Verizon Business and UK-based health IT vendor Visionable have announced a collaboration that aims to enhance digital health infrastructure for greater interoperability across the care continuum.
The partnership will join Verizon’s network infrastructure and Visionable’s digital healthcare collaboration platform to form a single secure...
Microsoft has added a digital medical reference tool from Merck Manuals to its app store in efforts to arm healthcare providers with the medical information they need within their workflows to deliver high quality care.
The free app, available on Microsoft AppSource and the Microsoft Teams app store, will allow Microsoft Teams users to leverage a...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has selected cloud-based health IT vendor PointClickCare to provide de-identified real-world data to support public health priorities.
The health IT vendor will provide CDC with de-identified health data for residents of long-term and post-acute care facilities under the awarded contract.
This...
ONC has awarded $73 million in cooperative agreements as part of its Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program (PHIT Workforce Program) which aims to train the next generation of health IT talent to equip the nation for future public health challenges.
Funded through the American Rescue Plan and announced earlier this...
Advanced laboratory diagnostics company AccessDX Holdings has acquired health IT vendor Allscripts’ precision medicine platform to boost its clinical decision support offerings.
Allscripts’ 2bPrecise precision medicine platform delivers point-of-care insights within the clinical workflow of any EHR system that help providers...
Health IT vendor Imprivata has announced the availability of two of its digital identity solutions on cloud service vendor Microsoft Azure to help healthcare organizations boost security and efficiency at scale.
The expansion of the vendor’s OneSign and Confirm ID health IT tools to the Azure cloud aims to support digital transformation...
Health information service provider WebMD and health IT vendor symplr have partnered to create a new patient acquisition offering that aims to drive consumers to health systems’ digital front doors for provider search and EHR scheduling.
Over 75 million consumers visit WebMD every month to access accurate, easy to understand...
GE Healthcare has announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based imaging health IT solutions to hospitals and healthcare providers.
GE Healthcare plans to offer its Edison Health Services platform on AWS, providing customers the ability to integrate large amounts of data...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved health IT vendor Abbott’s latest optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging software that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance clinical decision support for cardiologists.
The imaging platform, powered by the company's new Ultreon Software, combines OCT with AI to provide...
Microsoft Azure is the newest cloud service provider to join the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES) initiative to improve data access for biomedical research.
The initiative aims to advance biomedical research by providing...
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has announced the availability of Amazon HealthLake, a cloud-based health IT solution that leverages machine learning to extract, organize, and store structured patient health data.
As the digital health transformation advances and new interoperability regulations break down industry data silos, care organizations...
Wellforce is leveraging Amazon Web Services to create a cloud-based healthcare ecosystem with Epic Systems infrastructure and more than 300 applications for enhanced interoperability.
Once live, Wellforce is expected to be the largest organization to run its complete Epic infrastructure via the cloud. This will allow the health system to...
Ninety-three percent of organizations already have a healthcare digital transformation strategy or are in the process of creating one, according to BDO’s Healthcare Digital Transformation Survey.
Additionally, 60 percent of healthcare organizations are adding new digital projects, while 42 percent of organizations are accelerating some...
GE Healthcare and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) recently partnered to build a roadmap for artificial intelligence (AI) for cardiac care and develop new strategies for improved health outcomes.
The partnership, formed through the support and participation in the ACC’s Applied Health Innovation Consortium, will tackle the...
Siemens Healthineers recently launched a CT scanner, Somatom X.ceed, for challenging clinical areas where time and precision are of the essence.
Somatom X.ceed can assist healthcare providers with their clinical decisions, especially in areas such as emergency imaging, cardiac CT, and CT-guided interventions, which are all rapidly growing...
Technology solutions, including blockchain, can be used to keep crucial healthcare information secure and portable for homeless individuals, according to researchers from Dell Medical School at the University of Texas Austin.
Missing proof of identify is a major challenge for the homeless population when it comes to crucial services, such as...
A recent study from Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found that digital preparedness significantly helped healthcare organizations adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The EIU interviewed business leaders across eight distinct industries about the challenges, opportunities, and disruptions created for organizations and how digital initiatives shifted...
Adobe recently announced that it is now powering digital healthcare innovation for leading companies in the healthcare sector to transform their customer service experience.
Seven of the top 10 healthcare providers, eight of the top 10 healthcare payers, and nine of the top ten pharmaceutical companies will tap Adobe Experience Cloud to reach...
AXA recently announced that it is collaborating with Microsoft to build a digital healthcare platform to create a virtual healthcare system that is open to everyone.
The partnership will be built on AXA’s global reach and its experience in healthcare, insurance, business, and technology architecture skills. Microsoft will commit its expertise...
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently announced that it will offer a new PhD concentration that could boost the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare.
The concentration centers on AI and emerging technologies (AIET) to advance innovative technologies for various clinical applications.
For example, the AIET...
