Doctor appointments only account for a small percentage of a patient's time. However, medical outcomes are often linked to social determinants of health. But understanding a patient holistically can be difficult for clinicians facing time constraints and data gaps. Technology has surfaced as a potential way to help fill in the gaps.
Today at a HISS22 symposium on the patient experience, Dr. ...
Oncology startup Vinehealth has announced a raise of $5.5 million (€ 4.9m) in seed funding.
The round was led by Talis Capital, with participation from previous investors Playfair Capital and Ascension. A number of angels also participated.
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Founded in 2018 by Rayna Patel and Georgina Kirby, Vinehealth is a digital health platform that aims to improve the quality of life and...
Google is looking to tackle EHR navigations issues with the creation of Care Studio, a clinician-facing search tool that helps organize patients' medical records.
The tool is meant to be used alongside the EHR in order to streamline workflows. Caregivers can use the platform to look through patients' records across different EHRs. The tool is also able to synch up data from various health systems...
Google made waves in the fall when the WSJ reported that the tech company had been working with Ascension since 2018 on a collaboration involving patient data, called Project Nightingale. While the partnership appears to be HIPAA compliant, the news drew concerns among patients, providers and legislators.
Earlier this week, a group of three senators, including Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard...
Google Health has offered a peek at what it's planning for its next set of clinical digital tools. It includes a more integrated charting system that aims to make it easier for doctors to search for a variety of metrics and notes.
“With a single login, doctors can access a unified view of data normally spread across multiple systems. All the types of information clinicians need are assembled...
Malay Gandhi, best known as the former CEO of Rock Health, has joined Evidation Health as SVP of Business Operations. Evidation Health cofounder and President Christine Lemke announced the hire in a tweet, saying "This makes me so happy. After years of helping @evidation from the outside, @malayhgandhi joins the team full time. Welcome!"
Gandhi and Lemke also work together as the founding...
Fitbit has added four new corporate customers to its portfolio: New insurer York Life, mail and message management company Pitney Bowes, software company SAP and Sharp Healthcare, a nonprofit regional healthcare system in San Diego. The company, which has seen success getting into many corporate wellness programs, cites data from ABI Research that suggests programs that incorporate wellness...
Nashville, Tennessee-based Healthways, one of the largest companies developing wellness programs today, recently announced plans to rollout its suite of wellbeing tools to employees working at Arizona healthcare system Carondelet Health Network, which is a part of Ascension Health. This is just the latest of many customer rollouts for Healthways, which now serves more than 1,000 employers and...
