- Various arrangements between Google and systems including the Mayo Clinic, University of Chicago, and Ascension draw concern and fears of Google just taking multitudes of personal information about thousands or millions of individuals.
- Despite the most common statement being that Google is stepping around HIPAA, the most likely answer is that Google (and really many other technology-based vendors) can receive the data as a business associate.
- Why is HIPAA probably not being violated?
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InsightRX, Premier Partner to Bring Precision Antibiotic Dosing to 4,000 Hospitals
- InsightRX and Premier Inc. Partner to enable 4,000 hospitals, health systems, and providers to personalize treatment for infectious disease patients.
- The integrated solution aims to decrease serious side effects caused by vancomycin and other antibiotics used to treat infectious diseases.
InsightRX, a provider
of precision medicine, and Premier Inc., a healthcare improvement company
uniting 4,000 U.S. hospitals and health systems, have joined forces to individualize
medication
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Sheba Medical Center to Create The World’s First Fully VR-Based Hospital
- Sheba Medical Center is creating the world-first first VR-based hospital by leverage XRHealth’s virtual reality platform as part of their strategic innovation commitment to digital health. - Sheba will leverage XRHealth’s VR platform for cognitive therapy, physical therapy, pain relief, and many other applications throughout the entire hospital.Sheba Medical Center, the leading medical center in the Middle East and an internationally recognized healthcare facility in Israel, today announced a
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HITRUST Releases New Tools to Improve Third-Party Risk Management
- Comprehensive TPRM methodology and enhancements to HITRUST assessment XChange combine to overcome TPRM challenges. - The new release of the HITRUST TPRM Qualification Methodology expands on HITRUST’s popular Risk Triage Methodology with a six-step qualification process that provides organizations a comprehensive approach to defining inherent risk factorsHITRUST, a leading data protection standards development and certification organization, today announced a major release of its HITRUST
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Japanese Startup AI Medical Secures FDA Approval for Real-Time Endoscopic AI Platform
Key Highlights- AI Medical Service, a Toyoko, Japan-based endoscopic artificial intelligence provider announces it has been granted Breakthrough Device Designation by the FDA. - FDA Breakthrough Device Designation expedites the traditional development, assessment, and review process, and enables medical professionals to get access to new developments quickly.- Designation will also enable the company to launch its project in the U.S. and expand to other markets across the world.AI Medical
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Privileged Only: Is Digital Health Tech A Solution for Elites?
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 tech has been touted as the cure-all for financial
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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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Primary Care Doctors Use Autonomous AI to Instantly Detect Eye Disease
- A Georgia Primary Care Clinic is now using an autonomous AI system called IDx-DR to test patients for diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness.
- IDx-DR is cleared by the FDA to make an assessment without the need for a clinician to also interpret the image or results, making it usable by healthcare providers who may not normally be involved in eye care.
- The exam typically takes 5-10 minutes. Nurses use an automated fundus camera to take pictures of the patient’s retinas –
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Cleveland Clinic Develops Personalized, 10-Year Diabetes Complication Risk Score Calculator
- Cleveland Clinic researchers develop new risk calculator shows patients their risks of developing major health complications over the next 10 years depending on which course of treatment they choose.- The calculator can be a useful tool for physicians and patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity can can inform patients who are considering weight-loss surgery. - Calculator shows patient’s risk of heart disease, stroke, heart failure, diabetic kidney disease, and death over the next 10 years
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Accounting for Inherent Vulnerabilities in Healthcare Blockchain Adoption
In the digital economy, every industry runs on data. In the healthcare industry, there is no greater need than to have total view and capitalization of data. But this need inherits others—the need for security, transparency, and interoperability.
In an industry rife with inefficiencies and systemic vulnerabilities (e.g. counterfeit prescription drugs), the benefits of using blockchain to address these needs cannot be ignored. The application of this technology will provide secure
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