Social media is an essential online marketing and outreach
tool for any organization that wants to connect to the largest audience
possible. However, health organizations — like
hospitals — can face unique challenges in managing social media,
which can make effectively leveraging these tools less straightforward.
Many large hospitals have been successful in making social media work for them. As a result, they've provided a template that other healthcare
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Medtronic Acquires AI-Powered Surgical Simulation Platform Digital Surgery
- Medtronic acquires Digital Surgery, a London-based provider of artificial intelligence (AI) driven surgical data and analytics company Digital Surgery for an undisclosed sum.
- The acquisition will accelerate Medtronic’s strategy to provide AI and data within laparoscopic and robotic-assisted surgery.
Medtronic, a global provider of medical technology solutions and services, announced the acquisition of Digital Surgery, a London-based privately-held pioneer in surgical artificial
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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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Brainlab Acquires Patient-Centered Outcomes Platform VisionTree
- Brainlab acquires VisionTree Software Inc., a San Diego, CA-based provider of modular, cloud-based, patient-centered outcomes platform for specialty patient care, engagement and research. - The established ePRO solution will complement the Brainlab cloud-based infrastructure and registry solution aiming to deliver patient engagement and even more comprehensive quality reporting.- Brainlab will continue to invest in the VTOC platform aiming to facilitate data collection across all available
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How Machine Learning Can Support Early Intervention for High-Risk Patients
Mark Scott, Chief Marketing Officer at Apixio
U.S. healthcare costs have skyrocketed over the last decade and show no sign of slowing down. We currently spend $3.5 trillion a year on healthcare—about $11,000 per person, more than twice the average per-person spending in other developed countries. And healthcare costs are expected to nearly double to $6 trillion by 2027, further adding to the financial burden on patients, plans, and providers.
Healthcare organizations are exploring a wide
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Top 60 Health IT/Digital Health Mergers & Acquisitions in 2019
- From Google's acquisition of Fitbit to Philips acquisition of Carestream Health's health IT business, here is a look at some of the biggest health IT/digital health mergers & acquisitions in 2019 by each quarter.
Q1 M&A Activity
Johnson & Johnson Acquires Auris Health for $3.4B to Expand Digital Surgery Portfolio
Johnson & Johnson acquiresAuris Health, a developer of robotic technologies for $3.4 billion in cash. Auris Health is a privately-held developer of
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SoldierStrong Donates Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Exoskeleton to VA Boston
- SoldierStrong donates a spinal cord rehab exoskeleton that enables individualized gait therapy for patients with lower extremity weakness or paralysis to VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury Campus. - The donation will provide VA Boston with device options for their Veterans who meet the medical clearance and FDA criteria to allow for robotic-assisted ambulation post spinal cord injury. SoldierStrong, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing revolutionary medical
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Medtronic to Leverage Lumeon’s Care Pathway Management Platform to Deliver Value-Based Care in Europe
- Lumeon and Medtronic form strategic partnership to support Medtronic’s European healthcare provider customers in their transition to efficient, value-based care models.- Medtronic’s Integrated Healthcare Solutions (IHS) business will leverage Lumeon’s CPM Platform to operationalize care pathways for surgery optimization and chronic disease management.Lumeon, a provider of Care Pathway Management (CPM), today announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with medical technology provider
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Artificial Intelligence’s Need for Health Data – Finding An Ethical Balance
Ross Upton, CEO and Academic Co-Founder of Ultromics
With doctors’ time in short supply, one area in which AI-driven tools could help transform healthcare is by increasing diagnostic accuracy. AI-driven diagnostic tools, especially in areas like cardiology, have the potential to save the healthcare system money and most importantly save lives. They are developed using incomprehensibly large datasets and can, therefore, discover patterns that are invisible to the human eye.
For example,
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AdvaMed Launches Center for Digital Health to Advance Data-Driven Healthcare
- AdvaMed launches Center for Digital Health, an advocacy platform to drive data-driven healthcare- The Center for Digital Health includes a wide range of medical and digital technology companies that are leveraging health care data and technology innovation to enable new insights, support health and wellness, improve patient interventions and outcomes and enhance the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery.The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) today announced the launch of
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