- HHS announces San Diego Regional Health Information Exchange and The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) as awardees of the LEAP in Health IT funding opportunity. - Awardees projects will focus on advancing health IT interoperability to improve healthcare for patients nationwide.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced two awards under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health
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Apixio Launches AI-Powered Solution to Advance Personalized Medicine
- Quality Identifier uses Apixio’s proprietary AI algorithms to analyze electronic medical record notes, scanned charts, and other patient documents to identify evidence of measure compliance.
- Algorithm results and supporting evidence are then presented to clinical abstractors for review in a secure web-based application.
- The future of quality measurement in healthcare will be outcomes-oriented, prioritizing quality measures that require patient data from medical documents to
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Northwell Health Goes Live on Microsoft Teams for Secure Messaging
- Northwell Health goes live on Microsoft Teams solution for clinicians for secure texting and helps improve care coordination across the enterprise.
- A total of 8,300 Northwell staff currently use Microsoft Teams with future rollouts plan across the health system this year and into early 2020.
Glen Cove Hospital, part of the Northwell Health network has gone live on the Microsoft Teams solution for nurses, physicians, and other health care providers to securely text one other about
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Cerner Executive VP Jeff Townsend to Retire By End of The Year
Jeff Townsend, executive vice
president and chief of innovation at Cerner
announced he will retire by the end of the year. Upon his departure, Townsend
will continue to serve at Cerner in an advisory role.
“For more than 30 years, Jeff has worked diligently to position Cerner for key opportunities and prepared us to drive the next wave of health care innovation,” said Brent Shafer, chairman, and CEO, Cerner. “On behalf of the board of directors as well as Cerner’s associates worldwide, I
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Livongo, Pager, Wildflower Health, Others Name BCBS Data Innovation Challenge Finalists
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) and Blue Health Intelligence® (BHI) has announced the finalists of the BlueCross BlueShield Data Innovation Challenge developing solutions that increase access to care, enhance patient engagement, and improve care delivery and outcomes. The selected finalists will receive access to a limited HIPAA-compliant Blue Health Intelligence (BHI) dataset so they can test their hypotheses.5 BCBS Data Innovation Challenge FinalistsThe five finalists were
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27 Healthcare Consumer Insight & Digital Engagement Trends to Watch
- Majority of patients are depending on online reviews, ratings, and reputation more than ever when choosing a physician, according to a new Binary Fountain survey.
- Recent years have shown explosive growth in the use of digital tools for research into the choice of physician and healthcare needs.
- The 2019 “Healthcare Consumer Insight & Digital Engagement survey reveals critical trends into how patients look to online reviews, ratings and brand reputation when it comes to
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AMA Launches Practice Transformation Initiative to Combat Physician Burnout
- The American Medical Association (AMA) launches Practice Transformation Initiative to combat the root causes of physician burnout and dissatisfaction.- The Practice Transformation Initiative will support research and advance evidence-based solutions by collaborating with organizations who are committed to the practice transformation journey.- Initiative features the Physicians Foundation supporting the engagement of interested state medical societies that will recruit health systems and
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Prudential Financial Acquires Insurtech Startup Assurance IQ, for $2.35B
- Prudential Financial acquires insurtech startup Assurance IQ for a total upfront consideration of $2.35 billion, plus an additional earnout of up to $1.15 billion in cash and equity.
- Assurance will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Prudential under the U.S. Businesses division.
- Assurance will add a large and rapidly growing direct-to-consumer channel to Prudential’s financial wellness businesses, significantly expanding the total addressable market of both
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Microsoft, Astrazeneca Launches AI Factory for Health Accelerator in Europe
- Microsoft and AstraZeneca are joining forces to launch the AI Factory for Health, a European accelerator for AI-focused digital health startups.
- The 3-month accelerator program is for startups that offer an innovative health solution based on artificial intelligence technology for patients or health professionals
- Created by Microsoft in partnership with the Inria laboratory, the AI Factory unites a community of startups dedicated to the development of innovative solutions based
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Livongo’s Q2’19 Revenue Reaches $41M, Up 156% Y-o-Y
- Livongo reports Q2 19 total revenue of $40.9 million, up 156% year-over-year- 192,934 enrolled Livongo for Diabetes Members, up 140% year-over-year with 38,170 new Livongo for Diabetes Members in Q2- Total Contract Value of $74.2 million, up from $24.8 million in the second quarter of 2018. Livongo Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVGO), an Applied Health Signals company empowering people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, today announced financial results for its second quarter
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