- Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health merger & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of October 2019
During the month of October, Health IT continued its evolution into an amorphous market that is increasingly trending away from a specialized niche of healthcare and into a key component of larger sectors such as Enterprise Software, HR Administration, Insurance, Care Delivery, Suppliers, and BioPharma.
The
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Disruptors or Interrupters? How Apple Is Faring In Their Healthcare Initiatives
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
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DaVita Health Solutions Rebrands as Vively Health, Integrates with Cerner EHR & Population Health Platform
- Vively Health, a risk-based provider delivering home-based primary care announces an agreement with Cerner to improve the lives of patient with multiple chronic conditions.- Vively Health will integrate the Cerner Millennium EHR and HealtheIntent population health platform into its home-based primary care offerings, as well as utilize Cerner’s consumer framework technology to support its care teams to better address patient needs.- Vively Health, formerly DaVita Health Solutions, is the new
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Uber Integrates With Cerner EHR To Enable Clinicians to Order Ride Requests for Patients
- Uber and Cerner announce a partnership that will integrate Uber’s non-emergency transportation solution with Cerner’s EHR system. - The new integration will enable providers to order ride requests for patients to help reduce transportation barriers.Today, Uber Health and Cerner announced that the two companies will work together to help reduce transportation barriers that can lead to delayed care, poor management of chronic conditions and declining health outcomes for patients. With this
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AVIA Launches Partner Network with Cerner, Deloitte, AHA, HFMA
Healthcare innovation network AVIA launches AVIA Partner Network for health systems to gain access to proprietary insights and resources.American Hospital Association, Deloitte, Cerner Corporation, and the Healthcare Financial Management Association among leading organizations collaborating to accelerate digital transformation in healthcare.AVIA, the nation’s leading healthcare innovation network, today announced the launch of the AVIA Partner Network, which brings together several prominent
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How Value-Based Care is Changing the Way You Build Digital Health Companies
Sean Walker, Partner at The Bowdoin GroupJosh Gottlieb, Managing Director, Digital Health) at The Bowdoin GroupMichelle Mattson-Hamilton, Associate Principal at ST Advisors
After years of talk, fee-for-service payment models are finally being challenged in a real way. With value-based care, providers are reimbursed based on patient health outcomes rather than the number of patients they see, which has begun to pass the burden of cost from insurers and employers to providers and
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How Health IT Helped Baptist Health During Hurricane Dorian
Stacey Johnston, MD, VP & Chief Medical Information Officer, Baptist Health
Preparing a hospital to ride out a natural disaster is fairly straightforward when the danger is imminent. You hunker down, secure the facility, and transfer any higher-risk patients to a safer location.
But what happens if there is only a possibility that disaster might strike? That was the dilemma facing us at Baptist Health, our multi-facility health system in Jacksonville, Fla., as Hurricane Dorian
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Cerner Acquires Strategic Health IT Consulting & Engineering Firm AbleVets
- Cerner announced it will acquire strategic health IT consulting and engineering firm AbleVets as a wholly-owned subsidiary. - The acquisition will help Cerner expand its scale and expertise in implementing health IT modernization solutions in the federal market.Today, Cerner Corporation announced a definitive agreement to acquire AbleVets—a strategic health IT consulting and engineering firm—as a wholly-owned subsidiary. Through its work with civil and defense health agencies, AbleVets
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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 Chairman and CEO, Brent Shafer delivers the keynote speech to over 5,000 attendees at the Cerner Health Conference
- 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
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