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A Former Epic Employee is Connecting Disparate EHR Systems
2016 medical records don’t belong in manila folders. For years, health systems around the world have put resources into digitizing those records, introducing quicker accessibility, stronger security, and cloud storage. Unfortunately for third party engineers, there’s no universal standard — every health system stores data differently…
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A Dentist Has Set Out to Fix the Dental Supply Market
As Scott Drucker began preparing for his periodontics residency, he contacted the two largest dental distributors to price out his options to purchase supplies for his program. With their pricing charts in hand, including the “new dentist’s discount” he was offered, Drucker looked online to see if he could find a better deal. There, he st…
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How CancerIQ’s “Genetics Clinic in a Box” is Revolutionizing Cancer Risk Screening for Community Healthcare Providers
The first light bulb went off on Mt. Kilimanjaro. It was 2012, and Feyi Olopade Ayodele was standing on the mythic African peak with her mother, Dr. Funmi Olopade, an award-winning cancer researcher from the University of Chicago. Feyi – who then focused on making early stage…
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How a Medical-device-rep-turned-entrepreneur is Trimming the Fat in Hospital Supply
As the shift to value-based care brings sea change to the healthcare industry and hospitals look to provide more value at lower cost, the iron is hot for healthtech innovators to strike and help hospitals cut their supply expense. Enter Mondopoint – a platform that puts hospitals in the driver’s seat with tool…
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Just as aircraft pilots go through a preflight checklist prior to takeoff, so, too, are surgeons expected to review the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist prior to a skin incision. The 19-item list of best pre-op practices developed by the World Health Organization, in association with the Harvard School of Public Health, is intended to prevent the occurrence of so-called “never events,” largely p…
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