ShiftKey, a startup that connects healthcare workers and facilities with open shifts, raised $300 million, bringing its valuation to more than $2 billion.
First reported by Axios, the round was led by majority investor Lorient Capital and completed through a continuation vehicle led by the Ares Management Secondaries funds and Pantheon. Other investors participating in the raise include...
Nurse staffing platform IntelyCare scooped up $115 million in Series C funding, bumping the company's valuation to $1.1 billion.
The round was led by Janus Henderson Investors, with participation from Longitude Capital, Leeds Illuminate, Endeavour Vision, Revelation Partners and Kaiser Permanente Ventures. The latest raise comes about two years after its $45 million Series B.
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EHR documentation burden is not a new concern, but the problem came to a head during the COVID-19 pandemic as nurses and other clinicians were under growing pressure to provide care to more and more patients during virus surges.
"This is something that, ever since EHRs have been about, there have always been usability issues. Do we really need to be documenting that? How do we document things...
After nearly two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has put increasing pressure on the nation's healthcare system and its staff, including the nursing workforce.
According to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Washington Post, one-fourth of healthcare workers who handle patient treatment and diagnosis like doctors and nurses said they'd considered leaving the industry because of the...
Tech-enabled nurse and aide staffing company connectRN has raised $76 million in a financing round led by Suvretta Capital Management and Avidity Partners.
Other investors participating in this round include HBM Healthcare Investments, Infinitum Asset Management, Adage Capital Management, Cormorant Asset Management and Park West Asset Management.
Home care provider Amedisys also invested and will...
Digital health has been making care more accessible and cost effective in the past couple of years, particularly in central and east African countries.
The most recent issue of the HIMSS Insights eBook, released this week during the HIMSS19 conference taking place in Orlando, looks at innovators addressing the challenges and the needs of the region with the advent of digital health technologies...
Lack of medical device connectivity and interoperability are big contributors to preventable medical errors, according to a recent survey of nurses. According to the 526 registered nurses who participated in the survey, which was commissioned by the Gary and Mary West Health Institute and conducted by Harris Poll, nurses end up shouldering a lot of the burden of medical devices and electronic...
Hospitals are starting to get serious about implementing enterprise-level, smartphone-based systems for nurses, according to a study by Spyglass Consulting. In a survey of 100 tech savvy nurses from around the country, half said their hospital was now evaluating such an offering. Only 4 percent had actually implemented them already.
Enterprise mobile systems are applications that include (and go...
Despite 75 percent owning personal smartphones, only a quarter of nurses at acute care hospitals have a smartphone available to support their nursing work, according to a survey by Voalte, which markets a smartphone-based secure hospital communication system, and American Nurse Today, the official journal of the American Nurses Association.
Voalte told MobiHealthNews that American Nurse Today...
According to a new study conducted by textbook publisher Springer Publishing, 74.6 percent of nurses in the US use smartphones or tablets. Of those smartphone owners, 43.7 percent own an iPhone or iPod Touch, 29.8 percent an Android phone, and 22 percent an iPad. The survey was conducted in September 2011.
Curiously, the number of respondents that said they owned a smartphone or tablet (821)...
