What You Should Know: - Today, MEDITECH announced MEDITECH Cloud Platform—a
suite of solutions available to healthcare organizations of all sizes that
further extend the possibilities of the Expanse EHR. - This offering includes: Expanse NOW, High Availability
SnapShot, and Virtual Care solutions, all created to work naturally in the
cloud, and available through a subscription model. Today MEDITECH
introduced MEDITECH Cloud Platform—a suite of solutions available to
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Google Cloud Launches Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program
What You Should Know: - Google Cloud launches Healthcare Interoperability
Readiness Program to help healthcare organizations achieve healthcare data interoperability. Today,
Google Cloud launched the Google Cloud Healthcare Interoperability Readiness
Program, helping organizations achieve data interoperability in advance of
upcoming HHS deadlines and to enable future innovation. Alongside partners like Bain, BCG, Deloitte, HCL,
KPMG, SADA, and more, the Healthcare
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3 Telemedicine Security and Compliance Best Practices
The coronavirus pandemic accelerated telemedicine exponentially as patients and doctors switched from in-person visits to remote consultations. Health providers rapidly scaled virtual offerings in March and April and traffic volumes soared to unprecedented levels, with practices “seeing 50 to 175 times the number of patients by telehealth than before the outbreak,” according to McKinsey. By early August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expanded the list of
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AmWell IPO and Google Deal – Five Key Takeaways to Know
1) COVID-19 Has Driven Revenue Up 77% The headline revenue data (summarised below) provides very positive news for AmWell and its new investor, Google. Notably: - Even prior to COVID-19, the company was growing well with revenues increasing by 31% in 2019 compared to 2018. - This rate of growth has accelerated in 1H20, with overall revenue up 77% in the same period in 2019. - The 2019 growth was partly driven by a small increase in the number of health plan subscription customers and
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Google Cloud Awarded Defense Contract to Prototype AI-Enabled Digital Pathology Solution
What You Should Know: - Today, Google Cloud announced it was selected by the
Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to prototype an AI-enabled digital pathology
solution at select DoD facilities, with the goal of improving the accuracy of
diagnoses. - As the VA Center for Innovations in Quality,
Effectiveness, and Safety estimates 5% of outpatient diagnoses are conducted in
error in the U.S., this project will assist physicians who face an overwhelming
amount of data and help ultimately lower
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Built on Google Cloud Platform, The National Response Portal Launches for COVID-19 Insights
What You Should Know: National Response Portal launches to ensure healthcare providers and policymakers have access to the most up-to-date COVID-19 analytics. The open data platform built on Google Cloud enables decision-makers in healthcare and the government to make data-driven decisions toward ending the COVID-19 crisis and restarting the economy. SADA, a leading global business and technology
consultancy, announces the official launch of the National Response Portal
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Verily Launches COVID-19 Pathfinder for Health Systems & Hospitals
What You Need to Know: Verily has launched COVID-19 Pathfinder-- a new set
of tools that provide on-demand access to COVID-19 information directly from a
hospital or health system website. To help relieve the burden on care teams, Verily
has launched COVID-19
Pathfinder, a screening tool and programming template that provide
on-demand access to COVID-19
information directly from a hospital or health system website. San Joaquin General Hospital, Western
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HCA, Google Cloud Partner to Launch COVID-19 Open Data Platform for Hospitals
What You Should Know: - HCA Healthcare announces a partnership with Google Cloud and SADA on new COVID-19 open data platform named the COVID-19 National Response Portal to help communities respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. - The COVID-19 National Response Portal will help accelerate analysis and response by aggregating data on ICU bed and ventilator utilization, testing results, and total number of patient visits to America’s hospital systems. Nashville, TN-based HCA
Healthcare,
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White House, IBM Partner to Fight COVID-19 Using Supercomputers
What You Should Know: - The White House Office of Science and Technology and the U.S. Department of Energy teams up with IBM, and others to fight the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) using supercomputers. - The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium pooling supercomputing capacity to help researchers everywhere better understand COVID-19, its treatments, and potential cures. - These high-performance computing systems allow researchers to run very large numbers of
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CitiusTech Inks Partnership with Google Cloud to Accelerate Digital Transformation
- CitiusTech announces partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate digital transformation for healthcare organizations. - This partnership brings together Google Cloud’s technology and CitiusTech’s proven understanding of the complex healthcare environment. CitiusTech, a
leading provider of healthcare technology services and solutions, today
announced a partnership with Google Cloud
to accelerate digital transformation and cloud adoption across healthcare
organizations. As a Google
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