On Wednesday, Carolinas Hospital System and Mayo Clinic announced that Carolinas Hospital System has joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network of independent health care providers committed to working together to benefit patients and their families.Here are five things to know about the collaboration: 1. As part of the network, Carolinas Hospital System physicians will have access to Mayo Clinic expertise to benefit patients.2. Carolinas Hospital System will work with Mayo Clinic to share medical
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DICOM Grid Rebrands as Ambra Health, Raises $6M for Medical Imaging Cloud
DICOM Grid, makers of the leading cloud-based, medical image management suite has rebranded as Ambra Health and has raised an additional $6 million in funding led by Canaan Partners. The latest round of funding brings to the company's total funding to date to $39 million. Ambra plans to utilize the funding to accelerate its sales, marketing efforts and product development. "Medical imaging is undergoing a transformation well beyond its beginnings in DICOM-based x-rays, CT, MRI and the like,"
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Atos Acquires Health IT Outsourcing Firm Anthelio Healthcare Solutions for $275M
Global IT company Atos will acquire healthcare IT outsourcing company Anthelio Healthcare Solutions for $275 million in cash to expand the company's health IT services portfolio in the US market, company officials announced Monday. Anthelio's end to end health IT solutions include IT infrastructure services, IT applications management, EHR optimization, Patient Engagement, Analytics, and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) including HIM Services, Patient Financial Services and Cancer Registry
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Mayo Clinic, iSpecimen Collaborate on Cancer/Normal Serum Biobank
Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine has selected iSpecimen, a customized human biospecimen collections company to serve as the exclusive channel partner for the Mayo Clinic Cancer/Normal Serum Biobank, connecting biomedical researchers with the samples and associated data for their studies. Mayo Clinic Cancer/Normal Serum Biobank OverviewBased in Rochester, Minnesota, the Cancer/Normal Serum Biobank has approximately 130,000 frozen vials of serum from about 17,000 unique, consented
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UT Diabetes Project Granted $3M to Develop Diabetes Management Apps
The University of Texas System’s Project Diabetes and Obesity Control (DOC) recently received $3 million from the Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation to expand its innovative diabetes management apps in the lower Rio Grande Valley. The Board of Regents approved $15 million this week to continuing funding the project to develop apps that enable patients and physicians to improve the control of diabetes and patient care.Project DOC OverviewWith Project DOC (Diabetes Obesity Control), The UT System’s
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Consortium Awarded $600k Grant for Healthcare Workforce IT Skills Project
To meet the global demand for skilled healthcare IT workers, the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation grant program has awarded nearly just under $600,000 dollars to the EU*US eHealth Work Consortium. The 18-month project starting from September 2016 to February 2018 will address the need, development and deployment of healthcare workforce IT skills, competencies and training programs in the European Union, United States and around the globe for the full spectrum of job
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KLAS: Industry Executives Establish Interoperability Benchmark Model
To help resolve some of the key interoperability challenges in the health IT industry, several key EHR and provider stakeholders met at the recent KLAS Cornerstone Summit last month to establish a new interoperability benchmark model and roadmap. The framework, agreed upon by industry representatives, is largely based on the 2016 Interoperability KLAS study design, which focuses on the clinical end users’ experience related to the following: 1. Availability of needed information2. Ease of
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Phoenix Children’s Hospital Taps NantHealth for Precision Cancer Care
Phoenix Children’s Hospital has entered into a commercial licensing agreement with NantHealth to adopt GPS Cancer, a comprehensive molecular testing platform for personalized cancer therapy for its patients and self-insured employee population. As part of the licensing agreement, Phoenix will deploy the GPS Cancer in two key ways:1. Its network of oncologists will be able to order GPS Cancer, enabling them to gain critical insights to inform personalized treatment strategies including guided
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HMS Holdings Acquires Care Management Platform Essette for $20M
HMS Holdings Corp. a provider of cost containment solutions in the healthcare industry to help payers improve performance has acquired web-based care management platform Essette for approximately $20 million in cash. Founded in 2007, Essette's care management platform helps risk-bearing healthcare organizations identify, engage, and manage at-risk patient populations to improve outcomes while managing costs.Essette's customer base includes managed care organizations and care delivery
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LA County Dept. of Health Services to Implement Cerner’s Population Health Platform
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LACDHS) announced today it will implement Cerner's population health platform, HealtheIntent. The deal makes it Cerner’s 100th HealtheIntent client.HealtheIntent’s system-agnostic platform that normalizes data from any source, to aggregate clinical and financial data from its core EHR and other sources. Once live, HealtheIntent will enable thousands of LACDHS clinicians to make more informed decisions by providing a comprehensive profile of
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