What You Should Know:
- Komodo Health announces $220M Series E investment to advance its enterprise healthcare and life sciences platform. At a $3.3 billion valuation, the investment underscores the company's rapidly growing role as a foundational enterprise technology platform helping to drive digital transformation across the healthcare industry.
- Founded in 2014, Komodo Health’s Healthcare Map™ is the industry’s largest and most complete record of
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Cloud Technologies in Healthcare: Improving Access to Care at Lower Costs
The healthcare industry has been among those at the fore when it comes to cloud adoption. It’s no wonder then that between 2020 and 2024, the global market is projected to see a rise of nearly US$25.54 billion in cloud technologies in this industry1. What has spurred healthcare to be one of the leading adopters of cloud technologies? The industry is inundated with data from multiple sources like doctor’s and nurses’ notes, electronic health records (EHR), personal health records (PHR),
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Why A Smart Command Center Requires A Health Cloud Platform
Aviation, military, NASA, or even utilities like the New York Power Authority—almost all high-consequence, complex organizations have one thing in common: a command center. The concept of a command center or a ‘war room,’ or ‘air traffic control’ has been around for a while. Command centers help counter logistical challenges, enable cross-collaboration and guide decision-making with state-of-the-art technology and communications. With them it seems there is absolutely nothing that cannot be
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Moderna, IBM Partner on COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain & Distribution Data Sharing
What You Should Know:
- Moderna and IBM announced their intentions to explore technologies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain and hybrid cloud, that could help support smarter COVID-19 vaccine management. Central to the effort will be a pilot of open, standardized, technology-enabled vaccine distribution approaches aimed to improve supply chain visibility and foster near real-time tracking of vaccine administration.
- The goal of the partnership is to identify ways
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Highmark Health Taps Verily to Build Digital Health Tools for Living Health Model
What You Should Know:
- Highmark Health has engaged Verily to build out digital health tools for patients and analytics solutions for Highmark’s clinicians as part of its Living Health model. This marks the first collaboration of its kind for Verily, Google Cloud and a partner.
- Highmark Health is a Blue Cross Blue Shield health plan based in Western PA with 4.5 million members and an integrated delivery system (Allegheny) with 9
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Data-Driven Future: Impact of Machine Learning on Diabetes Management
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other” – Bill Gates wrote this in 1999 and, nowadays, the same can certainly be said about information technology and healthcare.
The ability to collect, analyze, and use data is becoming ubiquitous with many of healthcare’s most exciting advancements. Whether it’s Google’s DeepMind using artificial intelligence (AI) to help
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Untapping the Potential for Virtual Care in a Pandemic and Beyond
Virtual care is everywhere and ubiquitous. But at a time when the world is amid a global pandemic, virtual care is also being underutilized. The technology exists today to help our healthcare system not only more effectively and efficiently manage care during COVID-19, but also exponentially scale capacity in the face of future outbreaks.
Virtual care defined
Virtual care is a broad term. It encompasses all the ways healthcare practitioners provide for care remotely. This can mean
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Innovaccer Reaches $1.3B Valuation, Launches Health Cloud Platform
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- Innovaccer closes Series D round of growth capital bringing Innovaccer at a total valuation of $1.3 billion.
- In addition, the company has launched the Innovaccer Health Cloud, a platform as a service that combines the company’s Data Activation Platform and application suite with an extensive set of platform services and tools that allow customers and partners to easily develop interoperable applications that improve patient outcomes and lower
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Emory Healthcare Taps Rimidi to Create FHIR-Based Apps for Orthopedic Surgery and Deep Brain Stimulation
What You Should Know:
- Rimidi, a cloud-based software platform that enables personalized management of health conditions across populations, today announced a strategic collaboration with Emory Healthcare to develop new patient and provider-facing FHIR apps.
- Specifically, the apps will create a more collaborative and transparent experience for patients undergoing orthopedic surgery, as well as for those referred to the deep brain stimulation (DBS) program for Parkinson’s and other
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Best Practices to Ensure Telehealth Security and Protect Patient Data
To support the sudden increase in test results and medical records being transmitted during the pandemic, hospitals, laboratories, and pharmacies implemented additional devices and remote connections into their networks. After the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) lifted penalties around telehealth to expand care options amid the crisis, new platforms were adopted that were not previously allowed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
This exercise of discretion
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