What You Should Know:
- COVID-19 care deferrals lead to three major boomerang
conditions that payers and providers must proactively address in 2021,
according to a newly released report by Prealize.
- COVID-19’s hidden victims—those who avoided or deferred
care during the pandemic—will increasingly return to the healthcare system, and
many will be diagnosed with new conditions at more advanced stages. Healthcare
leaders must act now to keep this boomerang from driving worse outcomes
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DaVita & RenalytixAI Partner for Early Risk Identification to Help Slow Kidney Disease Progression
What You Should Know:
- RenalytixAI and DaVita announce a program partnership that
aims to slow kidney disease progression and improve outcomes for the nation’s
estimated 37 million adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD).
- This is the first clinical-grade program that delivers
advanced early-stage prognosis and risk stratification, combined with
actionable care management to the primary care level where the majority of
kidney disease patients are being seen.
- The program will use
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20 COVID-19 Predictions and Trends for 2021 – Executive Roundup
Dr. Justin Graham, Chief Medical Officer, GYANT
The rapid development of a COVID-19 vaccine is a monumental achievement, but it does nothing to address our extremely fragmented healthcare system. In 2021, policymakers must create and extend incentives to providers to work together to keep patients healthy rather than maximize profit. The pandemic has devastated the traditional fee-for-service budgets of many healthcare systems, and it isn't clear they will ever be able to catch up without
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2020’s Top 20 Digital Health M&A Deals Totaled $50B
Teladoc Health and Livongo Merge
The combination of Teladoc Health and Livongo creates a
global leader in consumer-centered virtual care. The combined company is
positioned to execute quantified opportunities to drive revenue synergies of
$100 million by the end of the second year following the close, reaching $500
million on a run-rate basis by 2025.
Price: $18.5B in value based on each share of Livongo
will be exchanged for 0.5920x shares of Teladoc Health plus cash consideration
of
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30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021
As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare executives to share their predictions and trends for 2021.
Kimberly Powell, Vice President & General Manager, NVIDIA Healthcare
Federated Learning: The clinical community will increase their use of federated learning approaches to build robust AI models across various institutions, geographies, patient demographics, and medical scanners. The sensitivity and selectivity of these models are outperforming AI models
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Patient-First Model: High Tech Meets High Touch for Individuals with Rare Disorders
Industry experts state that orphan drugs will be a major trend to watch in the years ahead, accounting for almost 40% of the Food and Drug Administration approvals this year. This market has become more competitive in the past few years, increasing the potential for reduced costs and broader patient accessibility. Currently, these products are often expensive because they target specific conditions and cost on average $147,000 or more per year, making commercialization
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42 Recently Launched COVID-19 Vaccine Management Solutions to Know
An in-depth look at twelve recently released COVID-19 vaccine management solutions as COVID-19 vaccines are being distributed nationwide.
1. Microsoft
Microsoft
launches a COVID-19 vaccine management platform with partners Accenture and
Avanade, EY, and Mazik Global to help government and healthcare customers
provide fair and equitable vaccine distribution, administration, and monitoring
of vaccine delivery.
Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) has deployed over 230 emergency COVID-19
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Highmark Inks 6-Year Partnership with Google Cloud to Power Living Health Model
What You Should Know:
- Highmark Health signs six-year strategic partnership agreement
with Google Cloud to transform the health experience for patients and
caregivers through the development of Highmark Health's new Living Health
Model
- The Living Health model is designed to eliminate
the fragmentation in health care by re-engineering the healthcare delivery
model with a more coordinated, personalized, technology-enabled experience.
Highmark Health and Google Cloud today announced
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AI Algorithms Can Predict Outcomes of COVID-19 Patients with Mild Symptoms in ER
What You Should Know:
- Artificial intelligence algorithms can predict outcomes
of COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms in emergency rooms, according to recent
research findings published in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence journal.
- Researchers trained the algorithm from data on 338
positive COVID-19 patients between the ages of 21 and 50 by using diverse
patient data from emergency departments within Mount Sinai Health System
hospitals (The Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, Mount
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Microsoft Deploys COVID-19 Vaccine Management Platform
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft launches a COVID-19 vaccine management platform with partners Accenture and Avanade, EY, and Mazik Global to help government and healthcare customers provide fair and equitable vaccine distribution, administration, and monitoring of vaccine delivery.
- Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) has deployed
over 230 emergency COVID-19 response missions globally since the pandemic began
in March, including recent engagements to ensure the equitable, secure
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