On Tuesday, Tokyo, Japan-based Smartmedical Corp announced the official launch of EmoWatch, the first vocal emotion recognition app for the Apple Watch. Based on Empath, Smartmedical's proprietary vocal emotion recognition technology, the app identifies and tracks users' emotions from their voices, regardless of language, by analyzing multiple vocal properties such as intonation, pitch, speed, and volume. By analyzing multiple physical properties of the voice, EmoWatch can identify emotions in
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Sunquest Acquires GeneInsight: 5 Things to Know
Sunquest Information Systems Inc. has announced the acquisition of GeneInsight Inc., an IT company that streamlines the analysis, interpretation and reporting of complex genetic tests. Since first partnering with GeneInsight, Sunquest has advanced the precision medicine capabilities of GeneInsight, including the addition of a filtration algorithm that allows users to pare down long lists of variants gleaned from the whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing tests and more quickly identify and
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Cumberland Consulting Group Acquires Oleen Pinnacle Healthcare Consulting
Nashville, TN-based health IT consulting firm Cumberland Consulting Group, today announced that it has acquired Little Rock-based Oleen Pinnacle Healthcare Consulting, a national healthcare consulting firm specializing in IT and operations for a diverse client base, including government healthcare agencies, integrated delivery systems and health plans. The move will help Cumberland expand their payer service offerings and market presence. Acquisition Details Oleen is a national healthcare
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Kinvey, Google Launch HIPAA Compliant Mobile Backend as a Service
Kinvey, an enterprise mobile Backend as a Service (mBaaS), today launched a HIPAA compliant mBaaS on Google Cloud Platform. The fully-managed service will allow healthcare providers and pharma businesses to more rapidly adopt mobile strategies and mHealth, like connected medical devices, patient adherence apps to manage chronic diseases, apps for clinical trials. This is a significant announcement for Kinvey + Google in the healthcare space -- leapfrogging the likes of AWS, Microsoft Azure and
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University Hospitals Extends Relationship with Allscripts through 2024
University Hospitals (UH), a Cleveland, OH-based academic healthcare system announced it has expanded and extended its relationship to Allscripts through 2024 to enhance patient care and improve population health management. The organization will expand its Allscripts SunriseTM Clinical Manager platform in 9 hospitals that currently use the platform to include additional Sunrise modules, including surgery, anesthesia, radiology and mobility, providing a single clinical platform and integrated
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MedStar Cyber Attack Shows Need for HHS to Implement Cybersecurity Law
The FBI is investigating a Monday cyber attack by anonymous hackers that forced MedStar Health's 10 hospitals and more than 250 outpatient centers to shut down their computers and email. After the cyber attack was discovered, the provider immediately made the decision to take down all of their systems as a precaution to ensure further security breaches. The Washington, D.C.-based healthcare system employs more than 30,000 people and treats hundreds of thousands of patients in the Washington
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Ask the Doctor Launches Virtual Doctor Visits for Employers in Canada
Ask The Doctor, the world's most popular medical question and answer platform has selected Ontario to launch its Virtual Healthcare Platform for Employers, ATD Works. Starting today, Ontario employers can provide their employees with the benefit of immediate virtual access to a physician through email, SMS, phone or video chat on the Ask The Doctor App. Employees will not only have access to medical advice, they can also receive prescriptions conveniently filled at their nearest pharmacy. The
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Dell Inks Multiple $100M Deals with Dubai Health Authority, BCBS Rhode Island
Dell Services recently landed ground-breaking deals with Dubai Health Authority (DHA) and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI). In addition, Dell Services beat out other competitors to ink deals with marquee brands including American Express Global Business Travel, Bombardier, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Markit and Thermo Fisher Scientific. This customer momentum builds upon continued success with customers including American Red Cross,Baystate, Gap, Hilton, Owens &
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Epic’s Care Everywhere Exchanges Quarter Billion Patient Records
This week, Verona, Wis.-based EHR leader Epic announced that in the last 12 months, nearly a quarter of a billion patient records were exchanged on it's Care Everywhere platform—up 300% from the year prior. The milestone represents records that were exchanged with groups using other EHRs, HIEs, HISPs, entities connected to the eHealth exchange, and members of the Epic Community.Epic’s Care Everywhere interoperability platform supports millions of patient record exchanges each month to improve
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Health Tech Accelerator Relevant Health Showcases Inaugaral Class of Startups
Relevant Health, a five month Rockville, MD-based health technology accelerator announced the showcase of their inaugural 2016 class of startups at their first annual Demo Day held at the Rockville Innovation Center. The first class of health tech startups is composed of seven startups solving a diverse set of problems in the healthcare industry from digital therapeutic software system for self-managing gestational diabetes (Werbie) to providing a predictive analytics platform to determine the
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