HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Tabula Rasa HealthCare, Inc. | June 22, 2022
Premier healthcare technology provider Tabula Rasa HealthCare has announced that it has agreed to sell the PrescribeWellness business to cutting edge patient relationship management provider, Transaction Data Systems.
"Today's announcement is a significant, strategic step forward in unlocking stockholder value, while extending the reach of our MedWise Science through TDS's strong network. We embarked on a robust search for the right organization to best serve our customers and employees and believe that we have found an excellent partner to advance the future of pharmacy by leveraging these technologies. We anticipate that this divestiture, coupled with our strategic partnership, will position TRHC for accelerated growth and increased stockholder value."
Calvin H. Knowlton, PhD, TRHC Chairman and CEO
Tabula Rasa is committed to promoting the safe use of medicines while TDS delivers patient-oriented solutions with a focus on pharmacy systems. TDS is currently supporting an installation of Rx30 and Computer Rx-systems in over 50 states.
"At TDS, we are dedicated to providing pharmacists with the tools to address their critical and expanding role in delivering high-quality patient care. Adding PrescribeWellness to our existing suite of industry-leading PMS and patient-centric solutions will enable our pharmacist customers to engage with patients, ensure access to the right therapies, drive medication adherence, improve outcomes, boost patient loyalty and generate incremental pharmacy revenue. This acquisition, our ongoing collaboration with MedWise and TRHC, and our commitment to innovation will secure our pharmacy customers' position as primary providers in the evolving nexus of clinical care."
Jude Dieterman, CEO of Transaction Data Systems
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
One Touch Telehealth | November 11, 2020
One Touch Telehealth reports its new programming discharge, Version 5.0: "Beyond Virtual Care." Carrie Chitsey, Co-Founder and CEO says that, "With the expansion in video telehealth in the midst of COVID-19, virtual care is setting down deep roots. We optimized our new delivery given the 500%+ expansion in the utilization of video telehealth from our customer base and bits of knowledge from our clients on what they should be effective in virtual patient work processes."
Most healthcare associations are right now attempting to keep up routine arrangements, procure new patients, and protect their patients and clinicians. The new delivery goes beyond a 1:1 video call to increment operational efficiencies inside telehealth work processes. With our new delivery, healthcare associations can recreate an in-person work process and virtually registration, do graph survey with the attendant, see their supplier, and registration, all in a solitary video counsel. We've united everything to upgrade the work process in one video call both for the patient and clinician experience.
One Touch Telehealth is facilitating an online class for healthcare associations, "Best Practices: Virtual Patient Handoff Workflow." We talk about how to go beyond 1:1 video calls to increment operational efficiencies inside telehealth work processes.
One Touch Telehealth's patient survey data revealed that 95% of patients were "very" or "somewhat likely" to want to see their provider through video telehealth again. "Healthcare organizations have to think about telehealth as a long-term strategy in the future 'hybrid model' of patient interactions," says Co-Founder and CEO Carrie Chitsey.
As video telehealth turns into the new ordinary in each part of life, One Touch Telehealth drives the telehealth business through driving selection and change.
Version 5.0 New Feature Highlights
Image Capture: Take high-resolution (4K) photos at the click of a button during the telehealth visit.
Connection Health Meter: See patient and providers bandwidth, camera resolution, and other parameters in real-time to optimize video quality and connectivity.
In-Video Messaging: Send messages in real-time with patients or other clinicians on the call, privately or to the group.
In-Video Secure Link: Send secure links to patients, such as online documents, new patient paperwork, instructions, or a payment link.
Multi-Party Connect: Transfer calls to other clinicians, front office, or nursing staff within your organization for workflow efficiency. Ability to add external parties such as caregivers, case managers, or care teams.
Screen Share: Share the contents of your screen to review items such as test results, digital coaching, or education.
About One Touch Telehealth
One Touch Telehealth was founded on the principles of making the best telehealth platform affordable to any healthcare organization allowing them to provide proactive and immediate virtual care anywhere and everywhere. We strive daily to improve the clinician and patient experience for all demographics, with our Click. Click. Connect simplicity. We make it possible to plug into your existing workflows with white-labeled patient experience.
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
GE Healthcare | November 29, 2021
At the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) 2021 Annual Meeting, GE Healthcare unveiled around 60 innovative technology solutions spanning the healthcare spectrum including patient screening, diagnostics, therapy planning, guidance, and monitoring. Amidst a global pandemic and mounting pressure on the industry, the company accelerated innovations underpinned by artificial intelligence (AI) and digital solutions to help transform healthcare delivery, making it easier and more efficient for clinicians and health systems, and more personalized and precise for patients.
The pandemic exposed the fragility of the global healthcare system, creating an urgent need for technology and solutions that help clinicians manage seriously ill COVID-19 patients, advanced diseases – such as cancer and heart disease – a backlog in non-urgent care, and an ageing population, while battling burnout and workforce shortages.
With these circumstances in mind, GE Healthcare is proud to introduce technologies and solutions at #RSNA21 that help healthcare systems:
Increase efficiency and productivity;
Reduce clinician burnout;
Empower clinicians with AI and analytics when, where and how they need it;
Create a more resilient and sustainable healthcare industry; and
Increase access to care.
“Our goal is to make healthcare more human by breaking down barriers so clinicians can work at the top of their game, healthcare systems can operate more efficiently, and patients can get the best and most personalized care possible. Healthcare is at a turning point and at GE Healthcare we are using our clinical expertise and know-how to deliver innovative technologies and solutions that help solve healthcare’s most pressing problems, advance precision health and improve patient lives.”
Kieran Murphy, president & CEO, GE Healthcare
Transforming healthcare through imaging technologies and digital offerings
Over the last year and a half, the industry has embraced technological innovation. What was once considered “futuristic” is now fundamental. In an environment where clinical expertise, regulatory know-how and speed matter, GE Healthcare rose to the challenge. Working alongside clinicians and care teams to understand the most pressing needs of radiologists and hospital administrators, the company innovated new solutions, leveraging its healthcare-specific intelligence platform, Edison, to help providers achieve greater efficiency, reduce errors, increase speed to appropriate treatments, and increase access to care.
To this end, GE Healthcare developed the following new AI-powered, automated and data-driven solutions to help encourage greater diagnostic confidence, ease the burden of care and improve workflow for healthcare systems around the world:
SIGNA Herois named for our heroes on the frontlines, who continue to care for seriously ill patients as well as a backlog in non-urgent care – all the while battling burnout and workforce shortages. The new 3.0T MRI system offers new workflows and AIR Recon DL enhancements designed to help our heroes on the frontlines address some of today’s most pressing healthcare needs: enhanced productivity, patient comfort, and sustainabilityii.
SIGNA Artist Evo enables healthcare systems to modernize their legacy 1.5T narrow 60 cm bore MR systems to 1.5T, 70 cm bore systems, accommodating more patients of different shapes and sizes. Furthermore, the company’s patented flexible AIR Coils design and AIR Recon DL image reconstruction help provide clearer, sharper and more detailed images faster – enabling shorter patient setup times and reducing table time.
Revolution Apex platformprovides exceptional image quality and low dose scanning for routine and challenging cases in many care areas with optimized clinical capabilities, built-in scalability and upgradability options.
Allia Platform is designed to enhance user experience, improve workflow efficiency and increase the adoption of advanced image guidance in daily practice – all important factors in today’s constrained healthcare environment. In addition to personalizing the Interventional or hybrid operating room with just one click of the user interface, leveraging the Edison platform, the system also harnesses the power of AI with AutoRightv – an advanced AI-based interventional image chain – and Liver ASSIST Virtual Parenchymavi,vii– a 3D visualization software solution designed to provide AI-based virtual parenchymography to help clinicians simulate injections dynamically and perform liver embolization procedures with confidence.
AMX Navigate represents GE Healthcare’s latest in portable x-ray technology with a new Zero Click Exam workflow solution and power-assisted Free Motion telescoping column to reduce lift force by an estimated 70 percentviii, helping to decrease X-ray technologist strain . The rugged reliability of the AMX Navigate helps ensure it is ready to perform at the bedside of the patient.
Critical Care Suite 2.0 offers a collection of AI algorithms embedded on a mobile x-ray device for case prioritization, automated measurements, and quality control. For the past year, the suite’s AI algorithm to help clinicians assess Endotracheal Tube (ETT) placements has helped clinicians care for an influx of critically ill COVID-19 patients who required ventilation under the FDA COVID-19 imaging guidance. Now, Critical Care Suite 2.0 has received full Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance.
Vscan Air provides clinicians with quick insights at the point of care at a time when they need it most. This wireless and pocket-sized ultrasound device provides exceptionally clear image quality, whole-body scanning capabilities, and intuitive software - all in the palm of the clinician’s hand. A dual-probe enables whole-body scanning – with the flip of the wireless dual probe (for deep and shallow scanning) and a push of a button to capture images. Vscan Air offers a high-performance ultrasound machine in a lightweight, portable device designed to improve patient experience and access to ultrasound technology – involving patients by sharing real-time image sharing as simple as see, snap, send.
Enterprise Imaging in the Cloud delivers the power of technology in a smart, digital ecosystem giving radiologists easy and seamless access to GE Healthcare’s latest AI-based tools, data and intelligent technology for visualization, diagnostics and workflow as well as third party algorithms – from anywhere, anytimeix,x. The solution is cloud-based, enabling healthcare systems to manage upgrades instantly and digitally, with little to no new hardware or on-site IT team required.
Digital Expert Access is a real-time virtual collaboration solution that is integrated into imaging devices. With imaging experts in short supply and high demand and imaging moving beyond hospital campuses, Digital Expert Access allows sharing of expertise, best practices, and in-the-moment advice, as well as remote console control – all from a distance.
ulrichINJECT CT Motion uses automated syringeless technology to support workflow efficiencies. The injector, now approved with RIS/PACS integration, removes the need for manual syringe filling which may minimize examination preparation time and minimize contrast media waste.
A partner of choice creating and investing in new possibilities for the healthcare industry
As innovators, integrators and clinical experts, GE Healthcare is aligning its products and solutions across care pathways, such as oncology, to create end-to-end solutions.
The company is working with industry leaders, such as SOPHiA GENETICS, to deliver on the promise of integrated cancer care by bringing insights across multiple diagnostic modalities with the goal of better targeting and matching treatments to each patient’s cancer type, helping to ensure more effective and personalized treatment. Through the acquisition of Zionexa, the company is advancing precision diagnostics and impacting clinical care by commercializing innovative molecular imaging agents.
Furthermore, GE Healthcare offers deep industry expertise, an ability to merge clinical and data science and a breadth of solutions across pharmaceutical diagnostics, cyclotrons, chemistry synthesis, PET/CT, PET/MR, nuclear medicine, advanced digital solutions, and pharmaceutical partnerships – all to help clinicians enhance patient care from discovery to diagnosis to treatment.
Using input from clinical partners, GE Healthcare has designed technologies and digital solutions to keep up with the ever-changing challenges that exist in the imaging world. The Revolution Apex platform, for example, is designed with advanced technologies intended to:
Support one-beat cardiac imaging with motion management;
Update their service line from a 40 mm detector and 0.28 second rotation speed up to a 160 mm detector and 0.23 second per rotation speed (FDA 510(k) pending) xi,xii ; and
Reduce contrast dose up to 33% potentially.
“I'm a fan of the new Apex [platform] system and all the possibilities around it. For us, it's a big win,” said Johan de Mey, MD, PhD, Chair of Radiology at the Universitair Ziekenhuis, Brussels, Belgium. “In the past, we kept machines as long as possible, and we upgraded them with software. But if the hardware was obsolete, we removed it from the hospital. With the Apex, we have a platform with the latest technology and can easily upgrade as our clinical practice evolves.”
Altogether, GE Healthcare is a partner of choice to thousands of healthcare providers, medical technology innovators, and digital start-ups around the world.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare is the $17 billion* healthcare business of GE. As a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics and digital solutions innovator, GE Healthcare enables clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through intelligent devices, data analytics, applications and services, supported by its Edison intelligence platform. With over 100 years of healthcare industry experience and around 47,000 employees globally, the company operates at the center of an ecosystem working toward precision health, digitizing healthcare, helping drive productivity and improve outcomes for patients, providers, health systems and researchers around the world. On November 9, 2021, GE announced plans to spin-off GE Healthcare to create a pure-play company at the center of precision health in early 2023.
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