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.
This edition is a special dispatch from the first days of ViVE 2023. There have been a lot of new research reports, products, and partnerships announced in Nashville. We wanted to try and cover as many announcements for the Healthcare IT Today community as we could. You can also listen to our ViVE 2023 Preview in Episode 110 of the Healthcare IT Podcast to get our take on the most important trends and topics on the agenda.
News
- Amazon Web Services announced the 23 startups that are part of its Healthcare Accelerator: Global Cohort for Workforce. Companies are divided into three categories: Improving staff retention and decreasing burnout, supporting a mobile workforce through interoperability and remote monitoring, and training clinical and administrative staff.
- AHIMA launched the Data for Better Health initiative to boost awareness on how to gather and use SDOH data.
- The National Institute on Aging announced its second Start-Up Challenge and Accelerator; submissions are due on April 20.
- Tulsa Innovation Labs issued a call for proposals for virtual health startups; submissions are due on June 9.
- The Nashville Entrepreneur Center announced Telehealth Academy III, which takes place on Sept. 20.
Partnerships
- CareQuest Innovation Partners and MATTER announced the second edition of SMILE Health, a startup incubator for dental health.
- Divurgent and NTT DATA are collaborating to help healthcare organizations apply digital transformation to IT infrastructure.
- AI-based medical assistant Mediktor is partnering with Kore.ai, a conversational AI platform.
- Oak Street Health and Interwell Health launched OakWell, a joint venture for end-stage kidney disease care.
Products
- Care Evolution launched Orchestrate, a suite of APIs that facilitate data exchange.
- Censinet expanded its RiskOps platform with new on-demand managed services capabilities.
- Coprata unveiled a beta version of its Truly Smart Toilet.
- Cymetryc launched its third-party, cloud-based application testing product of the same name.
- ELLKAY released LKOpera, an interoperability platform enabling disparate health systems to share data.
- Equal Health launched; the company provides DTC telehealth and other care to the LGBTQIA+ community.
- Healthbook+ added the AI-powered Instant Health Check to its platform.
- Mindwise Health launched a platform for tracking mental and behavioral health outcomes.
- Nabla unveiled Copilot, a tool powered by GPT-3 for collecting clinical notes.
- Philips debuted the Philips Virtual Care Management product suite for telehealth and remote monitoring.
- PlusOne launched Social Wellbeing Plans, which provide social support services for seniors.
- RxPlace launched its medication procurement platform connecting pharmacies with wholesalers.
- Tausight expanded its AI-based PHI Security Intelligence platform with an API that allows the product to be embedded in other security tools.
- TimelyMD rebranded as TimelyCare.
- Wondr Health launched Wondr Advanced, which helps health plans and employers navigate weight and anti-obesity medications.
Sales
- Australian Genome Research Facility selected Pure Storage FlashBlade for data management, storage, and processing.
- Marshfield Clinic Health System chose Notable for pre-visit digital registration.
- UNC Health chose Gozio Health to build its custom digital experience.
Philanthropy
- Ash Wellness, HLTH Foundation, Inclusion Tennessee, and Mistr are raising emergency funds for Tennessee trans youth who need access to gender-affirming care out of state.
- The Shared Harvest Foundation is partnering with ViVE to honor National Doctors’ Day on March 30 and raise awareness of clinician suicide, especially among the BIPOC population.
People
- Orion Health appointed James Rice as Executive Vice President for North America.
- The Palladium Forum, a collaboration of the Parnassus Group and Harvard Business School, is seeking C-suite leaders in healthcare and digital health for its June 2023 cohort.
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