If you scan a bright, clear night sky, you will likely pick out familiar shapes. Depending on your creativity, you might see Ursa Major and Minor or perhaps only the Big Dipper and its little brother. But those stars are not only entertaining, they also are important points of navigation used by ancient sailors, the Apollo missions, and even the Mars Rover. Just as sailors might choose the North Star to guide them, CFOs and healthcare revenue cycle leaders often seek a simple,
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Geisinger Selects AWS as Strategic Cloud Provider to Migrate Over 400 Apps to AWS
What You Should Know: - Geisinger has chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its strategic cloud provider and will transition its entire digital portfolio of more than 400 applications and numerous workflows to AWS. - The project will be one of the largest electronic health record (EHR) cloud migrations to AWS to date, expected to enable life-saving technologies and save Geisinger several million annually. Geisinger's Cloud Migration to AWS The decision comes after a detailed multi-year
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NIH Funds First Nationwide Rare and Atypical Diabetes Network
What You Should Know: - NIH awards funding for Rare and Atypical Diabetes
Network, or RADIANT that will seek to discover the cause of
several unusual forms of diabetes. - RADIANT plans to screen about 2,000 people with unknown
or atypical forms of diabetes that do not fit the common features of type 1 and
type 2 diabetes. The National Institute of
Health (NIH), announced this week it is funding a nationwide study with The Rare and Atypical Diabetes
Network (RADIANT) that will seek
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Siemens Healthineers and Geisinger Ink 10-Year to Drive Digital Health Innovation
What You Should Know: -Siemens Healthineers and Geisinger announced a 10-year agreement to drive digital health collaborations, including artificial intelligence-enabled applications. - The partnership will make better health easier throughout Pennsylvania and in all communities that Geisinger serves. Siemens
Healthineers and Geisinger have
established a 10-year Value Partnership to advance and support elements of
Geisinger’s strategic priorities related to continually improving
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Geisinger Expands Telehealth Services to Assess, Monitor and Triage COVID Patients At-Home
What You Should Know: - Geisinger Health expands long-term telehealth services partnership with AMC Health to help assess, monitor, and triage COVID-19 patients at-home. - The expanded agreement includes IVR (interactive voice response) and patient Bluetooth peripheral kits, etc. Healthcare provider Geisinger, today announced it is expanding its relationship with AMC Health, the leading provider in telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology. As part of the expansion,
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Geisinger’s KeyHIE to Deploy FHIR-Based Imaging App Across Network
Key Highlights- Geisinger’s KeyHIE has selected Life Image to become the first in the nation to implement FHIR-based imaging app to share diagnostic content in the provider portal. - From the KeyHIE provider portal, doctors can call up a patient’s medical imaging directly through the Life Image Viewer app and examine it while reading the diagnostic report within their portal.- The solution allows the integration of actionable data and clinically important information for diagnosis or treatment
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Geisinger Launches Solution for Women to Request, Store, and Share Breast Health Records
- Geisinger has selected Life Image’s Mammosphere solution to enhance its breast health care offering for women. - Mammosphere is a digital tool that allows women to request, store, and share their breast health records, including prior mammograms, which are essential for accurate and efficient cancer detection.- By putting women in control of their own prior images and records, Mammosphere is overcoming some of the biggest hurdles in breast health management — helping Geisinger to streamline
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4th Annual Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge Kicks Off
Quick Glance- Accenture kicks off the application period for the fourth annual Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge- Challenge seeks to support innovative approaches and solutions for improving the way people access, manage and finance healthcare in North America- Three categories for this year’s Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge are operational efficiency, increased access, and consumer experienceAccenture, today kicked off the application period for the fourth annual
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Geisinger Selects EarlySign to Apply AI Algorithms to Identify Patients At Risk of Lower GI Disorders
Geisinger Health System announced it is partnering with machine learning solution provider EarlySign to develop AI-based solutions to identify individuals at risk of a range of chronic and high-burden diseases. The multi-year agreement will begin by deploying EarlySign’s LGI Flag through Geisinger’s Steele Institute for Health Innovation – to identify patients at risk of lower gastrointestinal conditions – including colorectal cancer and precancerous adenomas. This partnership follows the
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Geisinger Health System Taps Stanson Health for Next-Gen Clinical Decision Support
Geisinger Health System has selected Los Angeles, California-based Stanson Health to implement Stanson Health Clinical Decision Support and Stanson Analytics. Combined with relevant analytics, Stanson solutions safely guide physician decisions toward the elimination of unnecessary or inappropriate care and help improve the quality of care.The Stanson catalog of several hundred clinical decision support interventions are geared toward assisting physicians at the point of care. Content is focused
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