Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News
Nearly six in 10 (57%) of patients accessed online medical records or patient portals in 2022, according to the latest ONC data brief. This total has doubled since 2017. This compares to 73% of patients who were offered access to their records or to portals, an increase from 52% five years ago. Notably, access via apps is rising and access via web-based portals is declining, ONC said – and patients who use apps access their records more frequently.
Children’s National Hospital consortium Alliance for Pediatric Device Innovation and MedTech Color are hosting the “Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!” competition focused on supporting African-American and Hispanic innovators. Applications are due November 10.
CHIME named 21 healthcare organizations to Level 10 in the 2023 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Survey, the most in the 24-hear history of the survey.
Partnerships
- Inovalon and Amazon Web Services are collaborating to improve risk score accuracy for health plans.
- Wolters Kluwer Health announces its Health Language Platform, a FHIR Terminology Server that will work with Microsoft Azure Health Data Services.
- Qualtrics and Oculi Data are partnering to enable comparisons and analyses of nursing quality metrics.
- LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Prime Health Services are partnering to provide data cleansing and managements services.
- Inpatient telehealth from Vitalchat is now available on Samsung healthcare displays.
- First Health Advisory and Censinet are partnering to deliver cybersecurity risk assurance solutions.
- The intelliMammo platform for cancer screening decision support from Densitas is now available to Intelerad Medical Systems users.
- Reproductive care decision support technology from Fairtility is now integrated with four leading EHRs for fertility.
- Audiovisual technology maker Avidex is partnering with Artisight, a smart hospital platform.
Product and Company News
- Syra Health launched CarePlus, an EHR for small and mid-sized organizations.
- Voice-enabled AI technology from Suki now supports inpatient care.
- Outpatient technology provider CareCloud launched the first three features of CirrusAI, its generative AI platform: Clinical decision support, virtual support, and appeals.
- Sphere subsidiary Health iPASS launched Health iPASS Cloud Payments to support mobile and contactless payments.
- LGBTQIA+ healthcare service provider FOLX Health is an in-network for Blue Shield of California and other health plans.
- XRHealth distributed VR headsets to 30 hospitals in Israel to help treat patients coping with anxiety, stress, and PTSD.
Sales
- iTech AG received a $75 million CMS contract to support the agency’s Health Care Quality Information Systems (HSQIS) development.
- Ambulatory network United Medical extended its contract with Oracle Health.
- Medicare Advantage plan eternalHealth chose 9amHealth for at-home, virtual cardiac care. In addition, eternalHealth chose Inovalon to support risk and quality gap identification and closure.
People
- Would care and rehab EHR vendor Net Health appointed Ron Books as Chief Executive Officer.
- Diagnostic testing platform ixlayer added Kevin Ban, M.D., to its clinical advisory board. Ban is Executive Vice President and Global Chief Medical Officer for Walgreens Boots Alliance.
- Value-based care platform Equality Health named Stephanie Cutter to its Board of Directors. Cutter is founding partner of Precision Strategies.
- Health equity platform Spatially Health added Nicole Bradberry to its Board of Directors. Bradberry is CEO of the Florida Association of ACOs.
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