EHR

A doctor showing a patient and a family member information on a tablet.
By  Emily Olsen 10:32 am February 16, 2023
Elation Health, which offers tools for telehealth, patient engagement and an EHR geared toward primary care providers, announced on Thursday that it had acquired billing and practice-management company Lightning MD. Elation said it would combine the billing and revenue cycle software with its tools to offer an all-in-one product in beta starting this summer. Practices who use other management and...
Physician on a telephone
By  Jessica Hagen 10:21 am October 20, 2022
A cross-sectional study found increased EHR use among primary care physicians was associated with improvement in some quality measures, like diabetes and hypertension control and adherence to breast cancer screening.  The study, published in JAMA Network Open and conducted through Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in 2021, examined 291 primary care physicians'...
A doctor showing his colleague information on a laptop
By  Emily Olsen 01:23 pm June 30, 2022
Clinical support tool Regard, formerly known as HealthTensor, scooped up $15.3 million in a Series A funding round led by Calibrate Ventures and Foundry Group. Other participants in the raise include TenOneTen Ventures, Susa Ventures, Brook Byers of Byers Capital and Dropbox cofounder and CEO Drew Houston. The startup had previously announced it had raised $5 million in seed funding in early 2021...
Professional team of medical scientists in a laboratory gathered around a wall monitor discussing charts and data
By  Emily Olsen 02:20 pm April 21, 2022
Mendel, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to clean unstructured clinical data, announced Thursday it had raised $40 million in Series B funding.  The round was led by Oak HC/FT with participation from existing investor DCM. The Series B comes less than a year after the startup announced an $18 million raise in June.  WHAT IT DOES Mendel offers AI products that make sense of unstructured...
Doctor on EHR
By  Laura Lovett 02:37 pm September 23, 2021
This morning Canadian digital health company WELL Health Technologies announced its plans to acquire Aware MD, which owns cardiology and disease specialties-focused EHR Cerebrum, for $4.5 million with a conditional earn-out based on operation performance of up to $3.5 million.  Currently Cerebrum is used as an EHR for cardiology and other disease specialty areas, including radiology,...
Holmusk's mConnect platform integrates patient-reported outcomes and EHR clinical data.
By  Adam Ang 02:47 am August 18, 2021
Holmusk, a health tech firm based in Singapore and New York, has signed deals to use patient data from the University of Texas Health Science Center and the Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD to develop AI-powered analytic tools. WHY IT MATTERS The company will help create longitudinal patient records in both centres, which are still storing data in various legacy electronic health record...
By  Dave Muoio 09:00 am February 19, 2021
DrChrono, the maker of an open, mobile-friendly EHR platform and other practice management software, has launched an open FHIR API that will allow a seamless transfer of patients' data from the company's OnPatient personal health record (PHR) to Apple Health, the iPhone-based PHR launched by the tech giant in 2018. Now, patients using the two platforms won't need to download and log into the...
By  Dave Muoio 02:28 pm December 7, 2020
The Commons Project announced Friday that its free personal health record system for Android devices is supported by 230 U.S. health systems and is on track to add another 110 or so providers before the end of 2020. Called CommonHealth, the tool was developed and piloted by the University of California San Francisco and other systems as far back as September of last year and picked up an...
By  Dave Muoio 10:35 am October 7, 2020
U.S. iPhone owners are no longer the only ones with access to Apple's Health Records. This morning the tech giant announced its personal health record (PHR) feature is now available in the U.K. and Canada. There are five healthcare provider groups that have made the tool available to their patients right off the bat: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Milton Keynes University...
By  Dave Muoio 03:05 pm October 6, 2020
The FDA has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to a clinical decision support (CDS) tool that predicts when an adult patient admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 is at risk of further complications. Developed by Oakland, California-based diagnostic algorithm developer Dascena, the COViage Hemodynamic Instability and Respiratory Decompensation Prediction System reviews demographic and...