As John Flannery, the new CEO of GE takes on the task of sweeping cost-cutting at the industrial behemoth, recent market speculation has suggested he may be looking to offload GE’s Healthcare IT business. Here's why we think this won’t happen.Crumbling, but not to the coreGE's health IT portfolio has been compiled from many acquisitions, creating a complex and sometimes disjointed product set. At its center is a core set of software and services focused on clinical IT. GE’s products that support
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Roche Acquires Lab Data Analytics Platform Viewics
Roche, a pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science has announced an agreement to acquire Viewics, Inc., a laboratory business analytics platform. Under the terms of the agreement, Roche is acquiring all shares of the company. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition, Viewics, Inc. will become an integral part of Roche and add further digital capabilities on top of Roche Diagnostics’ Integrated Core Lab offering to make faster
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BurstIQ, Empiric Health Partner to Integrate Healthcare Blockchain Data Record with Intermountain
BurstIQ, Inc., a healthcare blockchain data company, announced the first mainstream OEM healthcare blockchain data record integration for Intermountain Healthcare with strategic partner Empiric Health. The Utah-based healthcare giant has already realized more than $90 million in savings using the Empiric technology (formerly known as ProComp) to identify operational efficiencies across the Intermountain Healthcare system.As part of the integration, BurstIQ’s proprietary blockchain-based big data
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Merck Subsidiary Acquires Mobile Infectious Disease Analytics Solution Teqqa
ILÚM Health Solutions, a provider of innovative technology and services to support infectious disease management (created by Merck’s Healthcare Services and Solutions (HSS) division), today announced it has acquired Teqqa LLC, which provides precision analytics for infectious disease management. Teqqa has been a development partner with ILÚM since the latter’s founding; this acquisition formalizes and strengthens the ongoing relationship. Financial details of the acquisition were not
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Propeller Health, Express Scripts Partner to Offer Innovative Digital Respiratory Care
Propeller Health and Express Scripts has announced a strategic partnership to provide Propeller's FDA-cleared digital solution to Express Scripts members using inhaler sensors and a mobile app to manage asthma or COPD. This collaboration represents the largest respiratory digital health deployment with a pharmacy benefit manager to date.Propeller's digital sensors enable remote monitoring for patients enrolled in Express Scripts' Pulmonary Care Value Program (PCV), which combines specialized
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ConnectiveRx Acquires Specialty Pharma Startup Careform to Enhance Patient Engagement for Specialty Drugs
ConnectiveRx, a company helping patients with affordability, access and medication adherence messaging, has acquired Careform a Pittsburgh-based provider of technology-enabled “hub” services driving patient and provider engagement and support. The acquisition will enable both ConnectiveRx and Careform to improve patient outcomes by improving speed-to-therapy, and prescription compliance and persistence. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.ConnectiveRx delivers affordability
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Medigate Lands $5.35M to Help Secure Connected Medical Devices From Cyberattacks
Medigate, an Israli-based digital health startup has raised $5.35M in seed funding to expand its dedicated medical device security platform that protects all of the connected medical devices on healthcare provider networks. The seed round was led by YL Ventures, with additional funding from Blumberg Capital. The company will use the seed funding to continue to accelerate its development efforts of its medical device security platform. The Medigate Security Platform is currently in limited
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Unified Signal, BurstIQ Expands Partnership to Offer Blockchain-based Health Data Management Layer for Mobile Crypto-Wallet
Catalia Health Raises $4M to Expand AI-Powered Healthcare Robot to Increase Medication Adherence
Catalia Health, a San Francisco, CA-based patient care management company that provides an effective, scalable, AI-powered patient engagement platform has announced a $4M lagniappe funding round (French Cajun for "a little something extra") led by Ion Pacific to power the rollout of Mabu, the cute, AI-enabled personal healthcare robots to patients. The funding builds on the company’s $2.5M seed extension raised earlier this year and a $1.25M seed round led by Khosla Ventures. The startup plans
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Zebra Medical Vision Enables Radiology Algorithms on Google Cloud With AI1 All-in-One Offering
Zebra Medical Vision, a leading deep learning imaging analytics company, is announcing that all its current and future radiology algorithms will be enabled on the Google Cloud as part of its new AI1 offering to global health providers . A pioneer in the field of machine and deep learning for medical imaging, Zebra-Med is driving transparency in its business model to encourage faster global adoption of advanced tools that can improve health. With over 450 new petabytes per year in imaging data ,
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