The healthcare system in the United States is becoming overwhelmed as a result of COVID-19 and there is no doubt that this epidemic will test the limits of healthcare delivery systems from end to end. Of course, at the present moment, everyone’s focus is (and rightly should be) on ensuring hospitals and healthcare workers have the appropriate equipment and protective gear they need to stay safe and adequately treat patients. That said, there are other IT considerations that should be taken into
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Intel Launches $50M Pandemic Response Technology Initiative to Combat Coronavirus
What You Should Know:
- Intel pledges an additional $50 million in a pandemic response technology initiative to combat the coronavirus through accelerating access to technology at the point of patient care.
- Intel is committed to accelerating access to technology that can combat the current COVID-19 pandemic and enable new technology and the scientific discovery that better prepares society for future crises.
Intel is pledging an additional $50 million in a pandemic response
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What Health IT Thought Leaders Say HIMSS20 Would Have Focused On—If It Had Happened
What You Need to Know:
Health IT thought leaders share what HIMSS20 would have focused On—if It had happened.
- Hot topics include health IT to address COVID-19; artificial intelligence; EHR interoperability and usability; and more.
–Kuldeep Singh Rajput, CEO of Biofourmis, Boston, Mass., which provides digital therapeutics that power personalized predictive care
“Remote monitoring platforms and clinical-grade wearables combined with artificial intelligence [AI]-based
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Clarify Health to use LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Socioeconomic Data
What You Need to Know:
- LexisNexis Risk Solutions, that it has partnered with Clarify Health to evaluate the predictive capability of social determinants of health and clinical data.
- The collaboration’s approach will integrate individual-level SDOH data into Clarify Health’s clinical analytical models to evaluate the quality and efficacy of the data at the point of care to help drive care management decision-making.
- Clarify Health’s analytical models help identify population
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Wolters Kluwer, SAS Integrate to Power Real-World Evidence (RWE) Analytics
- SAS to leverage Wolters Kluwer’s Health Language portfolio of data quality solutions to power real-world evidence (RWE) analytics within SAS Health.
- Through a disease-centric approach, Health Language will enable SAS Health’s clients to more effectively manage reference data, such as ICD-10, CPT® and SNOMED CT, establish relationships between clinical and claims data and extract value from unstructured text within the medical record–providing a comprehensive view of a patient’s clinical
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Cotiviti Launches Longitudinal Data Set in Healthcare
- Cotiviti has launched Caspian Insights, which represents the most comprehensive data set in healthcare and includes longitudinal data on 40% of Americans.
- Unlike other platforms, Caspian unites financial and clinical information with other data types (i.e. social determinants of health, pharmacy, dental, and labs) creating a “single source of truth” never before seen in healthcare to this scale.
- By offering an all-encompassing view of each member, Caspian gives health plans and
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CitiusTech Inks Partnership with Google Cloud to Accelerate Digital Transformation
- CitiusTech announces partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate digital transformation for healthcare organizations.
- This partnership brings together Google Cloud’s technology and CitiusTech’s proven understanding of the complex healthcare environment.
CitiusTech, a
leading provider of healthcare technology services and solutions, today
announced a partnership with Google Cloud
to accelerate digital transformation and cloud adoption across healthcare
organizations.
As a Google
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Analysis: January Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of January 2020.
Ten years into the bull market, we operate in a heightened state of awareness for any indication of market weakness that may signal a downturn. While debt levels are rising and GDP growth somewhat sluggish, the world of private equity, public equity, and M&A continues to be in full swing bull market
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Life Image Launches Network Build to Help Providers Build Large-Scale Patient Data Networks
- Life Image launches Network Build Enterprise Solution to help healthcare organizations establish their own network connections to coordinate care and innovate. - Network Build allows healthcare organizations to create customized medical networks that can handle intensive data (e.g. diagnostic images, pathology, genomics, etc.) critical for advancing medical device development, clinical trials and more.Life Image, the world’s largest medical evidence network for clinical and imaging data,
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Impact Advisors Closes Credit Facility to Support Next Phase of Growth
- Impact Advisors closes a senior credit facility with healthcare specialty finance firm Oxford Finance LLC to help support the consulting firm's next phase of growth. - Impact Advisors will leverage Oxford along with its strategic partnership with Chicago Pacific Founders to further invest in key market areas.Impact Advisors, a highly rated KLAS provider of clinical, revenue cycle and information technology advisory services to the healthcare industry closed a senior credit facility with Oxford
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