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CareView Communications, Inc. | November 17, 2022

CareView Communications, Inc. an information technology provider to the healthcare industry, announced the signing of an agreement with a health system building a new campus in Pensacola, FL. The new campus includes a new acute care hospital and behavioral health unit with room for future expansion. The agreement calls for the installation of the CareView Patient Safety System®, which facilitates continuous remote patient monitoring for patients who may be at risk of harm due to...

HealthcareIT News | April 16, 2020

Healthcare provider organizations across the country have been spending more time focusing on population health management. It is of utmost importance to take care of individual patients, but focusing on the health of populations, especially those with chronic conditions, can enhance care quality and cost efficiency. Information technology plays a huge role in population health. There’s no way to manually deal with the huge amounts of data generated by a pop health program, and advanced an...

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY

McKesson Corporation | September 20, 2022

McKesson Corporation announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rx Savings Solutions a prescription price transparency and benefit insight company that offers affordability and adherence solutions to health plans and employers, reaching more than 17 million current patients. The transaction is valued up to $875 million, which includes a $600 million upfront payment and a maximum of $275 million of consideration contingent upon RxSS’ financial performance th...

EHRIntelligence | March 16, 2020

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has put the importance of health data exchange and interoperability under a microscope. Niam Yaraghi, a fellow in governance studies at the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings Institution, penned an op-ed to explain why he thinks the US lacks health information technologies to stop or contain the COVID-19 epidemic. The pandemic has shattered our common beliefs about the type and scope of health information exchange (HIE), wrote Yaraghi. “It has...