On Monday, Cleveland Clinic announced a $302 million expansion plan for Cleveland Clinic Florida that will include capital improvements to its campus in Weston, and a new clinic and ambulatory surgery center in Coral Springs, Fla. In Weston, the expansion will include the addition of three operating suites and additional inpatient hospital beds, as well as expansion of the Emergency Department and imaging and laboratory facilities. General renovations and additional parking are
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Archives for 2015
CVS Health Establishes Clinical Affiliations with St. Luke’s University Health Network and TriHealth
CVS Health has established new clinical affiliations with two leading health systems, St. Luke’s University Health Network in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and TriHealth in Cincinnati, Ohio. These affiliations will help enhance access to high-quality, affordable health care services for patients. Through these clinical affiliations, CVS Health will provide prescription and visit information to the participating health care organizations by enabling communication between our secured EHR systems, which
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DynoSense To Bring Tricorder-Size Health Scanner to China
DynoSense, developer of the world’s first fully integrated multi-function health scanner has announced a strategic partnership with JKOM Cloud Health Technology Co. Ltd to bring its digital health solutions to the Chinese market. Under the terms of the partnership, JKOM will be responsible for the marketing and distribution of DynoSense’s existing Dyno technology, as well as future products, through an existing network of healthcare providers who actively serve more than two million
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MEA|NEA Acquires The White Stone Group to Create Integrated Platform for Secure Health Exchange
MEA|NEA, a provider of secure health information exchange for medical and dental providers, announced today that it has acquired The White Stone Group, Inc., a best-in class provider of healthcare communication management solutions. This acquisition positions the company to create a single, highly-integrated platform for the secure exchange of protected health information and communication management between patients, providers and payers. Financial terms of the acquisition were not
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Glooko Launches Office Kiosk for In-Clinic Diabetes Care
Glooko Inc., a unified platform for diabetes management, today announced the official launch of its “Glooko Office Kiosk” package to redefine in-clinic diabetes care experience for patients with diabetes and healthcare professionals by bringing insights that drive teachable moments to patient-clinician interactions
For the first time, Glooko Office Kiosk enables diabetes data from popular blood glucose meters, insulin pumps, and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) to be synced to an Android
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Google Life Sciences, Sanofi Collaborate on Creating Digital Health Tools for Diabetes
Google Life Sciences, the new division under the recently established Google Alphabet is teaming up with French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi to improve care and outcomes for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, adding to recent partnerships with Novartis AG and DexCom Inc. The collaboration aims to explore ways to collect, analyze and understand multiple sources of information impacting diabetes.. This includes health indicators such as blood glucose and hemoglobin A1c levels,
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Health IT: The Knockout Punch of All Cancer Treatments
A targeted beam of high-energy particles known as protons can kill cancer cells without damaging surrounding healthy tissue. Yet no facility in the Southern Hemisphere can currently deliver this kind of therapy. Now significant national and international momentum is building to include a Proton Therapy Unit as part of the planned expansion of SAHMRI, South Australia’s Health and Medical Research Institute. Cancer specialist and former CEO of Cancer Council Australia Professor Ian Oliver said
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8 Recent Trends on How Millennials Shop for Healthcare
Millennials overtook Baby Boomers this year as the largest living generation; and while Baby Boomers may currently consume most healthcare resources, the move to value-based care and increased focus on prevention is driving healthcare providers to better understand and reach Millennial patients.
As part of its ongoing research on the changing practice of the art of medicine, Nuance Communications, Inc. today released new data on generational patient behaviors and the slideshare
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How CMS Is Redefining Telemedicine with Its Chronic Care Management Service Guidelines
Telemedicine is about reaching out to patients in remote locations, but limited to videoconferencing between patients and health providers. It is similar to a face-to-face service with the exception that the patient and primary care provider are not physically together. Such efficient is limited in term of scope and only addresses the geographical challenge and scarcity of physician availability, a far cry from what CMS wanted for its Chronic Care Management Services (CMS) which would
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Infographic: Why Healthcare Information is Valuable
81 percent of health care executives say that their organizations have been compromised by at least one malware, botnet, or other cyber-attack during the past two years, according to the 2015 KPMG Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey. In fact, only half feel that they are adequately prepared in preventing attacks.
The following infographic created by KPMG illustrates why healthcare information is so valuable to hackers.
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