What You Should Know:
- Healthify in partnership with Algorex Health Technologies, announced the results of new social determinants of health (SDoH) population analysis of Excellus BlueCross BlueShield (BCBS) members.
- SDoH are non-clinical conditions that significantly
affect health outcomes. The analysis identified Excellus BCBS members who are
struggling with SDoH such as unstable housing, food insecurity and neighborhood
stress – which has enabled Excellus BCBS to develop a targeted
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Healthcare Data Exchange, Integration, and Analytics
Human API Raises $20M+ to Scale User-Controlled Health Data Ecosystem
What You Should Know:
- Human API, the consumer-controlled health data platform
announced it has closed a Series C round of $20M+ this week.
- Human API’s consumer-controlled platform gives users a
streamlined means of accessing and sharing their personal health records with
physicians, trusted startups and enterprises, and insurers.
- The platform harnesses a machine learning-powered data pipeline
that structures health data into a consistent format, making it easier for
medical
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JPC Taps Proscia to Modernize World’s Largest Human Tissue Repository
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. government’s Joint Pathology Center, which
houses the world’s largest human tissue repository, today announced that
Proscia, a leading digital and AI pathology company, will provide end-to-end
modernization of JPC’s pathology operations.
- The multi-phase project will digitize the world’s
largest human pathology specimen repository in order to enhance biomedical
research for cancer and infectious diseases like COVID-19, and enable easier
data sharing with
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Banner Health Taps Innovaccer’s Data Activation Platform to Power Digital Transformation
What You Should Know:
- Banner Health, one of the country’s largest non-profit healthcare systems, has partnered with Innovaccer for its digital transformation.
- Banner Health will leverage the platform to create unified patient records that drive comprehensive, preventive, and whole-person care solutions for patients across the care continuum.
Banner Health,
one of the country’s largest non-profit healthcare systems, has partnered with Innovaccer, Inc., a leading
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HP Launches EMR-Integrated Print Solutions to Digitize Point of Care Workflows
What You Should Know:
- HP launches patient-first print technologies to help healthcare
workers stay safe and spend more time caring for patients.
- Innovations co-developed with healthcare professionals
include industry’s first sterilizable printers, exclusive EMR-compliant
workflow solutions, and services to improve patient safety and privacy.
Today, HP Inc.
officially launched new print solutions for the healthcare industry. Based on
deep customer insights and co-developed with
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LabCorp + CommonHealth Integrate to Give Patients Secure Access to Test Results
What You Should Know:
- The Commons Project, a non-profit public trust, today
announced a strategic partnership with LabCorp that allows patients to securely
access test results, including COVID-19 screening, via CommonHealth, the
privacy-preserving Android app.
- This is the first partnership major commercial lab
integration for CommonHealth.
LabCorp and The Commons Project, a non-profit
public trust dedicated to building global digital services and platforms for
the common good,
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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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Amidst the Pandemic, IT Teams Turn to the Cloud to Protect Patient Data
The challenges facing healthcare during COVID-19 are more than biological. Healthcare providers are weathering a perfect storm as hackers take advantage of the commotion and ramp up their attack frequency and sophistication.
This isn’t surprising for those familiar with the hacker playbook, as cybercriminals typically go after victims that are the right combination of vulnerable and profitable. And right now, the valuable troves of personal health data held by providers, focused on battling
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Redox Interoperability Platform Now Available in AWS Marketplace
What You Should Know:
- Today, Redox announced the availability of the Redox
EHR Integration in AWS Marketplace. Now, healthcare providers and vendors can
access the largest package of pre-built EHR integrations and achieve value from
applications more quickly and easily.
- The digital transformation of healthcare has gained
momentum this year, and AWS is one of many tech giants working to spur
innovation in healthcare. AWS Marketplace is a platform that helps healthcare
organizations
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Philips Launches Future Health Index Exploring COVID-19 Perceptions Among Younger Doctors
What You Should Know:
- Philips releases new Future Health Index report that
explores how the COVID-19 pandemic is driving changes in how younger doctors
view their profession.
- The new research captures feedback from 500 doctors under the age of 40 in five countries: the United States of America, China, Singapore, France, and Germany.
Royal Philips, today
announced the release of the Future Health
Index Insights: COVID-19 and younger healthcare professionals report. The
main
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