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DrFirst Acquires Diagnotes Secure Messaging and Care Coordination Platform

Healthcare IT Today - (Friday February 17, 2023)
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Expands Backline by DrFirst’s Capabilities for Clinical Communications in Health Systems and Beyond
Healthcare technology pioneer DrFirst today announced it has acquired select assets of Indianapolis-based Diagnotes. The acquisition will allow Backline by DrFirst to expand its capabilities to break through communication silos in healthcare at each stage of the patient care journey, promote positive patient outcomes, and enhance satisfaction for staff and patients.
Diagnotes provides a suite of team-based, patient-centered collaboration tools built specifically for the healthcare sector. The app increases clinicians’ productivity and the quality of patient care by allowing healthcare providers to communicate with colleagues in their system and affiliates in other systems. The…

The Adderall Shortage

MedCity News - (Friday February 17, 2023)
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The current Adderall shortage is of serious concern to both patients who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and clinicians. This shortage cannot be quickly alleviated by a simple increase in the amount of medication manufactured, unless the upper limit to the amount of Adderall’s active ingredient that can be manufactured in a given year is raised by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The limit has been imposed because the active ingredient can be abused as a recreational drug. It is necessary to control the supply of any medication with abuse liability, but this must be achieved without compromising the legitimate…

VA Postpones Oracle Cerner EHR Implementation at Ann Arbor Site

DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Friday February 17, 2023)
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will further delay its Oracle Cerner EHR implementation at the agency’s Ann Arbor Healthcare System until late 2023 or early 2024, according to reporting from FedScoop. Laura E….

331 – From clinician to entrepreneur. Kevin Wernli, Roy Mariathas, Santosh Kaur – AUSCEP Participants

Talking HealthTech - (Friday February 17, 2023)
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Pete speaks with a lot of people who have a clinical background. They have done the hard work to be a doctor, a nurse, or an allied health provider. They go through the training, they get all the…

Leveraging Technology to Bridge Gaps in Compliance

HIT Consultant - (Friday February 17, 2023)
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Sean Eaton, Senior Compliance Solutions Specialist at GHXAmerican health systems, hospitals and post-acute care providers are required to comply with hundreds of regulatory requirements. Facilitating this compliance comes with a high cost. According to the American Hospital Association, the average-sized community hospital spends nearly $7.6 million annually on administrative activities to support regulatory compliance. With the impending end of the COVID-19 public health emergency set to shake up healthcare regulations, ongoing healthcare labor shortages, and skyrocketing levels of clinician burnout, a perfect storm for non-compliance is brewing. Even with significant investments in administration to support compliance, overwhelmed providers can inadvertently leave gaps…

SA Telestroke doubles rural treatment capacity after cloud shift

Healthcare IT news - (Friday February 17, 2023)
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SA Health has recently turned to the cloud to provide more efficient stroke care to patients living in regional and rural areas.According to a media release, the SA Telestroke Service has been using the cloud-based telehealth platform Zeus to gather vital health information from stroke patients, including brain scans and consultation records, into a single platform. It was deployed by the Australian Stroke Alliance across 61 hospitals in regional SA and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory as part of a five-year agreement with SA Health. 
Since Zeus was launched last year, the service has received over 440 calls.
Meanwhile, SA Health is…

Medtronic, Zydus Hospitals to facilitate remote stroke care using AI

Healthcare IT news - (Friday February 17, 2023)
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Zydus Hospitals in Ahmedabad and Medtronic India have tied up to launch an AI-enabled hub-and-spoke network to support stroke patients in the western coastal state of Gujarat. An initiative of the pharmaceutical giant Zydus Group, the multispecialty hospital chain has locations across Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. Its Ahmedabad branch runs two hospitals – a super speciality centre and a primary hospital – with over 660 beds.
HOW IT WORKS
According to a press release, Zydus and Medtronic will leverage locally developed AI technologies to deliver timely diagnosis and treatment to stroke patients living in rural communities. With an AI capability, a team of stroke…

VinBrain harnesses Stanford data to improve radiology AI

MobiHealthNews - (Friday February 17, 2023)
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Vietnamese healthcare AI developer VinBrain has started a new partnership with Stanford University to enhance AI medical imaging.Based on their latest data use agreement, Stanford will initially provide VinBrain access to about 240,000 anonymised medical images and reports to train and test the AI on its DrAid clinical decision support platform while also helping improve the accuracy of an information extracting method for structuring radiology reports called RadGraph.
WHY IT MATTERS
According to VinBrain, its latest partnership with Stanford aims to enhance efficiency in radiology reports while “tackling complexity, ambiguity, and limitations in medical image interpretation.”
Through Stanford’s support, the company will be able…

Roundup: First insomnia DTx in South Korea gets regulatory nod and more briefs

MobiHealthNews - (Friday February 17, 2023)
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South Korea clears first local insomnia DTx The South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has given its first market approval for a digital therapeutic device for treating insomnia, according to a news report.
The mobile-based medical device-as-a-software called Somzz by Aimmed delivers a CBT programme that helps increase sleep duration.
India OKs health monitoring smartwatch CardiacSense
Xplore Health, a medical tech company in India, has received approval from the Indian Regulatory Authority for a wearable health monitoring device it carries.
The company is the distributor of the medical smartwatch product of Israeli medical device developer CardiacSense.
Based on a news report, the smartwatch enables continuous monitoring of vital…

Is Interoperability Tech Worth the Investment? Experts Say Yes for 3 Reasons

MedCity News - (Friday February 17, 2023)
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Editor’s note: This story is based on discussions at Abarca Forward, a conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, hosted by Abarca, a pharmacy benefit manager. MedCity News’ Editor-in-Chief Arundhati Parmar and Senior Reporter Katie Adams were invited to attend and speak at the conference. All travel and related expenses for the team were covered by Abarca. However, company officials had no input in editorial coverage. 
In order for the U.S. healthcare system to operate smoothly, various stakeholders must cooperate with one another and share data seamlessly. But this notion is far from being achieved — the industry is still seriously plagued by…


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