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30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

by Fred Pennic 12/30/2020 Leave a Comment

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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Signify Health Acquires Healthcare Payment Blockchain Company PatientBlox

by Fred Pennic 11/23/2020 Leave a Comment

Signify Health Acquires Healthcare Payment Blockchain Company PatientBlox

Signify Health, a leading provider of technology-enabled healthcare solutions designed to keep people healthy and happy at home has acquired PatientBlox, an Atlanta-based technology company with deep expertise in applying distributed ledger technology in healthcare. The acquisition accelerates Signify's prospective provider payment capabilities for episodes of care, supporting the company's commitment to advance value-based care through novel payment and risk arrangements. Financial details of
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How COVID-19 Has Revealed Healthcare’s Blockchain Use Cases

by Brett Furst, President at HHS Technology Group 11/17/2020 Leave a Comment

How COVID-19 Has Revealed Healthcare’s Blockchain Use Cases

Brett Furst, President at HHS Technology Group Blockchain technology has somewhat infamously been described as “a solution in search of a problem,” but as the healthcare industry responds to the demands of the pandemic, several valuable use cases have surfaced that could benefit from employing the emerging technology.   Due in large part due to its ability to promote trust, transparency, and privacy, blockchain has emerged as today’s best technology-based option for accomplishing
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Powered by Blockchain, IBM Watson Health Launches IBM Digital Health Pass

by Jasmine Pennic 10/12/2020 Leave a Comment

IBM Watson Health

What You Should Know: - IBM Watson Health launches IBM Digital Health Pass solution that will allow individuals to verify their health status while maintaining complete control of their personal health data. Today at HLTH VRTL 2020, IBM Watson Health announced plans to launch IBM Digital Health Pass, which is being designed to help support organizations as they return individuals to a physical location, such as a workplace, school, stadium or airline flight. The new solution is powered
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Solve.Care Launches Blockchain-Powered Global Telehealth Exchange

by Jasmine Pennic 05/22/2020 Leave a Comment

Solve.Care Launches Blockchain-Powered Global Telehealth Exchange

What You Should Know: - Healthcare platform Solve.Care has announced the launch of the Global Telehealth Exchange (GTHE), a first-of-its-kind landmark deployment of blockchain and digital currency aimed at tackling the challenges facing the global healthcare system today.  - The GTHE, a decentralized care network, removes the physical and geographical barriers associated with accessing healthcare services while also providing administrative, payment, and care coordination for
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IBM Launches Blockchain Solution to Battle COVID-19 Medical Supply Chain Shortages

by Jasmine Pennic 04/27/2020 Leave a Comment

IBM Launches Blockchain Solution to Battle COVID-19 Medical Supply Chain Shortages

What You Should Know: - IBM has launched Rapid Supplier Connect, a blockchain-based solution to help battle medical supply chain shortages due to COVID-19.    - The network will help government agencies and healthcare organizations identify new, non-traditional suppliers who have pivoted to address the shortage of equipment, devices, and supplies needed for COVID-19 relief efforts.  -
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4 Digital Health Tools for Combating Opioid Addiction in 2020 & Beyond

by Kayla Matthews 12/31/2019 Leave a Comment

4 Digital Health Tools for Combating Opioid Addiction in 2020 & Beyond

The human and economic statistics surrounding the opioid epidemic are staggering. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 11.4 million people have misused prescription opioids, and more than 130 people die daily from opioid-related drug overdoses.Moreover, the Society of Actuaries found that the total economic burden of the opioid crisis in the United States from 2015 to 2018 was at least $631 billion. The organization attributed nearly one-third of that cost to extra
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Medical Blockchain Credentialing -Lead, Follow or Get Left Behind

by Adrienne Bolger, CTO and Tiffany Long, Director of Credentialing at BlocHealth 11/19/2019 Leave a Comment

Medical Blockchain Credentialing -Lead, Follow or Get Left Behind

There is a lot of buzz surrounding blockchain and its potential to solve some of the fundamental issues present with the current medical credentialing processes. Duplication of efforts results in vast amounts of wasted time and money.  This waste ultimately increases the costs of medical services to healthcare consumers. Blockchain, like any other new technology, has its nay-sayers: those that take a fatalistic view of whether it can live up to the hype. These nay-sayers believe everything
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Can Blockchain Technology Fix Healthcare’s Problems? Not Even Close

by Richard Rupp, SVP of Product at Modio Health 09/30/2019 Leave a Comment

FDA Approves Blockchain/IoT Pilot to Track Specialty Prescription Drugs Across 3 States Blockchain in Healthcare_Next Stop for Data-driven Healthcare: Blockchain

Blockchain has been making big waves across healthcare, heralded as the technology that’s going to save healthcare. The excitement is understandable. Just about every segment of healthcare is fragmented — almost to the point of dysfunction. What better way to bind it together than via a digital ledger that affords the ability to securely, privately, and comprehensively track health records? It’s compelling — and it seems healthcare is ready to move full speed ahead with blockchain. Is
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3 Takeaways From The 2019 HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference

by Michael Liberty, Sr. Market Analyst at Signify Research 07/19/2019 Leave a Comment

The HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference attracted over 2,600 delegates from 64 countries to Helsinki in June 2019. While there was a strong focus on healthcare in the Nordics, the conference brought with it a wide variety of vendors from across the globe all looking for new opportunities on the show floor. Our key takeaway – the goal to change mindsets in Europe towards how healthcare can be improved through the use of technology. We look at a few examples below, namely:- Developing
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