Health IT Product News Report
Telemedicine Product News:
Every TV or Monitor Can Be a Telehealth Station on a Big Screen
As telehealth becomes part of the new normal, Nautilus Medical Technologies (@nautilusmedical) has just announced the first all-in-one set top telehealth system to work with any existing TV or monitor. Whether at home, hospital, or office, an existing television or monitor can become a telehealth station with Nautilus Medical’s TeleRay Peak or Summit models. Telehealth is quickly becoming the standard of care in the US as clinical telehealth visits skyrocket over 400% in 2020 alone. The fastest growth is among the age group 50-80, moving from 4% to over 30% of consultations during COVID.
AI Product News:
New AI Platform to Work Hand-in-Hand with Healthcare Workers
For the capacity-stricken healthcare sector, the last six months have reinforced the need for an AI workforce to ensure financial continuity while delivering superior patient care. As health systems across the country struggle to streamline processes and revitalize revenues without impacting patient care, more than 600 hospitals and health systems have turned to AI to supplement operations and better support administrative staff. Olive (@oliveai__) announced the latest innovation to a revolutionary platform aimed at enhancing the way administrative healthcare workers manage essential tasks across nearly every aspect of the care continuum: Olive Helps.
GE Healthcare Receives FDA Clearance for Vivid Ultra Edition, AI-Powered Cardiovascular Ultrasound System Designed to Shorten Diagnostic Exam Time and Improve Measurement Consistency
GE Healthcare (@GEHealthcare) announced U.S. FDA 510k clearance for its Ultra Edition package on Vivid cardiovascular ultrasound systems, which includes new features based on artificial intelligence (AI) that enable clinicians to acquire faster, more repeatable exams consistently.
Mobile AI technology from Saykara helps Nephrology Associates of Delaware Boost Physician Productivity and Well-Being
Faced with the very real prospect of losing physicians to burnout, Nephrology Associates, P.A. turned to cutting-edge technology from Saykara (@SaykaraAI) to reduce increasingly burdensome and time-consuming documentation. Use of the company’s mobile AI assistant to automate production of clinical notes means physicians at the Delaware-based provider organization no longer have to spend evening and weekend hours completing their charting, which translates to better work-life balance, better quality of care and better patient relationships.
Health IT Product News:
SPH Analytics’ Receives NCQA Certification for 2020 HEDIS Measures
SPH Analytics (@SPHAnalytics), a healthcare analytics and population health management company, announced that the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has certified its Population Care™ | Quality Measures application for HEDIS® 2020 Health Plan and Allowed Adjustments Measures, increasing its measure library to 39 in HEDIS 2020.
SLK Software launches Avo Automation, a company with a game-changing approach for process and software automation to liberate human potential
SLK Software, a global technology and consulting company, announced the launch of Avo Automation, the first company to unify process discovery, test automation and RPA into a holistic Quality Automation System (QAS) that liberates people from manual work and allows them to focus on the more strategic, fun parts of their job. Avo solutions combine into a single, no-code to low-code system that helps banking, financial services, insurance, manufacturing, energy and healthcare industries auto-generate, deploy and manage automation across all technologies and business processes.
VisiQuate forms Velocity Consulting Group; builds new client roster at high speed
To the growing list of SaaS offerings (Data as a Service, Analytics Platform as a Service, et. al), by introducing their Velocity Consulting Group, VisiQuate (@VisiQuate) has added Data Fanatics as a Service. On April 1, the company formally made highly respected revenue cycle and data experts available for consulting engagements. The service is available to clients who currently use VisiQuate solutions, and those who do not.
TCS Healthcare Technologies Releases ACUITYnxt™ 1.7
TCS Healthcare Technologies (@TCSHealthcare), a provider of managed care solutions designed by clinicians, announced the release of ACUITYnxt version 1.7. This new version of the ACUITYnxt SaaS platform will offer key enhancements in utilization management as well as expanded communications capabilities.
LIVMOR receives FDA clearance for the world’s first prescriptible wearable for continuous heart monitoring
LIVMOR, Inc., a digital health solutions company, announced that the Company received FDA 510(k) clearance for the LIVMOR Halo™ AF Detection System*, a physician-prescribed wearable solution that provides continuous monitoring of pulse rhythms for the detection of atrial fibrillation (AF), on demand during the day and automatically overnight.
StressPal Delivers Resilience to Frontline Healthcare Workers and their Communities
StressPal (@Stress_Pal), a provider of evidence-based resilience training for clinicians, announced the launch of StressPal Frontline – an active-learning tool that blends best practice strategies to protect psychological resilience and reduce burnout, enhancing cognitive clarity, improved decision-making, better communication and performance.
COVID-19 Product News:
Connect Up Technologies Introduces SafeDistance Contact Tracing Solution
With the COVID-19 pandemic raging through the US and many countries across the globe, safety technology company, Connect Up Technologies (@connectup_tech), announces the immediate availability of the SafeDistance Contact Tracing solution.
Parexel Biotech Collaborates with Synairgen on Pivotal Phase III Trial for Study of Inhaled COVID-19 Treatment
Parexel (@Parexel), a provider of solutions to accelerate the development and delivery of innovative therapies to improve world health, from clinical through commercialization, announced that its Biotech division has entered into a strategic collaboration with Synairgen plc, a respiratory drug discovery and development company, to conduct a pivotal phase III study of an interferon beta (IFN-beta) treatment for patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
T.H.E.M. Establishes the New Standard in COVID-19 Testing and Management
The Health Exchange Market (T.H.E.M.), Nashville, TN, introduces the first COVID-19 Remote Patient Monitoring (“RPM”) solution that supports physicians management of high-risk patients throughout the infection state. T.H.E.M.s novel platform is integrated with the newly released CLIA waived POC IgG/IgM Rapid Antibody test, providing a physician, for the first time, the ability to both administer a test and be reimbursed by Medicare and other commercial insurances.
