Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHAlliance), a HIMSS organization, and WEGO Health, the world's largest network of patient leaders, today announced digital health startup Get Real Health as the winner of its first "Flip the Patient" Challenge. The award was announced in the PCHAlliance Connected Health Experience at the 2018 HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas. Get Real Health was chosen as the winner of the challenge by an independent committee comprised of select
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Philips and Samsung Partner to Connect Samsung’s IoT Platform to Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform
Philips and Samsung announced plans for a strategic partnership to connect Samsung’s ARTIK Smart IoT Platform to the Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform. This collaboration will ultimately allow the Samsung ARTIK ecosystem of connected devices to safely access and share information with Philips’ cloud platform. Healthcare application developers will be able to realize interoperable connected health solutions using integrated data sets and innovative HealthSuite services such as advanced health
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HIMSS18 Day 3 Coverage Highlights & Summary
Inovalon to Acquire ABILITY Network for $1.2BInovalon, a technology company providing advanced, cloud-based platforms empowering a data-driven transformation from volume-based to value-based models has acquired ABILITY Network (“ABILITY”) for $1.2 billion. The combination of Inovalon and ABILITY creates a vertically integrated cloud-based platform empowering the achievement of real-time, value-based care from payers, manufacturers, and diagnostics all the way to the patient’s point of
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UnitedHealthcare Offers Apple Watch for Eligible Plan Participants
For the first time, the Apple Watch will be integrated into UnitedHealthcare Motion, a national digital wellness program that provides eligible plan participants access to activity trackers that can enable them to earn up to $1,000 per year by meeting certain daily walking goals.Eligible participants will be able to receive and start using Apple Watch (initially paying only tax and shipping), with the option to apply program earnings toward the full purchase price of the device. Program
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Nuance Integrates AI-Powered Virtual Assistant Platform with Epic EHR
Nuance and Epic have teamed up to integrate Nuance’s new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual assistant platform with Epic’s EHR. With Nuance’s new virtual assistant technology, Epic’s EHR further improves caregiver productivity and efficiency across the continuum of care. Today’s announcement comes as new CHIME survey data1 reveals that 70 percent of hospital CIO’s surveyed would consider adopting virtual assistants with AI capabilities in the coming year.Nuance and Epic have worked
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Atomwise Raises $45M for Artificial Intelligence Platform for Drug Discovery
Atomwise, a San Francisco, CA-based company that develops artificial intelligence systems for drug discovery has raised $45 million in Series A funding led by Monsanto Growth Ventures, B Capital Group and Data Collective. Prior investors Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, and DFJ also participated in this Series A financing, along with new investors Baidu Ventures, Tencent, and Dolby Family Ventures. The oversubscribed round brings Atomwise’s total capital raised to more than $51 million.Founded in
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HIMSS18 Day 2 Coverage Highlights & Summary
Google Unveils New Cloud Healthcare API to Address Healthcare Data Interoperability Google unveils their new Cloud Healthcare API, which addresses the significant interoperability challenges in healthcare data. The new API will provide a robust, scalable infrastructure solution to ingest and manage key healthcare data types—including HL7, FHIR and DICOM.The goal of the Cloud Healthcare API is to give healthcare customers the tools they need to accelerate projects in areas like population
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HIMSS18: Google Unveils New Cloud Healthcare API to Address Healthcare Data Interoperability
This week at HIMSS18, Google unveiled their new Cloud Healthcare API, which addresses the significant interoperability challenges in healthcare data. The new API will provide a robust, scalable infrastructure solution to ingest and manage key healthcare data types—including HL7, FHIR and DICOM.Google is already working with a select group of partners including Stanford School of Medicine. "Open standards are critical to healthcare interoperability as well as for enabling biomedical research. We
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TigerText Rebrands as TigerConnect, Launches New AI Capabilities
TigerText, provider of healthcare clinical communication and collaboration (CC&C) solution, today announced that it has officially rebranded as TigerConnect. The new name more accurately reflects the solution being provided by the company to the evolving healthcare landscape that must be always-connected, fully integrated, outcomes-oriented.Effective today, the TigerConnect name and brand elements will begin formal implementation across the company’s product and services using a phased
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Accenture: 61% of Consumers Have Used Virtual Health Assistants
Consumers are increasingly using a variety of digital self-service tools for managing their health, according to results of a survey from Accenture 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health released this week at HIMSS18.The survey of 2,301 U.S. consumers reveals that consumers are becoming more accepting of machines — ranging from artificial intelligence (AI), to virtual clinicians and home-based diagnostics — having a significantly greater role in their overall medical care. For example, one in
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