What You Should Know: - VieCure, a leading cancer care company, announced today that it's integrating DrFirst's e-prescribing and medication management solutions into its clinical decision support system. - VieCure is a well-established point-of-care intelligence system specifically designed for community oncologists. Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI), patient data, and a comprehensive oncology knowledge base, VieCure generates personalized treatment plans for cancer
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Medication Management Process
Medisafe Launches New Platform for Medication Management to Improve Patient Journey
What You Should Know: - Medisafe launches a new Medisafe Maestro platform that brings precision and speed to patient journeys. - The new platform aims to revolutionize digital health platforms by combining a host of resources to help patients through any hurdle in their journey and updates and monitoring happen in real-time to meet patients in their moments. Medisafe, a Boston, MA-based digital therapeutics companion platform, announced the immediate deployment of its new Medisafe
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Walmart Acquires Medication Management Platform CareZone for $200M to Enhance Digital Health & Wellness Capabilities
What You Should Know: - Walmart acquires app-based patient medication management platform CareZone for reportedly $200M to enhance its digital health and wellness capabilities. - CareZone’s technology and team members will join Walmart to augment their current Health & Wellness capabilities and support its focus on digital health care solutions. CareZone will remain a separate company unrelated to Walmart. Walmart announced it has acquired CareZone, a San Francisco,
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Reducing Preventable Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events
Using a Health Information Exchange (HIE), clinicians across multidisciplinary care teams can access a patient’s medications, reconcile the list and monitor their progress, thereby reducing medication errors and future costs from preventable hospital admissions. Multiple factors combine to make the prescribing, supplying and taking of medications a perilous and costly issue for patients and the healthcare sector. Prescription medication use is by far the most common health intervention.
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Medisafe Integrates with Apple Health Records to Prevent Drug-to-Drug Interactions
Medisafe's new life-saving integration with Apple Health Records, which just became available to consumers. Medisafe is a medication management app that helps prevent deadly drug-to-drug interactions as well as fending off thousands of health risks and preventable hospitalizations. With Health Records, Medisafe can surface medications from multiple providers, and people will have even more access to their medication records and knowledge of potential DDIs.DDIs cause nearly 74,000 emergency room
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Hackensack Invests in Home Care Robot, Pillo Through $25M Innovation Fund
Hackensack Meridian Health, today announced it has invested in Pillo, an AI-powered home care robot companion that empowers patients to better manage their health at home, connecting them to caregivers and family members. The investment marks the first product funded through Hackensack Meridian Health’s $25 million innovation program to support the improvement of health care delivery. The health network’s novel incubator has vetted many products and strategies to streamline care delivery, reduce
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Survey: 75% of Clinicians Feel Medication Management Process is Flawed
A new BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) survey conducted by HIMSS Analytics®, 2017 Medication Management and Safety Survey, found more than 75 percent of physicians, nurses and pharmacists surveyed described the medication management process as “flawed,” “fragmented,” “disjointed” and “primitive.” The survey of 153 physicians, nurses and pharmacists, and 1,131 patients and their family members sheds light on the current state of patient safety, patient perceptions toward medication management
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