- DocASAP, a patient access and engagement platform for health systems, health plans and physician groups revealed the findings of its first annual “State of Patient Access and Engagement” survey. - The survey, conducted by OnePoll and commissioned by DocASAP in October 2019, uncovers insights into patients’ preferences, frustrations and expectations when communicating and engaging with health plans and healthcare providers.DocASAP, a provider of the most advanced patient access and engagement
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Artificial Intelligence’s Need for Health Data – Finding An Ethical Balance
With doctors’ time in short supply, one area in which AI-driven tools could help transform healthcare is by increasing diagnostic accuracy. AI-driven diagnostic tools, especially in areas like cardiology, have the potential to save the healthcare system money and most importantly save lives. They are developed using incomprehensibly large datasets and can, therefore, discover patterns that are invisible to the human eye.
For example, echo-based tools combined with deep clinical insight,
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Google-Ascension: Why Is HIPAA Probably Not Being Violated?
- Various arrangements between Google and systems including the Mayo Clinic, University of Chicago, and Ascension draw concern and fears of Google just taking multitudes of personal information about thousands or millions of individuals.
- Despite the most common statement being that Google is stepping around HIPAA, the most likely answer is that Google (and really many other technology-based vendors) can receive the data as a business associate.
- Why is HIPAA probably not being violated?
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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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Strainprint Launches First Medical Cannabis Report from Real-World Observational Patient Study
- Canadian-based Strainprint releases a groundbreaking research report providing unique insight from over 800,000 real-time Canadian medical cannabis patient outcomes. - Strainprint seamlessly integrates with most electronic medical records (EMR) solutions and the largest data set of its kind in the world with more than 1.4 million sessions and 70 million data points on cannabis strain efficacy.- StraicnprintR is HIPAA, PIPEDA and PHIPA privacy compliant, 256-bit military-grade encrypted.
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Research: October Health IT M&A Activity, Public Company Performance
- Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health merger & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of October 2019
During the month of October, Health IT continued its evolution into an amorphous market that is increasingly trending away from a specialized niche of healthcare and into a key component of larger sectors such as Enterprise Software, HR Administration, Insurance, Care Delivery, Suppliers, and BioPharma.
The
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Disruptors or Interrupters? How Apple Is Faring In Their Healthcare Initiatives
Key Highlights
- Part one of our new in-depth series on Apple, Google, and Amazon's latest healthcare efforts since our last report in April 2019.
- A look at Apple's recent healthcare developments, as well as an analysis of what goes beyond the news.
Over the last few decades the “digital age” has enabled many garage-based startups to transform into sustained successes by targeting problems that begged to be solved digitally. Sometimes their leaders identified and resolved
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Google to Acquire Fitbit for $2.1B in Cash, Will Not Use Fitbit Data for Google Ads
- Google enters an agreement to acquire wearable leader Fitbit for $2.1 billion in cash, approximately $7.35 per share. - The acquisition of Fitbit shakes up the fitness and wearables market and gives Google a considerable market share against competitor Apple.- Fitbit health and wellness data will not be used for Google ads and will give Fitbit users the choice to review, move, or delete their data.Fitbit, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by
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Google Adds Suki As One of Their First Clinical Digital Voice Assistant Partners
- Google has just added Suki—an AI-powered, voice-enabled digital assistant that lifts the administrative burden from doctors—as one of Google Cloud Global Healthcare Solutions’ first clinical digital voice assistant partners. - As one of Google Cloud’s first partners offering a digital clinical assistant, Suki will also use its voice technology to develop and improve language models for physician-focused applications.Today, Suki, an AI-powered, voice-enabled digital assistant that lifts the
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Google and care.ai Launches Autonomous Monitoring for Hospitals
- Google collaborates with a new company, care.ai to bring autonomous monitoring capabilities of self-driving cars to hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare facilities to prevent patient falls, bedsores, protocol violations, etc.- care.ai uses Google’s Coral TPU to turn every room in a facility to a “Self Aware Room,” its active learning neural networks and edge sensors can predict and prevent potentially fatal mishaps for patients in a clinical setting.care.ai, a healthcare AI innovator,
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