What You Should Know:
- HealthStream acquires substantially all of the assets
of myClinicalExchange LLC, for approximately
$4.5 million in cash.
- For the first time, HealthStream’s footprint expands to
include the healthcare workforce before graduation, providing new opportunities
to make the transition-to-practice by medical, nursing, and allied healthcare
students more seamless.
HealthStream, a Nashville,
TN-based provider of workforce and provider solutions for the
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Cerner, Banner Health, Xealth Partner to Simplify How Clinicians Prescribe Digital Health
What You Should Know:
- Cerner Corporation today announced with Xealth new
centralized digital ordering and monitoring for health systems, starting with
Banner Health, to foster digital innovation.
- Health systems can prescribe digital therapeutics, smartphones, and internet apps directly within the EHR to address areas such as chronic disease management, behavioral health, maternity care, and surgery prep.
Cerner, today announced it’s building on the recent collaboration with
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Elation Health Nabs $40M for Clinical-First Solution to Power Independent Primary Care
What You Should Know:
- Elation Health, which provides an easy-to-use and affordable clinical technology platform for more than 14,000 independent primary care clinicians serving 7 million patients - including an EHR raises $40M in Series C funding from Al Gore's sustainable investment firm, Generation Investment Management.
- Elation’s API-enabled platform also allows
organizations to transform the patient and provider experience and implement
their own models of data-driven,
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LeanTaaS Secures $130M for ML Platform to Help Hospitals Achieve Operational Excellence
What You Should Know:
- LeanTaaS
raises $130 million in Series D Funding to strengthen its machine learning platform
to continue helping hospitals achieve operational excellence during a time
where they are facing mounting financial pressures due to COVID-19.
- LeanTaaS provides software solutions that combine lean
principles, predictive analytics, and machine learning to transform hospital
and infusion center operations to improve operational efficiencies, increase
access, and
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Amazon Launches HealthLake for Healthcare Orgs to Aggregate & Structure Health Data
What You Should Know:
- Amazon today announced the launch of Amazon HealthLake,
a new HIPAA-eligible service enables healthcare organizations to store, tag,
index, standardize, query, and apply machine learning to analyze data at
petabyte scale in the cloud.
- Cerner, Ciox Health, Konica Minolta Precision Medicine,
and Orion Health among customers using Amazon HealthLake.
Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon
Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company today announced Amazon
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Cerner Invests in Elligo to Make Clinical Trials Accessible for Health Systems of All Sizes
What You Should Know:
- Cerner announced a strategic investment in Elligo
Health Research, a leading research organization that enables clinical trials
with nationwide community-based health care practices.
- Cerner plans to expand the data and tools available in
the Cerner Learning Health Network to offer additional clinical trial resources
to community and rural hospitals and physician practices.
- Financial terms of strategic investment were not disclosed.
Cerner
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PointClickCare Acquires Collective Medical for $650M to Create to Largest Combined Acute and Post-Acute Care Network
What
You Should Know:
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PointClickCare announces its intent to acquire Collective Medical to create the
largest combined acute and post-acute care network in North America for $650M.
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Collective Medical’s platform connects more than 1,300 hospitals, thousands of
ambulatory practices and long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) providers, as well
as accountable care organizations (ACOs) and every national health plan in the
country, across a 39-state network.
- With the acquisition of
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5 Steps for Interoperability Excellence for Healthcare Providers
As if 2020 couldn’t be any more challenging for healthcare providers, new federal rules on interoperability and patient access, granting patients direct access to their healthcare data, begin taking effect in 2021 and will continue into 2022. These rules, while ultimately beneficial to patients, bring an additional level of operational complexity to many revenue-stressed healthcare organizations.
If anything, the 2020 pandemic has illustrated the vast potential of interoperability. For
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CommonHealth App Connects to 230 Health Systems to Share Health Data – including COVID Test and Vaccine Status
What You Should Know:
- CommonHealth has connected to 230
health systems in the United States, allowing patients to gather, manage and
share their health and test data, including COVID test and vaccination status. By
the end of this month, CommonHealth will connect to more than 340 health
systems
- CommonHealth extends the health data
portability and interoperability model pioneered by Apple Health to the 55
percent of Americans with Android devices (85 percent globally)
The Commons
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Innovaccer Launches COVID-19 Command Center to Help Healthcare Organizations Manage Their COVID-19 Operations
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer launches COVID-19 Command
Center to assist healthcare organizations in optimizing their COVID-19
operations.
- The solution offers a unified
information hub to manage COVID-19 resources and operations and empower teams
with unprecedented visibility into their environment.
Innovaccer, Inc., a San
Francisco, CA-based healthcare technology company, today announced the launch
of its COVID-19
Command Center to assist healthcare organizations in
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