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- Today, Oracle announced that all required antitrust approvals have been obtained for its proposed $28.3B ($95 per share) acquisition of Cerner, including European Commission clearance.
- Oracle expects to complete the tender offer promptly following the expiration of that offer at midnight Eastern time on June 6, 2022. Completion of the tender offer remains subject to the conditions described in the tender offer statement on Schedule TO filed by Oracle with the U.S.
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SnapLogic Launches Amazon HealthLake Accelerator to Store, Share Patient Data
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- SnapLogic, a provider of Enterprise Automation, today launched the SnapLogic Accelerator for Amazon HealthLake, which enables healthcare and life sciences organizations to easily ingest a range of raw data into Amazon HealthLake, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and transform it into healthcare-related insights and actions.
- This new Amazon HealthLake-dedicated integration and automation accelerator will help organizations looking to quickly connect systems,
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Lightbeam Health Acquires Jvion AI and SDOH Solutions – M&A
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– Lightbeam Health Solutions, Inc., a provider of population health management solutions and services has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the operating assets related to Jvion, Inc., including Jvion’s market-leading AI-enabled prescriptive analytics and social determinants of health (SDoH) solutions.
-The strategic partnership combines Lightbeam’s health analytics and outcomes for payers and providers with the Jvion’s predictive technology.
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St. Peter’s Health to Deploy Innovaccer Health Cloud for Optimized Care Management
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St. Peter’s Health, a regional nonprofit healthcare system in Helena, Montana, is moving to the InnovaccerⓇ Health Cloud's Data Activation Platform to support its mission of providing exceptional and compassionate care that treats the whole person and improves the health, wellness, and quality of life for the communities it serves.
The health system, an integrated network with more than 100 providers, a 99-bed acute care hospital, physician and urgent care
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Is It Finally Time for Hospital-at-Home or is Time Up?
All the signs point to a bright and expansive future for hospital-at-home programs, which have been growing steadily since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) created the Acute Hospital at Home waiver program in November 2020. As of March, nearly 100 health systems and more than 200 hospitals in 34 states had been approved for the program. Meanwhile, Forrester predicts the number of hospitals delivering acute care at home will triple in 2022. The reasons why are compelling: a study
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Phenomix Sciences Launches Obesity Biobanking Registry Studying Personalized Treatment Options Based on Genetics
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- Biotech company Phenomix Sciences launches its biobanking registry, marking the first obesity registry to study the impact of personalized treatment based on phenotyping. The impact of this biobanking registry and the data it will yield has the potential to change the entire system’s approach to obesity, from a treatment recommendation to the way payers determine coverage and how the industry combines diagnostics testing with drug therapy.
- The
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Komodo Health Appoints COO, Transcarent, Vytalize Health, RxBenefits, Other Digital Health Appointments
Komodo Health has named Dr. Aswin Chandrakantan as its Chief Operating Officer. Dr. Chandrakantan will also continue to serve as the firm’s Chief Medical Officer, a role he has held since 2016. Dr. Chandrakantan was one of Komodo Health’s earliest employees – following leadership roles at McKinsey and Google – and has played a central role in the company’s rapid-fire growth.
RxBenefits appoints Wendy Barnes as its new Chief Executive Officer. Barnes succeeds Bryan Statham, who served as the
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Taking the Pulse on eCME – What’s Next for Continued Medical Education
Over the past two years, we’ve witnessed the massive digital disruption in healthcare that was spurred by the pandemic. The most frequent example tends to be in the rapid adoption of technology like telemedicine, but this disruption has touched even the most seemingly small pieces of the healthcare ecosystem and will have long lasting consequences.
Just consider the conferences that once used to draw large crowds of physicians seeking to attain their continuing medical education (CME)
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Survey Reveals 44% of Consumers Avoided Healthcare Due to Cost
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New price transparency government mandates are on the horizon, but how much does cost really impact consumers? HealthSparq published its Annual Consumer Sentiment Benchmark report, which found that 44% of respondents have avoided getting healthcare services because they were unsure of the costs (compared to 25% last year).
The survey of 1,000+ healthcare consumers unveils their opinions on price transparency in
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No Mask, No COVID-19 Pandemic, Right?
The end of the public transportation mask mandate, officially undone by federal Judge Kathryn Mizelle on April 18, may be recognized as the day the COVID-19 pandemic ended in America.
Except it hasn’t ended in any real sense. The virus continues to produce new variants of greater or lesser transmissibility and lethality; for now, comparatively small numbers of people continue to die of the virus daily and weekly; and the CDC continues to recommend that the elderly and immunocompromised take
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