Health IT Business News – November 17, 2022

Trending News

Consensus Cloud Solutions Unveils Conductor Integration Platform
Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc. (@consensuscs), provider of digital cloud fax solutions, announced the availability of Consensus Conductor, which provides seamless integration technology that supports the latest standards for connectivity while addressing a wide range of interoperability challenges from the simple to the extremely complex.

DirectTrust and EHNAC Announce Merger Agreement
DirectTrust and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (@EHNAC) announced an agreement to merge EHNAC with and into DirectTrust, effective January 4, 2023.

Heard it at HLTH

Medical Management Company Medix Launches Personal Healthcare App
Medix, a medical management company engineered to direct the full potential of medical expertise, treatments and technology to people’s most critical health needs, announced the launch of the Medix App, a personal, holistic, one-stop medical command center that puts people in the driver’s seat of their unique healthcare journey.

Lumeon Named ‘Rising Star’ in the New EHR Innovations Category of UCSF Health Hub Digital Health Awards 2022
Lumeon, a care orchestration solution provider, announced that it has been recognized as a Rising Star in the New EHR Innovations category of the 4th Annual UCSF Health Hub Digital Health Awards. Winners were announced during the grand finale gala on November 14 at HLTH 2022 in Las Vegas.

NuraLogix Researchers Announce the Capability to Assess Type 2 Diabetes and Blood Biomarker Health Issues Using Any Video-Enabled Device
Researchers at NuraLogix (@nuralogix), a contactless health monitoring company through its patented Transdermal Optical Imaging (TOI™) technology, has announced that it is adding the ability to perform metabolic and blood biomarker health risk assessments for various chronic conditions to its AnuraTM platform. As a first for video-based contactless health monitoring, the new capabilities add to the existing health and wellness measurements* Anura™ can assess from a 30-second video selfie, including the ability to accurately measure blood pressure.

Wolters Kluwer taps Microsoft to unlock innovative solutions for virtual healthcare and payer care management
Wolters Kluwer, Health (@Wolters_Kluwer) announced it is partnering with Microsoft to enable healthcare organizations to unleash innovation through the combination of Wolters Kluwer’s market-leading solutions and the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

Atropos Health Wins Prestigious UCSF Rising Star Award
Atropos Health (@atroposhealth), a company delivering real-world evidence at the point and pace of care, was named a Rising Star in the Clinical Diagnostic Tool category by the 2022 UCSF Digital Health Awards, awarded to organizations solving healthcare’s biggest challenges.

Product News

Inato Drives Improvements to Access and Inclusion in Global Clinical Trials with Latest Platform Enhancements
Inato (@inatohealth) — a global platform that seamlessly connects community-based sites with pharmaceutical companies looking to prioritize access and diversity in clinical trials — announced its latest platform enhancements.

Lumeris Launches Hands on Approach for Physicians to Rapidly Accelerate the Adoption of Value Based Care
Lumeris (@lumeris), a provider of technology, insurance capabilities and expertise to support value-based care models, announced the launch of Tribus, which builds upon Lumeris proven technology enabled services with physician-to-physician training and mentorship for practices looking for a better way to deliver at-risk care for senior populations.

CVRx Launches New Barostim NEO2 Implantable Pulse Generator
CVRx, Inc. (@CVRx_Inc), developer of the world’s first FDA-approved neuromodulation device to treat the symptoms of heart failure, has launched its new Barostim NEO2™ IPG.

Wolters Kluwer strengthens clinical surveillance portfolio with Sentri7 Sepsis Monitor
Every hour sepsis goes untreated, mortality risk increases by about 8%.1 Early, accurate detection of patients with sepsis is essential to ensuring sepsis bundle compliance, improving clinical outcomes, and reducing costs from an extended length of stay (LOS). Wolters Kluwer, Health (@Wolters_Kluwer) has expanded the Sentri7® suite of clinical surveillance tools to include Sentri7 Sepsis Monitor – empowering hospitals and health systems to identify sepsis earlier and supporting staff in delivering the best care everywhere.

Vermont Initiative Gives Clinicians New Tools for Infectious Disease Diagnosis and Response
The Vermont Department of Health has launched a first-of-a-kind program to support healthcare professionals with timely information on disease diagnosis, testing, treatment and patient education resources — improving public health response statewide. These resources are being made available to Vermont healthcare professionals in partnership with VisualDx (@visualdx), a healthcare informatics company based in Rochester, NY.

Connect America Unveils Industry-First Enhancements to Connect America Home™ Platform
Connect America, a company in connective care technology to empower seniors and vulnerable populations to age gracefully in place, announced several enhancements to its Connect America Home™ platform.

Insightin Health Offers a Sneak-Peak into the Market Insight Module of their inGAGE™ Platform
For a limited time, Insightin Health (@insightinhealth) is making Market Insight, a module of their inGAGE™ platform, universally available. Through the module, Insightin Health shares analytic insights from their inGAGE™ platform and publicly available information in interactive, easy to interpret visualizations.

OncoHost to Present Proteomics-Based Biomarker Model for Clinical Benefit to Immunotherapy in NSCLC Patients at SITC 2022
OncoHost (@OncoHost), a global company in next-generation precision oncology for improved personalized cancer therapy, has developed a novel predictive model for clinical benefit of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients.

Turquoise Health Launches New Product For Individualized Datasets, Eliminates Barriers To Accessing Transparency Data
Turquoise Health (@TurquoiseHC), an end-to-end healthcare pricing platform, announced Simple Extracts, its first price transparency data product for specialty healthcare businesses.

Intelerad supports the launch of Amazon HealthLake Imaging
Intelerad Medical Systems (@intelerad), a global provider of enterprise medical imaging solutions, announced support for Amazon HealthLake Imaging, a new HIPAA-eligible capability from Amazon Web Services (AWS), now available in preview.

Certilytics, Inc. Launches New Product to Help Plan Sponsors Maximize Their Point Solution Programs
Certilytics, Inc. (@Certilytics) announced the release of Impact Evaluator, a product suite that helps plan sponsors maximize the impact of their point solution programs.

HITRUST Addresses Key National Information Security Priorities
HITRUST (@hitrust) is announcing resources that address national cyber and information security priorities identified by government agencies, legislators, and industry.

Product Certification News

CareCloud’s Electronic Health Record Solutions Earn Latest ONC Certification
CareCloud (@CareCloud), a company in healthcare technology solutions for medical practices and health systems nationwide, announced it has achieved Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) certification for its electronic health record (EHR) solutions, VertexDR and talkEHR, and they are now compliant with 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule requirements.

CenTrak Launches the Next Generation of the TruView™ Platform and Receives UL 2560 Certification
CenTrak (@CenTrak) unveils the expansion of TruView’s wander management capabilities to include unique roaming alert features and announces the platform’s emergency call system has met the rigorous safety standards and testing required by the UL 2560 certification process.

US Government Grants ModMed® a Patent
Healthcare technology innovator ModMed (@modmed) is pleased to announce that the US Government granted Patent No. 11,443,836 protecting some of the core functionality of its EHR system — a system designed to save clinicians time documenting exams and allows them to focus more on the patient in front of them.

Certilytics Achieves HITRUST Risk-based, 2-Year Certification
Certilytics, a data and predictive analytics partner for healthcare organizations and employers, announced that its healthcare-focused data processing platform has earned Certified status for information security by HITRUST.

Collaboration News

Ordr Partners with Sodexo on Managed Cybersecurity Service for Connected Devices in Healthcare
Ordr (@ordrofthings), a connected device security company, announced that it has partnered with Sodexo Healthcare Technology Management to deliver a managed HTM and cybersecurity solution that combines the strengths of Ordr’s connected device security platform with Sodexo’s healthcare technology management services expertise.

BARDA supports development of novel AI/ML-based digital apps for visual and auditory symptomatic infectious disease detection
BARDA’s (@BARDA) Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures (DRIVe) is partnering with The COVID Detection Foundation (dba Virufy) and Logical Images (dba VisualDx) to create digital medical countermeasures for visual and auditory symptomatic detection of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and pox-based viruses like monkeypox and smallpox.

EMOTIV Partners with X-trodes to Launch New Medical-Grade, At-Home Solution for Brain Monitoring Research
EMOTIV (@emotiv), a bioinformatics company advancing understanding of the human brain using electroencephalography (EEG), and X-trodes (@xtrodes), a company bringing wireless medical-grade monitoring solutions to the home environment, announced collaboration on a new first-of-its-kind solution for simultaneous brain and physiological measurement that can be used outside of the lab setting.

Decode Health Collaborates with Quest Diagnostics to Speed Biomarker Discovery for Drug and Diagnostics Development
Decode Health (@decodehealthai), a healthcare AI company that enables a partner ecosystem to innovate and solve data challenges involving disease risk, announced a new phase of its collaboration with Quest Diagnostics, the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services, to empower drug and diagnostics research and development in the growing fields of metabolic disease and autoimmune neurology.

Making the Cut, Milestones, Accolades, Awards and More

Northern Virginia Technology Council Recognizes DrFirst as a Top Tech Leader for Third Consecutive Year
For the third year in a row, healthcare technology pioneer DrFirst (@DrFirst) is being honored as one of the cutting-edge companies driving innovation, implementing new solutions for customers, and contributing to the region’s economic growth.