital health company specializing in cognitive assessments, announced it secured $15 million in funding.  The investment was led by seed-stage investor Next Coast Ventures, venture capital firm S3 Ventures and UPMC Enterprises. Additionally, the company announced an expansion of its board of directors, with Nicholas Shapiro, vice president of UPMC Enterprises, joining the boardroom.  WHAT IT DOES BrainCheck is a cognitive assessment provider enabling physicians and their patients with a quick, repeatable process to identify cognitive impairment. It accomplishes this through a three-minute test which can be performed remotely or with a provider. The company will use the…

Health system Mass General Brigham is teaming up with clinical decision support company AvoMD to help rapid response teams identify patients at risk of fatal respiratory or cardiac arrest outside of the ICU. AvoMD transforms PDF guidelines and static decision-tree protocols into actionable digital tools that can be made available in the clinical workflow via electronic health record integration and mobile apps. Suppose a nurse on the rapid response team sees a patient with an abnormal heart rate (tachycardia). In that case, AvoMD processes the patient’s vital signs and then notifies the nurse of the best next step based on…

Chamber Cardio, a population health platform helping cardiology teams shift to value-based care, has secured $8 million in a seed funding round led by General Catalyst.    Existing investor AlleyCorp participated in the round, as did Company Ventures, American Family Ventures and CityLight. “As we started to contract with providers throughout the country, we saw they are ready for value-based care,” George Aloth, CEO and cofounder of Chamber Cardio, told MobiHealthNews. “They don’t fully understand it. They haven’t had much exposure to it if any at all, but they’re ready for the shift.”   The company’s platform gives cardiologists insight into care…

Australia-based not-for-profit organisation Crohn’s Colitis Cure (CCCure) has recently launched subscription-based access to its registry of data on patients dealing with inflammatory bowel diseases. The IBD-focused charity claims to have one of the world’s largest databases of real-time patient-reported and clinical data on IBD, including Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and IBD-undetermined. WHAT IT DOES Its clinical management system, Crohn’s Colitis Care (CCCare), features IBD-specific EMR that facilitates care documentation in near real-time. Holding the largest structured dataset in Australia, it has approximately 300 clinical users and 14,500 patient records, representing over 45,000 clinical encounters and about 30,000 patient years. Introduced…

Osara Health, a provider of evidence-based behavior change intervention for cancer care, is partnering with Allstate Benefits to allow members access to behavior change programs.  The company offers members a behavior-change program enabling people living with cancer to return to work faster.  Osara’s program is an educational behavior-change program that aims to improve quality of life and additional health outcomes for people living with cancer. The program was developed by oncologists seeking to reinvent cancer care after identifying gaps in holistic care.  “Supporting members in a meaningful way when they are going through a serious health event like cancer is at…

Tech-enabled food delivery company FarmboxRx announced it is launching a Maternal Health Program to provide access to food and nutrition education to at-risk pregnant women during and after pregnancy. The program can be curated for specific populations. It will promote health literacy, focusing on newborn and child immunizations, postpartum mental healthcare, prenatal and postpartum care vision compliance and nutrition, newborn and delivery preparation and education on government support programs.  “Beyond just delivering fresh food to nourish mother and baby, FarmboxRx is providing educational materials in a culturally competent and linguistically appropriate manner,” Ashley Tyrner, founder and CEO of FarmboxRx, told…