This week, SAP announced it has appointed Thomas Laur as the new President of the SAP Connected Health group. In his new role, the former CEO of Sutherland Healthcare Solutions will help promote and guide the company’s Connected Health group - SAP’s recently established healthcare and life sciences division. The formation of the SAP Connected Health group reaffirms the company’s commitment to enabling smarter health decisions and advancing medical knowledge throughout the world in order to
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InTouch Health Acquires AcuteCare Telemedicine to Expands Specialty Telehealth Network
InTouch Health, a specialty telehealth enterprise network provider has announced its entry into tele-physician services with the acquisition of AcuteCare Telemedicine (ACT). InTouch Health’s decision to enter the physician services business comes in response to InTouch Health customer requests for a high-quality, turn-key tele-physician services. ACT was founded in 2009 by four highly experienced tele-neurologists: Matthews W. Gwynn, M.D.; Lisa H. Johnston, M.D.; James M. Kiely, M.D., Ph.D.; and
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Leidos Closes $5B Lockheed Martin Acquisition, Appoints 3 New Directors
Leidos has announced the successful $5B acquisition of Lockheed Martin's Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) business in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction. The division has about $5 billion in sales and more than 16,000 employees globally, IS&GS has been a leading government services provider for more than 20 years. Lockheed states the move will allow them to focus more on its core aerospace and defense operations.The Leidos Board of Directors also announced the election
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Advance Directives Integrates With Get Real Health’s PHR Platform
Get Real Health, creator of the patient engagement platform InstantPHR® and the data aggregation and Dallas, MyDirectives has announced a PHR partnership for digital emergency, critical and advance care planning service.Making MyDirectives available through InstantPHR empowers healthcare consumers to easily and quickly share vital information with doctors about who can speak for them during a health crisis if they cannot communicate, in addition to their medical treatment goals, preferences and
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Only 6% of Healthcare Professionals Believe Consumers Take Responsibility for Their Health
New Xerox research reveals huge disparities between patients and healthcare payers & providers. Think of it as a “Mars vs. Venus” conundrum for the industry – as consumer attitudes and the industry professionals’ perception of those attitudes are so misaligned, it feels like the groups are on different planets. The study, conducted by Y&R’s BAV Consulting on behalf of Xerox[1], surveyed 761 U.S. adults who purchase health insurance and are healthcare decision makers for their households
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Translational Software Launches FHIR-Based Pharmacogenomics API
Translational Software®, Inc., (TSI) a company using genetic data for clinical decision support and precision medicine, today has unveiled a new Application Programming Interface(API) that enables health systems, labs and software developers to accelerate development of PGx-enhanced applications. Sanford Health – one of the largest integrated health systems in the nation – is one of the first health systems to use the API via integration with Epic.Developed using the Fast Healthcare
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Big Data Startup Innovaccer Lands $15.6M for Integrated Care Framework
Innovaccer, a Silicon Valley based big data startup has raised $15.6 million in Series A funding led by Westbridge Capital Partners with participation by other angel investors. The company plans to utilize the latest round to expand its footprint in healthcare as providers and payers struggle to reduce the inefficiencies in the current healthcare system,Founded in 2012, Innovaccer's big datashop helps healthcare organizations provide better care by integrating complex data across multiple
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Can Artificial Intelligence Reduce “Notification Overload” for Clinicians?
One of the unintended consequences of moving healthcare onto EHRs has been an increase in time spent reviewing a much-increased volume of messages for the clinician. EHRs were supposed to simplify and streamline the in-office and in-hospital workflows, but what has happened instead has been “notification overload.” A recent article published in JAMA showed that, for primary care physicians, managing EHR notifications costs about an extra hour of work per day. In a fee-for-service environment,
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Kinvey, Redox Partner to Reduce Mobile App Time to Market by 80%
Kinvey, a HIPAA-compliant mobile Backend as a Service (mBaaS) and EHR API integration provider Redox has unveiled on-demand cloud based platform designed to accelerate app delivery by 80% or more. To improve patient outcomes, increase productivity and reduce healthcare costs, apps need to integrate with EHR and other healthcare systems to provide an end-to-end view of a patient’s state over time and to streamline care team processes by integrating mobile apps into daily workflows. Today, these
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Karen DeSalvo Steps Down as ONC National Coordinator for Health IT
On Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced that Karen DeSalvo, M.D. is stepping down as National Coordinator, effective August 12. Vindell Washington, M.D., Principal Deputy National Coordinator at ONC has been appointed to replace DeSalvo. “During her tenure, ONC has worked with other federal partners and the private sector to update the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and develop a Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, both of which chart a person-centered path
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