GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer Inc to form new world-leading Consumer Healthcare Joint Venture provides a unique opportunity to accelerate GSK’s strategy and create substantial value for shareholders. GlaxoSmithKline has reached an agreement with Pfizer Inc to combine their consumer health businesses into a consumer health Joint Venture, with combined sales of approximately $12.7B. As part of the agreement, GSK will have a majority controlling equity interest of 68% and Pfizer will have an equity
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Livongo Appoints Former Cerner President Zane Burke as New CEO
Livongo Health, a Mountain View-based Applied Health Signals company that empowers people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, announced that it has appointed former Cerner president Zane Burke as the new Chief Executive Officer. Company Founder and current CEO, Glen Tullman, will remain in his role as Executive Chairman (he previously served as both Executive Chairman and CEO).Zane Burke BackgroundPrior to joining Livongo, Burke spent five years as president of health IT
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NextGen Launches New, Cloud-based Data Aggregation Platform: Health Data Hub
NextGen Healthcare, this week announced the launch of the Health Data Hub -- a cloud-based Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform. This groundbreaking technology meets the needs for interoperability and seamless information sharing for healthcare networks. Health Data Hub supports all clinical data types used by ambulatory and inpatient healthcare systems and streamlines patient data aggregation, making it easy to share and receive health records from any data management system.Health Data
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Mid-Valley Hospital Inks 10-Year Deal with Cerner to Implement EHR Across Hospitals & Clinics
Mid-Valley Hospital (MVH) has signed a 10-year agreement with Cerner to transform its Electronic Health Record (EHR) through the Cerner Millennium platform. MVH is a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) which provides Acute Care, Emergency Care, Surgical Services and Obstetrics to patients in Okanogan County. In addition, to the EHR implementation, MVH has also signed on to purchase Cerner population health solutions, with the goal of helping manage outcomes to improve the health of individuals
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Sempre Health and UPMC Health Plan Expand Program to Improve Adherence for Critical Medications
Sempre Health, a solution for advancing behavior-based pricing reductions for medication adherence, and UPMC Health Plan, which is part of UPMC, the second largest integrated health system in the U.S., today announced an expanded collaboration to improve affordability and adherence for critical medications. Starting this week, Sempre Health and UPMC Health Plan will now make additional medications available to even more members and products lines to impact members’ outcomes.Prevalence of
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Sentiance Acquires Personalized Mobile Coaching Platform BrandNewHealth
Sentiance, a leading IoT intelligence platform, today announced it has acquired BrandNewHealth in a move to bolster its platform to offer more personalized and behavioral change programs for its healthcare, insurance and mobility partners. Founded in 2003, BrandNewHealth is a leader in cost-effective personalized mobile coaching, with a primary focus on helping companies improve the health, well-being, and mobility of their employees and the communities they live in. The broader scope of the
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Shivom Partners With Lifebit To Power AI-Analysis of DNA Data For Clinical Trials
Shivom, the blockchain genomics platform that is powering personalized healthcare, has partnered with Lifebit, the AI-powered DNA-analysis firm, to give users unprecedented reporting capabilities for DNA data analysis. The partnership will mean that immediate Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) analysis is possible, with no specialist knowledge or in-house data scientist required. It also means that users can access a library of pipelines (ready-built software that is used for analysis) and an
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Despite Investments in Telehealth, Only Two-Thirds of Adults Use Online Patient Portals
Despite significant investments in telehealth to engage patients in their care, about two-thirds of insured US adult patients were not using an online patient portal in 2017, according to a new study by the University of Michigan. Nonusers were more likely to be male, have less than a college degree, be on Medicaid, and lack a regular provider. The report reveals these factors, along with race, were also related to whether a patient reported receiving an offer to use a portal.Patient portals
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Infographic: Artificial Intelligence’s Role in Improving Healthcare
The artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare market is expected reach $6.6 billion by 2021, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40 percent over the next five years, according to a report from Accenture. AI in health represents a collection of multiple technologies enabling machines to sense, comprehend, act and learn so they can perform administrative and clinical healthcare functions. Unlike legacy technologies that are only algorithms/ tools that complement a human, health AI
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Solera Health Appoints Ian Gordon as New President & Chief Operating Officer
Solera Health, announced this week that Ian Gordon has joined the company’s executive team as President and Chief Operating Officer. In his role, Gordon will oversee the continued development of Solera’s technology platform and drive operational excellence as Solera expands its healthcare marketplace model. Ian Gordan Background/ExperienceGordon brings extensive experience in operations leadership having served as a senior vice president of health insurance operations at Regence Blue Cross Blue
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