Key Highlights
- Part one of our new in-depth series on Apple, Google, and Amazon's latest healthcare efforts since our last report in April 2019.
- A look at Apple's recent healthcare developments, as well as an analysis of what goes beyond the news.
Over the last few decades the “digital age” has enabled many garage-based startups to transform into sustained successes by targeting problems that begged to be solved digitally. Sometimes their leaders identified and resolved
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Amazon Acquires Health Navigator to Become Part of Amazon Care Services
- Amazon acquires Chicago-based Health Navigator platform, a comprehensive clinical vocabulary, and decision-support system.- The announcement marks Amazon’s second acquisition in the healthcare space after acquiring online pharmacy market PillPack for $750M last year. - CNBC confirms Health Navigator will not renew existing contracts with their customers moving forward and will become part of Amazon Care, it's pilot healthcare service program for employees.Amazon has acquired Health Navigator,
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Amazon Textract Is Now HIPAA Eligible, Extracts Text/Data From Scanned Docs
- AWS announced that Amazon Textract, a Machine Learning (ML) service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents, is now HIPAA-eligible.- Amazon Textract will make it easy for customers to accurately and securely process millions of documents in a matter of hours, saving time and lowering processing costs.- Cerner, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and The American Heart Association are already exploring new ways use the power of ML to automate their current workloads
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Cerner CEO Unveils New Next-Generation Cognitive Platform, Project Apollo
- Cerner CEO Brent Shafer unveils their next-generation cognitive health platform named Project Apollo to bring a cognitive approach to practicing medicine.
- Project Apollo will leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure to accelerate the speed that innovations are integrated by removing manual steps for clients.
- CEO also introduced new predictive modeling to reduce opioid abuse, free Cerner Learning Network for clients, and Cerner Seamless Interoperability to give
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Walmart Brings One Drop’s Smart Glucose Meter to Retail Stores Nationwide
- One Drop’s wireless glucose meter kit and supplies for diabetes management are now available at hundreds of Walmart stores in the United States.- Retail expansion increases accessibility of healthcare technology and support for people with chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension.One Drop, a New York City-based provider of digital therapeutic solutions for diabetes and other chronic conditions, today announced that its wireless glucose meter kit and supplies are now available at
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6 Health System Barriers to Digital Health Transformation
- When CIOs were asked about “significant” barriers to their Digital Health efforts, the top four responses pertained to issues with sponsorship and/or leadership.- Currently, the health delivery industry as a whole is still in the earliest stages of what will prove to be a digital transformation. - 40.4% of surveyed CIOs believe enterprise EHR vendors will play the biggest role in their facility's digital health journey in the next two years. The concept of digital health information was
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Powered by Amazon Echo, Frontive Launches Smart Personal Health Platform
- Powered by Amazon Echo, Frontive launches smart personal health platform to securely give patients and family caregivers highly personalized and relevant healthcare instructions.- Relieves patients and family members from time-consuming manual data entry and maintenance by automatically extracting and updating select items directly from patients' personal health records.- Pilot with Lowell General Hospital reveals positive patient and clinician experienceFrontive, a digital health company,
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Amazon Launches Pilot Virtual Primary Care Clinic in Seattle for its Employees
- Amazon launches Amazon Care, a pilot virtual primary care clinic in Seattle for its Amazon employees and in-person healthcare services from Oasis Medical. Oasis Medical.
- Amazon Care offers employees access to video care, care chat, mobile care, and a care courier available Monday to Friday, 8 am to 9 pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 8 am to 6 pm.
- Eligible Amazon employees and their families can request to enroll at any time during the year.
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Leveraging Healthcare CRM Tools to Deliver Better Patient Experiences
Consumers and patients have high expectations for their care providers – they want convenience, personalization, and increasingly, price transparency. We’ve all come to know this as the “Amazon experience”.
Yet, hospitals and health systems are different from other businesses, handling more sensitive and personal information while also delivering an often life-saving service. And while that is true, consumers now experience the world holistically and expect the same level of care and
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Why APIs Bring Hope for Data Interoperability in Healthcare
One of the biggest obstacles to data interoperability is the slow and piecemeal progress of healthcare organizations (HCOs) towards digitalization. While the benefits of digitalization are clear; improved efficiency, reliability of data, and enhanced communication, just to name a few; the critical (and most challenging) piece of the puzzle, is being able to share critical patient data between systems in a way that makes it easily accessible - while still retaining the security of sensitive
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