What You Should Know: - Merck, today announced the launch of the Merck Digital Sciences Studio (MDSS) to enable the generation of innovative technologies for drug discovery and development. - MDSS will support early-stage biomedical startups with direct investment, access to powerful Azure Cloud computing and opportunities to pilot their technologies in collaboration with discovery and clinical scientists at Merck. MDSS Accelerator Program Focus The MDSS is a collaboration between
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Data-Driven Healthcare Operations Will Transform Outcomes
You don’t need another story urging you to “get to the cloud.” That’s old news for healthcare executives, who’ve long understood the necessity of rebooting the way their organizations operate in the digital era. In a recent McKinsey study, 19 of the 22 healthcare leaders the company interviewed described digital healthcare solutions as “highly relevant” or “relevant” to their businesses. They get it. In fact, digital healthcare has already become the minimum table stakes: 93% of
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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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The Academy and Nuance Partner to Launch The AI Collaborative
What You Should Know: - The Health Management Academy (The Academy) has partnered with Nuance, a Microsoft company, to launch The AI Collaborative, which brings together senior leaders from the nation’s Leading Health Systems (LHS) who are deploying these technologies in the clinical and operational settings, as well as planning for future use-cases. - The collaborative brings together physician executives from leading hospital systems and other key stakeholders across the healthcare
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Northwell Health Selects Teladoc Health to Improve Virtual Care Across Enterprise
What You Should Know: - Northwell Health, New York’s largest healthcare provider has signed a partnership agreement with virtual care provider Teladoc Health to deliver connected virtual care and expand care delivery to patients both inside and outside the four walls of the health system. The new enterprise strategy will leverage Teladoc Health’s collaboration with Microsoft, improving clinical teamwork and communication among Northwell clinicians. -
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Vital Start Health Launches Virtual Reality-Enabled Telemedicine Platform for Maternal Mental Health
What You Should Know: - Vital Start Health, a University of Pennsylvania startup and a member of Microsoft for Startups, has launched COURAGE as the next-generation, virtual reality, multi-lingual coaching and psychotherapy telehealth platform for maternal well-being support across the pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and postpartum stages. - The platform empowers patients with experiential practice and immersive psychoeducation, with the goal of driving better diagnoses, and
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When Automation Meets Empathy: Intelligent Virtual Assistants for Healthcare
Advances in conversational artificial intelligence are transforming basic chatbots into intelligent virtual assistants that provide comfort and utility for healthcare consumers and the healthcare organizations that serve them. Most consumers have their minds made up about automated phone agents, and not too many people like them. Who among us hasn’t experienced the frustration of an automated phone menu when calling for a doctor's appointment or shouted “representative!” into our
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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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MediView XR Secures $9.9M for Augmented Reality Surgical Navigation Platform
What You Should Know: - MediView XR, Inc., raises $9.9M in SAFE financing syndicated by Inside View Investments, LLC, a private investment firm. MediView has raised approximately $14.4MM in total funding to date. - Investment will support key technology development, commercialization and regulatory submissions. MediView XR Inc., a Cleveland-based medtech company that leverages augmented reality, remote connectivity and spatial computing data to create revolutionary surgical
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