Memorial Hermann Health System

CommonSpirit Health Names Market President for the Greater Denver Market

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Thursday, April 4, 2024
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CENTENNIAL, COLO., April 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CommonSpirit Health’s Mountain Region is pleased to announce that Ryan Tobin has been selected to serve as Market President for the Greater Denver Market.

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  • CENTENNIAL, COLO., April 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CommonSpirit Health’s Mountain Region is pleased to announce that Ryan Tobin has been selected to serve as Market President for the Greater Denver Market.
  • Ryan comes to CommonSpirit Health with considerable health care and leadership experience.
  • He previously served at HealthOne, part of HCA Healthcare, where he spent 12 years leading hospitals in the Denver market.
  • By applying his 16 years of leadership and Denver market knowledge, Ryan will help to ensure that the health system continues to provide high quality, compassionate care in its Greater Denver hospitals and ambulatory services.

GHX Celebrates 2023 Millennium Club Honorees for Supply Chain Automation

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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LOUISVILLE, Colo., April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) today proudly named 89 leading healthcare provider and supplier organizations to the 2023 Millennium Club. The Millennium Club honors healthcare organizations that demonstrate their commitment to a digital-first supply chain by automating more than one million transactions annually through the GHX Exchange, an industry leading cloud-based supply chain network. Honorees were selected from more than 5,300 healthcare providers and suppliers in North America who embraced the strong role of digitalization in improving patient care and lowering the cost to deliver it.

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  • LOUISVILLE, Colo., April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) today proudly named 89 leading healthcare provider and supplier organizations to the 2023 Millennium Club .
  • The Millennium Club honors healthcare organizations that demonstrate their commitment to a digital-first supply chain by automating more than one million transactions annually through the GHX Exchange, an industry leading cloud-based supply chain network.
  • Millennium Club members will be celebrated at the 2024 GHX Summit taking place May 13-16 at the JW Marriott in Austin, Texas.
  • The 2023 GHX Millennium Club includes:
    Beth Israel Lahey Health (Cambridge, Mass.)

Hippocratic AI Raises $53 Million Series A at a $500 Million Valuation

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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PALO ALTO, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hippocratic AI, the company building the first safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare, today announced the close of a $53 million Series A funding round at a $500 million valuation, bringing total funding to $120 million.

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  • PALO ALTO, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hippocratic AI, the company building the first safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare, today announced the close of a $53 million Series A funding round at a $500 million valuation, bringing total funding to $120 million.
  • “Premji Invest supports the Azim Premji Foundation’s non-profit activities in perpetuity by investing in companies that can create long-term societal value.
  • “Hippocratic AI has grown rapidly due to sound execution and strategy, while prioritizing safety.
  • The results of these studies are presented in a paper released today called Polaris: A Safety-focused LLM Constellation Architecture for Healthcare.

Talkdesk Extends AI and Integration Capabilities in Healthcare, Adds Talkdesk Autopilot for Healthcare with New Use Cases and Deeper Integration Support

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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Talkdesk Autopilot for Healthcare was launched today at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Global Health Conference and Exhibition.

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  • Talkdesk Autopilot for Healthcare was launched today at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Global Health Conference and Exhibition.
  • Talkdesk Autopilot is available across chat and voice channels in the Talkdesk Healthcare Experience Cloud™ , the company’s purpose-built platform that helps organizations create synchronized, personalized, and radically convenient experiences for healthcare patients, members, and caregivers.
  • Talkdesk Autopilot for Healthcare supports the whole patient journey through healthcare-specific integrations, workflows, and GenAI models developed based on the company’s extensive experience with healthcare organizations.
  • Talkdesk Healthcare Experience Cloud is available in the integration marketplaces for leading EHR platforms, including athenahealth , Epic , and Oracle Health (formerly Cerner).

Aegis Ventures Announces Partnership with Nine Health Systems to Build and Deploy Healthtech Solutions

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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NEW YORK, April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Aegis Ventures, a New York-based venture studio, welcomed nine leading health systems as founding members of the Digital Consortium. These health systems will innovate directly with Aegis to co-develop, invest in, and deploy healthtech solutions that address healthcare's most pressing quality, equity, and cost problems, and enable them to better care for the communities they serve, while generating diversified sources of revenue.

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  • The health systems collaborating with Aegis include: Endeavor Health, Indiana University Health, Memorial Hermann Health System, Northwell Health, Novant Health, Ochsner Health, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Sharp HealthCare, and Stanford Health Care.
  • Since its launch in 2020, Aegis Ventures has established a novel approach to how entrepreneurs and health systems collaborate to build and deploy new technologies that improve access, affordability, quality, and sustainability.
  • The Digital Consortium harnesses health systems' collective expertise to foster groundbreaking solutions, redefining healthcare delivery for the better," said Michael Dowling, President and CEO of Northwell Health.
  • "The partnership between Aegis Ventures and Northwell Health epitomizes the transformative impact that new technologies can have on health system patients and employees," said Aegis Ventures Co-Founder and Managing Partner John Beadle.

Memorial Hermann Life Flight® Soars to New Heights with $5 Million Donation from ExxonMobil

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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HOUSTON, March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Memorial Hermann Foundation is pleased to announce that ExxonMobil has generously donated $5 million to Memorial Hermann Life Flight® to support a newly launched $55 million campaign to fund the purchase of four new helicopters and a specialty aircraft to replace the current, aging fleet.

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  • We're proud to be part of this impactful initiative," said Alvin Abraham, global manager of corporate giving at ExxonMobil.
  • "This incredibly generous gift from ExxonMobil will help ensure that Memorial Hermann Life Flight can continue serving the needs of our community now and well into the future.
  • A service provided by Memorial Hermann Health System, Life Flight operates as a hospital-based, nonprofit organization and relies on community support and fundraising efforts to pay for the service.
  • ExxonMobil made a prior $1 million donation and provided three engines to support Life Flight's current operating fleet.

Hippocratic AI Partners with Leading Health Systems, Digital Health Companies to Evaluate World's First Generative AI Powered Healthcare Provider

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Thursday, February 29, 2024
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“Generative AI holds huge potential for improving healthcare access, equity, and outcomes but its impact has thus far been limited to back-office applications.

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  • “Generative AI holds huge potential for improving healthcare access, equity, and outcomes but its impact has thus far been limited to back-office applications.
  • At Hippocratic AI, we believe that the industry can—and should—aim higher,” said Munjal Shah, co-founder and CEO of Hippocratic AI.
  • Together with its partners, Hippocratic AI will continue to add conditions as well as develop additional products and workflows over time.
  • We’re excited to partner with Hippocratic AI to conduct internal testing to ensure the safety and efficacy of the AI tools they’re building.”

Charlie Health and Memorial Hermann Health System Collaborate to Expand Critical Mental Health Access

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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and HOUSTON, March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Charlie Health, the leading provider of virtual high-acuity mental health care for young people, and Memorial Hermann Health System are collaborating to improve access to outpatient mental health treatment programs for Houstonians most at risk for crisis.

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  • and HOUSTON, March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Charlie Health, the leading provider of virtual high-acuity mental health care for young people, and Memorial Hermann Health System are collaborating to improve access to outpatient mental health treatment programs for Houstonians most at risk for crisis.
  • She added, "Addressing the mental health crisis requires proactive efforts to eliminate barriers to care for those who require an additional level of mental health support, which is exactly what Memorial Hermann is doing with Charlie Health."
  • In addition to improving access to essential mental health services, Charlie Health is producing industry-leading outcomes.
  • Peer-reviewed research found that Charlie Health drives positive outcomes, with 94% of Charlie Health patients avoiding further admissions to the emergency department for mental health reasons in the three months following treatment.

Open Call to Cerner Health Systems: End-to-End Cerner Integrations Now Available with Ambience Healthcare

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ambience Healthcare , the most comprehensive AI operating system for healthcare organizations, has announced a full integration with Oracle's Cerner Millennium Electronic Health Record (EHR).

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ambience Healthcare , the most comprehensive AI operating system for healthcare organizations, has announced a full integration with Oracle's Cerner Millennium Electronic Health Record (EHR).
  • With a native workflow integration into DynDoc, clinicians can leverage their normal workflows to edit their notes section-by-section in Cerner.
  • With this update, Ambience Healthcare is now the only AI solution with end-to-end integrations across Cerner and Epic EHRs.
  • Ambience Healthcare's AI operating system has been deployed at UCSF, Memorial Hermann Health System, John Muir Health, The Oncology Institute, and Eventus WholeHealth.

Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Achieves Magnet® Designation, the Highest National Honor for Nursing Excellence

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Friday, February 9, 2024
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla, Feb. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital has achieved Magnet® recognition as a reflection of its incredible nursing professional practice, teamwork and superiority in patient care. The American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program® distinguishes organizations that meet rigorous standards for nursing excellence. The ANCC cited 13 exemplars, highlighting the hospital's continuous drive for excellence in nursing practice to achieve superior outcomes that outpace national standards.

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  • HOLLYWOOD, Fla, Feb. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital has achieved Magnet® recognition as a reflection of its incredible nursing professional practice, teamwork and superiority in patient care.
  • The ANCC cited 13 exemplars, highlighting the hospital's continuous drive for excellence in nursing practice to achieve superior outcomes that outpace national standards.
  • "We are thrilled and proud to have earned this prestigious international recognition," said Caitlin Stella, CEO of Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital.
  • Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital remains focused on upholding the Magnet designation, continually advancing nursing practice, and ensuring patients receive compassionate, safe, and high-quality care.