1Vision LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of HMS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. has been awarded an estimated $260 million contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to deliver home telehealth solutions. As part of the contract, 1Vision has exclusively partnered with AMC Health to implement its virtual health and remote patient monitoring solution. The AMC Health offering enables veterans to automatically transmit information including vital sign measurements such as weight, blood pressure, blood
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NTT DATA, Pieces Integrate to Expand NLP AI-Based Solutions
NTT DATA Services, a leader in global technology services, today announced it has partnered with Pieces Technologies, a pioneer in clinical artificial intelligence (AI), to help clients improve the quality and decrease the cost of patient care with natural language and AI-based solutions.NTT DATA Services will integrate the Pieces™ Decision Sciences (DS) software into its comprehensive portfolio that includes data integration services, analytics capabilities, cloud services and transformation
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American Well Integrates With Philips to Deliver Virtual Care Solutions
American Well and Philips announce a multi-year agreement to integrate American Well’s virtual care capabilities into Philips’ consumer and professional digital health solutions. Through this technology partnership, the two companies will work together to embed American Well's mobile telehealth services into an array of Philips solutions for both healthy consumers and patients with a medical need, spanning personal health & wellness, population health management, and clinical programs. A
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UI Health Care Joins TriNetX Global Health Research Network
University of Iowa Health Care (UI Health Care), recognized as one of the best academic medical centers in the nation, recently joined the TriNetX global health research network, which provides access to industry-sponsored clinical trial opportunities.In the first six months, UI Health Care was provided access to over 40 clinical trial opportunities from biopharmaceutical companies and Contract Research Organizations (CROs) on the network.“UI Health Care increased the rate of clinical trial
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Allianz Pumps $59M In American Well to Develop Digital Solutions for Emerging Markets
Allianz, today announced a $59.2 million investment and strategic partnership with leading telehealth platform American Well to develop digital solutions that will widen access, lower cost and improve quality of healthcare for millions of patients worldwide. The strategic investment was led by Allianz X, the digital investment unit of Allianz and was supported by the Health Innovation Center of Allianz Partners, the B2B2C unit of the Allianz Group dedicated to developing protection and care
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Tempus, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Collaborate on Personalized Cancer Initiative
Tempus, a Chicago-based technology company focused on helping doctors personalize cancer care by collecting and analyzing large volumes of molecular and clinical data, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) have announced a new collaboration to improve outcomes for cancer patients. As part of the initial research project, Tempus will use its Tempus O platform to ingest and structure clinical data from the cancer center’s electronic health record. Tempus also will provide next generation
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WellCare Health Plans Taps VirtualHealth as its Care Management Platform
VirtualHealth, the leading provider of population health and care management technologies, announced that WellCare Health Plans, Inc. will deploy VirtualHealth’s nationally recognized platform to support millions of members enrolled in its Medicare and Medicaid health plans across 20 states. WellCare will leverage VirtualHealth’s extensive capabilities across care management, including multi-source integration, risk stratification, trigger-based tasking, clinical automation, care planning,
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InTouch Health Acquires TruClinic to Enter Direct-to-Consumer Telehealth Market
InTouch Health, the leading enterprise telehealth platform has acquired TruClinic, a web-based telemedicine provider based in Salt Lake City, Utah, specializing in direct-to-consumer virtual care solutions. Through the acquisition, InTouchHealth expands its existing portfolio to deliver a full range of virtual care programs to healthcare providers, enabling continuity of care between physicians and patients. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.The combined solution
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The Road to Smarter Alarm Management for Hospitals in 2018 & Beyond
Alarms are meant to command your attention. They are annoying and loud by design. In a hospital, however, alarms without management can be dangerous to patients and employees. It also reduces patient and employee satisfaction.The common strategies used by hospitals to manage alarms focus primarily or exclusively on reduction. This makes sense for several reasons:- The majority of bedside alarms are not indicative of patient deterioration;- Alarm fatigue in clinical staff is a documented patient
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Akiri Launches Blockchain-Enabled NaaS for Health Data
Akiri, a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup has announced the launch of the first network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform to the entire healthcare industry. Development is currently underway for its initial product, Akiri Switch, which is a subscription-based data network that enables any type of health information to move seamlessly and securely throughout the U.S. healthcare system.Today, our industry’s data arteries are sclerotic. Thirty percent of patient charts cannot be found on
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