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By  Emily Olsen 12:51 pm December 13, 2021
Prolucent Health, which offers a healthcare jobs marketplace and recruiting services, raised $11.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by SpringTide Ventures and Health Velocity Capital, with participation from UnityPoint Health Ventures. WHAT IT DOES Prolucent offers recruiting and workforce management services for employers, as well as an online job-search marketplace for healthcare...
Providers talking
By  Laura Lovett 03:24 pm February 11, 2021
It’s no secret that for caregivers the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how they work and communicate. Now health systems and plans are reflecting on the lessons learned that boosted staff connectedness. Nicole Cable, chief experience officer at InnovaCare Health, explained that her organization took a program originally designed for members in order to reduce isolation for seniors, and not only put...
Doctor wearing PPE
By  HIMSS Media 03:37 pm January 13, 2021
Virti, COVID-19, AI, workforce, medical training, NHS
By  Sophie Porter 12:58 am December 10, 2020
Virti has released a new AI-powered “virtual patient” in an effort to aid remote clinical training for medics and trainees across the NHS and throughout hospitals in the US. The technology, which has been named one of TIME’s best inventions of 2020, creates a realistic patient profile for interactive role-play scenarios to help users develop soft skills remotely.  WHY IT MATTERS  With in-person...
Bupa, Well.Me, workforce
By  Sophie Porter 01:20 am November 10, 2020
UK-based employee health monitoring service Well.Me has partnered with Bupa to expand employee health tracking in UK workplaces, with a potential roll-out to over two million employees As part of the partnership, the Lincolnshire-based digital tracking and analytics service will install their unique health monitoring stations in selected workplaces of Bupa Health Service’s business customers, as...
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By  MobiHealthNews 11:46 am November 6, 2020
In today's HIMSSCast we're once again looking at the COVID-19 telehealth boom, but this time through the lens of staffing and workforce. Host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett are joined by Michelle Davey, CEO of Wheel, to discuss how a rise in virtual care is changing how physicians work. This episode is brought to you by AmWell. Talking points: What Wheel does. How...