Altera launches new patient tools
This week, Altera Digital Health launched a new patient engagement platform that fully integrates with the existing Sunrise EHR for mid-size hospitals and health systems.
Called CarePath, the technology can help prevent adverse events and hospital readmissions, which often occur in the post-discharge period, by automating communication workflows, Altera said in a statement. The patient-facing system integrates messaging and billing and notifies patients about appointments and medication adherence needs.
“This level of engagement is key to delivering truly patient-centric care,” Jay Adams, Altera’s executive vice president and general manager for Sunrise.
Atropos, Databricks link data troves
Atropos Health, a real-world evidence generation company with a federated data network that has more than 300 million patient records, and Databricks, a data, analytics, and AI company, announced early in June that they will collaborate.
They aim to give clinicians and researchers the ability to generate actionable, evidence-based insights from real-world clinical data. Databricks’ data intelligence platform and Atropos’ expertise in AI model development will use Delta Sharing to securely and compliantly link massive data sets across the healthcare ecosystem.
Of note, Atropos recently updated its Geneva OS platform with nodal patient deidentification and query time interval encoding.
“By responsibly and compliantly linking massive data sets in healthcare, we will drive not only better outcomes for patients, but a seamless user experience for healthcare researchers and providers,” said Dr. Brigham Hyde, CEO and co-founder at Atropos Health.
Elation adds agentic AI
Elation Health has added AI that automates post-encounter tasks in primary care, which is built on its genAI note assistant. Called Actions, the tool identifies and categorizes actionable next steps mentioned during patient encounters.
For example, if a physician suggests a lab order for a patient’s A1c, or plans to refer the patient to cardiology, Actions will automatically surface these as tasks for review and sign-off. The company said on its website last week that the agentic AI tool will reduce administrative tasks like creating follow-up orders, prescriptions or referrals.
The company said that it understands the clinical context to generate precise tasks, like adjusting a specific medication and dosage. In a survey, 70% of clinicians using Actions with Note Assist reported better focus and engagement with patients, and 65% saved between five and 30 minutes per patient encounter.
Testing Apple vision tech
Cosmo Pharmaceuticals announced that in July, it will initiate its first usability study of a medical device software application connecting Medtronic’s AI-powered platform for the GI Genius endoscopy module with Apple Vision Pro.
With AI, Medtronic’s platform increases the adenoma detection rate of colorectal polyps by as much as 14.4%, Cosmo said in the statement.
The study, led by Dr. Irving Waxman at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, will evaluate real-time use during live colonoscopy procedures. Doctors will be testing access to AI-generated insights through Apple Vision Pro glasses, without looking away from the operative screen.
“What Cosmo has built by connecting the GI Genius module with Apple Vision Pro is extraordinary,” Waxman said in a statement. “It has the potential to revolutionize how we practice – by giving us AI-powered insights exactly when and where we need them. This is not just an incremental improvement – it’s a complete reimagining of procedural medicine.”
Data-driven respiratory care
Century Health announced that it has made a deal with Nimbus Health to create high-quality, real-world datasets for serious respiratory diseases, with initial focuses on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma.
Century’s AI platform integrates with Nimbus Health pulmonary care clinics’ EHRs, curating data from unstructured clinical notes for use in clinical registries. The enhanced datasets it creates will generate insights into patient profiles, disease progression and treatment outcomes, Century said.
AdvancedMD teams with Waystar
AdvancedMD said it was offering its healthcare clients an alternative to Change Healthcare in partnering with Waystar Clearinghouse as part of its summer release including 20 enhancements.
The cloud-based healthcare software for independent medical practices is adding AI integrations to automate essential EHR workflows including genAI patient summaries into formatted notes.
Also this month, AdvancedMD added NGA Healthcare, a platform for independent medical practices that manages payor contracts and negotiates higher reimbursements, to its partner marketplace.
IQVIA trims clinical trial reviews
IQVIA is leveraging agentic AI to significantly accelerate various stages of clinical trials and drug development, according to an announcement from NVIDIA earlier this month.
The company’s new AI orchestrator agents, which leverage the NVIDIA NIM microservices, are designed to streamline complex, time-consuming processes and shorten the traditional 200-day clinical trial start-up process. A clinical data review agent identifies data issues early in the process and can reduce review time from seven weeks to two, the company said.
Palantir, TeleTracking launch hospital tool
TeleTracking Technologies and Palantir Technologies have allied to give hospitals near real-time insights to optimize staffing, accelerate decisions and improve patient care while helping hospitals expand capacity, coordinate care more effectively and operate more efficiently.
The companies said on June 5 that they will integrate TeleTracking’s Operations IQ platform with Palantir’s Foundry and AI operating system to render healthcare organizations with unprecedented visibility and coordination.
By integrating clinical, operational, financial, workforce and third-party data, they could forecast capacity, staffing and resource management and gain accurate situational awareness across different regions or health systems. The integration will also support operations by reducing workloads and could improve patient and financial outcomes.
LeanTaaS’ surgical coordination
iQueue for Surgical Clinics is billed as an industry-first, according to a LeanTaas announcement earlier this month. The new AI-powered, cloud-based system aims to streamline the entire surgical journey from the clinic to the operating room by enhancing coordination, prior authorizations and patient readiness.
The company said it will help health systems better control costs and improve revenues. The platform integrates with clinic EHRs.
Oracle helps with VBC
Fortify Children’s Health, a Virginia-based pediatric care network, is using Oracle Health Data Intelligence to improve care and manage value-based care contracts more effectively, the vendor said on its website. The network’s more than 1,000 providers use numerous electronic health records.
Oracle’s platform integrates and standardizes the EHR data, payer claims, enrollment data and public data from the state’s health information exchange and immunization registry.
Clinicians get a more complete picture of each child’s health history with unified data and custom scorecards enabling the organization to continuously monitor value-based care metrics. Patients also benefit from identification of their care gaps, which send follow-up alerts to providers, care managers and practice managers.
Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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