What You Should Know: - Accenture published Fast-Forwarding Healthcare through Data Collaboratives Report to discover how best health ecosystem players access data to fast-forward healthcare. - Data generated by technical and scientific advances, like connected health devices, consumer health and medical-grade digital apps, individual multi-omics profiling data and the move to cloud storage, holds great promise for accelerated healthcare progress and precision medicine, and data
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Intellectual Property
Top Security Certifications Required for Data Protection
How secure is your data? If your organization does not have the right security certifications in place, it’s not a matter of if a data breach will occur – but when. A lack of regulatory compliance, network and technical vulnerabilities, unencrypted information, unsecured mobile devices, and weak credentials all play a part in putting a healthcare organization at risk for a data breach. Today, the cost of a data breach comes with a hefty price tag – an average of $9.44 million in the
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TripleBlind Taps Mayo Clinic Platform To De-Identify Patient Data
What You Should Know: - TripleBlind, an automated, real-time data de-identification company has expanded its relationship with Mayo Clinic Platform. - For the first time in healthcare, the use of TripleBlind’s Privacy Builder software will enable healthcare systems, via Mayo Clinic Platform, to strategically collaborate on developing the next generation of digital healthcare solutions within secure environments. Collaboration Details The collaboration allows the Mayo Clinic Platform
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Protecting AI’s Boundless Potential in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence can do amazing things for patients, providers and the healthcare business — but only if the right cyber safeguards are in place. For more than a decade, a cybercrime syndicate known as Evil Corp has tormented organizations around the world with malware and ransomware attacks. And now, it seems, the group has designs on healthcare companies. “Evil Corp should be considered a significant threat to the U.S. health sector,” the Health Sector Cybersecurity
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Patent Awarded for Saliva-Based Test to Help Diagnose Concussion
What You Should Know: - Quadrant Biosciences announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded the company and two of its academic partners, the State University of New York Research Foundation and the Penn State Research Foundation, with U.S. Patent No.11,453,914 for the analysis and prediction of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and concussion symptoms. - This research was first mentioned on CNN back in 2017.
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Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Adds 10 New Digital Health Startups
What You Should Know: - Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, today announced its eighth accelerator class of ten new digital health startups. - From digital health mental health services to wearable devices to manage chronic asthma, these innovative healthcare-focused startups are working to transform health and healthcare delivery as part of the Los Angeles-based accelerator program. Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Overview During the three-month term, company representatives collaborate with
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AWS & MATTER Launches Incubator for EMEA Healthcare Startups Entering US Market
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) and MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, announced the launched of a new incubation program called AWS Expand. - The program supports startups entering the US market from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) by providing expert guidance, mentorship, client connections, an extensive network within the healthcare industry, and more. AWS Expand’s First Cohort of 30 EMA Healthcare Startups The dual-track program will prepare Europe,
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Take Command Acquires Technology from Savvy to Expand Benefits Platform
What You Should Know: - Take Command, a tech-enabled service that offers HRA administration, has acquired innovative HRA intellectual property assets from Savvy, a San Francisco-based, VC-backed healthcare company founded in 2019. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. - The acquisition signifies the market growth of Individual Coverage HRAs (ICHRAs, a new model of reimbursing employees for health insurance rather than buying it for them). What's an ICHRA? The
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BeeKeeperAI Partners with Microsoft to Accelerate AI-Powered Innovation in Healthcare
What You Should Know: - BeeKeeperAI, a company powering AI-powered solutions that will help to redefine the future of healthcare today announced its expanded collaboration with Microsoft. - The collaboration will allow algorithm developers and healthcare data stewards to access BeeKeeperAI, operating in the Microsoft Azure confidential computing (ACC) environment, through the Azure Marketplace. New Frontier for Healthcare AI Research The enhanced collaboration aims to accelerate the
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Salignostics Raises $8M for Rapid Saliva-Based Test Kits That Detect Pregnancy, COVID-19, Cardiac Risk, and Malaria
What You Should Know: - Israeli startup Salignostics, the developer and provider of rapid saliva-based tests for early pregnancy detection, as well as COVID-19, cardiac risk, malaria, and other diseases, has closed an $8 million Series A funding round from private investors headed by angel investor Avigdor Orlinsky. - The company has raised $16M to date to support development, commercialization, and marketing efforts for the tests in Israel and overseas. It will also support the launch of
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