What You Should Know:
- AliveCor and GE Healthcare announced they are partnering to integrate data from AliveCor’s KardiaMobile 6L electrocardiogram (ECG) device directly into GE Healthcare’s MUSE Cardiac Management System (MUSE).
- Today, cardiologists often rely on real-time data from personal electrocardiogram (ECG) devices to help manage patients with cardiac conditions like atrial fibrillation (AFib). AliveCor’s KardiaMobile 6L ECG offers the only
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HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity
OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform
OptimizeRx, a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and stay on therapy announced a definitive agreement to acquire the EvinceMed platform and related assets. EvinceMed is a provider in delivering end-to-end automation for specialty pharmaceutical transactions. The acquisition includes the full Market Access Management Platform
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MEDITECH and Google Health Partner to Embed Search & Summarization in Expanse EHR
What You Should Know:
Today at HIMSS22, MEDITECH announced a new collaboration with Google Health that will embed Google’s search and summarization capabilities within the Expanse EHR.
- This functionality builds upon the integrated, longitudinal record inherent in Expanse by pulling forward discrete information from legacy and disparate systems and filling gaps in information for a more holistic view of a patient's record.
Rich Longitudinal Health Record to Enable Care Teams to
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Microsoft Expands Healthcare Cloud Strategy with New Solutions
Microsoft Expands Healthcare Cloud Strategy with New Solutions
What You Should Know:
Today at HIMSS22, Microsoft announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.
Azure Health Data Services
Azure Health Data Services is purpose-built for protected health information (PHI) and brings together diverse datasets — like clinical, imaging and streaming data
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Clarify Health Acquires Embedded Healthcare, Behavior Change Platform
What You Should Know:
- Clarify Health, leading cloud analytics and value-based payments platform company, just announced its acquisition of Embedded Healthcare - a behavior change platform company created by notable healthcare leaders such as Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel to scale value-based care for health plans.
- The announcement marks the company’s second acquisition in 6 months and represents Clarify Health’s deep commitment to further build out its technology and cement its
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InterSystems Launches HealthShare Health Connect Cloud
What You Should Know:
- InterSystems, a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical scalability, interoperability, and speed problems, today announced the official release of InterSystems HealthShare® Health Connect Cloud, a new platform-as-a-service (PaaS).
- The PaaS streamlines interoperability and data integration between clinical systems and applications while managing the entire infrastructure. With guaranteed delivery, reliability, and
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Medtronic Taps Vizient to Offer AI-Powered Surgical Video Management & Analytics Platform for OR
What You Should Know:
- Medtronic announced a new contract with Vizient, a leading healthcare performance improvement company for more than half the nation’s healthcare providers, to offer Touch Surgery™️ Enterprise, the first AI-powered cloud-based video management and analytics platform for the OR.
The latest offering from Medtronic’s Surgical Robotics portfolio, Touch Surgery™ Enterprise makes it easy to capture and analyze surgical video and ensures data privacy compliance with AI that
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BrightInsight & UCB Partner to Build Digital Care Solutions for Rare Diseases
What You Should Know:
- BrightInsight, provider of the leading global platform for biopharma and medtech regulated digital health solutions, announced a partnership with global biopharma, UC to build digital care solutions for rare diseases.
- BrightInsight will build and bring to market a digital disease management solution to support patients with Myasthenia Gravis (MG), a rare autoimmune disease that disrupts how nerves communicate with muscles, affecting more than 700,000 people
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Why The End of the Public Health Emergency is Everyone’s Problem
The COVID-19 pandemic led to sweeping healthcare policy changes that enable vulnerable Americans to receive affordable health coverage and access essential safety net benefits. The steep incline in unemployment and fears that millions of people would lose their health coverage drove the declaration of the national public health emergency (PHE) on January 31, 2020. Under the PHE, states must keep Medicaid enrollees continuously covered, irrespective of their circumstances.
With the PHE set
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Lynx Launches with $17.5M for API-Connected Healthcare Payments
What You Should Know:
- Lynx, a Boston-based API-connected healthcare payments, banking, and e-commerce platform announced today that it has emerged from stealth with $17.5M in equity financing led by Obvious Ventures and .406 Ventures with participation from Frist Cressey Ventures. Other investors include Winter Street Ventures (an investment subsidiary of Commonwealth Care Alliance), Shields Capital, and Huntington Avenue Ventures.
- Lynx’s goal is to introduce modern fintech to
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