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HHS Offers $5M for Studying Use of Health IT During Pandemic

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HHS recently announced a new funding opportunity announcement through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that will award $5 million to support research efforts gauging provider use...

Surveillance Workstation Provides Remote Care to COVID-19 Patients

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Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) recently deployed Capsule’s Ventilated Patient Surveillance (VPS) workstation to provide effective remote care to COVID-19 ventilated patients. Yale Health...

IBM Leverages Artificial Intelligence to Automate IT Infrastructure

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IBM recently launched new capabilities and services powered by artificial intelligence to help chief information officers (CIOs) help their businesses recover and restart in the wake of the COVID-19...

Data Interoperability and Exchange Recommendations During COVID-19

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The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy released short-term steps to improve data interoperability and exchange as states prepare to re-open. The center convened multi-stakeholder working groups to...

Cleveland Clinic, Epic Use Remote Patient Monitoring for COVID-19

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Cleveland Clinic and Epic recently launched a remote monitoring tool to allow clinicians to quickly respond to COVID-19 patients.  The initiative will manage care in a quick and efficient manner...

IBM Blockchain Helps Combat COVID-19 Supply Chain Shortages

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IBM recently launched a blockchain-based network designed to help government agencies and healthcare organizations identify suppliers and address COVID-19 supply chain shortages. The initiative, IBM...

KLAS Names Top Healthcare Technical Services of 2020

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Galen Healthcare, 314e, Navin, Haffy & Associates (NHA), and J2 Interactive are some of the healthcare technical services firms that toppedthe charts in 2020, according to new KLAS...

Apple Mobility Data Tool to Track User Movement, COVID-19 Spread

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Apple recently released a mobility data trends tool from Apple Maps to track and mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The app may be useful to governments and health authorities as a...

Apple, Google Leverage Bluetooth for COVID-19 Contact Tracing

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Google and Apple recently announced a joint effort to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies bolster COVID-19 contact tracing. Across the world, governments and...

Google Cloud Unveils COVID-19 Data Sharing Platform For Providers

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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...

Interoperability Platform Ensures Access to COVID-19 Patient Data

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A leading internet and information services company recently announced that it will offer healthcare providers free access to on-demand patient record query through its healthcare interoperability...

AI Drug Discovery Platform IDs Potential COVID-19 Treatments

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A drug discovery platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI) technology has identified 18 potential treatments for COVID-19, according to an announcement from health IT company Gero. Six of the...

New Initiative Will Leverage Supercomputers to Combat COVID-19

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IBM Watson recently launched an initiative with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the US Department of Energy, and others to enhance researchers’ efforts to uncover...

Hospitals Prepping Health IT Infrastructure for COVID-19 Outbreak

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Information-technology leaders are racing to get ahead of health IT infrastructure challenges and provide employees with remote work tools as they anticipate shortages due to the COVID-19 outbreak,...

Final Interoperability Rule Has Implications for APIs, FHIR

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Earlier this week, the Office of the National Coordination for Health IT (ONC) announced a new interoperability rule which requires certified health IT developers to establish secure, standards-based...

Verizon, Emory Launch First 5G Healthcare Innovation Lab

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The Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub (EHIH) recently announced that it will be powered by Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband service, creating the nation’s first 5G healthcare innovation lab. EHIH is a...

Basic Scientific Research is Vital for Biomedical Innovation

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Basic scientific research is critical for biomedical innovation, but the American public must provide researchers and scientists with the appropriate resources for innovation or the next generation...

VA Set to Launch First 5G Hospital in California

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The Department of Veteran Affairs will continue to increase innovation with the launch of its first 5G hospital in California, VA Secretary Robert announced at the “State of the VA” speech...

Best in KLAS Ranks Top Imaging System Vendors of 2020

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Philips, Sectra, Fujifilm, TeraRecon, IBM Watson Health, Ambra, and Epic were just a few of the imaging system vendors who saw the top of the charts in 2020, according to the latest KLAS...

Medtronic’s $1.64B Acquisition of Mazor Robotics Showing Success

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More than a year after Medtronic finalized its acquisition of Mazor Robotics for $1.64 billion, the purchase is showing early signs of success in its robotic surgery device business, national news...