Search, Click, Enroll? What Clinical Trials Can Learn from E-commerce
Certain features, commonplace on most e-commerce platforms, can help transform clinical trial search databases.
Safely Navigating the Multi-Cloud Security Landscape: Strategies for Protecting Data Integrity in Healthcare
A surge in cloud adoption by healthcare organizations brings new challenges, particularly in safeguarding data across diverse providers while meeting regulatory frameworks.
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When Investment Rhymes with Canada
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
Getting a Grip on Ballooning Healthcare Data
The benefits of healthcare data are undeniable—more informed decisions, better diagnoses, enhanced operational efficiency, improved patient satisfaction—but all that data also creates significant challenges.
Seven Trends to Watch in Healthtech AI
As the role of AI in healthcare settings continues to evolve and generate debate, here are seven things to keep an eye on.
From Buzzword to Action: Addressing SDOH to Advance Health Equity
When striving for health equity, organizations need to adopt new methods and a new mindset in order to steer clear of using SDoH as a buzzword, and instead hit the mark of health equity results.
Five Ways AI Will Impact Clinical Trials This Year
The integration of AI technologies holds promise for enhancing outreach efforts, streamlining recruitment processes, and addressing long-standing barriers and biases that hinder diversity and inclusion in clinical trials.
Quiet Neglect: Algorithmic Bias in Healthcare Is Hurting Older Adults
Equitable AI isn’t an aspiration; it’s an absolute necessity, particularly for the millions of older Americans who remain unseen within the current frameworks and miss out on algorithmic benefits such as risk profiles and early interventions for certain diseases.
Zus Health Snags $40M, Strikes Partnership with Elation Health
Zus Health — Jonathan Bush's health data platform that provides patient information at the point of care — recently closed a $40 million funding round. It also announced a partnership with Elation Health, a company that sells its EHR and other technology solutions to primary care providers. Elation will be integrating Zus' API into its own data collaboration systems.
Mayo Clinic, Mercy form 10-year data partnership to improve patient outcomes
Through the alliance, the two organizations are sharing their extensive clinical data with one another, which will help identify diseases and treatment plans earlier.
H1 acquires Faculty Opinions to grow its global expert network
Faculty Opinions brings together the comments and opinions of thousands of top researchers in life sciences and medicine. Combined with H1's extensive intel on healthcare providers, the acquisition expands H1's reach and opportunity to impact healthcare by bringing this data under one umbrella, H1 CEO Ariel Katz said.
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Blue Shield of California, Google Cloud to develop real-time claims processing platform
The companies will build their claims processing platform on Google Cloud's infrastructure, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities. The goal of the collaboration is to improve patient and provider experience and reduce spending on administrative processes.
Brave Care nabs $25M to roll out pediatric clinics supported by tech platform
Brave Care leverages its technology and data platform to provide primary and urgent care for children. It provides care remotely and through its five brick-and-mortar clinics, which it plans to expand to 100 in the next few years.
Graphite Health launches with plans to create a marketplace for digital tools
The company, launched by SSM Health, Presbyterian Healthcare Services and Intermountain Healthcare, aims to create a marketplace for digital tools similar to the application stores on smartphones so that health systems can test and implement new solutions in weeks rather than months.
Virtual care is here to stay, but providers need to make the experience more seamless
At a recent panel discussion, healthcare executives agreed that telehealth will remain an important part of care delivery post-pandemic, so now is the time for providers to figure out how best to incorporate these services alongside in-person care. Actionable data will prove to be a key resource for providers as they tweak their strategies.
Mount Sinai, Empire BlueCross BlueShield to extend access to home-based care models
Empire members will gain access to three Mount Sinai Health System care models, which enable patients to opt for in-home care when medically appropriate. The agreement also includes a plan to improve bi-directional data exchange between the provider and payer.