What You Should Know:
- Kaufman Hall Acquires Change Healthcare’s analytics explorer, performance manager, and other data capabilities to create the industry’s most robust EPM software, data, and analytics platform.
- The acquisition unites the strengths of two industry leaders in healthcare technology, empowering clients to improve operational, clinical, and financial performance.
Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC, a provider of enterprise performance management (EPM) software,
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Seattle Children’s Develops Nation’s First Opioid-Free” Surgery Center
What You Should Know:
- Seattle Children’s Hospital and its Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center (BCSC) leveraged AI-based technology from Seattle-based MDmetrix to develop the nation’s first “opioid-free” surgery center.
- The MDmetrix Mission Control platform was used to visualize and evaluate outcomes data so that physicians could quickly adapt their surgical protocols, incorporating evidence-based best practices, to effectively manage surgical pain while reducing
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IBM Launches Blockchain Solution to Battle COVID-19 Medical Supply Chain Shortages
What You Should Know:
- IBM has launched Rapid Supplier Connect, a blockchain-based solution to help battle medical supply chain shortages due to COVID-19. - The network will help government agencies and healthcare organizations identify new, non-traditional suppliers who have pivoted to address the shortage of equipment, devices, and supplies needed for COVID-19 relief efforts.
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Cerner Offers Free Access to De-Identified COVID-19 Patient Data for Research, Vaccine Development
What You Should Know:
Cerner offers health systems and research centers free access
to de-identified COVID-19 data to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
The de-identified COVID-19 data includes patient
demographics, underlying illnesses, chronic conditions, treatments, lab
results, clinical complications and outcomes.
Today, Cerner announced
a new offering to eligible U.S. health systems and academic research
centers that it was providing complimentary access to critical
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Healthcare Data Platform H1 Raises $12.9M to Fuel Growth
What You Should Know:
- H1, the biggest database in the world connecting healthcare, life science professionals, and companies raises $12.9M in funding.
- Its healthcare data platform provides comprehensive in-depth profiles of more than 8 million healthcare professionals and 16,000 institutions in 70+ countries, all of which are kept up-to-date weekly. The platform enables users to understand and analyze any healthcare professional’s full profile, including expertise, interests,
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VA, DoD Launches Joint Health Information Exchange to Securely Exchange Records
What You Should Know:
- VA and DoD launch joint health information exchange (HIE), allowing bidirectional sharing of health records with community healthcare partners.
- The benefits of the new joint HIE capability are currently available to all VA and DOD care providers and to all participating community partners.
- The joint HIE capability honors patient consent so that health records of patients who opt out of sharing will not be exchanged through the HIE.
On April 18, the
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COVID-19 Outbreak: The Opportunity & Importance of Health Informatics
Never before has health informatics played a greater role in public health than during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Health IT industry is certainly challenged due to the overall disruption to the healthcare system, the pandemic undoubtedly underscores the opportunity and importance of health informatics, such as telehealth, remote patient monitoring, patient engagement, AI-based drug discovery, precision medicine, and clinical decision support, but nowhere more pressing than the fields of
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CVS Health, UCLA Health Partner to Bolster Hospital Capacity for COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- CVS Health announced it is working with hospitals and providers, including major systems like UCLA Health, to support their solutions for creating much-needed hospital bed capacity during the pandemic.
- Hospitals around the country are expanding their capacity to meet the anticipated needs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Current estimates project that hospitals nationwide need to increase capacity by more than 36,000 hospital beds.
- In addition,
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Health IT’s Vital Role in Controlling The Spread of COVID-19
The healthcare system in the United States is becoming overwhelmed as a result of COVID-19 and there is no doubt that this epidemic will test the limits of healthcare delivery systems from end to end. Of course, at the present moment, everyone’s focus is (and rightly should be) on ensuring hospitals and healthcare workers have the appropriate equipment and protective gear they need to stay safe and adequately treat patients. That said, there are other IT considerations that should be taken into
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Intermountain Deploys COVID-19 Screener and Emergency Response Solution
What You Should Know:
GYANT announced that Intermountain Healthcare is leveraging
its COVID-19 Screener and Emergency Response Assistant to support patients
during this frightening and uncertain time.
GYANT’s COVID-19 assistant is allowing Intermountain
Healthcare to screen patients for symptoms and risk factors, as many people
aren’t sure if they should be tested for the COVID-19 virus.
Based on the patients’ responses, the assistant directs patients
to the
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