Carta Healthcare Secures $25 Million in Series B Funding with Additional Investments from Memorial Hermann Health System and UnityPoint Health
Top Health Systems Invest in Innovative Technology Company to Simplify Data Abstraction and Deliver Data Insights to Drive Quality Improvement
Carta Healthcare®, a company whose mission is to improve patient care by harnessing the value of clinical data, announced today the final closing of its $25 million series B financing, thanks to additional investments from leading health systems Memorial Hermann Health System and UnityPoint Health.
These additional investments follow the initial $20 million series B financing announced in November 2022, which included investors such as Paramark Ventures, Frist Cressey Ventures, Ame...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT American College of Cardiology Asset Management Ventures Carta Carta Healthcare Clinical Data CU Healthcare Innovation Fund Feby Abraham Frist Cressey Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings He Source Type: blogs
Unpalatable truths about pain
Recently I read a blog post about the way “Explain pain” had landed with a group of people in the general public. The point being made was that people found the ideas presented unpalatable. They didn’t agree with the points and they thought the ideas were dismissive of their experience.
Now I am a critic of any recipe-based approach to helping people. I am especially a critic of clinicians using something they’ve picked up on a weekend course, or out of a book, being applied holus bolus to an individual without nuance. There have been outrageous claims made about the effectiveness of giving some...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - June 11, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Pain conditions Professional topics biopsychosocial pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
HealthSnap Raises $9 Million Series A for Continued Growth of Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management Platform
The Investment, Led by Asclepius Growth Capital and Leading Health System Partners, will Enable Care Teams to Empower Patients with a More Personalized Remote-Care Experience
HealthSnap, a Miami-based virtual care management platform for chronic disease management, today announced a new round of financing totaling $9 million. The round was led by Asclepius Growth Capital, an SPV founded by David Jahns, a managing director of Galen Partners, and Steve Cashman, CEO at Caption Health and former CCO at InTouch Health, as well as new strategic investments from current business partners UnityPoint Health and Tampa General H...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Asclepius Growth Capital Caption Health CCM Chronic Disease Management David Jahns Florida Funders Galen Partners Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment HealthSnap InTouch Health Source Type: blogs
New! Awesome! Better! (Learning a new approach)
With all the attention being given to cognitive functional therapy (and deservedly so, IMHO) it’s tempting to leap aboard the modality train and go take a course, isn’t it?
Although I’ve picked on CFT today, it could just as easily have been any of the New! Awesome! Better! therapies that hit the clinical headlines on a frequent basis. The temptation to go “Look! Shiny!” and learn about the latest thing isn’t confined to teenagers following some social media trend. Yup, even sober-sides nearly 60-year-olds like me still want to go on learning, getting better at what I do, keeping up w...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - May 21, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Clinical reasoning Education/CME Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Research Science in practice biopsychosocial healthcare Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Diversion
To be clear, we are not talking about people who have committed serious felonies. That is another discussion. But the large majority of people who are involved with the criminal justice system are charged with fairly minor offenses -- what may be labeled disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, public intoxication, shoplifting or other petty theft, maybe getting in a fight or vandalizing property of someone they ' re mad at. As we have seen, a lot of these people have diagnosable mental and/or substance use disorder, limited education and job skills. As we have also seen, if they are convicted (or more realisti...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 20, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Pain Concepts for Practice: Occupational therapists
Enrolments open again for this online course with THREE live Zoom discussions!
This course is specifically developed for occupational therapists and gives you:
an overview of the THREE groups of pain mechanisms and a way through the neurobiology maze
what pain mechanisms mean when working with people experiencing pain
the weird and uncertain influence of pain on daily life
pain behaviours and how these can get in the way of doing what matters to a person
pain assessments and what they mean
sensory approaches for people living with pain
graded desensitising and graded exposure – how they are n...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - May 18, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Augmented and Virtual Reality Apps for Training
This article explores research at Inteleos to improve the use of augmented and virtual reality, which I’ll talk about together under the commonly used abbreviation XR. We’ll also look at XR applications in health care by Mobiquity.
How XR is Trained
We all learn from other people, even if their expertise is filtered through books, computer applications, or even generative AI. So medical training starts with the medical expert.
At Inteleos, I interviewed Heather Harris, Ph.D., a data science consultant with Herkimer Consulting, and Inteleos data scientist Denali Carpenter. The two scientists are researching the ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Augmented Reality Denali Carpenter Disaster Response Education Healthcare AR Healthcare VR Healthcare XR Heather Harris Herkimer Consulting HTC VIV Source Type: blogs
Transformative Tech: Enhancing Healthcare Outcomes for All
The following is a guest article by Patrick Tarnowski, Chief Commercial Officer at OneStep
As many as 91% of patients who could benefit from physical therapy (PT) do not access care, and of those who do, only 30% complete their course of care. There are numerous reasons why.
Perhaps patients work long hours or need access to transportation to get them to their appointments, primarily if they live in rural or lower socioeconomic areas. Sometimes the cost of physical therapy services, and any additional monitoring equipment, creates an added barrier for particular populations and communities. When it comes to BIPOC individua...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring At Home Care BIPOC Digital Health Solutions Healthcare Accessibility Improving Clinical Outcomes OneStep Patrick Tarno Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Mt Sinai ’ s David Putrino on Long Covid and Functional Neurological Disorder
By David Tuller, DrPH David Putrino is a neuroscientist and physical therapist at New York’s Mt Sinai Health System, where he is director of rehabilitation innovation. Over the last three years, he has worked extensively with patients experiencing prolonged symptoms after an acute bout of Covid-19, or what has become known as long Covid (LC). … Trial By Error: Mt Sinai’s David Putrino on Long Covid and Functional Neurological Disorder Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 4, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized FND Mt Sinai Putrino Source Type: blogs
Teaching Wound Care at the American College of Physicians Annual Meeting
I recently had the honor of teaching a section entitled “Wound Care for the Internist.” at the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians (ACP) in San Diego. ACP is the largest medical specialty organization in the United States with members that include internal medicine physicians, subspecialists, and medical students. My session was well attended by caregivers from across the healthcare continuum including hospitalists, doctors in outpatient practices, and long-term care providers.
In my introductory remarks I asked the question, “How many of you have had a lecture on wound care in medical school....
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - April 29, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Featured Medical Articles Geriatric Medicine Pressure Injuries & Wound Care arterial ulcer bedsores burns chronic wounds decubitus ulcer end-of-life care Jeff Levine MD medical education pressure sores pressure ulcers venous ulce Source Type: blogs
‘ Women ’ s pain ’ – not just ‘ women ’ s pain ’
Women really do get a rough deal when it comes to pain. We live with the myth that because women experience pain in childbirth and (often) with periods of course women can ‘deal with it.’
Until recently women and female animals haven’t been included in pain research, and guess what? Women and female animals don’t have the same biological system for processing nociception.
Men are told ‘don’t be a girl’ about their pain.
Women are told they ‘look too good’ to be experiencing pain.
Women don’t get taken seriously when they ask for help with their pain &#...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 20, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Pain Pain conditions Chronic pain gender gender disparity Health healthcare Research sex women Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more
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 HIMSS 2023, which returns to Chicago for the first time in eight years. As always, there have been a lot of new products and partnerships announced at the event, with a heavy emphasis on g...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Source Type: blogs
XRHealth and Amelia Virtual Care Announce Merger, Creating the Largest XR Therapeutics Platform in the World
Both Companies will Be merged Under the XRHealth Brand Name and By the End of the Year Are Forecasted to Have over 500K VR Treatments, Exceed 25K Patients Treated, and Be Deployed by Over 2500 Clinicians
XRHealth, a Boston-based developer and operator of virtual treatment rooms, and Amelia Virtual Care, a global leading virtual reality platform for mental health professionals based in Barcelona, Spain, today announced their intention to merge into one company, which will remain called XRHealth. The union aims to create an XR therapeutic powerhouse, uniquely capable of addressing both physical and mental health issues. The...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition Amelia Virtual Care Amelia VR Asabys Asabys Partners Augmented Reality CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Cognitive-Behavioral VR Therapy Eran Orr Guill Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – March 26, 2023 – Epic sees “ tremendous potential ” for GPT, more than 90% of patients want self-scheduling, and more
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.
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In a Microsoft press release announcing the availability of GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service, Epic’s Seth Hain, Senior Vice President of Research and Development, said the EHR vendor sees “tremendous potential̶...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: AI/Machine Learning Healthcare IT Advata Amwell athenahealth Atropos Health Barbara Allen Bill Scott Boston University Caregility Carenet Health Carium Carnegie Mellon University Castle Connolly Top Doctors ChatGPT CHG Health Source Type: blogs
Revolutionizing COPD management with virtual care solutions [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Today’s episode features Brian Gelbman, a pulmonary and critical care physician. The COPD management space is facing a growing crisis, with a shortage of pulmonologists and respiratory therapists, and limited access to pulmonary rehabilitation facilities. This has resulted in a fragmented care landscape that
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Revolutionizing COPD management with virtual care solutions [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Pulmonology Source Type: blogs
