Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Cerner Corporation today announced an agreement to acquire Kantar Health, a division of Kantar Group, for $375 million in cash, subject to adjustment. Kantar Health is a leading data, analytics and real-world evidence and commercial research consultancy serving the life science industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2022

“Tom Lawry reminds us that the health care industry can shift from glacial to warp speed when it needs to. Given the right tools, we can evolve from health systems to systems of health, baked with Responsible Intelligence to do good while embedded with respect, inclusion, and transparency.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

For example, in the healthcare industry, we have to abide by HIPAA — a law that helps protect the privacy and security of people’s health information. We can’t serve our patients if we don’t ensure that protected health information (PHI) is kept private.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 9, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the technologies rapidly transforming the healthcare industry and changing how healthcare is delivered. From wearable patches that monitor vitals to 3D printing life-size replicas of organs, AI has enabled healthcare providers to improve patient care and outcomes while reducing costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The following is a guest article by Josh Schoeller, CEO, Health Care business of LexisNexis® Risk Solutions & Global President, Elsevier Clinical Solutions. Connecting datasets with unparalleled precision unlocks better health for all. The healthcare industry has widely acknowledged the importance of enabling patient-centered care.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 3, 2023

We expect 2023 to be a pivotal year for the industry, as the accelerated acceptance of virtual care and demographic trends, such as an aging population, increasing chronic illnesses and healthcare worker shortages, sustain demand for medtech-enabled solutions. Growing importance of data privacy and security.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There are various reasons why the healthcare and life sciences industry has embraced digital transformation cautiously. The pharma industry is far more traditional than other industries in its organizational structure and design, resulting in segregated business and digital teams.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA), collaborating with industry stakeholders, has ushered in a standard for artificial intelligence in health care. So what’s an organization like CTA doing with AI and health care? Health/care is everywhere.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. We’ve explored how SDoH data is defined and shared. According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It’s been long stigmatized, it was mental health 5 years ago, and now everyone’s talking about their mental health, but a lot of people still aren’t comfortable talking about their gut health. Mitesh Rao, Founder and CEO at OMNY Health – Data collaborations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2022

Its software can significantly accelerate data analysis and healthcare research. Cornerstone’s founders incubated the company in partnership with Initiate Studios, a new venture studio that co-creates companies at the intersection of healthcare, life sciences and technology. Built on Experience. Learn more at www.healthy.vc.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2023

Combining the virtually limitless computing power of the cloud and 5G connectivity with mobile devices is reshaping the way hospitals and clinics manage data. Edge computing can provide speed, scale, and reliable performance, which can help an overburdened global healthcare industry do more with less.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

What are the gaps in your clinical data, and how could social determinants of health data address them? What SDoH data do you have today? Three Questions to Get Started on your SDoH Journey Should Include: What social care interventions or programs are you offering? How are you identifying at-risk populations?

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Furthermore, the 21 st Century Act opens the door for greater availability to clinical data among patients, providers, and other requesters such as payers. Non-health insurers and life sciences companies also recognize the value of clinical data and are requiring greater levels of access to power their applications and processes.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The funding will support Briya’s mission to transform how data is exchanged between healthcare organizations and life sciences organizations, with particular emphasis on supporting the United States health ecosystem.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As in many other industries that are stewards of sensitive information, any time this data is moving between systems and, in particular, leaving the secure boundary of the provider, that data should be transported in a means that ensures only the intended recipient (system or individual) is capable of viewing it.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 14, 2018

2018 Digital Health Prediction 2: Voice technology will be the first step to personalising pharma. By the end of the year we will see the use of Virtual Assistants by patients to help interact with their health data and "transact" via voice technology to order repeat prescriptions, pain management and medication requests.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Some of the biggest and most famous tech companies are making big bets on health care. The blue chips of Silicon Valley have announced they’re interested in disrupting an industry that has bedeviled us with rising costs and inefficiencies for decades. That is more than any tech firm except Apple.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. And because machines don’t get tired, they can do this effectively as data volumes continue to grow rapidly.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 8, 2019

Put them together and you have the outline of a plan for a radical shakeup of the industry. Amazon is hardly the first tech titan to turn its attention to the health space: Google has DeepMind and Verily; the Apple Watch can now offer you an ECG, while IBM is pushing Watson and numerous strands of healthcare industry software.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2023

The following is a guest article by Steve Lazer, Global Healthcare & Life Sciences CTO at Dell Technologies. The landscape of healthcare and biotechnology is changing at a rapid pace, with data taking center stage. About Steve Lazer Steve is the Global Healthcare and Life Sciences CTO for Dell Technologies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

The following is a guest article by Abhishek Khandelwal, Vice President, Life Sciences at Capgemini Engineering The convergence of digital technology and healthcare has been underway for quite some time, but as we inch closer to 2024, the pace of change that this sector is experiencing is unprecedented.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Lastly, data analytics resolves remaining duplicates and checks for overlays. Using intelligent automation to improve health data produces better results faster than manually performing the tasks. The World Health Organization estimates that up to 50% of all medical documentation mistakes result from administrative errors.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

That’s the industry-health care enterprise point of view. From the health citizen’s point of view, a Morning Consult poll conducted in June 2021 found that while 2 in 5 US adult said AI is a safe way to approach modern health care. What health IT can learn from the history of the nutrition label.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. Swarms of data pollinate personalized medicine. Healthcare AI. Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

If these statistics don’t move you, then here’s a finding from the National Academy of Science’s Shorter Lives, Poorer Health that might surprise you: today, people in the U.S. under 50 have poorer health outcomes than our cohorts in other developed countries.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2022

Building great AI models in healthcare and life sciences requires lots of data that is diverse, well-labeled, and spans across different patient types. The following is a guest article by Vanessa Braunstein, Healthcare Product Marketing Lead at NVIDIA. Delivering the Promise of AI. About Vanessa Braunstein.

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