Healthcare payers and providers now have the enhanced Digital Front Door Platform offered by Enlyt Health to engage patients on a whole new level.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., February 22, 2023 (Newswire.com) - The Enlyt Health Platform, one of the most comprehensive digital front door platform-as-a-service in healthcare, announced today that Digital Front Door Platform is now available to purchase in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

"We are thrilled to expand our relationship with AWS and continue delivering a holistic platform solution for healthcare payers and providers and positively disrupt the status quo of engaging with members and patients," said Scott Fielder, Enlyt Health's Founder and Chief Executive Officer. 

Enlyt Health is available in AWS Marketplace and will streamline accessibility to healthcare provider customers at a global scale, allowing prospective customers to create a seamless patient experience in record time. Find out more here: https://enlythealth.com/

About Enlyt Health

Enlyt Health is a digital front door platform-as-a-service that disrupts current patient access strategies for healthcare providers across the U.S. Removing the all-too-common EHR "golden handcuff" strategy currently in place for most healthcare providers, Enlyt Health delivers pre-built integration to common EHRs, Telehealth tools, Wayfinding Services, CRMs, CMSs, Analytics, and Marketing automation tools and complete access to all platform tools, full source code, and an entire developer experience that allows healthcare providers to own their patient access strategy across iOS, Android, and Web. Why build from scratch when you can start 80% done on day one with the configuration required for most integrations?

Your patients are asking and waiting…

Learn more at www.enlythealth.com.

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Ryan Blachly

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(833) 227-7675

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Original Source: The Enlyt Health Platform Launches in AWS Marketplace

TACOMA, Wash., February 22, 2023 (Newswire.com) - Sound Physicians, a physician-founded and led medical group with national reach and local focus, has launched Sound Long-Term Care Management (SLTCM), the group's first accountable care organization (ACO). SLTCM is a Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Enhanced Track ACO and will concentrate on caring for Medicare beneficiaries who are residents of long-term care facilities — one of the most underserved populations in the U.S.

"Our ACO model focuses on the most vulnerable, highest acuity, and under-supported Medicare population by bringing together clinicians, facilities, data, and technology to drive quality," said Mike Camacho, President, Accountable Care, for Sound Physicians. "When we lead with quality, patient care will improve."

Officially approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the ACO launched Jan. 1.

Under the leadership of Camacho and John Dickey, MD, Chief Medical Officer of SLTCM, Sound will draw from its decade of value-based care expertise to help participating physicians and facilities improve performance. Of the 1.3 million long-term care residents in the U.S., less than 10 percent are enrolled in a population health program. The complexity, lack of access, and high cost of treating these individuals have typically left them out of the mix when it comes to population health initiatives such as ACOs.

"We're managing a very complex patient population," said Camacho, noting that preliminary data from Medicare shows the patient mortality rate at 27.25 percent, compared to the national community-based ACOs of 3.15 percent. SLTCM patients are battling septicemia, dementia, and other catastrophic diseases at a rate 11 to 15 times greater than the average Medicare ACO beneficiary. For SLTCM, working hand in hand with providers and facilities can make a significant positive impact on care for these patients. 

With the cost of care per beneficiary at $35,000 annually, there's a significant opportunity to reduce the financial burden — on patients and the healthcare system overall. Sound's goal is to improve patients' quality of life and reduce costs through annual wellness visits, chronic care management, and point-of-care technology, as well as employing Sound's telemedicine solution broadly in skilled nursing facilities to help prevent avoidable admissions and readmissions by treating patients in place. Sound's telemedicine program overall has demonstrated a 96 percent success rate with treating patients at its facility versus having to admit them to the hospital. 

"It really does extend Sound's vision to meet our patients who are most in need," said Dr. Dickey.

Sound's core value of innovation was a guiding force in developing the SLTCM care management model. Leveraging two decades of Sound's clinical performance process, the model will help hundreds of physicians and their facility partners achieve quality metrics with education, resources, workflows, technology, and improved care coordination. And Sound's near-real-time data reports for participating physicians will help adjust course and drive behavior changes to align toward consistently better patient care.

About Sound Physicians

We're a team of motivated clinicians practicing across hospital and emergency medicine, critical care, anesthesia, and telemedicine. For more than 22 years, our partners have benefitted from our high-performing physicians, advanced practice providers, and CRNAs innovating and leading through an ever-changing landscape — with patients at the center of our healthcare universe. Our aim is to exceed expectations when it comes to clinical and operational priorities — and how we care for patients throughout and beyond the acute care episode.

Our more than 4,000 clinicians in 400-plus hospitals across 45 states are focused locally on building programs that blend our unique training, tools, technology, and support to take better care of patients in the communities we serve.

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Anni Lange
Vice President of Communications and Marketing
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Original Source: Sound Physicians Launches Long-Term Care Accountable Care Organization

PHILADELPHIA, February 22, 2023 (Newswire.com) - With a global health worker shortage accelerating the demand for internationally educated nurses in industrialized countries, CGFNS International, a global leader in credentials evaluation to support health worker mobility, has established an advisory board of experts to help the organization support the needs of a growing cadre of migrating health professionals.

The Global Advisory Board on Pathways to Mobility for Health Workers - comprising 11 accomplished leaders in health worker credentialing, e-learning systems and digital credentialing technologies - will convene over the next four months to help establish a vision and a roadmap for the future of verifying and promoting the knowledge-based practice competencies of health workers.

Given recent trends identified in the CGFNS Nurse Migration Report 2022: Trends in Healthcare Migration to the United States, applications through the organization's VisaScreen® Service have more than doubled over the past five years, as the growing health worker shortage has left health systems struggling to fill vacancies. Meanwhile, BMJ Global Health estimated a worldwide shortfall of 15 million health workers in 2020.

In light of this shortage, many health systems are under pressure to accelerate hiring and will turn to internationally qualified health professionals seeking to migrate. At the same time, these highly technically skilled professionals must be properly evaluated, qualified and credentialed to perform the work that is critical to patient safety and quality of care.

"Increasing global mobility among nurses and other health professionals is vitally important to ensuring that they can be hired wherever and whenever they are needed. Verifying previous training and credentials of migrating nurses is a complicated process critically important to patient safety, but amid the nursing shortage there is a growing need to make it quicker, more efficient, more secure and to harden it against fraud," said CGFNS President and CEO Peter Preziosi.

"Fortunately, emerging technologies and practice innovations offer the promise of globally-available digital credentials or badges that are more secure and more easily verifiable across borders," said Preziosi. "Whether it's automating manual verification of licenses and transcripts, or developing online methods of assessing knowledge in both clinical and desktop settings, the challenge is to ensure that these solutions raise the bar for quality of care and patient safety."

"Guided by a commitment to standards, we need to drive our industry toward further developing and adopting these types of solutions as quickly as possible, and with our new advisory board we are bringing together some of the best minds from credentialing, edtech and digital innovation to help point the way on this highly complex issue," he added.

The Global Advisory Board on Pathways to Mobility for Health Workers will convene three times by mid-year. It will seek ways to expand and support collaborative efforts to build a new framework for testing and credential verification solutions on a global scale, thereby strengthening career development and health systems worldwide.

Members of the board are listed below. Further information about them can be found at cgfns.org/global-advisory-board:

• Jay Cannon, Partner, Trinisys
• Kathy Chappell, Senior VP, American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Rina Desai, Principal/Owner, Eigen X and Trifactor
• Paul Diefenbach, Associate Professor, Drexel University Digital Media Department
• Cynthia Johansen, Registrar & Chief Executive Officer, British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives
• Brigette Lumpkins, Business Development, Stax
• Martin Lund, Founder & CTO, RSVP/SM Solutions
• Jyllene Miller, Global Growth Executive
• Monique Morrow, Senior Distinguished Architect, Syniverse Technologies
• Simone Ravaioli, Director, Parchment
• Rolf Reinhardt, LinkedIn & International Council on Badges and Credentials

About CGFNS International, Inc.
Founded in 1977 and based in Philadelphia, CGFNS International is an immigration-neutral not-for-profit organization proudly serving as the world's largest credentials evaluation organization for the nursing and allied health professions. For more information, visit www.cgfns.org.

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Mukul Bakhshi, Esq.
Chief of Strategy and Government Affairs
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(215) 243-5825


Original Source: Amid Global Health Worker Shortage, CGFNS Assembles Board of Experts to Advise on Next-Generation Solutions to Streamline International Mobility for Health Workers

Availability on AWS GovCloud (US) allows Smile Digital Health to meet the needs of Federal agencies requiring the highest standard of cloud security.

TORONTO, February 21, 2023 (Newswire.com) - Smile Digital Health (Smile), a leading FHIR® health data fabric (HDF) and exchange solutions provider, announced its HDF platform is now available on AWS GovCloud (US), an isolated Amazon Web Services (AWS) Region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, helping customers support their US government compliance requirements, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High baseline requirements.

The availability of Smile's HDF solutions on AWS GovCloud allows for secure data sharing in near-real time for government agencies who are required to meet federal regulations when working with and sharing healthcare data. Not only can public sector agencies and health-related businesses leverage Smile to build secure, composable and scalable data infrastructures, but they also have the added benefits of AWS GovCloud to meet compliance mandates, safeguard sensitive data, strengthen identity management, improve cloud visibility and protect accounts and workloads. 

Smile's platform ingests HL7® health data standards as well as non-standard data and converts it into the FHIR standard. Information to be leveraged from the platform can remain in FHIR format, or another HL7 data standard while AWS GovCloud ensures customers adhere to the FedRAMP requirements.

FedRAMP is a federal program that ensures a high level of information security when it comes to protecting some of the federal government's most sensitive unclassified data in cloud computing environments.

"This growth in our relationship with AWS further emphasizes our commitment to be the most trusted health data fabric platform in the market. This expansion allows us to provide our U.S. Federal customers the highest level of security while accessing cloud-native capabilities. With our solution, they can be secure in knowing they are meeting standards and regulations put in place for the safe use of their data in the cloud. Working with AWS helps us make our overall goal of achieving better global health a reality," said Shane McNamee, MD, Senior Vice President, Strategic Growth at Smile Digital Health. 

The AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) Regions are available to U.S. government agencies, U.S. government contractors, private and public commercial entities in the U.S., U.S. educational institutions, and U.S. nonprofits and research organizations that meet the region's requirements for access.

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About Smile Digital Health

Smile Digital Health is a health information technology company focused on delivering better global health through open standards. Our enterprise-grade, open framework data fabric and integration platform fuels healthcare's digital transformation and accelerates value creation across all patient journeys at scale. Powered by our HL7® FHIR® standard-based clinical data repository (#SmileInside), our platform enables collaboration and allows organizations to ingest, transform, store, enrich, analyze, aggregate and meaningfully share the health information to power digital transformation. We prepare healthcare providers, payers, researchers and life sciences organizations for a connected future beyond legacy systems, adding new value through intelligent use of information and ultimately delivering better patient outcomes. For more information, visit: SmileDigitalHealth.com. 

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Victoria Valladolid
Director of Marketing
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Original Source: Smile Digital Health Now Available on AWS GovCloud (US) Region

Data from the study to support regulatory submissions on track for 2023. Participation from distinguished EU principal investigators provides significant endorsement for DeepView™.

DALLAS, February 21, 2023 (Newswire.com) - Spectral MD Holdings, Ltd. (AIM: SMD), a predictive analytics company with proprietary AI algorithms and optical technology for faster and more accurate treatment decisions in wound care, announces the initiation of its EU clinical study to support the development and regulatory submission of its Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU) application for the Company's DeepView™ technology.

The Company has partnered with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland's (RCSI) Skin Wounds and Trauma (SWaT) Research Centre, Prof. Zena Moore, Director; and Prof. Declan Patton, Deputy Director, at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, to execute the clinical study with Prof. John McDermott (Chief Clinical Investigator) and Prof. Seamus Sreenan (Sub Investigator), both of Connolly Hospital, and RCSI in Dublin, Ireland.

The EU Wound Assessment Using Spectral Imaging clinical study will collect data from DFU patients monitored up to 12 weeks. The intention of the clinical study is to further develop the DeepView AI®-DFU algorithm and support the  Company's 2023 regulatory submissions for UK CA, US FDA, and EU CE Mark. 

Chronic wounds, such as DFU, affect 9.1 to 26.1 million patients globally each year and are the most frequently recognized, complex and costly symptom of diabetes. Globally, 70% of DFUs recur within three years, representing a significant health and economic burden to both patients and hospital systems. Additionally, undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, or untreated DFUs commonly lead to limb amputation and poor patient outcomes. 

There is currently no diagnostic tool available for early wound healing diagnosis, with physicians required to wait 30 days to designate a DFU as non-healing before using advanced wound care therapies. Early and accurate diagnosis of non-healing DFUs would considerably improve patient quality of life and DFU healing rates. The Company announced in January 2023 interim results for DeepView AI®-DFU's day-one prediction of 86% diagnostic accuracy of a 50% DFU size reduction by week four from five clinical study sites in the U.S., and this EU clinical study data will enhance its clinical database and strengthen the regulatory and clinical pathways.  

Prof. Zena Moore and Prof. Declan Patton of the RCSI SWaT Research Centre jointly commented: "With our clinical partners we are committed to better wound care diagnostics and treatment for patients. This study will ensure we continue to be at the cutting edge of clinical wound care research that makes a difference to people with non-healing ulcers. Working with Spectral MD also enhances our place at the forefront of medical device research and translation for everyday wound care practice."

Wensheng Fan, Chief Executive Officer of Spectral MD, stated: "The initiation of the EU study is an important milestone for the Company. We are delighted by this industry-academic partnership led by a group of eminent clinicians and clinical researchers, which we see as a significant industry-wide endorsement for DeepView™. Data collected from this collaboration will strengthen the predictive capability of the DeepView™ technology for early-stage wound assessment."

Prof. Fergal O'Brien, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at RCSI, commented: "By bringing together the research expertise of the SWaT Research Centre at RCSI with the advanced technological capabilities of Spectral MD, this study is driving forward wound care technology development to address a significant unmet need by improving diagnostic imaging and quantitative diagnosis and ultimately patient outcomes."

For further information please contact: [email protected]

About Spectral MD:                                                                                   

We are a dedicated team of forward-thinkers striving to revolutionize the management of wound care by "Seeing the Unknown" ® with our DeepView^® Wound Imaging System.

www.spectralmd.com

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About RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences

RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences is a world-leading university for Good Health and Well-being. Ranked in the world top 50 for its contribution to UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2022, it is exclusively focused on education and research to drive improvements in human health worldwide.

RCSI is an international not-for-profit university, headquartered in Dublin. It is among the top 250 universities worldwide in the World University Rankings (2023). RCSI has been awarded Athena Swan Bronze accreditation for positive gender practice in higher education.

Visit the RCSI MyHealth Expert Directory to find the details of our experts across a range of healthcare issues and concerns. Recognising their responsibility to share their knowledge and discoveries to empower people with information that leads them to better health, these clinicians and researchers are willing to engage with the media in their area of expertise. 

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Original Source: Spectral MD Initiates EU Diabetic Foot Ulcer Clinical Study in Ireland