InterSystems, a provider of interoperability and connected health solution has announced a partnership with Validic, a leading technology platform for accessing digital health patient data. As part of the partnership, Intersystems will use Validic's digital health platform to integrate user-generated data from clinical in home, wearable and mobile health devices and applications into the InterSystems HealthShare suite of products.
Intersystems, Validic Integration Details
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Singapore Hospital Pilots Use of Hospital Delivery Robots
Changi General Hospital (CGH) in Singapore is piloting the use of Panasonic autonomous hospital delivery robots called HOPSI to improve operational efficiency of a hospital. The pilot launched in February 2015 has been implemented over several phases and is the first hospital outside of Japan to utilize the HOSPI robot. As part of the hospital’s porter management system, the four HOSPI are able to deliver fragile and bulky medicine, medical specimens and patients’ case notes 24/7, easing
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GHX Unveils 2 Healthcare Supply Chain Savings Calculators
Providers and suppliers continue to look at the supply chain as the cornerstone for transforming their operations. One of their ongoing challenges in this area, however, is having the ability to fully understand the long- and short-terms risks and cost savings associated with those investments.
Healthcare supply leader, GHX has launched two new healthcare supply chain savings tickers that track actual and potential savings available to healthcare providers and suppliers. The new tickers are
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Medical Crowdsourcing Saves Child’s Life from Deadly E. Coli Infection
SERMO, a global social network exclusively for doctors and the home of medical crowdsourcing, helped save a girl’s life through collaboration across borders. The infection she was diagnosed with had killed her brother just two weeks earlier. Because of SERMO’s recent expansion to the UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland and New Zealand, doctors from around the world were able to pool their collective wisdom online to recommend options for follow up testing and treatment, saving the
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Marlin Equity Partners to Acquire AdvancedMD
AdvancedMD, a cloud-based EHR and practice management system dedicated to independent physicians has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by global investment firm Marlin Equity Partners for an undisclosed sum. Closing of the transaction is expected in the third or fourth quarter of calendar 2015 and is subject to customary closing conditions, including the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.
AdvancedMD offerings includes a
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Health Catalyst Acquires Health Care DataWorks To Enhance BI in Healthcare
Health Catalyst, a provider of healthcare data warehousing, analytics and outcomes improvement has acquired Health Care DataWorks (HCD), a leading provider of business intelligence for health systems. The Columbus, OH-based company provides health systems with data warehousing tools to improve their quality of care and reduce costs. Terms of the acquisition was a cash-and-stock purchase that closed on July 31.
Health systems are increasingly using data warehousing and analytics to leverage
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IBM Acquires Merge Healthcare To Enhance Medical Images in Watson
IBM has announced plans to acquire Merge Healthcare, a provider of medical image handling and processing, interoperability and clinical systems designed to advance healthcare quality and efficiency for $1 billion. The acquisition will bring IBM Watson's advanced image analytics and cognitive capabilities with data and images obtained from Merge Healthcare medical imaging management platform to surface new insights from a consolidated, patient-centric view of current and historical
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Report: Global Telehealth Market to Reach $34B by 2020
The global telehealth market is expected to be worth US$ 34.27 billion by the end of 2020, with North America being the largest market globally accounting for more than 40% of the global market size. According to a new market research report, 'Global Telemedicine Market - Growth, Trends & Forecasts (2015-2020)', published by Mordor Intelligence, the largest segments of the telemedicine markets are telepathology,teleradiology, teledermatology abd telepsychology.
Telehealth is a broader
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Livongo for Diabetes Named First Telehealth Program to Receive AADE Accreditation
Livongo Health has been named an accredited diabetes education program by the American Association of Diabetes Educators, making it the first online/telehealth program of its kind to achieve this prestigious accreditation status. The Chicago-based digital health company is reinventing the way health is managed by combining technology, real-time information, and human support to make life easier, starting with diabetes.
"I believe others will follow suit as I think it is the wave of the future
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Virtua Selets Teladoc to Offer Telehealth Visits In Southern New Jersey
Dallas-based telehealth provider, Teladoc has been selected by Virtua, the largest health care provider in southern New Jersey, to provide telemedicine services to its employees and residents of the communities it serves. As part of the agreement, board-certified primary care physicians employed by Virtua will join Teladoc’s clinical network, which offers 24/7/365 access to state-licensed, board-certified physicians via phone, internet, secure online video and mobile
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