- NextGen Healthcare announced today it has agreed to acquire Medfusion for $43 million in cash to give its clients a better patient engagement platform. - Medfusion will spin out its data services business to form Greenlight Health to meet the growing need for patient-initiated health data retrieval. - Greenlight Health will be focused on driving data flows for patients, consumers, businesses and organizations that need ready access to patient-approved data housed across a wide variety of
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Research: October Health IT M&A Activity, Public Company Performance
- Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health merger & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of October 2019
During the month of October, Health IT continued its evolution into an amorphous market that is increasingly trending away from a specialized niche of healthcare and into a key component of larger sectors such as Enterprise Software, HR Administration, Insurance, Care Delivery, Suppliers, and BioPharma.
The
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Disruptors or Interrupters? How Apple Is Faring In Their Healthcare Initiatives
Key Highlights
- Part one of our new in-depth series on Apple, Google, and Amazon's latest healthcare efforts since our last report in April 2019.
- A look at Apple's recent healthcare developments, as well as an analysis of what goes beyond the news.
Over the last few decades the “digital age” has enabled many garage-based startups to transform into sustained successes by targeting problems that begged to be solved digitally. Sometimes their leaders identified and resolved
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Geisinger Launches Solution for Women to Request, Store, and Share Breast Health Records
- Geisinger has selected Life Image’s Mammosphere solution to enhance its breast health care offering for women. - Mammosphere is a digital tool that allows women to request, store, and share their breast health records, including prior mammograms, which are essential for accurate and efficient cancer detection.- By putting women in control of their own prior images and records, Mammosphere is overcoming some of the biggest hurdles in breast health management — helping Geisinger to streamline
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Twistle Raises $16M to Expand Patient Engagement Platform
- Seattle-based health IT innovator Twistle raises $16M in Series A funding from two major healthcare investors: Health Enterprise Partners (HEP) and MemorialCare Innovation Fund (MCIF). - The funding investors are healthcare-centric: MCIF is a strategic healthcare investment fund wholly-owned by a healthcare system and HEP is a private equity firm that invests exclusively in healthcare services and IT companies.- The funding will accelerate the delivery of personalized care guidance through
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ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte Launches New Digital Health Ecosystem Platforms
- ConvergeHEALTH MyPATH for Health and MyPATH for Connected Care help enhance the patient experience, improve adherence and generate a rich, longitudinal, real-world data set for insights.Today at HLTH 2019, ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte announced the launch of a robust platform for the healthcare ecosystem that supports two critically important patient journeys. MyPATH for Health and MyPATH for Connected Care work together to connect and support patients and their care teams across the patient
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How Can IT Support Stay Personal as Healthcare Moves Into A Digital Era?
The widely anticipated expansion of digital healthcare over the next decade is very exciting for many healthcare executives, physicians, IT vendors, and consumers. Potentially transformational IT technologies are already being explored by many hospitals, including new devices and applications designed to streamline healthcare operations, lower costs and enhance the quality of care. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, blockchain, telemedicine, voice search, virtual reality, wearables,
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How Digital Health Solutions Can Help Hospitals Eliminate Opportunities for Error
For many hospitals and health systems, creating a culture of high reliability is a priority. As healthcare shifts toward value-based care models that reward strong clinical outcomes, using repeatable, standardized processes to avoid errors and deliver safe, high-quality care is vital.
Despite dedicated efforts, however, the healthcare industry still struggles to achieve consistent, widespread quality. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 1.7
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The Health IT Staffing Shortage Is a Problem Morphing Into a Crisis
Staffing shortages have plagued the healthcare industry for years, and this year hospital IT departments are feeling more pain than ever. The shortfall in physicians and nurses understandably gets the most press attention, but two phenomenons are pushing scarcity of specialized IT workers into the stratosphere: computer and IT jobs across all industries are projected to grow 12% from 2018 to 2028, and healthcare is projected to add 3.5 million jobs during the period, about one-third of all new
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Philips, Spencer Health Launches In-Home Medication Adherence & Telehealth Platform in Europe
- Philips and Spencer Health Solutions expands partnership to Europe to benefit from in-home medication adherence and telehealth platform.- The Spencer Smart Hub is launching in selected markets in Europe including Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Switzerland, beginning with the Netherlands in the fourth quarter of 2019.Building on their successful partnership providing medication adherence solutions to high-acuity patients in the U.S. Royal Philips and Spencer Health
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