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4 Ways Healthcare Leaders Can Use Data & Analytics to Prevent, Predict and Prepare for a Pandemic

by Laura Craft, Vice President, Analyst at Gartner 06/23/2020 Leave a Comment

4 Ways Healthcare Leaders Can Use Data & Analytics to Prevent, Predict and Prepare for a Pandemic

COVID-19 has put a laser focus on how data and analytics are powerful tools for healthcare leaders to predict, prepare, and respond in a proactive and coordinated manner to a global health crisis. Throughout the pandemic, data has been used to document the spread of the virus, project the curve, and more. Responses and actions to mitigate viral spread hinge on real-time data collection, governance, and analysis for instant decision making. The exchange of reliable, real-time data between
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Black Lives Matter: Health IT Industry, Where Are You?

by JohnMatthew Douglas, President And Founder at iPressForward, LLC 06/22/2020 Leave a Comment

Black Lives Matter: Health IT Industry, Where Are You?

All lives truly matter. However, the world does not exist in a vacuum void of institutional racism, subconscious, and implicit bias. As a result, every life within America is not valued the same, as is evident by the recent George Floyd murder. When all lives are not treated with the same opportunities and respect, whether in matters of criminal justice, employment, housing, education, health, and healthcare evidence shows the result is that only some lives actually matter. One cannot change the
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IBM Unveils Watson Works for Data-Driven Insights to Address COVID-19 Return to Workplace Challenges

by Fred Pennic 06/18/2020 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know: - Today, IBM launched Watson Works, a curated set of products that embeds Watson AI models and applications, to help companies navigate many aspects of the return-to-workplace challenge following lockdowns put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. - Watson Works provides data-driven insights to help employers make informed decisions on workplace re-entry, facilities management, space allocation and other COVID-related priorities. IBM today unveiled Watson
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M&A Analysis: Mednax to Sell its Radiology and Teleradiology Business

by Arun Gill, Senior Analyst at Signify Research 06/17/2020 Leave a Comment

M&A Analysis: Mednax to Sell its Radiology and Teleradiology Business

Earlier this month saw Mednax announce significant plans to transform its business. Mednax intends to: - Sell its Mednax Radiology Solutions business, which includes its radiology groups and the teleradiology market leader Virtual Radiologic (vRad). - Reposition itself as a dedicated pediatrics and obstetrics business, including a return to its original company name, Pediatrix Medical Group. Mednax made its entrance into the radiology business following the $500m acquisition of vRad in
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FDA Clears ICU Device That Predicts Respiratory Failure to Support COVID-19

by Fred Pennic 06/16/2020 Leave a Comment

FDA Clears ICU Device That Predicts Respiratory Failure to Support COVID-19

What You Should Know: - CLEW is awarded FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its predictive analytics platform in support of COVID-19 patients. - CLEW is the only device authorized by the FDA to provide early identification of patients who are likely to experience respiratory failure of hemodynamic instability—both significant complications associated with COVID-19. - CLEW is already implemented in coronavirus units in two Israeli hospitals, and being tested by several US
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EnsoData Raises $9M to Accelerate Waveform AI Platform for Clinicians

by Fred Pennic 06/12/2020 Leave a Comment

EnsoData Raises $9M to Accelerate Waveform AI Platform for Clinicians

What You Should Know: - EnsoData announces its official launch and a $9M Series A funding round to accelerate analysis and understanding of human health, starting with sleep disorder diagnoses.  - Using AI, EnsoData’s technology transforms billions of waveform data points (outputs from heartbeats on an EKG, eye movement through an EOG, brain waves through an EEG, etc.) collected from sensors in medical devices and wearables into an easy-to-read report.  - EnsoData saves clinics and
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Backed by Northwell, Conversa Health Raises $12M for AI-Powered Chatbots

by Fred Pennic 06/11/2020 Leave a Comment

Backed by Northwell, Conversa Health Raises $12M for AI-Powered Chatbots

What You Should Know: - Conversa Health raises $12 million in Series B funding round to expand its AI-powered chatbots enabling health systems, payers and pharmaceutical companies to engage patients and collect patient-generated health data and patient-reported outcomes. - Conversa plans to use the funding to scale its virtual care and communication platform—97 percent of patients who have used its chatbots say they can better manage their care with Conversa.  - Murray Brozinsky
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How A Virtual Therapist Could Help Overcome Mental Healthcare Demands in Uncertain Times

by Valentin Tablan, Chief AI Officer at Ieso Digital Health 06/10/2020 Leave a Comment

How a virtual therapist could help overcome mental healthcare demands in uncertain times

Over the last few months, our hopes and expectations for 2020 have certainly been halted. There was an air of optimism globally as we entered the New Year and a new decade, but now we have been plunged into a world of uncertainty with the spreading COVID-19 pandemic. Future unknowns, both from a human well-being perspective and an economic standpoint are starting to take a toll on many people’s mental health. Understandably, the situation we find ourselves in is creating concern and worry and
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Siemens Healthineers and Geisinger Ink 10-Year to Drive Digital Health Innovation

by Fred Pennic 06/09/2020 Leave a Comment

Bayer and Geisinger to Create EHR-Integrated Contraception Counseling Pathway

What You Should Know: -Siemens Healthineers and Geisinger announced a 10-year agreement to drive digital health collaborations, including artificial intelligence-enabled applications. - The partnership will make better health easier throughout Pennsylvania and in all communities that Geisinger serves. Siemens Healthineers and Geisinger have established a 10-year Value Partnership to advance and support elements of Geisinger’s strategic priorities related to continually improving
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What’s the Secret to Building the Hospital of the Future? Simplicity.

by Bob Zemke, Director, Vertical & Technical Alliances at Extreme Networks 06/02/2020 Leave a Comment

What's the secret to building the hospital of the future? Simplicity.

As the healthcare industry becomes more connected, executives are increasingly looking for ways to digitally transform and provide next-level, life-saving care to patients. But it comes at a cost — and it’s not just monetary. The spiraling complexity of hospital networks is becoming a massive problem for health IT staff, and it’s inhibiting hospitals’ ability to advance. Brought on by years of network technologies and applications being layered onto the existing hospital infrastructure,
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