What You Should Know:
- Highmark Health signs six-year strategic partnership agreement
with Google Cloud to transform the health experience for patients and
caregivers through the development of Highmark Health's new Living Health
Model
- The Living Health model is designed to eliminate
the fragmentation in health care by re-engineering the healthcare delivery
model with a more coordinated, personalized, technology-enabled experience.
Highmark Health and Google Cloud today announced
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M&A: Kyruus Acquires HealthSparq from Cambia Health Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Kyruus is acquiring HealthSparq from Cambia Health
Solutions, a family of more than 20 companies working to make healthcare more
economically sustainable and efficient for people and their families.
- HealthSparq is a healthcare guidance and transparency
technology company serving the health plan market.
- With the acquisition, the combined entity now serves
more than 60 health systems and 100 health plan brands nationwide.
Kyruus, the leader in
provider
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H1 Secures $58M to Expand Global Healthcare Data Platform
What You Should Know:
- H1, the largest database of information on every doctor
in the world raises $58M in Series B funding, just six months after raising its
Series A round during the pandemic.
- H1 is the largest database in the world connecting that
provides comprehensive in-depth profiles of more than 9 million healthcare
professionals and 16,000 institutions in 70-plus countries, all of which are
kept up-to-date weekly.
H1, a global
platform for the healthcare
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M&A: Cedar Gate Acquires Deerwalk to Enhance Value-Based Care Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Cedar Gate acquires Deerwalk, an innovative population
health management, data management, and healthcare analytics software company
based in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- By acquiring Deerwalk, Cedar Gate expands its
employer-based offerings with the ability to actively engage employers and ASOs
as they manage rising healthcare costs. The combined suite of offerings
improves the patient experience and delivers financial sustainability.
Cedar Gate Technologies
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More Than 45 Million Medical Images Are Openly Accessible Online
What You Should Know:
- CybelAngel tools scanned approximately 4.3 billion IP addresses and detected more than 45 million unique medical images left exposed on over 2,140 unprotected servers across 67 countries including the US, UK, and Germany.
- The report highlights the security risks of publicly accessible images containing highly personal information including ransomware and blackmail.
The analyst team at CybelAngel, a global leader in digital risk protection, has discovered
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OHSU to Deploy Virtual ICU Across 8 Sites to Extend Care to Patients in Rural Communities
What You Should Know:
- With ICU beds near capacity across the United States,
GE Healthcare announced a strategic partnership with Oregon Health and Science
University (OHSU) that will allow OHSU to oversee and help provide care to ICU
patients across eight hospital sites via a “Virtual ICU” (VICU), using the GE
Healthcare Mural Virtual Care Solution.
- The VICU provides critical care specialists at OHSU
with digital tools to deploy hospital defined care protocols to remotely
identify
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M&A: Cerner to Acquire Health Division of Kantar for $375M in Cash
What You Should Know:
- Cerner announces it will acquire Kantar Health, a leading data, analytics, and real-world evidence and commercial research consultancy serving the life science and health care industry.
- This acquisition is expected to allow Cerner’s Learning
Health Network client consortium and health systems with more opportunities to
directly engage with life sciences for funded research studies. The acquisition
is expected to close during the first half of
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Innovaccer, SyTrue Partner to Generate Actionable Insights from Healthcare Data
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer partners with SyTrue to uncover powerful insights
and accelerate its efforts to drive healthcare’s digital transformation.
- The integration of SyTrue’s proprietary NLP OS with
Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform will empower healthcare
organizations to identify diagnosis codes and Hierarchical Condition Categories
(HCC) from patient care progress notes and other unstructured texts.
Innovaccer, Inc., a San
Francisco, CA-based
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Mayo Clinic Researchers to Validate Interoperability of Encrypted Algorithms and Training on Encrypted Data
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic researchers are collaborating with TripleBlind on next generation algorithm sharing and training on encrypted data.
- TripleBlind’s solution functions as the innovative data
encryption conduit that keeps the data and intellectual property in the algorithm
secure.
TripleBlind announced
today it is collaborating with Mayo Clinic researchers
who will use TripleBlind tools to validate interoperability
of encrypted
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M&A: HealthStream Acquires myClinicalExchange for $4.5M in Cash
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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