Using Data Privacy to Empower Health Research
The importance of data security and data privacy policies have recently come under scrutiny due to revelations around Google’s Project Nightingale. The initiative with Ascension, the nation’s largest nonprofit health system, granted Google access to medical records of more than 50 million individuals in 21 states and may hinder the trajectory of health discovery by eroding “consumer” trust.
While historically it might have been a safe harbor to
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Impact of Precision Medicine| News, Policy, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
7 Trends Impacting The Design of Healthcare Environments in 2020
SmithGroup one of the nation’s leading integrated design firms has tapped its broad network of 1,300 interdisciplinary design professionals to offer its predictions for the trends and challenges that the design industry will face in the decade ahead. Here are seven trends that are likely to impact the design of health care environments in the 2020s. 1. Adapting to the Climate Crisis“In the last couple of years, the impacts of climate change are increasingly viewed as a global crisis, and I
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HealthMyne Appoints Rose Higgins As New CEO
- HealthMyne appoints Rose Higgins as the company’s new CEO, replacing Arvind Subramanian.
HealthMyne, a provider
of quantitative imaging decision support software solutions, announced the
appointment of Ms. Rose Higgins as the company's new Chief Executive Officer
(CEO). Prior to joining HealthMyne, Higgins served as President for SCIO Health
Analytics, an EXL Services company. Higgins has also served in previous
executive roles at McKesson and RelayHealth.
“Rose was selected to be CEO
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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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Social Determinants of Health Trends in 2020: The End of the Beginning?
2020 will mark the end of the beginning of Social Determinants of Health (SDoH).
One would be remiss not to give pause and to consider how much time it has taken to get to this pivotal period in US health and healthcare delivery and, focus on the cornerstone “why” healthcare must, with a fierce urgency, step into the twenty-first century of US healthcare delivery. Meaning, it has taken nearly seventy years to go from the World Health Organization identifying the profundity of SDoH influence on
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CVS Health Launches Transform Oncology Care Program, Partners with Tempus
- CVS Health launches Transform Oncology Care, which includes a comprehensive, first-of-its-kind precision medicine approach to oncology management for payors in collaboration with Tempus.- Transform Oncology Care includes an innovative precision medicine strategy that increases access to broad-panel gene sequencing tests for patients diagnosed with certain advanced-stage cancers. - The program also uses CVS’ local footprint and unique assets to improve patient outcomes and lower costs every
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Digital Transformation In Healthcare Is Not Happening As Fast As It Should — And There’s One Reason No One is Talking About
At first glance, the healthcare field seems to be a goldmine for digital innovation. An overextended workforce, outdated protocols, hundreds of wasted hours in administrative tasks, a patient population that is wide open to digital solutions, a multitude of inefficiencies and redundancies — the opportunities for digital overhaul in healthcare are myriad. Yet every year the graveyard of digital health tools gets more crowded as innovators fail to overcome healthcare’s uniquely complex barriers to
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Amazon Launches EHR-Integrated, Machine Learning-Powered Transcription Service
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches Amazon Transcribe Medical, a HIPAA-eligible, machine learning-powered medical transcription service that utilizes automatic speech recognition applications to offer a more efficient and accurate medical note-taking experience. - By utilizing voice-enabled technologies, Transcribe Medical automatically translates audio streams into medical speech -- designed to be deployed at scale to patients’ healthcare providers, allowing for affordable, consistent,
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3 Underfunded Areas Essential To The Success of Value-Based Care
- Third annual Top of Mind for Top Health Systems survey from the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) reveals value-based care depends on three underfunded technologies. - KLAS Research shows patient engagement, data analytics, and precision medicine drives better treatments, but barriers remain.As healthcare continues to shift toward value-based care, technology that boosts patient engagement, harnesses all available data for informed decision-making and enables more effective treatments will
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5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Digital Pathology
- As the digital pathology market grows, facilities that rely on digital pathology will start using artificial intelligence (AI) to assist. AI could help health professionals cope with the gigantic quantities of data - Discover why healthcare facilities increasingly realize that AI could help achieve significant impacts with digital pathology.Thanks to approvals from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for applications such as primary disease diagnosis, digital pathology is rapidly becoming
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