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b.well Connected Health Secures $40M to Power The Connected Health Ecosystem

Healthcare IT Today

Company Also Welcomes Samsung Head of Digital Health to Board of Directors in Funding Round to Accelerate Growth b.well Connected Health , the company powering platform-enabled healthcare ecosystems, today announced the closure of a $40 million Series C growth round led by Leavitt Equity Partners.

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A Digital Health Checkup for the US – #1 in AI, Meh in Interoperability – An OECD Update

Health Populi

In health care, we have a plethora of standards for linking health information from disparate data sets. ” OECD found that over 90% of the countries studied reported introducing legislation to require standards for interoperability, and (wonk-alert) with two-thirds adopting HL7-FHIR, and 42% adopting SMART on FHIR.

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Trust In Data Stewardship Is Healthcare Providers’ To Lose

Health Populi

Seeing AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Google Cloud in large booth spaces on the exhibitor floor space was a visual confirmation that health care IT is now more about data than technology. The cloud and FHIR standards are fostering a new era of interoperability in health care.

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer. A few of my favorite comments were: “Jim Cramer needs a crash course in FHIR standards” from the wonkier section of peanut gallery. Where is the iPhone listed on Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs?”

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