In March 2020, many office workers packed up their bags under the mandate of their employers, assuming they’d be working from home for a few weeks so the coronavirus could “blow over.” Fast-forward two years: many of those same employees have yet to step foot back into their old offices, and some never will again. A similar trend is playing out in healthcare. When COVID-19 started, many health systems rapidly adopted virtual care models as a matter of necessity to keep as many non-COVID
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What The Finance Industry Can Teach Healthcare About Digital Transformation
The COVID-19 pandemic feels like a once-in-a-lifetime event for those of us involved in healthcare, but the patterns of how the crisis affected our industry feel familiar. Stop me if you have heard this before: incumbent players in a broad industry made very slow and fragmented technological advances for years with no real threat to their business. Then, a sudden and transformational event catapulted direct-to-consumer technologies, forcing the incumbents to fundamentally alter their business
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CPQ: Optimizing MedTech Operations and Sales to Accelerate Cash Flow
The lead-to-cash process in most B-to-B organizations––particularly those operating in the medical device industry––is often complex and lengthy. This is even more apparent when operations, sales and customer success teams operate in manual and siloed environments. In this all-too-common scenario, not only does it slow cash flow velocity, it also leaves the organization vulnerable to inconsistencies, inaccuracies and more errors every time a handoff occurs between
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Day 3 HIMSS Roundup: Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT, GE Healthcare/AliveCor Integration
Venture Capital, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT® to Expand Diabetes Offerings in France Glooko, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring and data management solutions for diabetes and related chronic conditions, today announced the acquisition of DIABNEXT, a Paris-based company whose digital health platform helps people with diabetes better manage their conditions and connects to their healthcare providers, so they can
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HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform OptimizeRx, a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and stay on therapy announced a definitive agreement to acquire the EvinceMed platform and related assets. EvinceMed is a provider in delivering end-to-end automation for specialty pharmaceutical transactions. The acquisition includes the full Market Access Management Platform
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Microsoft Expands Healthcare Cloud Strategy with New Solutions
Microsoft Expands Healthcare Cloud Strategy with New Solutions What You Should Know: Today at HIMSS22, Microsoft announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Azure Health Data Services Azure Health Data Services is purpose-built for protected health information (PHI) and brings together diverse datasets — like clinical, imaging and streaming data
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Lyniate and NextGate Merge to Enhance Interoperability
What You Should Know: Lyniate, a leader in healthcare data interoperability, has announced a merger agreement with NextGate, a pioneer in Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI). Financial details were not disclosed. - This strategic combination will help meet increased market demand for more advanced interoperability solutions that address data quality as well as data-sharing, furthering Lyniate’s commitment to building connections for a healthier world. Merger Deepens
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InterSystems Launches HealthShare Health Connect Cloud
What You Should Know: - InterSystems, a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical scalability, interoperability, and speed problems, today announced the official release of InterSystems HealthShare® Health Connect Cloud, a new platform-as-a-service (PaaS). - The PaaS streamlines interoperability and data integration between clinical systems and applications while managing the entire infrastructure. With guaranteed delivery, reliability, and
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Proscia & Hamamatsu Partner to Accelerate Scaled Adoption of Digital Pathology
What You Should Know: - Proscia, the leader in digital and computational pathology solutions, and Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., a leading provider of whole slide imaging systems, today announced a collaboration to accelerate digital pathology adoption at an enterprise scale. - The cooperation agreement increases the availability of the companies' best-of-breed, unified solution that combines Proscia's Concentriq® platform and Hamamatsu's NanoZoomer® series of whole slide scanners to deliver
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Health Gorilla Raises $50M to Expand FHIR-Native Health Interoperability Platform
What You Should Know: - Health Gorilla raises $50 million in Series C funding to securely enable the exchange of actionable and aggregated clinical data. - The new investment will accelerate Health Gorilla's mission to connect everyone, everywhere, with actionable health data. Health Gorilla, a Sunnyvale, CA-based health interoperability platform, today announced it has raised $50M in Series C funding led by SignalFire with participation from Epsilon Health Investors, IA Capital, and
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