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- Google has been secretly working with St. Louis-based Ascension on an initiative code-named “Project Nightingale” to gather millions of patient records across 21 states since last year, reports The Wall Street Journal.
- The collected data includes patient names, date of birth (DOB), lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records to provide a complete health history.
- After the WSJ article, Ascension officially announced its collaboration with
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Holon Solutions Appoints Jon Zimmerman As New CEO
- Healthcare IT leader Jon Zimmerman has been named CEO of Holon Solutions to accelerate their transition to value-based care through the adoption of purpose-built technology that solves their biggest challenges.
- Value-based care executive selected for his nearly 30 years’ experience in enhancing healthcare interoperability and proven track record in scaling growth-stage companies.
Holon Solutions, an Atlanta-based healthcare IT company that liberates healthcare data, today announced it has
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Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO Bernard Tyson Dies at 60
- Kaiser Permanente CEO & Chairman Bernard J. Tyson dies unexpectantly in his sleep today at the age of 60.
- Kaiser board of directors appoints Gregory A. Adams, Executive Vice President, and Group President, as interim Chairman and CEO.
- Bernard is survived by his wife, Denise Bradley-Tyson, and three sons; Bernard J. Tyson Jr., Alexander, and Charles.
Bernard J. Tyson, the Chairman, and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, died unexpectedly in his sleep at the age of 60, the company
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Research: October Health IT M&A Activity, Public Company Performance
- Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health merger & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of October 2019
During the month of October, Health IT continued its evolution into an amorphous market that is increasingly trending away from a specialized niche of healthcare and into a key component of larger sectors such as Enterprise Software, HR Administration, Insurance, Care Delivery, Suppliers, and BioPharma.
The
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Innovaccer Partners With Microsoft Teams to Launch Its Care Management Solution
Key Highlights- Innovaccer Inc. has partnered with Microsoft Teams to launch its care management product, InCare on the Microsoft Teams platform.- With Microsoft Teams, InCare can create a culture of collaboration and prevent the care teams from working in isolated silos. - Care managers can directly talk to the primary care provider’s nursing staff through the chatbot to coordinate care.Innovaccer Inc, a healthcare data activation company today announced a partnership with Microsoft Teams to
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Geisinger’s KeyHIE to Deploy FHIR-Based Imaging App Across Network
Key Highlights- Geisinger’s KeyHIE has selected Life Image to become the first in the nation to implement FHIR-based imaging app to share diagnostic content in the provider portal. - From the KeyHIE provider portal, doctors can call up a patient’s medical imaging directly through the Life Image Viewer app and examine it while reading the diagnostic report within their portal.- The solution allows the integration of actionable data and clinically important information for diagnosis or treatment
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GE Healthcare Launches Enterprise Central Data Warehouse for Clinicians
Key highlights- GE Healthcare is introducing Edison Datalogue, a new enterprise data management solution designed to connect disparate data sources and types into a single, secure and scalable data pool for clinicians to collect, share and store patient data across the care delivery network. - Edison Datalogue is being deployed by hospital systems including the National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI) and it is the only tool that combines a neutral archive (VNA), analytics and
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Solving Healthcare’s Data Challenges With Storage-As-A-Service
Managing healthcare data is a special kind of a nightmare for IT professionals. First, the industry is highly regulated. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires strict attention to a complex set of rules governing access, security and privacy. A failure to follow them can result in heavy fines and ruined careers.
Then, there’s the problem of capacity, because, in healthcare, not only is the amount of data doubling every two to three years, but individual files
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CHIME, Digital Health Canada Launches Chapter in Canada
- CHIME and Digital Health Canada launches an international chapter in Canada that will be operated by Canada’s Health Informatics Executive Forum (CHIEF). - CHIEF brings together more than 150 CIOs and senior healthcare leaders from healthcare delivery, government, and private sector organizations across Canada.The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Digital Health Canada announced today that they have launched an international chapter in Canada at the CHIME Fall
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Payment Integrity: Is AI The Real Answer to Reducing Overutilization?
Some experts estimate that $200 billion is wasted each year on unnecessary or excessive medical testing and treatment. This could be up to 40% of the unnecessary spending in the system today.
Despite the extreme focus to reduce the total amount spent on healthcare, why does extensive spending on unnecessary or excessive tests or procedures continue? The easy answer is because it is often difficult to spot what is unnecessary or excessive.
There are certainly moments when overutilization of
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