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Virgin Pulse launches a five-week global loneliness challenge for employers and health plans designed to foster social connections and reverse costly adverse health risks.Social isolation and loneliness is a worldwide problem and is clinically proven to be detrimental to individual and population health. The Striding for Connection challenge is being offered to all current clients worldwide to empower members to foster new connections while strengthening
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M&A: Definitive Healthcare Acquires Provider Intelligence Platform Populi for $52M
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Definitive Healthcare acquires Populi, a provider of healthcare commercial intelligence for providers for $52M in cash, subject to working capital adjustments, with the potential for additional consideration contingent upon the achievement of certain performance-based milestones in 2024 and 2025.Founded in 2020, Populi delivers healthcare commercial intelligence for the provider market, serving some of the country’s largest healthcare systems, including the
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LG Launches Patient Engagement Boards for Hospital Rooms
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LG Business Solutions USA launches a new line of “Patient Engagement Boards” that empowers hospitals to outfit patient rooms with crisp high-definition screens for displaying patient information such as their name, schedule, a list of caregivers, native language and more. The new Patient Engagement Boards are now available in a 43-inch UHD model and 32-inch FHD model, featuring Power over Ethernet (PoE) capability, offering optimized solutions and simplified
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iCAD, Google Health Expand Integration of AI Breast Cancer Screening
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iCAD, Inc., a global medical technology leader providing innovative cancer detection and therapy solutions, today announced it signed an amendment to its development and commercialization agreement with Google Health, which will enable iCAD to integrate Google’s AI technology with its ProFound Breast Health Suite Secondlook for 2D Mammography for use worldwide upon regulatory approval as an independent reader for breast cancer screening for 20 years.iCAD signed a
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SSM Health Forms 10-Year Partnership with Siemens Healthineers to Advance Health Equity & Workforce Development
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SSM Health, a nonprofit health system and Siemens Healthineers have announced a new 10-year strategic partnership agreement focused on expanding access to high-quality care and training the next generation of health care workers. The agreement with SSM Health creates the largest geographic Siemens Healthineers strategic partnership to date.
Advancing Health Equity & Workforce Development
The strategic partnership will focus on advancing
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Microsoft Enables Epic Clients to Use Microsoft Azure Large Instances to Manage Large Epic EHR Database Loads
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Microsoft announced that Epic clients, starting with Mount Sinai Health System can use Microsoft Azure Large Instances to run the large Epic electronic health record (EHR) database at up to 50 million database accesses per second. Through close collaboration with Accenture, Mount Sinai continues to migrate many of its workloads to Azure and now has the largest production instance of Epic running on Azure in the world.
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UnitedHealthcare Accelerator Launches New Cohort of 10 Digital Health Startups
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The UnitedHealthcare Accelerator program, announced its fifth cohort of 10 digital health startups to participate in its four-month collaborative mentorship-driven program.Selected startups will receive guidance from UnitedHealthcare and Optum executive, fundraising support, and $50k in capital. 90% of this year’s companies were founded by women and / or people of color.
Here is a look at UnitedHealthcare Accelerator’s 2023 program class:
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Report: Current State of Healthcare Analytics
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Only 57 percent of healthcare organizations use data to make business decisions, despite 90 percent of healthcare leaders agreeing that access to quality data is critical to organizational performance, according to a new report by Arcadia.The Current State of Healthcare Analytics Report insights come from a pulse survey on the current state of healthcare analytics platforms conducted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and
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Stanford Develops Robotic Puppies to Bring Therapy to Pediatric Patients
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Students from Stanford University School of Engineering robotics team designed robotic puppies, known as ‘The Pupper Robots,’ that helps calm and distract young pediatric patients during routine and complex procedures at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.The University robotics team 3D printed 30 pups to interact and play with kids at the hospital’s family resource center, Story Corner. The effort is part of an interdisciplinary research effort with
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Robotics + Heart Valve Startup, Capstan Medical Raises $31.4M
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Today, Santa Cruz-based Capstan Medical, a developer of minimally invasive technology to address heart valve disease, announced $31.4M Series B investment round led by Eclipse.The Series B round included participation from Intuitive Ventures and Puma Venture Capital, a new firm founded by Amit Hazan, a veteran Wall Street medical technology analyst, and Dr. Vipul Patel, a renowned robotic surgeon who has performed more robotic procedures than any other
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