- Healthcare IT leader Jon Zimmerman has been named CEO of Holon Solutions to accelerate their transition to value-based care through the adoption of purpose-built technology that solves their biggest challenges.
- Value-based care executive selected for his nearly 30 years’ experience in enhancing healthcare interoperability and proven track record in scaling growth-stage companies.
Holon Solutions, an Atlanta-based healthcare IT company that liberates healthcare data, today announced it has
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Strainprint Launches First Medical Cannabis Report from Real-World Observational Patient Study
- Canadian-based Strainprint releases a groundbreaking research report providing unique insight from over 800,000 real-time Canadian medical cannabis patient outcomes. - Strainprint seamlessly integrates with most electronic medical records (EMR) solutions and the largest data set of its kind in the world with more than 1.4 million sessions and 70 million data points on cannabis strain efficacy.- StraicnprintR is HIPAA, PIPEDA and PHIPA privacy compliant, 256-bit military-grade encrypted.
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American Well Acquires Aligned Telehealth to Create The Largest Telepsychiatry Platform
Key Highlights- American Well has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aligned Telehealth, a leader in the provision of behavioral telehealth and telepsychiatry services to hospitals and health plans. - The acquisition combines Aligned Telehealth’s ability to access a network of clinical experts with American Well’s digital care delivery platform. - The combination will create the largest enterprise telepsychiatry platform in the U.S.National telehealth leader American Well announced today
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GE Healthcare Launches Enterprise Central Data Warehouse for Clinicians
Key highlights- GE Healthcare is introducing Edison Datalogue, a new enterprise data management solution designed to connect disparate data sources and types into a single, secure and scalable data pool for clinicians to collect, share and store patient data across the care delivery network. - Edison Datalogue is being deployed by hospital systems including the National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI) and it is the only tool that combines a neutral archive (VNA), analytics and
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CHIME, Digital Health Canada Launches Chapter in Canada
- CHIME and Digital Health Canada launches an international chapter in Canada that will be operated by Canada’s Health Informatics Executive Forum (CHIEF). - CHIEF brings together more than 150 CIOs and senior healthcare leaders from healthcare delivery, government, and private sector organizations across Canada.The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Digital Health Canada announced today that they have launched an international chapter in Canada at the CHIME Fall
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Scanwell Health Launches Smartphone-Enabled At-Home Test & Treatment for UTIs, Raises $3.5M
- Scanwell Health announces the nationwide launch of smartphone-enabled test and treatment service for urinary tract infections via partnership with Lemonaid Health. - Company also announces $3.5 million in seed financing from investors including Founders Fund, Mayfield, DCM, Version One, Y Combinator, and Joe Montana’s Liquid 2 Ventures.Scanwell Health, a Los Angeles, CA-based modern diagnostics company dedicated to making healthcare more convenient and accessible, announced that its at-home
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Cleveland Clinic Develops Personalized, 10-Year Diabetes Complication Risk Score Calculator
- Cleveland Clinic researchers develop new risk calculator shows patients their risks of developing major health complications over the next 10 years depending on which course of treatment they choose.- The calculator can be a useful tool for physicians and patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity can can inform patients who are considering weight-loss surgery. - Calculator shows patient’s risk of heart disease, stroke, heart failure, diabetic kidney disease, and death over the next 10 years
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Aetion, IBM Watson Health Co-Develop Solution for Conducting Regulatory-Grade RWE Analysis
- IBM Watson Health and Aetion will combine the Aetion Evidence Platform with IBM MarketScan data to provide a turn-key solution for conducting regulatory-grade RWE analysis. - The partnership will satisfy mid-market companies’ demand to streamline the drug R&D process and will allow RWE to play a much greater role in support of companies’ drug portfolios. RWE can enable researchers to supplement clinical trials by optimizing the development of treatments, determining new indications for
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QliqSOFT Launches GPS-Enabled Post-Acute Care Delivery Resource Management App
- QliqSOFT launches its home health nurse distress notification-enabled mobile care-delivery app, Visit Path, at the 2019 National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Conference. - New post-acute visit management app provides real-time business-enhancing delivery-data and instant distress notification for hospice and home healthcare agencies.QliqSOFT, a secure, HIPAA-compliant clinical communication solutions, today announced the launch of its home health nurse distress notification-enabled
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Google to Acquire Fitbit for $2.1B in Cash, Will Not Use Fitbit Data for Google Ads
- Google enters an agreement to acquire wearable leader Fitbit for $2.1 billion in cash, approximately $7.35 per share. - The acquisition of Fitbit shakes up the fitness and wearables market and gives Google a considerable market share against competitor Apple.- Fitbit health and wellness data will not be used for Google ads and will give Fitbit users the choice to review, move, or delete their data.Fitbit, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by
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