Allscripts has won its first client in Qatar to provide first-of-its-kind ambulatory care services. Alfardan Group, one of the leading family-owned conglomerates in Qatar and Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine have selected Allscripts to provide ambulatory care services for the launch of its new project, Alfardan Medical with Northwestern Medicine. As part […]
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Babylon launches in Canada
Telus Health and Babylon are together launching Babylon by TELUS Health, a future-forward virtual healthcare solution that promises to revolutionise how Canadians take control of their own health from the convenience of a smartphone. The solution will provide access to healthcare support and information 24/7 and aims to improve efficiency of […]
Lumeon secures $28m funding for US growth
Lumeon, the company behind the care pathway management platform has raised funding to expand its commercial operations, with advice from BKL. The funding from Life Sciences Partners, is one the largest healthcare investment firms in Europe, to grow its US team and customer base. The company will now use the $28 […]
Sensyne health signs US evaluation agreement
Sensyne Health the British clinical AI technology company has signed a non-exclusive agreement with Jefferson Health, one of the largest healthcare providers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The agreement is to evaluate the clinical and commercial potential of Sensyne Health’s GDm-Health™ digital therapeutic in the Jefferson Health system. GDm-Health™ is […]
First robotic heart surgery a success from 20 miles away
Dr. Tejas Patel, Chairman and Chief Interventional Cardiologist of the Apex Heart Institute at Ahmedabad has performed heart surgery from a distance of 20 miles away. The procedure, which lasted just 15 minutes was to place a stent in the second artery that was clogged, using an internet-enabled robotic arm […]
Orca Health launches waiting room
Orca Health has launched Waiting Room, a digital content platform designed to streamline and improve the patient experience from diagnosis to treatment to post-surgical care. The company has been implementing Waiting Room at NYU Langone and will roll it out to its existing user base.. The app’s capabilities help patients and […]
Amazon’s new software to analyse digitised patient records could have manifold impact on healthcare, says GlobalData
Amazon’s latest effort in healthcare to sell a new HIPAA-eligible machine learning-based software that can pull out and analyse patient data from chaotic electronic medical records (EMRs), could have considerable impact in reshaping the industry by overcoming current hurdles that impede successful application of Big Data in healthcare, according to […]
New Zealand Health Board shows real-time waiting times via patient app
Counties Manukau Health in New Zealand is trialling a digital information system to help patients receive the right care for them. A screen in Middlemore Hospital ED and a free smartphone app show patients real-time information comparing the total waiting and treatment times for urgent care (not emergency care) within […]
Australian health region benefits from bedside tech
Patientrack’s new Bed Board module will replace bedside whiteboards for ACT Health, meaning healthcare professionals no longer need to manually write updates. The system pulls in data from multiple systems to display critical patient information at the patient bedside including demographics to aid in positive patient identification, patient location, estimated date […]
Amazon expands HIPAA eligible machine learning
Amazon AWS has announced that Amazon Translate, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon Transcribe are now U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible services. Amazon Transcribe is a speech-to-text service that automatically creates text transcripts from audio files will allow healthcare organisations to create text transcripts calls with […]
