Research and Markets estimates that the mHealth market will account for nearly $18 Billion in 2016 alone. Despite barriers relating to regulation, patient acceptance and privacy concerns, estimates suggest further growth at a CAGR of 40% over the next 5 years.
The mHealth (Mobile Healthcare) Ecosystem: 2015 - 2030 - Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies & Forecasts report presents an in - depth assessment of the global mHealth market. In addition to covering key market drivers,
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Huron Consulting Group to Acquire Cloud62 to Enhance Salesforce.com Capabilities
Huron Consulting Group, a provider of business consulting services, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cloud62, a high-growth firm specializing in complex Salesforce.com implementations and related cloud-based applications. The addition of Cloud62 will expand Huron’s Salesforce.com offerings to clients across multiple industries, including healthcare, higher education, manufacturing, retail and financial services. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close
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Partners HealthCare, Health Catalyst Partner to Create Population Health Center of Excellence
Partners HealthCare and Health Catalyst have established a $30 million initiative strategic collaboration aimed at fostering and accelerating the adoption of population health management (PHM) strategies and practices nationally to improve the quality of health care and lowering costs while meeting the needs of patients, providers and payors. The new population health center of excellence is designed to enable the development and testing of innovative PHM strategies at Partners and, in
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3M to Consider Possible Sales Of Its Health IT Business
On Thursday, 3M announced that it is exploring strategic alternatives for its global health IT business. These alternatives, all of which are focused on building upon the business’ strong foundation, could include:
- spinning-off its health IT business
- selling the health IT business entirely
- retaining and further investing in the existing health IT business within 3M.
3M Health Information Systems, a business of 3M Health Care, works with providers, payers, and government
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Clinovations GovHealth Awarded Subcontract for $4.3B DoD EHR Modernization Project
Clinovations Government + Health, a provider of technology services that span public sector and provider health domains, today announced that the company was a part of the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health team awarded a contract by the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide an electronic health record (EHR) for the U.S. Military. The team solution will include an off-the-shelf EHR with the associated services needed to deploy the EHR across the Military Health System.
DHMSM Contract
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Infographic: 10 Most Popular EHRs
IIt’s no secret that physicians look to their peers for information about EHRs before they purchase, yet the majority of rankings focus solely on overall revenue or total number of licenses sold. While these lists prove valuable in considering market share, for physician buyers, they lack that critical component of peer feedback.
The following infographic created by Software Advice illustrates the top ten most popular EHRs based on a proprietary survey of 576 frequent users, brand search
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IBM Watson Health Cloud Expands Capabilities to Bring Innovations to Doctors, Patients
After unveiling the IBM Watson Cloud earlier this year, IBM shows no signs of slowing down their market penetration in healthcare. To further expand their capabilities of Health Cloud, today it has announced the introduction of the IBM Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences Compliance and the IBM Watson Care Manager.
IBM Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences Compliance Overview
The IBM Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences Compliance will help biomedical companies bring medical innovations
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Banner Health Scraps UA’s $115M Epic EHR for Cerner
Banner Health has announced plans to scrap Epic's $115 million EHR system at its two Tucson hospitals that went live in 2013 and will replace the system with Cerner's EHR platform, according to the Arizona Daily Star. The two hospitals — Banner-University Medical Center Tucson and Banner-University Medical Center South was apart of the former University of Arizona Health Network that was acquired by Banner Health March 1.
Currently all of Banner Health's 28 hospitals are already live on
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PainCareOS Leverages SyTrue’s NLP Platform to Automate Incoming Referrals
SyTrue, Inc., a healthcare data-refinement company, that specializes in natural language processing (NLP) solutions to translate unstructured clinical data into actionable clinical information, announced today, a partnership with PainCareOS™ to assist pain specialists with incoming complex referral documents. This processing promises to reduce costs and overhead, improve clinical understanding, and enhance throughput. Re-use of such captured data can help empower downstream functions such as
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Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Earns HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 6 Award
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, part of Mubadala's network of world-class healthcare facilities, has achieved the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) Stage 6 award by HIMSS Analytics. This is an international benchmark for the use of advanced IT to improve patient care.
This award places Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi among an elite group of world-class healthcare facilities that have successfully deployed a high level of health IT to improve healthcare outcomes. Cleveland Clinic
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