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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StartUp Health Lands $19.3M to Help Startups Achieve Health Moonshots
StartUp Health, a global entrepreneurship development company for Healthcare Transformers has raised $19.3M from Ping An Global Voyager Fund, GuideWell, Masimo Corporation and a consortium of partners through StartUp Health Transformer Fund II.A key part of the StartUp Health’s plan since they launched in 2011 is to leverage the network effect by organizing entrepreneurs (“Health Transformers”) and to partner with the world’s leading organizations who can support these Health Transformers with
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HealthTap Provides Access for those in need to Doctor Consultations Free of Charge
HealthTap, the world’s first Health Operating System powered by the largest network of interactive doctors and Artificial Intelligence today launched HealthTap for Good, a nonprofit initiative to bring its premium medical services to disadvantaged people and populations around the world–regardless of their ability to pay.According to the World Health Organization, half of the world’s population lacks full coverage of essential health services. Even for those with access to health services,
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Cota Partners with Miami Cancer Institute to Fuel Personalized Cancer Treatment
Cota, a healthcare data and analytics company bridging precision medicine to population health has announced their latest collaboration with Baptist Health South Florida to advance cancer treatment and clinical research at the new Miami Cancer Institute (MCI). The partnership will further support the organization’s initiative of precision medicine, improve care delivery and ensure the most effective treatment for every type of cancer.MCI will leverage Cota’s Provider Solution to identify
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Paging Dr. Siri: How AI-Integrated Digital Health Could One Day Diagnose Your Melanoma
Alexa is surging. An upgraded Siri and Samsung’s upcoming Bixby may soon compete in the home. Google is successfully catching up.Today’s virtual assistants make it feel like Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more pervasive than ever. And it is – with some substantial caveats. These agents are all powered by a combination of machine learning software and behavioral algorithms. Their “learning” is based on finding patterns in data, then (a) adjusting themselves by applying lessons learned to newly
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10 Trends You Can Expect from Healthcare in 2018
With 2017 almost in the rear-view mirror, it is time to look forward to 2018 and how healthcare will evolve in this year. The last year has been an eventful one for healthcare, from the uproar in healthcare regulations to potential mega-mergers. Needless to say, it’s a time of transition, and healthcare is in a very fluid state- evolving and expanding. There are certainly going to be new ways to keep healthcare providers and health IT pros stay engaged and excited, and here are our top 10
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