Deloitte Consulting LLP's Deloitte Digital has announced the launch of Care Connect, an accelerator for health care providers built on Salesforce Health Cloud. Care Connect incorporates provider-specific user interfaces and use cases, and is designed to address specific challenges and shortcomings of patient engagement, focusing on the end-to-end interaction across the patient journey.Deloitte Digital's Care Connect accelerator helps to make patient-centered care a reality by providing a robust
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Epic CEO Judy Faulkner: “There’s going to be three versions of Epic” In an interview with Healthcare IT News, Epic CEO Judy Faulkner reveals there will be two new versions of Epic in development called "Sonnet" and "Caboodle." Sonnet will be available at a lower price point for organizations who don't need the full features of the Epic EHR. Caboodle is the rebranded name of Epic's data warehouse.HIMSS Study: Significant Disconnect Exists Between Providers and Vendors/Consultants on EHRsA
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Jvion Acquires Predictive Analytics Firm Predixion’s Healthcare IT Practice
Jvion, an Atlanta-based cognitive clinical science machine firm has acquired predictive analytic firm Predixion’s Healthcare IT practice for an undisclosed sum. For Jvion, the acquisition will help augment the company's market positioning while amplifying the value delivered by Predixion to their current client base by enabling access to Jvion’s Cognitive Clinical Success Machine.Predixion, which raised $42M+ to date, received $20M in its third round of investment and is backed by giants
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Ambra Health Unveils Cloud Development Platform for Medical Imaging
Ambra Health, makers of the leading cloud-based, medical image management suite, announced the launch of Ambra for Developers, a cloud development platform for medical imaging. Built around modern, RESTful web-services, this is the first cloud development platform designed specifically for medical imaging.With these new APIs, IT departments at health systems and hospitals can easily extend imaging and imaging data into other applications such as population health or reporting tools. In addition,
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Accenture Launches Intelligent Patient Service Exchange for Life Sciences Companies
Today at HIMSS17, Accenture has launched the Intelligent Patient Service Exchange, a digital marketplace of third-party technology solutions available to life sciences companies to enhance patient support and improve the overall patient treatment experience. The Accenture Intelligent Patient Service Exchange (IPEX) is a digital marketplace of leading technology solutions that have been integrated within the Accenture Intelligent Patient Platform allowing life sciences companies to quickly and
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Epic, Nuance Partner on Artificial Intelligence to Transform Disabled Veterans Access to Accessibility to Health IT
Epic and Nuance are joining forces to leverage artificial intelligence to revolutionize disabled veterans accessibility to health information technology. The partnership will bring access and job opportunities for disabled persons scheduling medical appointments powered by Nuance’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology and Epic’s EHR system, which include a hands-free virtual assistant.There are nearly 20 million military veterans in the U.S., and 4 million have service-connected disabilities.
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Northwell Health, GE Ventures Form $200M Alliance to Develop, Commercialize Solutions in Bioelectronic Medicine
Today, GE Ventures announced a strategic partnership with Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institute for Medical Research providing up to $200 million in joint funding over seven years to support the opening of a new Center for Bioelectronic Medicine (CBEM), and advance diagnostic and therapeutic solutions for Alzheimer’s, cancer, diabetes, hypertension and more. The new alliance will greatly build upon groundbreaking work that started between the Feinstein Institute and a team of GE scientists
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Siemens Healthineers Launches Global Digital Ecosystem for Healthcare Providers
Today at HIMSS17, Siemens Healthineers has announced the launch of a global digital platform for healthcare providers as well as for providers of solutions and services. The aim of the platform is to foster the growth of a digital ecosystem linking healthcare providers and solution providers with one another as well as bringing together their data, applications and services.Digitalization in healthcare is expected to drive the much-needed change towards widespread value-based care and
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Medfusion Acquires Patient Self-Scheduling Company NexSched, LLC to Improve Patient Experience
Medfusion, Inc., a provider of patient experience solutions has acquired the business and certain assets of NexSched, LLC, a privately held New York-based company that specializes in patient self-scheduling solutions. According to a recent Accenture study, 77 percent of patients think that the ability to book, change or cancel appointments online is vitally important to their healthcare experience.The acquisition of NexSched addresses the rise of healthcare consumerism and demand for greater
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HIMSS Study: Significant Disconnect Exists Between Providers and Vendors/Consultants on EHRs
A significant disconnect exists between providers and vendors/consultants on certain select clinical IT priorities– notably EHRs, according to new study unveiled at the 2017 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition. The 2017 HIMSS Leadership and Workforce Survey report of 368 U.S. health IT leaders between late November 2016 and early January 2017.reveals that vendors/consultants seem to be “moving on” to other issues, whereas providers appear to be wrestling with how to best leverage their existing
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