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
DirectTrust, the industry alliance enabling secure PHI exchange among providers and between providers and patients, announced that the Direct Exchange has sent and received nearly 3.3 billion messages since 2014. This amounts to more than 75 million transactions per month. DirectTrust also said the number of providers engaging in Direct Secure Messaging has increased 14% from Q2 2022 compared to the same time last year. All told, 2.6 million Direct addresses exist.
The U.S. Department of Labor ordered a Pittsburgh-based home care agency to pay more than $1.4 million in back wages to 218 workers who were paid a straight-time rate instead of a time-and-a-half rate for overtime. The department’s Wage and Hour Division also discovered that Everest Home Care failed to include recruitment commissions and hourly coronavirus hazard pay in employees’ required rates of pay when calculating overtime.
HIMSS has issued its call for proposals to speak at HIMSS23, which is April 14-17 in Chicago. The submission deadline is Monday, September 12 at 5 p.m. Central time. Check out our full list of health IT conferences.
Partnerships
- Houston Methodist will be opening a technology center inside Ion, an innovation hub owned by Rice University that counts ExxonMobil among its backers and NASA among its partners.
- HIE infrastructure provider CRISP Shared Services is the first partner for eHealth Exchange’s planned Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN).
- Handheld ultrasound device maker EchoNous has partnered with Samsung to make its point-of-care ultrasound platform available on Galaxy Tab Active Pro tablets.
Sales
- In the first growth report issued since its acquisition, Oracle Cerner reported 11 new clients in Q2 2022, primarily in the critical access and community hospital market. The company also reported 150 extended or expanded contracts.
- Connectivity service provider MedAllies selected the Lyniate Enterprise Master Patient Index by NextGate for identity data management.
- CHRISTUS Health selected the KyruusOne platform from Kyruus for provider data management across its health systems in four states and its owned health plan.
- Duke Health chose Scanslated for patient-centered radiology reporting across three hospitals and 14 outpatient imaging centers.
- Bamboo Health’s Crisis Management System is supporting the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in two states; the company announced that deployments in additional states are forthcoming.
Products
- Wearable device maker Mawi released its single-use cardiac diagnostic monitor known as Mawi Heart Patch.
- Conversational intelligence company Authenticx launched a quality management tool for healthcare call centers.
People
- Mental health collaboration tech provider Resilience Lab announced three additions to its leadership team. Patrick Morselli joins the company as Chief Operating Officer, John Hamby has been named General Manager, and Alyssa Lin has been hired as Head of Growth.
- Value-based care technology platform Lumeris named Julie Hammes as Senior Vice President of People and Culture.
Awards
- Analytics and contract services firm IQVIA received healthcare and life sciences partner of the year recognition from Snowflake, a cloud data service provider.
- Clinical data platform MRO made the Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies for the eighth year in a row.
- Patient experience vendor eHealth Technologies was recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in New York’s Finger Lakes region.
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