- Pipeline Health selects Cerner to upgrade to a single, integrated EHR across 7 hospitals, 25 clinics, and 12 free-standing emergency departments within the Pipeline Health network. - Pipeline Health will gain access to the Cerner Millennium EHR, including clinical, revenue cycle, ambulatory, and value-based care solutions through a remote-hosted model. - Cerner will replace multiple disparate EHR systems across the Pipeline Health network. The new platform will be rolled out during a
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Wellframe Raises $20M to Accelerate Digital Care Management Solution for Care Teams
- Wellframe raises $20M in Series C funding to support company growth, including hiring in its Boston office, and accelerate its leadership in the Digital Health Management market.Wellframe translates evidence-based, peer-reviewed guidelines and literature into an interactive daily checklist delivered to patients through the Wellframe mobile app.The additional funding announced today will also enable Wellframe to accelerate the next phase of its Digital Health Management solutions, Digital
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Heart Failure is Detectable at Point of Care Using ECG-Enabled Stethoscope, Mayo Clinic and Eko Finds
- Eko and Mayo Clinic announced they have proven that heart failure is detectable during routine physical exams, further validating the Eko DUO digital stethoscopes as a heart failure screening tool. - Today’s news marks the first time that a point of care device with a single lead ECG combined with an AI algorithm identified low ejection fraction in patients.- The results of these findings, which are comparable to research published earlier this year in NatureMedicine, were presented over the
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Life Image, Graticule Launches Imaging Dataset In AWS Data Exchange
- Life Image and Graticule announced the availability of GLIMPS (Graticule Life Image Machine Parsed Set) data licensing subscriptions in AWS Data Exchange. - GLIMPS (Graticule Life Image Machine Parsed Set) is a de-identified patient-level data set including a summary of features generated from NLP processing on Life Image data. - The goal of GLIMPS is to provide a cost-effective patient-level snapshot to biopharma data science teams to fuel the necessary discussions about these data, leading
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Deloitte, Amazon Web Services Partner to Create New Health Ecosystems Through Data
- Deloitte is now working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its new cloud-based service AWS Data Exchange to help organizations quickly and easily find, access and share data from other institutions securely.- Deloitte and AWS Data Exchange together will help organizations and researchers uncover the value created from the vast amounts of data generated throughout the healthcare ecosystem. Most of this data has been inaccessible – and if it is accessible, it’s difficult to find and obtain. -
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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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Massachusetts Expands Digital Health R&D Sandbox Program
- Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI) adds Brigham Digital Innovation Hub (iHub) in Boston, MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) in Cambridge, and TechSpring at Baystate Health in Springfield, Mass. - MeHI selects startups eMotion Rx of Cambridge and Stability Health of Worcester for Inaugural Sandbox at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteThe Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI) has selected three of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ leading
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Privileged Only: Is Digital Health Tech A Solution for Elites?
Anish Sebastian, Co-founder and CEO, Babyscripts
Healthcare disruptors are betting the farm on digital health technology, and they have the funds to validate their enthusiasm. Investments in digital health startups came in at a staggering $8.1B at the end of 2018, marking an increase of 42% from 2017. While investments are slowly beginning to level out in 2019, analysts see this as a sign that the industry is maturing; not, as some thought, as a signal of pending collapse.
Health
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Payment Integrity: Is AI The Real Answer to Reducing Overutilization?
Doug Williams, Chief Operating Officer at HMS
Some experts estimate that $200 billion is wasted each year on unnecessary or excessive medical testing and treatment. This could be up to 40% of the unnecessary spending in the system today.
Despite the extreme focus to reduce the total amount spent on healthcare, why does extensive spending on unnecessary or excessive tests or procedures continue? The easy answer is because it is often difficult to spot what is unnecessary or
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Q/A: Life Image CEO Matthew Michela Talks Data Sharing Challenges in Breast Imaging
Matthew Michela, President and CEO of Life Image
- President and CEO Matthew Michela talk about how Life Image is creating easier access to breast imaging data while also solving some of data sharing’s biggest snags.
Interoperability—it’s the long-awaited result that evolving HIT promised
to bring with it, and yet, it still gets left behind. Disparate data is not a
problem exclusive to one data type or innovation; breast imaging, for example,
has created some of the toughest challenges.
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