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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Report: Epic Will Not Pursue Further Integration with Google Cloud
- Epic account reps have notified their clients that they will not pursue further integration with Google Cloud, citing lack of interest among its healthcare provider customers. - The company plans to focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as cloud providers. Account reps from Epic have started notifying their clients that they will not be pursuing further integration with Google Cloud as a service provider, according to a report from CNBC. CNBC reports that Epic cited lack of
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MTBC Acquires Cloud-based EHR Platform CareCloud
- MTBC acquires cloud-based, practice management EHR platform CareCloud on a cash-free, debt-free basis. - Founded in 2009, CareCloud’s integrated clinical and financial platform technology and its suite of solutions enables clients to increase profitability, streamline workflow and improve patient care outcomes nationwide.MTBC, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based healthcare IT and revenue cycle management solutions, today announced the closing of its acquisition of CareCloud which provides
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Change Healthcare, Google Expand Enterprise Imaging Platform With 4 Providers
- Change Healthcare announced a strategic initiative to build and implement the cloud-native Enterprise Imaging Network on the Google Cloud platform with four providers as development partners. - The network will enhance and optimize medical imaging data––enabling providers to improve clinical, financial, and operational outcomes.Change Healthcare, today at RNSA 2019 announced the latest milestone in its strategic initiative to build and implement its cloud-native Enterprise Imaging Network:
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Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ with Ascension Has Been Secretly Collecting Millions of Patient Records
What You Need to Know
- Google has been secretly working with St. Louis-based Ascension on an initiative code-named “Project Nightingale” to gather millions of patient records across 21 states since last year, reports The Wall Street Journal.
- The collected data includes patient names, date of birth (DOB), lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records to provide a complete health history.
- After the WSJ article, Ascension officially announced its collaboration with
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