Life science organizations field a wide range of requests for medical information from the healthcare providers and patients they serve. Addressing these inquiries is important from numerous perspectives, from customer support and pharmacovigilance to post-market surveillance, medication adherence and patient outcomes.
Global organizations face two related challenges in answering requests for medical information. For the sake of customer service, they must strive to answer these
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Designing Digital Transformation for Life Sciences: Building Resiliency When Disruption is the New Normal
The ability to navigate constant disruption is a prerequisite for success in today’s life science industries. To maintain their competitive advantage, businesses in this sector need to drastically boost their organizational agility and resiliency in the face of unprecedented market conditions and operational challenges. In order to achieve this, organizational digital transformation (DX) is necessary. However, with so much in flux, it can be difficult to see the big picture in trying to plan and
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Northwell Health Selects Google Cloud to Accelerate Digital Transformation
What You Should Know:
- Northwell Health, New York State's largest health care provider and private employer, and Google Cloud today announced a collaboration to improve patient care, clinician experiences, and to help the health and hospital network operate more efficiently.
- Privacy and security will be of the utmost importance in all aspects of this digital transformation. Through the implementation of Google Cloud's reliable infrastructure along with Northwell
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Innovaccer Expands into Public Sector to Accelerate Public Health Transformation
What You Should Know:
- Health cloud company Innovaccer Inc, today announced it is expanding into the public sector to improve collaboration between agencies, optimize case management, manage increasingly complex alternative payment models, and improve the individual’s experience through technology.
- The Innovaccer Health Cloud’s Data Activation Platform (DAP) collects, cleans, and connects data, making it available and shareable between systems to accelerate digital
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5 Public Health Challenges to Watch in the Post-Pandemic Era
What You Should Know:
- Public health agencies across the US are at a crossroads, finds the Reimagining Public Health Survey produced by Ernst & Young LLP (EY US).
- This survey of 301 public health officials found that while slightly more than one in two (52%) are optimistic about what data can achieve for their communities, the rate of digital transformation remains uneven, and organizations face significant barriers to change.
Key Public Health Obstacles Post Covid-19
Public
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Reimagining The Future of Pharmacovigilance (PV): Regulations, Tech, Public Perceptions
Monitoring the safe and effective use of medicines has now been an essential part of public health policy for several decades. New advances in technology (e.g., ICH E2B for the electronic exchange of case reports) over the past 20 years coupled with progressive legislation have been a catalyst for an explosion in safety data over this period.
Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, the rate of reporting of safety data has been unprecedented
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Healthcare Interoperability Has Arrived: 3 Ways to Harness the Potential
This year’s HIMSS Conference offered some exciting insights and a renewed focus on data-sharing and interoperability. While the healthcare industry has been extolling the virtues of data interoperability for years until recently it has remained one of the biggest obstacles to providing quality healthcare today. Yet, the tides are turning. New government regulations, like the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ interoperability rules and the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
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Sanofi Launches Its First Digital Health Accelerator to Address Unmet Patient Needs
What You Should Know:
- Sanofi launched its first Digital Accelerator to better leverage data and artificial intelligence to develop solutions that address unmet patient needs.
- The Digital Accelerator team is developing an integrated platform and data solution to enhance awareness of atopic dermatitis and available treatment options amongst patients and HCPs.
Digital Accelerator Focus
The Digital Accelerator is the next step in Sanofi’s
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Why Health Plans Must Have Next-Gen CAPS Technology for Digital Transformation
Core Administrative Processing Systems (CAPS) operate as the brains behind a health plan’s business. These systems are critical to the smooth functioning of a health plan. Today, many payers run on decades-old CAPS systems built on legacy technologies. This can be a serious drawback.
Legacy systems may have been efficient based on the technology and best practices of decades past, but have aged beyond their time. They often require an increasing number of workarounds and fixes to try to
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Ordr Secures $40M for Real-Time Connected Device Security Platform
What You Should Know:
- Ordr, a company making the complex problem of securing every connected device — from traditional IT devices to newer and more vulnerable IoT, IoMT or OT — simple, today announced it has raised an additional $40M. The funding round was co-led by Battery Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from new investor Northgate Capital and continuing investors Wing Venture Capital, Unusual Ventures, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, and Mayo Clinic.
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