What You Should Know:
- HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services, has signed a new agreement for a large-scale deployment of MEDITECH Expanse. This landmark agreement identifies MEDITECH Expanse as HCA Healthcare’s primary go forward EHR platform and a key part of the company’s digital transformation.
- Expanse is expected to support HCA Healthcare’s efforts to provide
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Research: Proscia AI Predicts Diagnostic Agreement for Melanoma
What You Should Know:
- Proscia® a provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, has released study results on new artificial intelligence (AI) that predicts diagnostic agreement for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
- The findings, which were presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022, highlight the potential of the technology to improve diagnostic accuracy for melanoma and other diseases with low pathologist concordance.
Findings
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Why MDs (and Patients) Can’t Thrive without MDM and Protection
It's no secret providers are increasingly reliant on mobile devices like cell phones, tablets, and laptops to improve patient care. These tools help simplify workflows, bolster patient connections, improve data accuracy, and increase the speed of care at the bedside. In fact, a recent study showed that 80 percent of physicians have access to institutional mobile devices to run medical applications during work. And another report highlighted that 94 percent of healthcare organizations adopt Apple
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Bain Capital PE Makes Strategic Investment in CitiusTech
What You Should Know:
- CitiusTech, a leading provider of technology and consulting services to healthcare and life sciences companies, today announced a strategic growth investment from Bain Capital Private Equity (“Bain Capital”).
- Bain Capital joins Baring Private Equity Asia (“BPEA”), which acquired a majority stake in CitiusTech in 2019, as a significant shareholder to accelerate the Company’s growth. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
Technology-Driven
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Mayo Clinic Proceedings Launches Expansion Journal Focused on Digital Health
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic will launch a new Mayo Clinic Proceedings expansion journal on digital health, with the first issue to be published in early 2023. Articles will be published ahead of issue as they are accepted.
- The journal, Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, will focus on the digital transformation that is reshaping healthcare. It will join Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, an open-access journal edited by Taimur
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Quality vs. Quantity: The Case for Clinician-Centric Technology
Care providers continue to face mounting pressures – from increasing staffing shortages to balancing patient needs across in-person and virtual settings and managing pent-up patient demand. Rather than navigating through fragmented digital solutions that feed care providers disparate data, more and more clinicians now rely on connected technology to access the care context, i.e. the right patient data translated into reliable actionable insights at the right point in their workflow.
To truly
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Mitigating Healthcare Cyber Risk Through Vendor Management
Look to these best practices to enhance your organization’s vendor risk management program
Vendor partnerships are critically important in today’s business world, especially as the pandemic accelerated many organizations’ digital transformation and the shift to remote operations, cloud adoption, and virtual services, such as those through telehealth, medical apps, and other healthcare technology and communication platforms continues to expand. This increased reliance on third parties also
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Eclipse and Mayo Clinic Create Nucleus RadioPharma for Cancer Patients
What You Should Know:
- Eclipse, a venture capital firm investing in the digital transformation of the world's physical industries, and Mayo Clinic, a leading nonprofit health organization, recently announced the creation and seed funding of Nucleus RadioPharma, a new company built to ensure cancer patients can access potentially life-saving radiopharmaceuticals by developing technologies to modernize the clinical development, manufacturing, and supply chain of these promising new
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Health IT for Emerging “Payviders”
Though doubts about the benefits of the “payvider” model certainly exist, the success of recent payer-provider partnerships showcases the potential of these programs to improve the patient and provider experience. A study of Aetna’s integrated program, for example, found that plan members could realize significant savings for high-cost chronic conditions and experience fewer hospital admissions. A similar report from Cigna echoed these conclusions, finding that integrated benefit plans resulted
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3 Tips for Securing Private Healthcare Data
Technology is a dominant force in healthcare. During the pandemic, healthcare systems relied on technology to swiftly move to virtual care, remote work, and more collaborative communication and data management systems – and that will accelerate. As organizations speed up their digital transformation initiatives and increase their reliance on digital applications, growing concerns about data privacy arise.
According to a 2021 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey of 167 healthcare
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