- Change Healthcare announced a strategic initiative to build and implement the cloud-native Enterprise Imaging Network on the Google Cloud platform with four providers as development partners. - The network will enhance and optimize medical imaging data––enabling providers to improve clinical, financial, and operational outcomes.Change Healthcare, today at RNSA 2019 announced the latest milestone in its strategic initiative to build and implement its cloud-native Enterprise Imaging Network:
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Public Health
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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Boston U Launches First-Ever Virtual Alzheimer’s Disease Population Health Study
- Savonix and Boston University School of Public Health launches the first-ever population health Alzheimer’s Disease Discovery Study (ASSIST) to digitally collect brain health data from over 400k participants.- First-ever wholly digital population health study that captures data from multiple wearable technologies together with sensitive neuropsychology tests to examine how risks for dementia cluster to produce diseases like Alzheimer’s.- Study data will power first time knowledge of how
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Study Reveals First-Ever Predictive Model for Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes Related to Social Determinants
- Landmark study released from Stanford Medical School reveals a first-ever predictive model for uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus related to social determinants of health. - Peer-reviewed study released August issue of Medical Care that sheds light on an important aspect of T2DM causality, and addressing them has the potential to save the US Healthcare system billionsDr. Sanjay Basu and Dr. Rajiv Narayanaswamy, in conjunction with Stanford Medical School recently released an article in an
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CVS Health to Invest $2.5M to Build Healthier Communities in Ohio
- CVS Health announced it will invest $2.5M over the next three years to build healthier communities across the state of Ohio.
- Investments will support key initiatives across Ohio including increasing access to healthcare, preventing prescription opioid misuse and supporting tobacco-free living for at-risk populations.
CVS Health, today announced it and its private charity will be donating more than $2.5 million in Ohio over the next three years to improve the health and wellness of
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Getting Back to Joy in Work: A Call to Prioritize The Patient-Provider Relationship
When I think about the term “joy in work”, coined by the Institute for Health Improvement, the first thing that comes to mind are my patients and their health. If I feel like I can contribute in some way to overcoming an illness, meeting their health goals, or improving their quality of life, then it makes the long days of work worthwhile. Like anyone else in any other profession, the impact I make through my work keeps me going throughout all the other headaches. That’s why re-prioritizing the
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NYC Health + Hospitals to Invest $224M to Upgrade Medical Imaging Technology Over 10 Years
- NYC Health + Hospitals plans to invest $224M over the next 10 years to upgrade its medical imaging technology across the health system. - 230 medical imaging units will be replaced and updated within first four years- Equipment will support the public health system’s goal of standardizing care and providing patients modernized, state-of-the-art imaging technologyNYC Health + Hospitals, the nation’s largest public healthcare system today announced that it is investing $224 million over
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BrainCheck Nabs $8M for Cognitive Health Tracking for Seniors and Families
- BrainCheck closes $8M in Series A funding round to empowers physicians with a better way to assess cognitive impairment & dementia. - Comprehensive cognitive health solution transforms assessment and treatment of patients with cognitive impairment, including the 10% of seniors with dementia, and enables physicians to deliver personalized treatment plans. - BrainCheck will utilize the new funds to grow its footprint among physician groups and continue to expand into enterprise healthcare
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InterSystems Normalizes Healthcare Data for Analytics with Clean Data Service Offering
- Intersystem unveils its newest offering, Clean Data as a Solution at InterSystems Global Summit 2019, the company’s annual conference held in Boston.- A clean data set means there are no duplicate records, formatting errors, incorrect information, or mismatched terminology.- Clean Data as a Solution ingests, cleans, and normalizes healthcare data for use in analytics and machine learning applications.InterSystems, a provider of information technology platforms for health, business, and
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Appriss Health Acquires Behavioral Health Platform OpenBeds
- Appriss Health acquires cloud-based behavioral health platform OpenBeds to remove gaps in behavioral health treatment referrals. - OpenBeds ensures that providers don't spend hours of their day manually trying to find treatment facilities for patients, because the data is available to them within minutes.- The acquisition of OpenBeds helps Appriss Health to build on its efforts to address the complex and changing opioid crisis plaguing communities through proven solutions for patient
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