Particle Health, Complete Patient Records & ‘The Business’ of the Information Blocking Rule
By JESSICA DAMASSA Particle Health’s CEO Troy Bannister stops by to not only talk about the API platform company’s $25M Series B, but to also […]
API
Connected Devices Selection: Considerations for A Digital-First Approach to Data Collection
Mark Mentzer, Senior Director, Business Development, Connected Devices and eCOA, IQVIA In recent years, digital health technologies (DHTs) have significantly changed the way we collect […]
Cybercriminals Use Bots to Steal Active Pharmacy Accounts and Resell Prescriptions
What You Should Know: – Cybercriminals are leveraging illegal bots to steal pharmacy accounts and resell prescriptions on a secondary market for in-demand substances, like […]
Availity to Acquire Diameter Health to Expand Clinical Data Interoperability
What You Should Know: – One of the nation’s largest real-time health information networks Availity announced an agreement to acquire Diameter Health, a national leader in […]
Kristen Ballantine, VP of Government Relations at Gainwell
Kristen Ballantine, VP of Government Relations at Gainwell For most patients, it has always been extremely difficult to their personal health and medical data electronically. […]
Zocdoc Launches its First-Ever Public API Platform: Zocdoc for Developers
What You Should Know: – Zocdoc, the leading healthcare marketplace that makes it easy for people to find and book in-person or virtual care across […]
Canvas Medical Raises $24M for EMR & Payments Platform
What You Should Know: – Canvas Medical, the EMR that enables clinicians and developers to power the future of care delivery, has raised $24M in […]
Particle Health Raises $25M to Scale Health Data Exchange API Platform
What You Should Know: – Particle Health, a New York-based API platform for advanced healthcare data exchange, , today announced its Series B financing of […]
Turquoise Health Integrates Price Transparency Data with Ribbon Health
What You Should Know: – Ribbon Health, an API data platform for the healthcare industry that powers care decisions, and Turquoise Health, a provider of […]
Elation Health and Dock Health Partner Optimize Clinical Operations
What You Should Know: – Primary care EHR provider Elation Health and provider workflow management platform provider Dock Health announced an integration to significantly improve task management for […]
Why Health Plans Must Have Next-Gen CAPS Technology for Digital Transformation
Sagnik Bhattacharya Chief Operating & Product Officer HealthEdge Core Administrative Processing Systems (CAPS) operate as the brains behind a health plan’s business. These systems are […]
Turquoise Health Raises $20M for Healthcare Pricing Platform, Launches Direct Contracting Platform
What You Should Know: – Turquoise Health, an end-to-end healthcare pricing platform, today announced a $20M Series A investment led by existing investor Andreessen Horowitz […]
3 Predictions for Post-COVID Clinical Trial Decentralization
Marc Leighton, VP of Product at Florence Healthcare Prior to COVID, major technological transformation initiatives were already underway at many clinical trial sites, sponsors, and […]
NexHealth Nabs $125M for End-to-End Patient Experience Platform
What You Should Know: Today, NexHealth announced its $125M Series C funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $1B for its patient experience platform. – The funding […]
At-Home Testing is the Future, but Lab APIs are Stuck in the Past
David Stein, CEO of Ash Wellness The rise of telemedicine and virtual care options have primed at-home testing to make a significant impact on the […]
League Partners with Google Cloud to Accelerate Healthcare Consumer Experiences
What You Should Know: – League today announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud that aims to accelerate and enable successful digital transformation for healthcare providers, […]
HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform OptimizeRx, a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and […]
Flume Health Secures $30M for Health Plan Administration Platform
What You Should Know: – Flume Health, a NYC-based Health-Plan-as-a-Service platform announced today a $30M round of Series A funding led by Optum Ventures with […]
Lynx Launches with $17.5M for API-Connected Healthcare Payments
What You Should Know: – Lynx, a Boston-based API-connected healthcare payments, banking, and e-commerce platform announced today that it has emerged from stealth with $17.5M in […]
An Inside Look at Payer Compliance with CMS’ Patient Access API Rule
John Kelly, Principal Business Advisor, Edifecs The healthcare industry is now closer than ever to its quest for true interoperable data exchange. July 1, 2021 […]
Ribbon Health Raises $43.5M for Healthcare API Data Platform
What You Should Know: – Ribbon Health, an API data platform that powers high-quality, cost-effective, and convenient care decisions, announced a $43.5 million Series B […]
2nd Applied Biocatalysis Summit 2021
Advancing Sustainable, Streamlined Small Molecules, API and Fine Chemical Production using Enzyme Engineering & Scalable Industrial Biotransformations Attending the 2nd Applied Biocatalysis Summit is the […]
After Alexion buy, AZ plans $360m investment in Irish facilities
AstraZeneca has unveiled plans to build a brand new manufacturing facility at a site in Ireland operated by recent acquisition Alexion, providing employment for around […]
Truepill becomes a ‘triple threat’ with diagnostics
Truepill, the company operating behind-the-scenes to help digital health companies with pharmacy fulfillment and telehealth visits, has added a third feature: at home testing. CEO […]
Health Gorilla Nabs $15M to Expand FHIR-based APIs for Digital Health
What You Should Know: – Health Gorilla raises $15M to scale its FHIR-based API solutions for digital health and expand into new markets. – Health […]
DrChrono’s Open FHIR API Enables Patients to Transfer Records to Apple Health
What You Should Know: – DrChrono announces today that its open FHIR API is now live enabling its patient members to securely transfer their available […]
Workforce Upskilling in Pharma R&D
There is comfort in habits. There is comfort in the familiar. In normal times, change usually only occurs at a relatively slow pace. When we […]
Epic, Galen Healthcare, Chartis Group Named 2020 Overall Best in KLAS Awards
What You Should Know: – Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the eleventh consecutive year in the Best in KLAS 2021 Software & Services report, released […]
CHIME-KLAS Report Reveals 10 Key EMR Interoperability Trends
What You Should Know: – New CHIME-KLAS interoperability report reveals steady progress in some areas related to interoperability and leaps forward in others. – A […]
Traditional RESTful APIs Will Not Solve Healthcare’s Biggest Interoperability Problems
Brian Platz, Co-CEO and Co-Chairman of Fluree Interoperability is a big discussion in health care, with new regulations requiring interoperability for patient data. Most approaches […]
CIO: 3 Rules for Meeting ONC/CMS Interoperability, While Improving Cybersecurity
Scott Galbari, CTO, Lyniate Drew Ivan, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Lyniate Healthcare data security has been a growing concern for CIOs for the last […]
Opening up real-time access to data via APIs could help streamline Covid-19 vaccination programs
An API-first approach supports low-code solutions, and that is of immense value to healthcare facilities right now.
Human API CEO Talks Data Privacy Concerns in Employee Wellness Programs
Andrei Pop, Founder, and CEO of Human API, A recent BBC article discusses the rise in employee health tracking via wearable devices and highlights a […]
Highmark Inks 6-Year Partnership with Google Cloud to Power Living Health Model
What You Should Know: – Highmark Health signs six-year strategic partnership agreement with Google Cloud to transform the health experience for patients and caregivers through […]
Despite COVID-19: Providers Should Not Lose Sight of MIPS Compliance
Courtney Tesvich, VP of Regulatory at Nextech When 2020 began, no one anticipated that complying with the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)—the flagship payment model […]
Elation Health Nabs $40M for Clinical-First Solution to Power Independent Primary Care
What You Should Know: – Elation Health, which provides an easy-to-use and affordable clinical technology platform for more than 7 million independent primary care clinicians […]
M&A: Ro Acquires On-Demand, In-Home Platform Workpath
What You Should Know: – Ro announced it has acquired Workpath, a technology platform that powers on-demand, in-home healthcare and diagnostics services nationwide. – Through […]
Google Cloud Launches Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program
What You Should Know: – Google Cloud launches Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program to help healthcare organizations achieve healthcare data interoperability. Today, Google Cloud launched the […]
To Solve Healthcare Interoperability, We Must ‘Solve the Surround’
Peter S. Tippett, MD, Ph.D., Founder & CEO of careMesh Interoperability in healthcare is a national disgrace. After more than three decades of effort, billions […]
Human API Raises $20M+ to Scale User-Controlled Health Data Ecosystem
What You Should Know: – Human API, the consumer-controlled health data platform announced it has closed a Series C round of $20M+ this week. – […]
How Low-Code Solutions Reduce Headaches for Healthcare CIOs
Ruby Raley, VP of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Axway Twenty years ago, technology consultants started advising CIOs to build less. That’s when the movement […]
Dignity Health Management Services to Leverage Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform
What You Should Know: – Dignity Health Management Services (DHMSO), the largest health system in the state of California to transform their network health data […]
Verisk Launches EHR Triage Engine to Help Speed Approval of Life Insurance Apps
What You Should Know: – Verisk launches its new EHR Triage Engine, a tool that uses data from consumer-authorized electronic health records (EHRs) to help […]
Redox Adds Data on Demand, Single Sign-On Access to Interoperability Platform
What You Should Know: – Redox adds data on demand and single sign-on access features to its cloud interoperability platform to help to simplify the […]
Open APIs in Healthcare: The Future of Data Integration Report
What You Should Know: – The latest Chilmark Research report examines how data-oriented APIs are contributing to development and integration efforts across healthcare from the […]
52% of Households Willing to Share Smartphone Data to aid in COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Over 50% of US broadband households are willing to share smartphone data to aid in COVID-19 contact tracing, while another 20% could be convinced provided […]
Sanofi set to spin off API business late next year – report
Sanofi is to begin preparations in autumn to spin off its active ingredients business and is lining up a potential stock market launch by 2022, according to […]
Microsoft Releases Public Preview of Azure IoT Connector for FHIR to Empower Health Teams
What You Should Know: – Microsoft released the public preview of Azure IoT Connector for FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), the latest update to the […]
