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Nuance buys healthcare voice assistant startup Saykara
Nuance Communications acquired Saykara, a startup building a medical AI voice assistant to help with charting and other administrative tasks. The deal is expected to build on Nuance s speech recognition tools for physicians.
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Speech-recognition software company Nuance Communications acquired Saykara, a startup building a voice assistant for physicians. The deal is expected to bolster Nuance’s own healthcare efforts, as it pushes into hands-off documentation solutions.
Seattle-based Saykara was founded by Harjinder Sandhu, a former computer science professor. He sold a previous speech recognition startup, MedRemote, to Nuance and worked there for five years before starting his latest venture.
New HIE consortium to develop data-sharing solutions, initiatives amid pandemic
Six health information exchange organizations have come together to establish a new consortium. The group aims to share technology infrastructure, create new solutions and advocate for federal support to drive data sharing amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The push toward interoperability is not new. But amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the need for secure and efficient data sharing has become more urgent than ever.
To help facilitate greater interoperability during the once-in-a-century public health crisis, six health information exchanges have created a consortium.
Dubbed the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability, the group has three main goals, said Morgan Honea, CEO of the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO), one of the consortium’s founding members. These are knowledge and technology infrastructure sharing, joint service offerings for the government and marke
The EUA for Eli Lilly brings to patients a second antibody cocktail, following the FDA’s fall authorization of an antibody combination from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Lilly is working with Amgen to ramp up manufacturing of its newly authorized therapy.
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FlipMD creates physician consultant hub
Husband and wife entrepreneurs Gregory and Lauren Hanson talk about their healthcare startup and how they want to help connect companies in search of medical expertise with physicians to advise them.
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FlipMD Co-founders Gregory Hanson, MD, MPH, CEO, and Lauren Hanson, COO, talk about why they launched their healthcare startup focused on helping physicians moonlight as consultants and helping healthcare companies fill their expertise gaps for specific projects.
Why did you start this company?
Greg: As a resident physician, I never imagined building a startup or getting into business; however, I saw a market gap that needed to be filled. Many physicians, including myself, are looking for ways to make money outside of clinical medicine for a variety of reasons (student loan debt, new bills, declining reimbursements in clinical care, etc.) and I couldn’t find an easy solution already built. So, we built flipMD to close
Engaging and listening to physician leadership early and often can make the VBC transition smoother and less complex over time for both providers and payers.