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The Risks of Delaying Data Migration for Healthcare Systems

by Sashank Purighalla, Founder/CEO at BOS Framework 05/21/2021 Leave a Comment

The Risks of Delaying Data Migration for Healthcare Systems

It only takes one data breach to paralyze a whole industry. Hospitality offers one prescient example. In 2014, hotel chain Marriott International was victim to a severe cyber attack, in which the information of 500 million clients was released. That scandal exploded to the political sphere as Chinese hackers were accused of trying to destroy competition in the hotel industry. Hotel reservations are one thing; just imagine the reaction to a similar hack exposing the medical records of entire
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Amalgam Rx Acquires Geetha’s Conversational AI Assets to Drive AI-Based Behavioral and Clinical Interventions

by Fred Pennic 05/21/2021 Leave a Comment

Amalgam Rx Acquires Geetha’s Conversational AI Assets to Drive AI-Based Behavioral and Clinical Interventions

What You Should Know: - Amalgam Rx, Inc., the leader in connecting healthcare providers and life sciences companies through a SaaS-enabled digital marketplace and product platform has acquired the assets of Geetha, LLC, an adaptive, conversational AI company. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. - The acquisition bolsters Amalgam’s data science assets, which already include more than 6 billion longitudinal data points on millions of patients cared for across Amalgam’s
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Banner Health Launches Digital Health Program with Xealth & Babyscripts

by Jasmine Pennic 05/20/2021 Leave a Comment

Banner Health to Implement Cerner Revenue Cycle Management Across Enterprise

What You Should Know:  -  Banner Health announced the launch of its digital health program with Xealth to enable digital health at scale. Banner Health is making it simpler for medical providers to order digital health solutions directly from its Cerner EHR, helping to strengthen its connection with patients across its 30 acute-care hospitals and other entities. The launch will begin
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Tegria Acquires Rev Cycle Management Firm Colburn Hill Group – M&A

by Fred Pennic 05/20/2021 Leave a Comment

Tegria Acquires Rev Cycle Management Firm Colburn Hill Group - M&A

What You Should Know: - Tegria today announced it has acquired Colburn Hill Group, a revenue cycle management firm with technologies that have helped healthcare providers tackle some of their most difficult RCM challenges.  Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. - A centerpiece of the acquisition is Colburn Hill’s Ops Center RCM platform, which integrates analytics and process automation technology to increase efficiency and eliminate wasteful manual
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Anthem, Epic Integrates Bi-Directional Data Exchange with Affiliated Health Plans

by Jasmine Pennic 05/20/2021 Leave a Comment

Anthem and Epic Integrates Bi-Directional Data Exchange with Affiliated Health Plans

What You Should Know:  - Healthcare insurer Anthem has announced a data sharing collaboration with Epic to facilitate secure, bi-directional exchange of health information between healthcare providers and Anthem’s affiliated health plans. -  Epic’s Payer Platform will be integrated with Anthem’s Health OS, which is Anthem’s operating system to enable seamless health plan-provider collaboration. - The integration will enable Anthem to capture consumer health information
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Why Ransomware Poses a Threat to Both Providers & Patient Health​

by Gary Ogasawara, CTO, Cloudian 05/20/2021 Leave a Comment

Why Ransomware Poses a Threat to Both Healthcare Organizations and Patient Health​

Ransomware attacks continue to wreak havoc on all types of organizations across almost every industry. The healthcare sector in particular has emerged as one of the top targets for ransomware gangs, and the impact can be more dire than for most others. According to new research by Tenable, ransomware is responsible for 46% of all data breaches in the healthcare sector, compared to 35% of data breaches across all verticals.  Just last month, a major hospital in Maryland lost access to a
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A Promising New Post-COVID World of Virtual Care

by Josh Weiner, CEO of SR Health at Solutionreach 05/19/2021 Leave a Comment

A Promising New Post-COVID World of Virtual Care

It’s a striking contrast to look at the world as it now in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to what life was like prior to March 2020. To pre-pandemic eyes, it may even seem like an unrecognizable alien landscape with people everywhere donning facemasks, limited public gatherings, and tens of millions working from home rather than the office. Up until recently, commercial flights departed with few passengers, movie theaters and sports venues were largely shuttered, and many avoided
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Geisinger Health Plan First to Leverage Kyruus-HealthSparq Integration

by Fred Pennic 05/19/2021 Leave a Comment

Geisinger Health Plan First to Leverage Kyruus-HealthSparq Integration

What You Should Know: - Kyruus today it announced that Geisinger Health Plan (GHP), serving over 500,000 members in Pennsylvania, is the first organization to leverage the Kyruus-HealthSparq integration and HealthSparq’s new Path to Care provider data and care access solution. - GHP’s provider profiles now include new provider data that health plans typically don’t have access to, such as the
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CommonHealth Integrates with 150 Providers to Power Secure Access to Personal Health Records

by Fred Pennic 05/19/2021 Leave a Comment

CommonHealth Integrates with 150 Providers to Power Secure Access to Personal Health Records

What You Should Know: - The Commons Project Foundation announced this morning that more than 150 new hospital providers have joined CommonHealth, the Android equivalent of Apple Health, including the VHA, Mass General Brigham, ChristianaCare, and UC San Diego Health. - CommonHealth, which is free and available for download on the Google Play Store, was developed by The Commons Project Foundation in collaboration with UCSF, Cornell Tech and Sage Bionetworks to give people more control over
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Cynerio Raises $30M to Expand Healthcare IoT Cybersecurity Platform

by Fred Pennic 05/19/2021 Leave a Comment

Cynerio Raises $30M to Expand Healthcare IoT Cybersecurity Platform

What You Should Know: - Cynerio, a leading provider of Healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management solutions, today announced it has secured $30 million in Series B funding led by ALIVE Israel HealthTech Fund, Israel's pioneering HealthTech investment fund. Existing investors, global VC Accelmed, RDC, Elron’s joint venture with Rafael, and Swiss-based growth investor, MTIP, also participated in the funding round. - Notably, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a nearly 50% increase in the
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