Posts by Francine Marlenee

Innovation Lab, an incubator owned by six nonprofit health systems, is joining forces with Olive to co-develop technology that will automate operational and clinical workflows. The companies will leverage Olive’s AI platform, as well as Innovation Lab’s frontline access to its health system owners. By ANUJA VAIDYA  Newport Beach, California-based Innovation Lab, the incubator collaboratively owned…

JESSICA KIM COHEN  MODERN HEALTHCARE  The Innovation Institute, a for-profit company owned by six not-for-profit health systems, has entered into a co-development agreement with robotic process automation company Olive. The partnership, announced Tuesday, is run through the Innovation Institute’s healthcare incubator subsidiary, called the Innovation Lab. The Innovation Lab will work with Olive to co-develop and commercialize…

By JULIE MINDA When it became clear in early 2020 that the coronavirus could slam into the nation’s health care system with the force of a tsunami, executives and staff at the La Palma, California-based Innovation Institute and at its affiliated Newport Beach, California, Innovation Lab assembled on a weekend videoconference to brainstorm about how the…

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A Sioux Falls-based startup company has announced a partnership that will significantly affect its growth as a platform, owners say. Helen’s Plan is an online tool named after owner Walter Portz’s mother that helps people streamline, prioritize and put their end of life affairs in order. Users can organize their personal data such as insurance, contact information and important…

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. —Transition of care management platform provider Koazie announced its partnership with Helen’s Plan, a complementary tool for advanced directive planning, as part of Koazie’s vision to provide a comprehensive set of resources for senior care.  “Through this new partnership, seniors and their families will not only be able to learn about and…

Home » Headlines » County » Innovation Lab and Valley Children’s Pediatric Innovation Showcase to Highlight Opportunities in Underserved Population Innovation Lab announced today that they will host a virtual Startup Demo Day on May 20 to highlight opportunities in the underserved pediatric sector. The Pediatrics Innovation Startup Demo Day is co-hosted by Valley Children’s Healthcare https://www.valleychildrens.org and is sponsored by Medlinehttps://www.medline.com, the…

By Bill Siwicki — California’s Santa Rosa Community Health, a federally qualified health center, serves more than 40,000 uninsured and underinsured people in the greater Santa Rosa area. THE PROBLEM In 2017, the Tubbs Fire destroyed 6,000 homes and the provider organization’s largest health center, which served half of its patients. The devastation traumatized staff,…

By Scott Mace | When the Tubbs Fire came roaring down from hillsides northeast of Santa Rosa, California, in October 2017, it devastated a community and the Vista campus of its federally qualified health center, Santa Rosa Community Health. But thanks to the courage and quick action of its CEO and other leadership, and key adopted…

Invenio Genetics, a California-based genomic test developer, said this week that it is collaborating with Singapore’s Imagene Labs to develop an improved consumer genomics product. Specifically, Imagene’s ancestry-based polygenic risk scoring bioinformatics system will power Invenio’s GeneFolio Fitness & Nutrition DNA analysis product, increasing accuracy for currently underrepresented health populations. The partners said that a…

Invenio Genetics, a California-based genomic test developer, said it is collaborating with Singapore’s Imagene Labs to develop an improved consumer genomic product. Specifically, Imagene’s ancestry-based polygenic risk scoring bioinformatics system will power Invenio’s GeneFolio Fitness & Nutrition DNA analysis product, increasing accuracy for currently underrepresented health populations. The partners said that a significant gap in…

La Palma, Calif. – The formation of American Medical Imaging (AMI) from six medical imaging technology sales and service companies across the continental U.S. was announced today by The Innovation Institute and Tech Knowledge Associates (TKA), its subsidiary specializing in full-risk healthcare technology management. The new AMI partnership of experienced imaging technology firms was brought…

The Innovation Institute, along with Tech Knowledge Associates (TKA), its subsidiary specializing in full-risk healthcare technology management, announces the formation of American Medical Imaging (AMI) from six medical imaging technology sales and service companies across the continental U.S. The new AMI partnership of experienced imaging technology firms was brought together to deliver the entire spectrum…

The formation of American Medical Imaging (AMI) from six medical imaging technology sales and service companies across the continental U.S. was announced by The Innovation Institute and Tech Knowledge Associates (TKA), its subsidiary specializing in full-risk healthcare technology management (HTM). The new AMI partnership of experienced imaging technology firms was brought together to deliver the…

Leadership from HBNS, an IT service provider, and Santa Rosa Community Health, an essential primary health care provider, announced today that they have released a case study. The case study shows how the two organizations collaborated together to respond quickly to the technology needs of health care staff, whose jobs were already challenging enough during these…

Our subsidiary Hospitality Business Network Solutions (HBNS), LLC was featured on ABC News today, along with their client Santa Rosa Community Health to share how they collaborated to tackle IT challenges faced by the health care provider to serve its 40,000 patients while dealing with the effects of destructive wildfires and a global pandemic; infrastructure damage, outages and massive…

Healthcare Technology Group, an industry leader in delivering healthcare technology solutions, has announced a new agreement for medical equipment management and repair services with Intalere, a healthcare GPO. Through this agreement, Intalere members will receive negotiated pricing on HTG’s custom, flexible asset management plans to assist with the management and maintenance of medical devices across…

By Jerry McPhail, Vice President of Operations, Petra Designing for effective infection control in healthcare facilities has to begin with an understanding of how infections spread, where the high-risk areas are in a facility and the operational and logistical need of the staff, patients and visitors. There are a multitude of operational considerations to include…

It’s no surprise that the culture for healthcare is one that is averse to taking risk, but we need innovation to transform and improve patient care Joe Randolph, Industry Voice In healthcare, physicians are trained to follow protocols, use evidence-based medicine, standardize processes and eliminate variation.  Any variation in care delivery that results in a…

The formation of an asset management firm, Healthcare Technology Group (HTG), was announced by The Innovation Institute and Tech Knowledge Associates (TKA), its subsidiary specializing in full-risk health care technology management. Drawing from decades of service and experience, HTG aims to reinvent and simplify the concept of medical equipment management. HTG will be led by…