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Microsoft Completes Nuance Acquisition to Enhance Healthcare AI

March 9, 2022 - Microsoft recently announced it completed the acquisition of Nuance Communication, a speech recognition company and leading provider of conversational artificial intelligence to enhance healthcare artificial intelligence. “Completion of this significant and strategic acquisition brings together Nuance’s best-in-class conversational AI...


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Accenture, Microsoft Will Assist Health System with Cloud Migration

by Sarai Rodriguez

The largest academic medical system in New York, Mount Sinai Health System, announced Accenture and Microsoft would assist it on a five-year cloud migration process to ensure a fast and smooth...

CVS and Microsoft Announce Digital Health Partnership, AI, Cloud

by Hannah Nelson

CVS Health and Microsoft have announced a collaboration that aims to accelerate the digital health transformation through artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing. Since the start of COVID-19,...

GE Launches Cloud, AI-Based Health IT Imaging Platform on AWS

by Hannah Nelson

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...

Wellforce Taps AWS for Interoperability, Cloud-Based Digital Ecosystem

by Hannah Nelson

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,...

Cloud Computing, IoT Driving Healthcare Digital Transformations

by Samantha McGrail

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...

Digital Preparedness Helped Healthcare Adapt to COVID-19

by Samantha McGrail

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...

Top Companies Tap Adobe to Boost Digital Healthcare Innovation

by Samantha McGrail

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...

AWS Gives $12M to Fight COVID Through Cloud-Powered Diagnostics

by Samantha McGrail

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that it will distribute $12 million to fight COVID-19 through cloud-powered diagnostics research and development.  Starting in mid-April, AWS will...

IBM May Be Selling IBM Watson Health to Focus on Cloud Computing

by Samantha McGrail

IBM is looking at a potential sale of its IBM Watson Health Business to streamline the company and become more competitive in cloud computing, according to a national news report.  The unit...

Microsoft, MIT, Verily Partner to Advance Biomedical Innovation

by Samantha McGrail

Microsoft, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Verily, an Alphabet company recently announced a strategic partnership to accelerate biomedical innovations through the Terra platform. Terra is a...

GE Healthcare Unveils New Edge Computing Technology for Providers

by Samantha McGrail

GE Healthcare recently announced that it launched a new edge computing technology to help clinicians collect, analyze, and act upon critical data closer to its source.  With the COVID-19...

Microsoft Azure Forms Collaboration to Enhance AI in Healthcare

by Samantha McGrail

Microsoft Azure, UC San Francisco’s Center for Digital Health Innovation (CDHI), Fortanix, and Intel recently collaborated to establish a confidential computing platform to boost artificial...

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Will Be Generally Available Oct. 30

by Samantha McGrail

Microsoft recently announced that Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare will generally be available on October 30, 2020, including managed services to support healthcare organizations.  The cloud...

Google, Box Extend Partnership to Transform Work in the Cloud

by Samantha McGrail

Google Cloud and Box Inc recently partnered to help customers transform the way they work and enhance the experience for organizations using G Suite with Box to power secure work in the cloud. As part...

Microsoft, Allscripts, to Enhance Cloud-Based Health IT Solutions

by Samantha McGrail

Microsoft and Allscripts recently announced a five-year extension of their long-standing collaboration, which will expand the development and delivery of cloud-based health IT solutions. The extension...

NIH to Collect Patient Data with New COVID-19 Analytics Platform

by Samantha McGrail

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently launched a new COVID-19 analytics platform that will provided a centralized, secure enclave to analyze medical record data from coronavirus patients to...

Cloud Database of COVID-19 Patient Data to Aid Pandemic Efforts

by Samantha McGrail

Clinicians, informatics, and other biomedical researchers will partner with HHS to leverage medical records and turn patient data into effective COVID-19 treatments through a more secure cloud-based...

New Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare to Tackle COVID-19 Challenges

by Samantha McGrail

Microsoft recently announced its first industry-specific cloud offering that allows organizations to engage in more proactive ways with their patients and gives caregivers the tools to improve workflow...

Google Cloud Unveils COVID-19 Data Sharing Platform For Providers

by Samantha McGrail

HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud recently launched a COVID-19 data sharing platform to enable the exchange of key information during the pandemic.  The COVID-19 National Response Portal, operated...