Next week is the HIMSS 2022 conference happening in Orlando, FL. We’ll be covering the event here at Healthcare IT Today and sharing all the interesting insights and perspectives we find. Plus, you can expect some great Healthcare IT Today interviews from the conference as well.
Healthcare IT Today will be setup at HIMSS this year at booth #4983. Feel free to drop by watch our live interview recordings, say hello, or have a quick chat. We would love to see you! See our full lineup of HIMSS22 interviews and events here.
With so many companies at the event, we wanted to collect a kind of cliff notes version of some of the important announcements and solutions companies are making and offering at the event. Hopefully, this will give people a feel for what’s being shared at the event along with discovering some new products and solutions they may not have heard about previously.
We’ll keep adding to the list as we hear of new news and announcements from companies that are of interest to the Healthcare IT Today Community. Bookmark this page and come back to see what’s new throughout the next week.
eVisit
At HIMSS22, eVisit will unveil “eAnalyze,” a reporting dashboard to help providers track data that can improve operational efficiency and increase telehealth adoption. Stop by HIMSS22 booth #1909.
CoverMyMeds
The 2022 Medication Access Report uses industry research, patient interviews and new survey data from patients, pharmacists, providers, payers and biopharma companies to identify opportunities for healthcare technology to improve medication access.
Perigon Health 360
Perigon Health 360 is unveiling the latest releases on its Medesto Health Enterprise Drug and Monitoring platform at this year’s HIMSS Digital Health Conference. Perigon Health 360 continues to introduce new features and functionality that are redefining how remote patient care and medication management are utilized in healthcare. The Medesto Health Enterprise Platform will be visually available for live demos throughout the conference at Perigon Health 360’s Booth, Booth #3716.
Enlitic
Leading Healthcare IT company that provides AI-powered workflow solutions, Enlitic, is proud to showcase Curie™, an enterprise platform that utilizes human, artificial, and real-world intelligence to create an evidence-based solution for healthcare information.
Tata Elxsi
Tata Elxsi is gearing up to launch TEngage, the first-ever digital health platform for omnichannel care, at the HIMSS22. TEngage facilitates multimodal touchpoints across the patient journey thereby improving patient outcomes and operational efficiency. Visit Tata Elxsi’s booths (8159 & 8160) in Innovation Live Pavilion for an exclusive demo of the platform.
Bandwidth
Bandwidth helps reach patients by text- a channel they love. Health systems can now sign Business Associate Agreements with Bandwidth to activate HIPAA-compliant messaging with patients.
Cisco
Cisco is showcasing an immersive, secure healthcare experience exploring how digital front door technology and the smart hospital of the future are transforming both patient experience and clinician experience (booth #1559).
Smile CDR
Smile CDR continues to showcase the many real-life scenarios in which the interoperability provided by its platform is changing the future of healthcare. An exhibit at the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase™ will demonstrate how the company’s flagship program, Smile CDR, is aiding in the detection of human trafficking with automation, further reinforcing how best practices for deploying scalable, extensible and secure open standards data fabrics can help unlock improved patient outcomes. Join us for a demonstration in Hall E – Booth 8240-80 or learn more here.
CGI Federal
CGI Federal has been providing services and solutions to the federal healthcare community for 30+ years. A snapshot of that healthIT expertise will be on display at HIMSS22 as our SMEs share insights about the impact of the President’s Cyber and Customer Experience EOs. Join us in Booth 4458!
Current Health
Current Health announced an integration with Zoom, allowing health systems and their patients to launch the video conferencing service directly from its care-at-home platform. The integration improves the patient experience and reduces barriers to access by providing more reliable virtual communications.
etherFAX
etherFAX continues to improve data quality, care coordination, and interoperability across healthcare organizations with its AI solution for searchable PDFs, OCR, and document data extraction.
NextGen Healthcare
NextGen Healthcare will focus on ‘interoperability with a purpose’ by showcasing solutions such as Mirth® Connect, NextGen® Patient Experience Platform, Population Health and NextGen Virtual Visits™, with an emphasis on integrated, whole-person care, improved access to care, and combatting provider burnout.
MBX Systems
Developing AI applications for smart hospitals? MBX Systems’ hardware building blocks reduce costs and time to market for turnkey mobile computer vision solutions, embedded AI systems and server-based AI solutions
EY Global Health Sciences and Wellness
EY is showcasing its EY Smart Health Analytics Digital Patient Twin Tool, a new solution that aggregates patient, clinical, operational and market data to bring actionable insights to clinicians, inform personalized care, and drive strategic initiatives. To learn more, visit the EY demo (booth #334) on March 7 or March 8, or ey.com/ExploreSmartHealthAnalytics.
iAssay
iAssay has developed portable diagnostic devices for the healthcare industry that already exceed the capabilities of currently available diagnostic readers, and incorporating seamless connectivity to secure data servers. See the full news.
Semantic Health
Semantic Health launches an AI-powered auditing platform to improve the efficiency and accuracy of auditing processes that rely on unstructured documentation. Please visit https://bit.ly/3sPEanD.
Intrado Healthcare
Results from Intrado’s survey of healthcare CIOs: Improving patient experience is top priority, automating workflows like referral management with digital engagement is the how. Full report here.
athenahealth
Proud to announce we’re expanding our partnership with MedWise to include our athenaOne® Medical Coding solution.
Relatient
On the heels of its merger with Radix Health, Relatient will launch its new Dash platform at HIMSS22. The tech addresses the needs of providers while offering patients a more streamlined process for accessing care. Dash will play a critical role in solving for many of the major gaps in today’s healthcare experience.
Skyflow
Data Privacy in a World of Healthcare Disruption: Skyflow CEO Anshu Sharma shares how healthcare organizations can enact new services and systems while still protecting PHI, PII and PCI data privacy and compliance. Come join this insightful Lightning Session on Thursday, March 17 from 1:15 to 1:35pm ET.
Fivos
Fivos announced the spin-off of its imaging services business into Astute Imaging, which will leverage AI technologies to advance imaging services and treatment planning. Fivos, formerly known as Medstreaming/M2S, is a data solutions vendor for specialty providers, medical registries and device manufacturers.
Newtopia
Newtopia, a tech-enabled habit change provider, announced it has engaged Stonegate Capital Partners, Inc., in conjunction with its current investor relations firm to raise awareness of the company’s business and long-term growth story with a broader U.S. audience. The focus is on disease prevention and reducing the cost of care for risk-bearing entities like large, self-insured employers and health plans.
Verato
Verato and Particle Health recently announced their partnership to improve data exchange and interoperability across the healthcare continuum. Through the partnership, the Particle Health platform will use Verato Universal® MPI to better track patients and data flow, allowing for complete patient records to be accurately compiled, retrieved, updated and shared securely.
Neustar, a TransUnion Company
Citizens have never been more reluctant to pick up their phone if they don’t know who’s on the line. This prevents government agencies and healthcare organizations from delivering vital information and services to the people who need it. New easy-to-implement technologies like Branded Call Display make it possible for organizations to let the public know they can trust who is calling and significantly increase answer rates. Click the link to learn more.
Change Healthcare
The days of pre-fetching prior exams are over. With our cloud-native Change Healthcare Stratus Imaging Archive and exclusive image streaming technology, radiologists can view historical imaging data in real-time, without needing to move them to your PACS. Learn here.
Gozio Health
Gozio Health announced that its customizable location aware digital health platform received a 100% customer satisfaction score in its first KLAS Research report. Executives from Piedmont Healthcare will lead an education session at HIMSS discussing the health system’s journey in partnering with Gozio to bring together key touchpoints of patient interaction into a single mobile app.
HAT Collective Healthcare
HAT Collective Healthcare debuts robust suite of ergonomic point of care products, including wall mounts, workstations, mobile carts and articulating monitor arms, to support IT and caregiver needs.
Bamboo Health
Bamboo Health will showcase its suite of digital health solutions for interoperable care coordination at HIMSS booth #4115 including its Pings solution for real-time notifications whenever patients experience care events, OpenBeds provider-facing behavioral health solution for health systems, health plans, and state governments, and more.
XIFIN
XIFIN provides valuable support and innovative solutions to hospital-based and independent diagnostic providers, pharmacies, and specialty physician groups as they continue to meet the demands caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the increasing consumerization of healthcare. At HIMSS (booth #5845), they’ll discuss how the organization’s cloud-based technology brings together complementary clinical and financial information for customers across segments, helping them efficiently care for patients and manage their business amid these industry trends.
LG Electronics
LG announced its partnership with Amwell to expand the boundaries of virtual care. With a shared goal to improve patient care, the technology collaboration will focus on the development of new digital healthcare services and solutions—starting with in-hospital care in the US—where LG is the leading provider of smart TVs for patient rooms.
ADLINK Technology
Come and visit ADLINK Technology at booth 820 and see how we connect healthcare, hospitals and medical equipment manufacturers, through the delivery of leading EDGE, robust and reliable hardware and A-enabled platforms!
The Sequoia Project
The Sequoia Project’s Emergency Preparedness Information Workgroup published Pandemic Response Insights and Recommendations for local, state, and federal emergency preparedness and public health officials and their partners. The workgroup recommended ways to make information more readily available to support a more robust and coordinated response to future emergencies.
Kyndryl
Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider that recently spun off IBM, works with 75% of the Fortune 100, including some of the biggest healthcare systems and insurance companies in the U.S. At HIMSS this week, Kyndryl is talking about how it is working with all three major cloud hyperscalers (AWS, Microsoft and Google) and honing the latest skills to help healthcare providers transform their IT and deliver personalized patient care in-office and virtually while safeguarding sensitive patient data.
Airgap Networks
Airgap to Demonstrate Zero Trust Agentless Security to Critical Infrastructure at HIMSS22
Caregility
Caregility is introducing a new subscription-based #virtualcare offering, with a new low-acuity endpoint and centralized #telehealth program and device fleet management portal, to affordably enable #hybridcare at every patient bedside. Visit #HIMSS22 booth 3071 to learn more.
Socially Determined
Socially Determined introduced the Social Connectedness metric, a new social risk score that enables organizations to understand the impact social connections have on health outcomes and business performance.
Premier Inc.
Premier Inc. recently published a report on navigating through supply chain issues and cyber-attacks due to the Ukraine/Russia conflict. The full report can be found here.
Scanslated
SCANSLATED is showcasing its breakthrough patient-engagement software innovation at HIMSS for the first time – Patient-Friendly Radiology Reports! Visit us at Booth #2399
QGenda
QGenda (booth 1829) will showcase its recently launched ProviderCloud solution, which is the healthcare industry’s first provider operations platform designed to address provider burnout and patient wait times. Most provider systems are outdated, fragmented and lack an integrated platform that optimizes and analyzes physician and nurse scheduling, operating and exam room capacity, payer enrollment, credentialing and compensation. ProviderCloud centralizes all of these operations allowing for data-driven staffing decisions and optimized use of patient resources.
Butterfly Network
Butterfly Network announced a grant in the amount of $5 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve maternal and fetal health. Through this grant, Butterfly will provide 1,000 healthcare workers in Sub-Saharan Africa with Butterfly iQ+, the world’s only handheld, whole-body point-of-care ultrasound probe.
CloudWave
In booth #3633 at HIMSS, CloudWave will be showcasing its recently introduced OpSus Vault Backup as a Service offering, designed to protect a healthcare organization’s valuable data backups by creating a secure, offline, and immutable storage location.
KBR
KBR was awarded a health and human performance data analytics contract to provide knowledge-graph machine learning (ML) as a mechanism to link and visualize disparate data sources. This framework will enable researchers to visualize and integrate assorted data and can be customized for downstream applications including machine learning tasks, hypothesis-driven querying, and a browsable user interface, enabling researchers to explore their data and discover previously known relationships. Using novel ML methods, KBR experts Drs. Bianca Cerqueira and Afshin Beheshti will collaborate with government investigators to apply knowledge graphs to a biomedical use case like the COVID-19 response, however this framework will be applicable to data in any domain. Once this proof of concept for knowledge graphs in a Department of Defense environment has been established, the data enclave can be expanded to include additional sources and knowledge graphs can be created to address further military health questions, such as pilot physiological episodes, prevention of musculoskeletal injuries, enroute care, neuroscience research, fatigue countermeasures, and improving cognitive performance. To learn more about this promising project, visit KBR’s booth at HIMSS 2022: kbr.com/himss.
IGEL
IGEL and nine IGEL Ready partners will showcase endpoint computing technologies that secure and optimize endpoints for higher performing healthcare environments and help yield better patient outcomes.
Wolters Kluwer Health
Wolters Kluwer Health announced Tift Regional Medical Center has integrated POC Advisor, its AI-based sepsis monitoring solution, into the hospital’s Cerner EHR workflow. The integration is aimed at improving early sepsis identification and care delivery, as well as reducing alert fatigue for care teams.
AssureCare
Pop health company AssureCare will showcase in booth #647 it’s connected care population health platform designed to unify payors, providers and pharmacies. In addition the company is debuting its Specialty Pharmacy solution designed to support the unique clinical, administrative and referral needs of specialty pharmacists.
XUP Payments, a brand of KeyBank
XUP Payments and KeyBank have teamed up to bring embedded banking to the healthcare industry. It’s fintech innovation backed by 200 years of financial services expertise. Together, our integrated solutions offer the best in modern banking services so that you can focus on the patient and let us focus on the solution.
mPulse Mobile
mPulse Mobile acquired HealthCrowd, a leading communications platform-as-a-service innovator focused on the Medicaid market. mPulse also received a growth investment from growth equity firm PSG.
Nordic
Nordic Introduces the Next Generation Integration Engine – Nordic, a global health and technology consulting company, has leveraged their Digital Health expertise to develop the Health Data Connector. This next generation light-weight, low-code integration engine provides a powerful integration layer utilizing event-based data retrieval and aggregation concepts intended to work with modern web applications. Drop by booth #3965 at HIMSS to learn more.
Health Gorilla
Health Gorilla (booth #2379) recently secured $50 million in Series C funding and launched a new partnership with Lexis Nexis to bring social determinants of health (SDOH) data to its interoperability platform.
Kore.ai
Kore.ai, recently named a leader in Enterprise Conversational AI by Gartner’s MQ will be debuting its new product, HealthAssist at #HIMSS22! Visit Booth 5092 to learn how #HealthAssist can help deliver extraordinary outcomes for #healthcare providers. Book a demo and receive a special gift.
Icertis
Contract intelligence unicorn Icertis is announcing the launch of Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) for Healthcare Providers. The industry-first contract lifecycle management (CLM) solution is tailored for healthcare providers looking to accelerate digital transformation by modernizing complex agreements such as payer, supplier, and contract services.
Cerebras Systems
Cerebras Systems, the pioneer in high performance artificial intelligence (AI) compute, and nference, an AI-driven health technology company, today announced a collaboration to accelerate natural language processing (NLP) for biomedical research and development by orders of magnitude with a Cerebras CS-2 system installed at the nference headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.
VeeOne Health
VeeOne Health will showcase VeeGo 360, a patient-facing mobile app, and the care team portal, at HIMSS22 in Booth 5247. As hospitals and clinics seek to improve care and rein in expenses, RPM has emerged as a primary strategy. RPM solutions can be used to enable hospitals to discharge patients sooner while continuing to monitor their vital signs and recovery process while they convalesce at home.
Ivy.ai
Ivy.ai is launching Genie, a self-building chatbot technology that allows organizations to build pre-trained, conversational chatbots that can understand unique content in just minutes.
Synaptiq
Together with Microsoft, AI solutions company SynaptiqAI has developed a novel machine vision solution to reduce preventable deaths from hospital-borne bloodstream infections (CLABSIs). Hospitals can apply to the Spring 2022 pilot here.
Cox Communications
Cox Communications has expanded its real-time location services (RTLS) and IoT-powered platform, Cox Prosight, with hand hygiene monitoring capabilities to enhance operational efficiency and safety.
Edifecs
Edifecs, a global health IT company, is unveiling expanded risk adjustment, interoperability and value-based care solutions. More information here. Also, as part of their #WhatIRun program, Edifecs is raffling off Allbirds shoes to attendees who visit the booth #5171 in support of women participating in health IT and other STEM fields. To learn more visit their booth and the Edifecs’ HIMSS22 sessions.
Philips
Philips announced its latest introductions in analytics and interoperability solutions within its Data Management and Interoperability Solutions portfolio – Philips HealthSuite Interoperability and Philips Enterprise Performance Analytics – Performance Bridge. Philips also announced that the latest Philips Capsule Surveillance solution has received 510(k) market clearance from the FDA, paving the way for widespread deployment across healthcare systems in the US. In addition, Philips has expanded its medical device cybersecurity services portfolio with the introduction of its Secure Remote Access Management Service. The services leverage the broad set of security capabilities enabled by the integration of SecureLink’s critical access management and governance technology with Philips Remote Services’ secure connectivity framework for technical and clinical support.
First Databank
FDB (First Databank, Inc.), the leading provider of drug knowledge that helps hFDB (First Databank) announced today the launch of FDB Vela™ (pronounced “Vee-La”), a new, cloud-native electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) network that enables the seamless flow of critical medication prescription information, benefits verification, and clinical decision support between prescribers, payers, pharmacies and other constituents. Learn more here.
Notable
Notable, the leading intelligent automation company for healthcare, today announced Intelligent Scheduling, the only digital solution that helps patients schedule appointments based on their desire for care or guidance from a provider, eliminating the need for phone calls. In addition to allowing for patient self-scheduling, Intelligent Scheduling proactively and automatically reaches out to patients throughout their care journey to ensure appropriate appointments are scheduled. For example, the solution knows to prompt a patient to schedule only when requirements like referrals or prior authorizations have been satisfied.
DeliverHealth
DeliverHealth, a global provider of technology-enabled solutions for hospitals, health systems and group practices, announced the launch of its partner program. Led by Joe Luber, DeliverHealth’s newly appointed Vice President of Business Development, the program supports strategic partners within the eco-system growing sales domestically and internationally, while enabling healthcare organizations to simplify the daily complexities of healthcare, improve patient outcomes and reduce overall costs. Join us at booth 2973!
Rimidi
Rimidi announced that the company will showcase its latest medical device integrations – including its integration with Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre continuous glucose monitoring system. With this new integration, patients can consent to share their continuous glucose monitor (CGM) data with their healthcare provider through Rimidi, making the data available and actionable seamlessly within the clinician’s existing EHR workflow.
Cynerio
Cynerio is debuting Active Attack Detection, a new solution to empower hospitals and healthcare facilities to identify ongoing IoT attacks. In just one week, Cynerio’s Active Attack Detection technology identifies attacks not found by legacy systems due to increasingly targeted IoT devices – at no cost to hospitals. You can also catch Cynerio at HIMSS booth #5342 or booth #306 in the Cybersecurity Command Center.
Parallels
Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) helps healthcare organizations transform operations by quickly and easily providing care workers with secure, virtual access to critical applications and data, anywhere, from any device.
Intelerad
Intelerad’s new Enterprise Imaging and Informatics Suite combines solutions from recently acquired brands, empowering hospitals and health systems to create a seamless, vendor-neutral information hub.
Protegrity
Protegrity a data-centric security company, announced version 9.0 of the Protegrity Data Protection Platform. Updates include new anonymization capabilities and unified data security for multi-cloud environments to advance analytics and data science work while ensuring privacy. More information can be found here.
Inovalon
Inovalon’s Registration Assurance automates patient identity and coverage information for providers, speeding patient registrations and ensuring health insurance coverage accuracy. Powered by the Inovalon ONE Platform, the solution augments, tracks, and reports each step of patient insurance coverage validation, reducing coverage-related revenue losses.
DiA Imaging Analysis
DiA Imaging Analysis, leader in the AI for ultrasound space, has announced a partnership with Change Healthcare. The AI-based software for cardiac ultrasound will be available on Change Healthcare’s imaging solutions in the Echo Lab, to eliminate subjectivity and decrease costs!
Qualtrics
Get a holistic view of the healthcare journey to know you’re taking the right actions at the right times to improve every experience for patients and staff. Learn how with Qualtrics: www.qualtrics.com/healthcare/
Trifacta
Trifacta, the Data Engineering Cloud company recently acquired by Alteryx, is showcasing their unique approach to data challenges in healthcare. Combined with the Alteryx Analytics Cloud, the new offering helps make smart predictive decisions with no data science experience, derive data storytelling to speed actions and drive analytics transformation at cloud scale.
SambaNova Systems
Just announced at #HIMSS, Ascend Clinical to leverage @deloreanai/@SambaNovaAI solution with deep learning models to classify, track and transition renal patients through disease states and provide recommended actions for treatment and care. Read more here.
Lumeon
There is a dire need for automation in healthcare, especially with ongoing staffing shortages and clinician burnout. Lumeon is at HIMSS sharing how health systems need to take a step back and think about the whole process of care – not just the little bits that can be automated at the edges. Implementing deep automation rather than surface automation – choreographed care – can generate significant productivity gains for staff and reduction in costs. Learn more here.
Windstream
How can Healthcare IT leaders keep up when innovation outpaces the limits of traditional networks? Windstream Enterprise announced industry-first Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) technology during HIMSS to help improve experiences for both patients and practitioners – and protect against cyberattacks – through reliable access to cloud-based applications. Read the news here.
Kajeet
Kajeet a leading provider of wireless connectivity, software and hardware solutions that deliver safe, reliable and controlled internet access, today announced a new agreement with Verizon Business to sell BlueJeans Telehealth through Kajeet channel partners, offering healthcare providers and their care teams a new way to connect with patients remotely, simply, and securely.
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