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
- ONC released Common Agreement 2.0. Updates that require support for FHIR-based APIs should allow TEFCA participants to more easily exchange information directly, and enable individuals to more easily access their own information.
- Only 22% of companies offering chronic condition management solutions to employees fully trust vendors to act in the employer’s best interest, according to a Quantum Health report. In other news, Quantum Health launched Premier Oncology, a cancer care navigation tool.
Partnerships
- GE HealthCare expanded its partnership with Elekta, a precision radiation oncology vendor.
- RCM outsourcing vendor Ensemble Health Partners expanded its partnership with Microsoft.
- DrFirst announced a partnership with PatchRx, a medication adherence company.
- Specialty telemedicine vendor Thirty Madison is partnering with Talkspace to expand mental health support for women.
- Operations software vendor symplr integrated with Branch, a workforce payments platform.
Products
- Augmedix launched Augmedix Go, ambient AI medical documentation for the ED, and announced HCA Healthcare as a pilot user.
- Clinical data exchange vendor MRO is now automating data exchange between providers for continuity of care purposes.
- Patient engagement and payment vendor RevSpring updated IVR Advantage to include prescription refill requests and status inquiries.
- Interoperability vendor Innovar Healthcare released an OSS Mirth Connect plugin that’s now available on AWS Marketplace.
- Truveta released a mother-child EHR dataset to drive research from pre-pregnancy through childbirth and pediatric care.
- Risk management vendor CorVel unveiled a data and service hub for its customers in managed care.
- Senior virtual care vendor Connect America launched a fall prevention program.
- OMNY Health launched real-world data and evidence solutions for gastroenterology and announced more than 5,000 GI providers are in its research network.
- Anatomy IT expanded its Security Suite to align with NIST’s five core cybersecurity functions.
Sales
- Cohere Health and Humana expanded their prior authorization partnership to include diagnostic imaging and sleep services.
- Texas-based FQHC Coastal Bend Wellness Foundation selected eClinicalWorks AI solutions and Sunoh.ai. In addition, Texas-based Brownfield Regional Medical Center implemented Sunoh.ai.
- Indiana-based Community Health Network selected Biofourmis to scale care-at-home services.
- Maryland-based Anne Arundel Dermatology expanded its partnership with Relatient to include scheduling.
- Houston Methodist expanded its deployment of BioIntelliSense‘s BioButton continuous patient monitoring solution.
Company News
- FDB announced its FDB Targeted Medication Warnings solution earned a Toolbox designation from Epic and is now available in the Epic Showroom.
- Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital is conducting a research study with FeelBetter, maker of patient management technology for patients taking many medications.
- Wisconsin-based Chorus Community Health Plans is saving $2.6 million annually using Foodsmart food benefits management and nutrition planning.
- National Institutes of Health added SAS Viya to the All of Us researcher workbench, enabling more than 9,500 participating researchers to access SAS Analytics Pro.
- NextGen passed Health Resources & Services Administration synthetic data testing requirements for UDS+ reporting for FQHCs and community health centers.
People
- Medicare ACO Vytalize Health appointed Sherry Slick as Chief Information Officer and Charles Colligan as Chief Financial Officer.
- Health information network Availity appointed Sean Barrett as Chief Product Officer.
- Kidney care management company Interwell Health appointed Clark Curtis as Chief People Officer.
- Acute virtual nursing vendor AvaSure appointed Paula Cobb as Vice President of Marketing.
- Ambient AI documentation vendor DeepScribe added Dr. Miles Snowden to its advisory board.
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