This week at HIMSS18, Google unveiled their new Cloud Healthcare API, which addresses the significant interoperability challenges in healthcare data. The new API will provide a robust, scalable infrastructure solution to ingest and manage key healthcare data types—including HL7, FHIR and DICOM.Google is already working with a select group of partners including Stanford School of Medicine. "Open standards are critical to healthcare interoperability as well as for enabling biomedical research. We
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Health AI Startup Medial EarlySign Lands $30M for Personalized Disease Management
Medial EarlySign, an Israeli-based provider of machine-learning based solutions to improve patient management and non-communicable disease management has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by aMoon Fund. The latest round brings the startup’s total funding, to date, to $50 million.The funding will further the use of EarlySign’s AI solutions, which leverage basic electronic health records to identify individuals at high risk of harboring or developing life-threatening diseases, helping
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Human API Teams Up with CMS to Launch FHIR-based API
Human API, the largest patient-centric health data network has announced a collaboration with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to make the new CMS Blue Button 2.0 API available through the Human API data network. This collaboration will enable millions of Medicare patients to connect and authorize the sharing of their longitudinal claims information with new providers, clinical researchers, and digital health services.With the CMS Blue Button 2.0 API available through Human
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Nuance & Partners HealthCare Team Up to Accelerate Adoption of AI Apps for Diagnostic Imaging
Nuance today announced the signing of a multi-year strategic agreement with Partners HealthCare. The two organizations will optimize the process for rapid development, validation and utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) for radiologists at the point of care, and Nuance intends to make the new algorithms available through the Nuance AI Marketplace for Diagnostic Imaging.The collaboration will be executed through the recently formed Massachusetts General Hospital ("MGH") and Brigham and
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Sharecare Unveils Unified, Cloud-Based Platform for Medical Record Retrieval Services
Sharecare, today announced at HIMSS18 that its affiliate Sharecare Health Data Services (formerly BACTES) has launched a new secure cloud-based platform that offers healthcare providers unified access to the company’s medical record retrieval services. The new platform provides clients with access to the quality, security and unmatched customer service they have come to rely on from Sharecare Health Data Services for more than 25 years, but now through the convenience of a SaaS model.Whether a
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HIMSS Acquires Health Innovation Consulting Provider Healthbox
HIMSS has announced the acquisition of Healthbox, a Chicago-based healthcare innovation consulting firm and venture capital investment manager. For HIMSS, the acquisition of Healthbox adds health innovation consulting and fund management to its broader portfolio.Under terms of the agreement, Healthbox will continue to operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of HIMSS. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.Healthbox has evolved from a healthcare accelerator to an innovation
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SSI Group Acquires Health Data Aggregation Company ICA CareAlign
The SSI Group, an industry leader in revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions, has announced the acquisition of Nashville, TN-based Informatics Corporation of America (ICA), a provider of aggregation and exchange of patient clinical data under the brand name of CareAlign.The combined expertise and information services will help a diverse set of healthcare organizations improve their ability to address the growing need to combine administrative, financial, and clinical data driven by changes in
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Medsphere CEO Talks Affordable Healthcare IT and Future of EHRs
Medsphere’s Irv Lichtenwald explains why the health IT industry needs to push for interoperable EHR solutions to curb healthcare costs. Health systems are spending obscene amounts of money on EHR implementations. In 2017 alone, Mayo Clinic began implementing a $1.5 billion integrated Epic EHR system. Temple Health reported a $5.7 million operating loss largely due to higher than expected staffing costs associated with their recent Epic EHR implementation. The provider set aside $15.1 million in
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Tagnos Lands $5M for Clinical Logistics Automation Solution for Hospitals
Tagnos, a developer of the leading clinical logistics automation solution for hospitals and clinics has raised $5 million from Benhamou Global Ventures, Morpheus Ventures and Zebra Ventures, the investment arm of Zebra Technologies Corp.Tagnos’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform is designed to orchestrate hospital workflow in ways that reduce wait times, enhance the patient experience, improve staff efficiency and optimize the utilization of supplies and equipment. The company’s analytics
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MU Health Care to Implement Cerner Revenue Cycle Management Across 5 Hospitals
University of Missouri Health Care, in Columbia, has selected Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, to help manage revenue cycle performance across its five hospitals and more than 50 primary and specialty care clinics.MU Health Care will soon integrate Cerner’s registration, scheduling, patient accounting and practice management solutions and transaction services with its existing electronic health record (EHR), Cerner Millennium. The integration of clinical and financial data will
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