Dr. Justin Graham, Chief Medical Officer, GYANT
The rapid development of a COVID-19 vaccine is a monumental achievement, but it does nothing to address our extremely fragmented healthcare system. In 2021, policymakers must create and extend incentives to providers to work together to keep patients healthy rather than maximize profit. The pandemic has devastated the traditional fee-for-service budgets of many healthcare systems, and it isn't clear they will ever be able to catch up without
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Healthcare Data Exchange, Integration, and Analytics
CIO: 3 Rules for Meeting ONC/CMS Interoperability, While Improving Cybersecurity
Scott Galbari, CTO, LyniateDrew Ivan, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Lyniate
Healthcare data security has been a growing concern for CIOs for the last year or so, as hackers are increasingly targeting health information. Now, with a global pandemic forcing a shift to telemedicine and remote work, and new rules from the ONC and CMS introducing more regulatory burden, healthcare CIOs have more to manage than ever. Fortunately, it is possible to roll out new capabilities while
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30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021
As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare executives to share their predictions and trends for 2021.
Kimberly Powell, Vice President & General Manager, NVIDIA Healthcare
Federated Learning: The clinical community will increase their use of federated learning approaches to build robust AI models across various institutions, geographies, patient demographics, and medical scanners. The sensitivity and selectivity of these models are outperforming AI models
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H1 Secures $58M to Expand Global Healthcare Data Platform
What You Should Know:
- H1, the largest database of information on every doctor
in the world raises $58M in Series B funding, just six months after raising its
Series A round during the pandemic.
- H1 is the largest database in the world connecting that
provides comprehensive in-depth profiles of more than 9 million healthcare
professionals and 16,000 institutions in 70-plus countries, all of which are
kept up-to-date weekly.
H1, a global
platform for the
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M&A: Cedar Gate Acquires Deerwalk to Enhance Value-Based Care Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Cedar Gate acquires Deerwalk, an innovative population
health management, data management, and healthcare analytics software company
based in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- By acquiring Deerwalk, Cedar Gate expands its
employer-based offerings with the ability to actively engage employers and ASOs
as they manage rising healthcare costs. The combined suite of offerings
improves the patient experience and delivers financial sustainability.
Cedar Gate Technologies
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Innovaccer, SyTrue Partner to Generate Actionable Insights from Healthcare Data
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer partners with SyTrue to uncover powerful insights
and accelerate its efforts to drive healthcare’s digital transformation.
- The integration of SyTrue’s proprietary NLP OS with
Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform will empower healthcare
organizations to identify diagnosis codes and Hierarchical Condition Categories
(HCC) from patient care progress notes and other unstructured texts.
Innovaccer, Inc., a San
Francisco, CA-based
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Gleaning Insights for COVID-19: Why Claims and Clinical Data Matter
Emad Rizk, M.D., President, CEO & Chairman of the Board, Cotiviti
Healthcare organizations continue to rely heavily on data analytics to try to improve COVID-19 outcomes and public health. Since the novel coronavirus became widespread in the U.S., healthcare data scientists have leveraged clinical and claims data to pinpoint which underlying conditions put patients at higher risk of complications from COVID-19. Health systems are mining clinical data to predict surges in COVID-19 cases
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LeanTaaS Secures $130M for ML Platform to Help Hospitals Achieve Operational Excellence
What You Should Know:
- LeanTaaS
raises $130 million in Series D Funding to strengthen its machine learning platform
to continue helping hospitals achieve operational excellence during a time
where they are facing mounting financial pressures due to COVID-19.
- LeanTaaS provides software solutions that combine lean
principles, predictive analytics, and machine learning to transform hospital
and infusion center operations to improve operational efficiencies, increase
access, and
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5 Steps for Interoperability Excellence for Healthcare Providers
Shanti Wilson, Consultant, Freed Associates
As if 2020 couldn’t be any more challenging for healthcare providers, new federal rules on interoperability and patient access, granting patients direct access to their healthcare data, begin taking effect in 2021 and will continue into 2022. These rules, while ultimately beneficial to patients, bring an additional level of operational complexity to many revenue-stressed healthcare organizations.
If anything, the 2020 pandemic has
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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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