Since at least 2012, the world of medical records in both the public and private sectors remains dominated by a push toward interoperable data, and more broadly useful health data. Like everything else in American healthcare, the effort has been only moderately successful despite a price tag in the billions. In a modern digital world, where technologies in so many industries are bringing better insights and next generation efficiency – driven by cloud computing, big data, AI and machine learning
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Abbott and Sanofi Partner to Integrate Glucose Sensing and Insulin Data
- Abbott (ABT) and Sanofi partner to integrate to developing tools that combine the FreeStyle Libre technology with Sanofi′s insulin dosing information for future smartpens, insulin titration apps and cloud software. - The integration will enable both people with diabetes and their doctors to make better-informed treatment decisions around medication, nutrition, and lifestyle.Abbott (ABT) and Sanofi, today announced they are partnering to integrate glucose sensing and insulin delivery
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Change Healthcare Unveils AI-Infused Charge Capture for Providers
- Change Healthcare unveils a new AI solution, Charge Capture Advisor that will help providers capture more revenue—automatically.
- Charge Capture Advisor identifies potentially missing charges for services that providers performed before claims are submitted.
- Change Healthcare’s AI for charge capture is trained on more than 500 million service lines and 180 million unique, de-identified claims that touch $245 billion in charges.
Change Healthcare today introduced Charge
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4 Steps Healthcare Organizations Need to Take to Automate Their Data
According to IDC, all the data that’s being created and captured in healthcare is projected to grow by 36 percent (CAGR)—more than any other industry.
While managing growing volumes of data is a common challenge for many organizations across all sectors, healthcare is uniquely set apart by the sheer number of new data sources that’s being made available—with new sources being added all the time. This is driven in large part by advancements in telemedicine, personalized or precision medicine, as
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FDA Clears GE Healthcare’s AI Algorithms Embedded on Mobile X-Ray Device
- GE Healthcare awarded Food and Drug Administration’s 510(k) clearance of Critical Care Suite, an industry-first collection of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms embedded on a mobile X-ray device.
- Algorithms help radiologists prioritize critical cases with a suspected pneumothorax – a type of collapsed lung – by immediately flagging critical cases to radiologists for triage, which could drastically cut the average review time from up to eight hours.
- Critical Care Suite offers
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Hospital IQ Launches AI-Enabled Workforce Management Solution
- Hospital IQ launches an AI-enabled workforce management solution to help staffing managers more accurately align staff to forecasted patient demand.
- Using accurate forecasts of patient demand, Hospital IQ enables staffing managers to proactively plan staffing needs, ensuring appropriate levels of patient care.
- Hospital IQ also announced the addition of Shawn Sefton, MBA, RN, vice president, client operations, and John Zapf, senior director, sales, to support the company’s
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Mayo Clinic Selects Google Cloud to Power its Digital Transformation
- Mayo Clinic selects Google Cloud to be their cornerstone of its digital transformation in a 10-year strategic partnership agreement.
- Google Cloud will secure and store Mayo Clinic's data while working with Mayo Clinic to apply AI and other cloud computing technologies to solve complex healthcare problems.
- Mayo Clinic will leverage Google Cloud to conduct medical research, developing and deploying new machine learning models designed to improve treatment precision and clinical
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DrFirst Integrates Adobe Sign With Backline Secure Care Collaboration Platform
- DrFirst and Adobe Sign has announced the integration of Adobe Sign e-signature solution with DrFirst’s Backline secure care collaboration platform, producing the first mobile solution for the healthcare market to offer an e-signature capability.
- Using the joint solution, providers can send SMS messages to the mobile devices of patients, caregivers, or other clinicians to share documents that require signatures.
- Once received, the patient or provider can tap a link in the text
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Northwell Health Goes Live on Microsoft Teams for Secure Messaging
- Northwell Health goes live on Microsoft Teams solution for clinicians for secure texting and helps improve care coordination across the enterprise.
- A total of 8,300 Northwell staff currently use Microsoft Teams with future rollouts plan across the health system this year and into early 2020.
Glen Cove Hospital, part of the Northwell Health network has gone live on the Microsoft Teams solution for nurses, physicians, and other health care providers to securely text one other about
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Why the Healthcare CIO Holds the Greatest Potential for Change
Consumers expect every brand interaction they have, whether at the doctor’s office or with their health insurer, to mirror the ones they have with companies like Amazon and Google: personalized, connected, and convenient. The healthcare industry, however, isn’t nearly ready to deliver on these connected experiences — not while data remains siloed across departments and organizations.
The need for interoperability — getting discrete systems and software applications to connect, exchange, and
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