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 simultaneously improving cybersecurity by following these three rules: Rule 1: Think Like an
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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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M&A: Cerner to Acquire Health Division of Kantar for $375M in Cash
What You Should Know: - Cerner announces it will acquire Kantar Health, a leading data, analytics, and real-world evidence and commercial research consultancy serving the life science and health care industry. - This acquisition is expected to allow Cerner’s Learning Health Network client consortium and health systems with more opportunities to directly engage with life sciences for funded research studies. The acquisition is expected to close during the first half of
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Amazon Launches HealthLake for Healthcare Orgs to Aggregate & Structure Health Data
What You Should Know: - Amazon today announced the launch of Amazon HealthLake, a new HIPAA-eligible service enables healthcare organizations to store, tag, index, standardize, query, and apply machine learning to analyze data at petabyte scale in the cloud. - Cerner, Ciox Health, Konica Minolta Precision Medicine, and Orion Health among customers using Amazon HealthLake. Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company today announced Amazon
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NLP is Raising the Bar on Accurate Detection of Adverse Drug Events
Each year, Adverse Drug Events (ADE) account for nearly 700,000 emergency department visits and 100,000 hospitalizations in the US alone. Nearly 5 percent of hospitalized patients experience an ADE, making them one of the most common types of inpatient errors. What’s more, many of these instances are hard to discover because they are never reported. In fact, the median under-reporting rate in one meta-analysis of 37 studies was 94 percent. This is especially problematic given the negative
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Recent Executive Hires: CVS Health New President, Cleveland Clinic/Amwell Joint Venture Leadership, Others
CVS Health Corporation names Neela Montgomery Executive Vice President and President of CVS Pharmacy/Retail, effective November 30, 2020. Montgomery will oversee the company's 10,000 pharmacies across the United States. Montgomery, currently a Board Partner at venture capital firm Greycroft, most recently served as chief executive officer of furniture retailer Crate & Barrel and has nearly 20 years of global retail experience. The Cleveland Clinic and Amwell joint venture appoint
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COTA Lands $34M to Drive Innovation in Oncology Using Real-World Data
What You Should Know: - COTA, Inc., a healthcare technology company that uses real-world data to bring clarity to cancer care, has secured $34M in funding. - Access to over one million patient data records and additional funding support enhanced real-world data and analytics services in oncology. COTA, Inc., a Boston, MA-based healthcare technology company that uses real-world data to bring clarity to cancer care, today announced it has raised $34 million in Series D funding led by
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Change Healthcare Unveils Social Determinants of Health Analytics Solution
What You Should Know: - Change Healthcare launches national data resource on social determinants of health (SDoH) for doctors, insurers and life sciences organizations to better understand the connection between where a person lives and how they live their life to the care a patient receives and their health outcome. - 80% of U.S. health outcomes are tied to a patient’s social and economic situation, ranging from food, housing, and transportation insecurity to ethnicity. Change
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8 Ways Advanced Analytics Can Help You Decide If Telehealth Should Be Temporary or Permanent
Over the past few months, primarily as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has gone from a “nice-to-have” to a “must-have” for healthcare providers. The surge of COVID-19 patients in the spring, coupled with “stay-at-home” orders in many states, meant that many patients in need of care for chronic conditions and other non-emergent health issues were unable to visit their providers face-to-face. Telehealth became the emergency solution, aided by relaxation of government regulations
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Redox Integrates Voluntis’ Digital Therapeutics Within EHR
What You Should Know: - Voluntis forms a strategic partnership with Redox to integrate Voluntis' digital therapeutics within existing clinical workflows and EHRs. - Integration of Voluntis’ Theraxium platform with the Redox Engine used by more than 900 healthcare organizations using 55 EHRs across the country. - The first area of this application will be in oncology, with future extensions in other therapeutic areas. As a result, clinical staff will be better equipped to serve each
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