Accruent, a provider of physical resource management solutions, has acquired California-based Connectiv, enhancing Accruent’s ability to meet the needs of clients in healthcare. This marks Accruent’s seventh company acquisition in the past twenty-four months to help clients have control and visibility across asset management solutions. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Connectiv is a rapidly-growing cloud-based, mobile-enabled software company that allows biomedical and
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4 Best Practices to Optimize Perioperative Services for Hospitals
Surgical leaders across the U.S. struggle with common challenges, including how they get timely access to, and use, existing data to better utilize OR blocks and hold surgeons and staff accountable for OR performance, according to the results of a new Hospital IQ survey of U.S. hospital and perioperative leaders regarding their strategic surgical objectives for the coming 12 months. Conducted in January 2018 among senior hospital and perioperative leaders at hospitals and health systems, the
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Philips Partners With Mass General to Advance Digital Pathology Adoption
Philips announced it’s collaborating with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) to enable research, support clinical diagnosis and help advance digital pathology adoption across the U.S. through the implementation of the Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution.This collaboration builds on digital pathology’s growing momentum in recent years, due to its ability to enable highly automated workflows that allow pathologists to compile clinically actionable
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Massachusetts’ Lawrence General to Implement MEDITECH Expanse EHR
Lawrence General Hospital, a 189-bed, non-profit, multi-specialty regional health system serving more than 94,000 residents in Lawrence, MA has signed an agreement to implement Expanse, MEDITECH’s next-generation web EHR platform. The implementation for the both the acute and ambulatory space is scheduled to kick off in July 2018 with a go-live date of spring 2019. Santa Rosa Consulting will serve as the implementation partner for the MEDITECH roll-out. Lawrence selected MEDTECH Expanse after
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AI-Driven Drug Discovery Startup twoXAR Lands $10M for Computational Platform
twoXAR, Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven biopharmaceutical company, announced today that it has raised $10 million in Series A financing led by SoftBank Ventures including follow-on participation from seed investor Andreessen Horowitz. The biotech startup plans to use the funding to build the company’s drug pipeline through partnerships and accelerate preclinical development of existing candidates. Traditional drug discovery and development is estimated to take 10-15 years and
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New Doximity Report Reveals Large Gaps in U.S. Physician Compensation
Doximity, the largest social network for physicians and advanced practice clinicians) released it's Annual Physician Compensation Report revealing that in every single speciality across the United States men make more than women. In 2017, the national gender gap for physicians increased as female doctors earned 27.7 percent less ($105,000)than their male counterparts. The disparity in 2016 was 26.5 percent, when female doctors earned $91,284 less. Similar to 2016 findings, there remains no
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Mount Sinai Taps Joel Dudley, PhD to Create Precision Health Enterprise
Joel Dudley, PhD, an internationally recognized investigator in translational bioinformatics and precision medicine, has been named Executive Vice President for Precision Health for the Mount Sinai Health System. In this new role, he will create a Precision Health Enterprise by linking pioneering research conducted in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) with implementation strategies developed in collaboration with leadership and staff throughout the Health System.Precision
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Santa Rosa Consulting Launches Analytics Migration Program
Santa Rosa Consulting, Inc. a provider of management consulting and information technology services for the healthcare industry, expands its suite of Business Intelligence and Analytics (“BI&A”) solutions with an Analytics Migration Program that strengthens analytics during any EHR, ERP, or other system transition, while promoting a positive consumer experience and uninterrupted information for decision-makers. The program is an essential bridge to the realization of post go-live promises of
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Survey: Majority of Americans Have No Clue Where Their Medical Data is Stored
Majority of Americans have no knowledge as to where their medical data is stored and who has access to it, according to a new survey conducted by Australian start-up ScalaMed, a blockchain based mobile prescription system. The recent research of 800 patients reveals a number of key issues Americans face when it comes to managing their prescribed medication, while also highlighting how consumers know about where their medical records are stored and who has access to their health data.In fact,
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FDA Approves Medtronic Smart Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) System for Diabetes
The FDA has just approved the Medtronic Guardian™ Connect Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) system, the first smart CGM system to help people with diabetes outsmart high and low glucose events. The system uses the power of real-time sensor glucose data, advanced algorithms and customizable, predictive alerts to notify people when sensor glucose levels are predicted to go too high or low – up to 60 minutes in advance.Understanding Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM)A CGM system provides
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