Health IT Business News – May 9, 2024

Trending News

HITRUST Enhances Cyber Threat Adaptive Engine Using Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence
HITRUST, a leader in information security, risk, and compliance assurance, announced a comprehensive update to its Cyber Threat Adaptive engine to enable increased accuracy and timeliness of HITRUST CSF updates to address emerging cyber threats.

Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) Copilot effortlessly unlocks network, device, and application performance insights in real-time to help quickly resolve issues impacting end users
Zscaler, Inc., a provider of cloud security, announced groundbreaking innovations – ZDX Copilot, Hosted Monitoring, and Data Explorer – to its Zscaler Digital Experience™ (ZDX™) service.

Product News

Anne Arundel Dermatology Adds Intelligent Scheduling Capabilities to Improve Patient Experience
Anne Arundel Dermatology (AADerm), a provider of medical, surgical, pathology, research and aesthetic dermatological services, announced that it will add new intelligent patient scheduling tools, expanding its existing partnership with Relatient, a patient scheduling platform.

InsightRX Unveils Apollo Gold, a Powerful New Tier of the Apollo Analytics Platform
InsightRX – which provides cloud-based precision medicine software to optimize treatment decisions – announced the immediate availability of a new, premium tier of the company’s Apollo analytics platform that provides comprehensive insights into clinical performance aimed at improving departmental treatment policies and protocols.

CLEW Expands Its Intelligent Clinical Surveillance Platform to All Inpatient Settings
CLEW, a clinical intelligence and predictive surveillance company, announced the general availability of its FDA-cleared, AI-driven, intelligent clinical surveillance platform. Built upon proprietary, machine-learning derived prediction models and rules-based best practices, the CLEW platform offers health systems an early identification of a patient’s risk of deterioration.

Technology is at the forefront of UHS Wilson Main Tower
When the Wilson Main Tower opens this spring, it will serve patients with a level of healthcare technology unprecedented in the Southern Tier. From the rooftop helipad to the bedside of each private room, beneficial technology will play a key role in the way UHS is revolutionizing care, service and the patient experience. Each private room will feature a system of digital displays called pCare.

Intuity Medical’s POGO Automatic®, the First and Only FDA-Cleared Automatic Blood Glucose Monitor, Now Covered by Medicare Part B
Intuity Medical, Inc., a medical technology company committed to making it easier to live with diabetes, announced that its POGO Automatic® Blood Glucose Monitoring (ABGM) system, featuring one-step testing, is now covered by Medicare Part B. This decision expands access to the innovative monitor for the 16.5 million seniors age 65 and up living with diabetes.

Klara Revolutionizes Patient Intake Processes for athenahealth Users, Saving Time and Enhancing Healthcare Efficiency
Klara®, a leader in patient communication and engagement, is proud to introduce its patient intake product, designed exclusively for athenahealth users to streamline and modernize the patient intake process.

Verantos launches Inflammatory Bowel Disease Pragmatic Registry 
Verantos, the global leader in high-validity real-world evidence at scale, announced the launch of its Inflammatory Bowel Disease Pragmatic Registry, which provides rich and reliable data on ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease patients, including specific subgroups to life sciences organizations.

OM1 Launches Three New Products Powered by Patented AI Platform to Expedite Delivery of Personalized Medicine
OM1 introduces three new products: OM1 Orion, OM1 Lyra, and OM1 Polaris powered by PhenOMTM – an artificial intelligence-powered digital phenotyping platform for personalized medicine and clinical research. OM1 is the leader in providing Real-World Evidence (RWE) insights from bench to bedside, leveraging advanced predictive and generative AI platforms coupled with deep clinical data to empower healthcare stakeholders.

symplr Recognizes Nursing Excellence with Launch of Workforce Management “DAISY” Mobile Feature
symplr®, a provider of enterprise healthcare operations software that has been supporting the nursing profession through technology innovations for 30+ years, is launching a new symplr Workforce mobile app feature to enable healthcare professionals to easily nominate nurses for a DAISY Award, an international program honoring extraordinary nursing care.

Omnicell Supports Global Charity Mercy Ships with Pharmacy Technology Donation
Omnicell, Inc., a company transforming the pharmacy care delivery model, announced continued support for the global charity Mercy Ships with the donation of solutions from the recently announced XT Amplify program.

Together by Renee Launches Innovative Find My Meds Feature to Ensure Continuous Access to Essential GLP-1 and Other Medications
Together by Renee, an AI-based health assistant, announced the launch of a groundbreaking new feature in its platform: Find My Meds. This innovative feature is designed to tackle the widespread issue of GLP-1 medication shortages, which affects millions of users nationwide who rely on these drugs for managing diabetes and weight loss.

Collaboration News

WeightWatchers for Business and Personify Health Partner to Help Employers Address Weight Health Care
WeightWatchers announced that WeightWatchers for Business is partnering with Personify Health (formerly Virgin Pulse) to support employers looking to provide weight health care solutions for their populations.

Lyric and Concert Expand Partnership to Deliver Laboratory Payment Accuracy Solution
Lyric, an AI-first leader in payment accuracy, has expanded its partnership with Concert to deliver payment accuracy across a rapidly expanding set of advanced and routine laboratory tests, the companies announced today.

Product Certification News

HSBlox Completes Renewal of SOC 2 Type II + HITRUST Attestation for CureAlign® Platform
HSBlox, Inc., announced that it has completed renewal of the SOC 2 Type II + HITRUST Attestation report for its CureAlign® platform and the solutions built on it.

Veda First to Achieve Third-Party Data Validation from Erdős Institute, Reinforcing Commitment to Accountable AI-Powered Solutions in Healthcare
Veda, a health technology company specializing in provider data solutions, announced that it has achieved third-party validation from the prestigious Erdős Institute, an independent organization of university PhDs advancing the fields of Data Science and Machine Learning.

RapidAI Secures FDA Clearance for Perfusion Imaging in the Angiography Suite
RapidAI, the global leader in developing clinically deep Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technology workflow solutions to combat life-threatening neurovascular, cardiac, and vascular diseases, announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for its AngioFlow™ by RapidAI solution.

Other Business News

Artisight Selected for Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program
Artisight, Inc., a Smart Hospital Platform powered by industry-defining artificial intelligence to enable virtual care models, quality improvement, and care coordination solutions, announced that it has been selected to participate in the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program.

Making the Cut, Milestones, Accolades, Awards and More

CliniComp Recognized for Electronic Health Record Innovation in 8th Annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards Program
MedTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global digital health and medical technology market, today announced that CliniComp, the pioneer in high-performing, reliable electronic health record (EHR) solution suite, has been selected as winner of the “Best Electronic Health Record Service” award in the 8th annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards program. The award recognizes the breakthrough technology innovation of CliniComp’s System as a Service (SYaaS) unique and superior model.