Companies are rolling out suites of tools to monitor their workforce for Covid-19 cases. But even in the midst of a pandemic, there are still limitations on what information they can collect and how they can use it.
Change Healthcare, a Nashville-based company that makes billing and analytics software, is rolling a new software that allows patients to order healthcare services in an ecommerce-like setting. The software allows patients to book, schedule and pay for healthcare services in advance.
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.
GE Healthcare and Microsoft are launching a new software-as-a-service product that reduces the burden on professionals by allowing them to care for multiple ICU patients, — including those who are ventilated — simultaneously and remotely.
Microsoft’s latest effort will provide resources to researchers and nonprofits working to improve healthcare. The company is primarily focusing on three areas: medical research, global health, and access to care.
SilverCloud Health and Microsoft joined forces, fueled by what they viewed as a serious industry-wide responsibility to be more responsive to the needs of individuals dealing with mental conditions.
The partnership will enable researchers from the Swiss drugmaker to use AI to find insights hidden in large amounts of data while also finding new approaches to personalized medicine in certain diseases and the manufacture of cell and gene therapies.
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and Twitter are making inroads in healthcare. But will their efforts gain traction and scale? At HLTH, representatives from some of these companies will take part in the healthcare transformation conversation across AI, voice, diabetes management and more.
Rhew's hire bolsters a growing health team which has added former Google exec Gary Moore, Josh Mandel, formerly of Verily, and ex-Dartmouth-Hitchcock CEO Jim Weinstein.
As part of the partnership, Providence will use Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud system and offer the health system's 119,000 caregivers the use of communication and productivity tools on the Microsoft 365 platform.
The tech giant and the health IT security company have teamed up to develop an identity and access management cloud platform for the healthcare industry.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Redox CEO Luke Bonney said the company saw more than 300 percent growth in its customer base over 2018 which led to the search of an investment partner to accelerate that momentum and help fund further product development.
While the end of HealthVault is admission of failure for the company's initial forays into health, Microsoft has refocused its efforts in the industry toward the enterprise market.
The partnership between the US software giant and UK-based biotech company is designed to increase the yield and improve the purity of lentiviral vectors in gene therapy.
The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist's choices for the healthcare innovations that have the potential to change the world range from personalized cancer vaccines to voice assistants.
On May 31, Microsoft will pull the plug on its Health Dashboard site and remove its Band applications from the Microsoft Store, Google Play and Apple App store.