Leveraging technology in the right ways can make or break the future of healthcare. One of the ways that healthcare will become more efficient, more affordable, and save more lives is through the use of big data.
What is Big Data?
Big data refers to a large amount of information being digitized, consolidated, standardized, analyzed and modeled. In healthcare, big data uses specific statistics from a population or an individual to research new advancements, reduce costs, and even cure or prevent
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Livongo’s Q2’19 Revenue Reaches $41M, Up 156% Y-o-Y
- Livongo reports Q2 19 total revenue of $40.9 million, up 156% year-over-year- 192,934 enrolled Livongo for Diabetes Members, up 140% year-over-year with 38,170 new Livongo for Diabetes Members in Q2- Total Contract Value of $74.2 million, up from $24.8 million in the second quarter of 2018. Livongo Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVGO), an Applied Health Signals company empowering people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, today announced financial results for its second quarter
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UCI Institute for Clinical & Translational Awarded NIH Grant to Establish EHR-Integrated Clinical Data Warehouse
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards The Institute for Clinical & Translational Science at the University of California with a $25M grant over 5 years.
- Grant will be used to establish an EHR-integrated enterprise clinical data warehouse (CDW) to support healthcare breakthroughs.
The Institute for
Clinical & Translational Science at the University of California, Irvine
has been awarded $24 million over five years from the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) as part
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Why Healthcare Is Finally Moving To The Cloud
When I started in this industry, the idea that we would put patient information in the cloud was an absurdity. How on earth could anyone justify putting the most sensitive information in our personal lives somewhere other than a locked cupboard, in the safety of a hospital? We would never dream of letting paper patient charts leave the hospital or clinic, so why would we let them leave simply because they are electronic?
Historically, security was tied to proximity and direct control, nowhere
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Life Image Launches Real World Imaging for RWE Programs
- Life Image launches Real World Imaging (RWI) offering to respond to researcher needs for maturing insights and accelerating drug development decisions.
- Imaging data, especially for Real World Evidence (RWE), has historically been difficult, if not impossible, to access, retrieve, view, de-identify and normalize at-scale, even though it provides clinically material insights for a growing number of therapies.
- Life Image represents the only company providing large, heterogeneous,
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Datica Launches New Health Data Integration Platform That Works With Any EHR, Any Data, In Any Format
- Datica launches new health data integration platform, Integrate that mitigates the complexity and risk of integrating and using healthcare data in the cloud.
- Integrate, is the first and only any-to-any solution that combines healthcare data integration with compliance, as well as a full set of services to ensure successful integration.
- Its HITRUST CSF Certified integration APIs also work with any EHR, any data, in any format.
Today, Datica, a provider of a complete,
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Vocera Vina Smartphone App Launches to Optimize Patient Safety
- Vocera Vina smartphone app launches to help improve clinical communications and enhance patient safety by reducing the clerical burdens that lead to burnout.
- The customizable communication app presents prioritized patient-centric calls, secure messages, and alerts in a unified inbox, and provides an intuitive user experience for clinicians inside and outside the hospital.
- Drawing from the hospital EHR, this the vendor-agnostic platform works alongside all other Vocera products to
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Redox, FDB Partner to Enable Interoperability of Critical Patient Medication Information
Redox today announced it has partnered with FDB (First Databank, Inc.) to enable scalability and accessibility of critical patient medication information from FDB’s industry-leading SMART on FHIR® app, Meducation®, now listed in the Epic App Orchard.The Bigger PictureClinicians using Meducation to document a patient’s medication regimen access, generate and review Meducation content at various points within the workflow—including for bedside counseling and at discharge. Using Redox, clinicians
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L.A. Care Health Plan, Blue Shield of California to Invest $145M to Improve Member, Community Health
L.A. Care Health Plan Health and Blue Shield of
California Promise Health Plan to invest $146 Million to improve member and community
health
Health Plans to jointly operate 14 community resource centers across
Los Angeles County growth plan aims to serve more than one million when fully operational
Today, Blue Shield of California and L.A. Care Health Plan, announced they
will invest a combined $146 million over five years to improve member and
community
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Capital Rx Launches Clearinghouse Model to Bring Price Visibility to Prescription Drug Costs
Quick Glance- Capital Rx launches new innovative Clearinghouse Model, a new pricing framework that will itemize the actual unit cost for all drugs for the first time- The Clearinghouse Model will eliminate price variability for customers, ensuring that drug costs are the same for all customers.- Pharmacies in its retail network, which includes chains, like Walmart, Walgreens, to grocers and independent pharmacies, will be able to deliver the lowest prescription prices to customers.- While rising
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