Samsung EVP Outlines Vision for Digital Health and Wellness
TaeJong Jay Yang, EVP and Head of Health R&D for Samsung What You Should Know: – This week, TaeJong Jay Yang, EVP and Head of […]
Digital Pharmacies 2022: Disruptors or Just Another Delivery Channel?
New Insider Intelligence report highlights the current state of digital pharmacies in 2022 along with the challenges and digital opportunities for online pharmacies to appeal to […]
Wysa Secures $20M for AI-Powered Mental Health Chatbot
What You Should Know: – Wysa, a Boston, MA-based AI digital platform for mental health, today announces it has secured $20M in financing led by […]
Northwell Health Selects Google Cloud to Accelerate Digital Transformation
What You Should Know: – Northwell Health, New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, and Google Cloud today announced a collaboration to improve patient […]
Analysis: Is Oracle Cerner Planning to Build A National EHR?
Earlier this month Oracle closed its $28.3B acquisition of Cerner and shortly after Oracle founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, outlined Oracle’s vision for Healthcare IT […]
Sesame Raises $27M to Expand Its National Healthcare Marketplace
What You Should Know: Sesame, the only company proven to lower the price of medical care for American consumers raises $27M in Series B financing […]
Project seeks to chart regulatory paths for digital products
The nonprofit Digital Medicine Society is partnering with the likes of Google and the FDA to develop a free resource designed to help digital health […]
Why On-Site Search Should Be A Priority for Healthcare
Madison Miner, CEO & Founder of WompHealth Healthcare websites are dependably complicated. From finding providers to searching for locations, customers are forced to dig around a […]
Data-Driven Healthcare Operations Will Transform Outcomes
Tom James, Healthcare Cloud Services and Solutions Leader at 2nd Watch You don’t need another story urging you to “get to the cloud.” That’s old […]
Google gives ex-FDA digital health head Bakul Patel strategic role
FDA veteran Bakul Patel has joined Google as its new senior director of global digital health strategy, ending a stint at the regulator that lasted […]
Former OptumRx CEO Launches Waltz Health with $33M to Lower Drug Costs
What You Should Know: – Mark Thierer — the former CEO of OptumRx who took that role after selling Catamaran to UnitedHealth Group for $13B, today announced the launch of Waltz Health with $35.4M […]
Seven Bridges, USP, Google Cloud to Build A Brazilian Reference Genome
What You Should Know: – Seven Bridges, a bioinformatics ecosystem provider, announced it is collaborating with the University of São Paulo (USP) and Google Cloud, […]
FDA clears Fitbit for passive heart rhythm monitoring
Google has announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its product, Fitbit, to use a new feature that will identify atrial fibrillation […]
Viz.ai Raises $100M for Care Coordination Platform at $1.2B Valuation
What You Should Know: – Viz.ai, a San Francisco-based AI-powered disease detection and care coordination platform raises $1000M in Series D funding led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners. The round also […]
MLB Taps Cue Health to Expand League-Wide COVID-19 Testing Program for 2022 Season
What You Should Know: – Cue Health Inc. (“Cue”), a healthcare technology company, and Major League Baseball (MLB) today announced a national partnership that expands Cue’s support of the league-wide […]
Jeenie Raises $9.3M for On-Demand, Medical Interpreter Platform
What You Should Know: – Jeenie, an industry-transforming virtual interpreting platform that connects clinicians and patients to live interpreters on-demand raises $9.3M in Series A […]
Analysis: US Ambulatory EHR Market Shake-Up at HIMSS 2022
During, and in the run-up to, HIMSS earlier this month there were several announcements from US EHR vendors that will shake up the US EHR […]
Why Telemedicine Isn’t A Temporary Fix — It’s The Future
Doug McDonald, Director of Technology in the Office of the CTO at Extreme Networks In March 2020, many office workers packed up their bags under […]
Google seeks FDA nod for passive AFib detection with Fitbit
Tech giant Google has filed for FDA approval to use its Fitbit wearable to help detect atrial fibrillation (AFib), a common heart abnormality that raises […]
League Partners with Google Cloud to Accelerate Healthcare Consumer Experiences
What You Should Know: – League today announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud that aims to accelerate and enable successful digital transformation for healthcare providers, […]
Day 3 HIMSS Roundup: Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT, GE Healthcare/AliveCor Integration
Venture Capital, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT® to Expand Diabetes Offerings in France Glooko, a leading provider of remote patient […]
HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform OptimizeRx, a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and […]
BrightInsight & UCB Partner to Build Digital Care Solutions for Rare Diseases
What You Should Know: – BrightInsight, provider of the leading global platform for biopharma and medtech regulated digital health solutions, announced a partnership with global […]
Why Medicaid Programs Need to Update Their Information Systems
Brett Furst, President, HHS Technology Group You don’t have to be a news junkie or political aficionado to know that state unemployment information systems massively […]
Story Health Secures $22.6M for AI-Driven Virtual Specialty Care Platform Across Cardiology
What You Should Know: – Story Health, a health technology and services company that extends specialty care into patient’s homes raises $22.6M in Series A […]
Yes, DeepMind crunches the numbers – but is it really a magic bullet? | John Naughton
The machine learning outfit’s foray into pharmaceuticals could be very useful, but its grand claims should be taken with a pinch of salt The most […]
Alphabet’s DeepMind forms AI drug discovery unit Isomorphic Labs
Google parent Alphabet has drawn on its DeepMind artificial intelligence division to form a drug discovery unit that it calls Isomorphic Labs. The UK-registered company […]
Hackensack Meridian to Deploy Google Cloud’s AI/ML Offering in Clinical Settings
What You Should Know: – Hackensack Meridian Health and Google today announced the two organizations are expanding their relationship to improve patient care. Hackensack Meridian […]
Hackensack Meridian Health deploys Google Chrome OS devices, uses Cloud AI for screenings
The New Jersey-based health system initially partnered with Google in 2019. It has now migrated to Google Workspace, providing thousands of Chrome OS devices to […]
Two Alphabet subsidiaries come together, as Onduo sends Fitbits to some of its users
People who access Onduo through their employer will have access to the wearables and Fitbit’s subscription program. Google closed its acquisition of Fitbit earlier this year, […]
Google’s DeepMind faces suit over access to NHS patient records
London-based firm Mishcon de Reya said it filed a claim in the U.K.’s High Court, alleging that Google’s access of 1.6 million people’s medical records […]
IncludeHealth strikes partnership with Google, Ohio-based health system for virtual PT
Cincinnati-based IncludeHealth launched a virtual physical therapy program using pose-estimation models developed by Google. It plans to offer this software to healthcare providers, starting with […]
Mayo Clinic, Google develop AI algorithm to enhance electrical brain stimulation
The algorithm maps interactions between different areas of the brain, which can help guide the placement of electrodes for stimulating devices to treat brain diseases, […]
Google Collaborates with Mayo Clinic to Develop AI Algorithm for the Treatment of Neurological Diseases
Shots: The companies collaborated to develop a new AI algorithm called “basis profile curve identification.” for the improvement of brain stimulation devices to treat psychiatric […]
After Google, Microsoft struck out, can Apple get people to use its health records feature?
Apple has integrated with 700 providers for its health records app. But it faces a similar challenge to other health records projects that have failed […]
Google Health is history, but projects to continue
The tech giant plans to dissolve its health division with the departure of leader Dr. David Feinberg. But Google maintains that healthcare is still a […]
Google Shuts Down Health Division After VP Joins Cerner
What You Should Know: – Google is eliminating its health division after VP, David Feinberg, MD, joins Cerner as its newest President and CEO, according […]
Cerner Appoints Head of Google Health as New President & CEO
Dr. David Feinberg, President & CEO at Cerner What You Should Know: Today, Cerner announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Dr. David Feinberg […]
HIMSS21 Day 1 News: Google Cloud, Salesforce, Zoom, Philips, GE Healthcare, GoodRx
Google Cloud Unveils New Research examining COVID-19’s Acceleration of Innovation in Healthcare Google Cloud revealed new research unveiling the impact of COVID-19 on reshaping technology’s […]
Google Cloud Research Reveals COVID-19 Accelerates Innovation, Tech Adoption Still Lags
What You Should Know: – Google Cloud revealed new research unveiling the impact of COVID-19 on reshaping technology’s role in healthcare. This research is the […]
What Google Cloud learned about interoperability from Mayo Clinic
Google is piloting its healthcare data engine, a tool intended to build longitudinal patient records and pull in data from multiple sources. Early work with […]
Why Google is focusing its consumer health efforts on Fitbit
Google recently reshuffled its health division, moving a significant number of employees over to its Fitbit and Search businesses. Analysts said it’s no surprise Google […]
HCA, Google partnership to focus on data analytics
The health system and technology giant are teaming up to create a data analytics platform and tools that support workflow management. Google Cloud will gain […]
HCA Healthcare Taps Google Cloud to Create New Health Data Analytics Platform
What You Should Know: – HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, is partnering with Google Cloud to help create a secure health data analytics platform. – The partnership will leverage HCA Healthcare’s 32 million […]
Holograms to the Rescue
By KIM BELLARD Google is getting much (deserved) publicity for its Project Starline, announced at last week’s I/O conference. Project Starline is a new 3D […]
UPMC Health Plan Launches Virtual Concierge for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant Devices
UPMC Voice Assistant Alexa 3 – Fine_Cut_0322 – UPMC Health Plan What You Should Know: – UPMC Health Plan announced today the launch of a Virtual […]
Google unveils tool for checking skin conditions
Google is making its first foray into patient-facing healthcare tools with a dermatology symptom-checker. Users take an image of the spot they’re concerned about and […]
Google Cloud Expands Intelligent Vaccine Impact Solution to Support Vaccine Equity
What You Should Know: – Google Cloud today launched an expanded virtual agent as part of its Intelligent Vaccine Impact solution (IVIs). People will be […]
Apple, Google block NHS contact tracing app update on privacy grounds
A scheduled update to the NHS COVID-19 app has been blocked because it allows location tracking – something prohibited by Apple and Google, which developed […]
Next-Generation Cloud Storage: Enabling Collaboration & Analytics for Pharma Research
Russ Kennedy, Chief Product Officer, Nasuni Pharmaceutical companies today are distributed, global organizations, with research centers, manufacturing facilities, and regulatory management hubs spread all over […]
How to Prepare for Google’s Upcoming User Experience Update
Your website plays an important role in the overall patient experience, especially in the age of COVID-19. As important as interactions with staff, a website […]
Highmark Health Taps Verily to Build Digital Health Tools for Living Health Model
What You Should Know: – Highmark Health has engaged Verily to build out digital health tools for patients and analytics solutions for Highmark’s clinicians as part of […]
Data-Driven Future: Impact of Machine Learning on Diabetes Management
Athar Siddiqui: Global Strategy Lead, Digital Connected Solutions – Ascensia Diabetes Care “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can […]
Why Patients, Not EHRs, Deserve our Undivided Attention
Prayus Tailor, MD, FASN We cannot earn patients’ trust and respect if we are tethered to a computer in the exam room, navigating the EHR […]
Mayo Clinic, Google eyeing ‘AI factory’ as collaboration moves forward
The health system and tech giant are more than a year into their 10-year collaboration. As their partnership evolves, the organizations are looking to create […]
Health Plans Must Go Beyond the ONC Mandate and Prioritize Member Experience
Minal Patel, CEO of Abacus Insights Laurent Rotival, SVP, Strategic Technology Solutions & CIO, Cambia Solutions We are all frustrated when there’s a glitch with […]
Google Cloud Launches Intelligent COVID-19 Vaccine Impact Solution with AI-Powered Forecasting, Sentiment Analysis
What You Should Know: – Google Cloud, today announced the launch of its Intelligent Vaccine Impact Solution, a set of core solutions to help regional […]
Searching for vaccine information? Google wants to make it easier to find
As states begin to roll out vaccines to the broader public, Google will make it easier for people to find out when they are eligible […]
Insights+: Key Deals of JP Morgan Healthcare Conference 2021
This year J.P. Morgan 39th Annual Healthcare Conference was conducted virtually and we witnessed multiple announcements from numerous Biopharma companies An analysis of events and […]
Nearly half of UK young people buy meds after consulting “Dr Google”
It’s evident that relying on Google for a health diagnosis isn’t a good idea, but it seems a majority of UK people still do – […]
To Beat COVID-19, We Need A Modern Approach to Public Health Data
Ed Simcox, Chief Strategy Officer at LifeOmic The COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken 270,000 American lives to date, has shined a light on another crisis […]
Google closes Fitbit acquisition — without DOJ approval
Google announced it had closed its planned acquisition of Fitbit on Thursday, even thought the deal is still being investigated by the U.S. Department of […]
Traditional RESTful APIs Will Not Solve Healthcare’s Biggest Interoperability Problems
Brian Platz, Co-CEO and Co-Chairman of Fluree Interoperability is a big discussion in health care, with new regulations requiring interoperability for patient data. Most approaches […]
Xealth’s CEO Shares Impact of Digital Health in 2020 and What’s Ahead in 2021
Mike McSherry, CEO & Co-founder of Xealth HIT Consultant sat down with Mike McSherry, CEO, and co-founder of Seattle-based digital prescription platform Xealth to discuss […]
Australian regulators pose challenge to Google’s Fitbit acquisition
After European regulators signed off on the deal, Australian regulators rejected a proposal by Google to assuage concerns about its proposed acquisition of Fitbit. They […]
Google’s Verily eyes 2021 growth after £700m funding round
Verily is planning “significant and focused growth” in 2021 after closing a $700 million funding round from investors including its parent company, and Google holding […]
For Better Patient Care Coordination, We Need Seamless Digital Communications
Catherine Thomas: Co-Founder and VP, Customer Engagement, careMESH Peter Tippett MD, PhD: Founder and CEO, careMESH A recent Advisory Board briefing examined the annual Centers for […]
Highmark Inks 6-Year Partnership with Google Cloud to Power Living Health Model
What You Should Know: – Highmark Health signs six-year strategic partnership agreement with Google Cloud to transform the health experience for patients and caregivers through […]
Medical Device Design: 4 Ways Designers Can Create Medical Devices That Work for Everyone
Stuart Karten, Founder/President, Karten Design Medical device design has been going through sweeping changes over the last decade. Ten years ago, medical device companies weren’t […]
PharmaShots Weekly Snapshots (Dec 7-11, 2020)
Roche Launches Elecsys SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Test to Support High-Volume COVID-19 Testing Published: Dec 11, 2020 | Tags: Antigen, COVID-19, High, Laboratory, Launch, patients, Roche, SARS-CoV-2, […]
Google Launches Health Research App Focusing on Respiratory Illnesses
Shots: Google has launched the Google Health Studies app for Android phones with the initial focus on respiratory diseases such as COVID-19. The app is […]
Google rolls out health research app
Google rolled out a Health Studies app, a rival to Apple’s research app. To start, it will offer a study on respiratory illness in conjunction […]
Google Health Studies App Launches in Partnership with Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital
What You Should Know: – Google announces the launch of its Google Health Studies App with the first study focused on respiratory illness in partnership […]
CommonHealth App Connects to 230 Health Systems to Share Health Data – including COVID Test and Vaccine Status
What You Should Know: – CommonHealth has connected to 230 health systems in the United States, allowing patients to gather, manage and share their health […]
MEDITECH Launches New Subscription-Based Cloud Platform Built on Google Cloud
What You Should Know: – Today, MEDITECH announced MEDITECH Cloud Platform—a suite of solutions available to healthcare organizations of all sizes that further extend the […]
AHRQ and Google Pilot New Tool to Help Patients Plan for Medical Visits
What You Should Know: – Built-in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Google is piloting a new tool to help patients […]
Virtual Engagement During COVID Pushes Paradigm Shift for Physician Training and Patient Care
Shalini Shah, MD is Vice-Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care, and Enterprise Director of Pain Services, UC Irvine Health The dominant […]
DeepMind accurately predicts protein structure, advancing decades-old challenge
In a challenge where researchers try to predict the shape of newly identified proteins, an AI system developed by DeepMind determined the shape of two-thirds […]
Google Cloud Launches Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program
What You Should Know: – Google Cloud launches Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program to help healthcare organizations achieve healthcare data interoperability. Today, Google Cloud launched the […]
NLP is Raising the Bar on Accurate Detection of Adverse Drug Events
David Talby, CTO, John Snow Labs Each year, Adverse Drug Events (ADE) account for nearly 700,000 emergency department visits and 100,000 hospitalizations in the US […]
UCB Taps Medisafe to Develop Branded Digital Drug Companions for Antiepileptic Medications
What You Should Know: – UCB has selected Medisafe to develop branded digital drug companions for antiepileptic medications, marking the company’s official entry into the […]
Google’s sister company didn’t succeed in search for depression biomarker
Alphabet’s “moonshot” subsidiary X shared that it failed to find a single biomarker for depression and anxiety. But the company still plans to make its […]
Report: NHS Covid-19 app failed to alert users of potential exposure
In a Thursday blog post, officials shared that the app’s “risk threshold” had been lowered to account for exposure to people when they are most […]
10 Google Search Terms Can Help Experts Predict COVID-19 Hot Spots
What You Should Know: – New Mayo Clinic study reveals strong correlations were found between keyword searches on the internet search engine Google Trends and COVID-19 outbreaks […]
Press Ganey Acquires Doctor.com, Acquires Majority Stake in Binary Fountain
What You Should Know: – Press Ganey advances the healthcare consumerism movement with acquisitions of Doctor.com and a majority stake in Binary Fountain. – Expanded […]
3 Telemedicine Security and Compliance Best Practices
Gerry Miller, Founder & CEO at Cloudticity The coronavirus pandemic accelerated telemedicine exponentially as patients and doctors switched from in-person visits to remote consultations. Health […]
Google pumps $100m into Amwell as telehealth firm eyes IPO
It’s all go in the US telehealth sector, with Alphabet’s Google investing $100 million in Amwell on the same day the Boston-based firm unveiled plans […]
Amwell files for IPO, strikes partnership with Google
Amwell filed preliminary paperwork for an IPO. The telehealth company also struck a partnership with Google, which will buy $100 million of its class C […]
Analysis: July Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of July 2020. […]
EU regulators to launch in-depth investigation of Google-Fitbit merger
Regulators with the European Commission said they would launch a full investigation of Google’s proposed acquisition of Fitbit. The deal has drawn close scrutiny from […]
Will Google win over regulators with pledge to not use Fitbit health data?
Google has reportedly pledged not to use Fitbit’s user data for its advertising business. With the deadline quickly approaching, is it enough that European regulators […]
52% of Households Willing to Share Smartphone Data to aid in COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Over 50% of US broadband households are willing to share smartphone data to aid in COVID-19 contact tracing, while another 20% could be convinced provided […]
Same-Day Pharmacy Delivery NowRx Raises $20M to Expand into Additional Territories
What You Should Know: – Same day pharmacy delivery startup NowRx raises $20 Million in Series B funding to expand into new U.S. territories and accelerate its technology roadmap, […]
New CVS Pharmacy App Feature Can Read Prescription Labels Out Loud for Visually Impaired
What You Should Know: – CVS introduced Spoken Rx™, a new feature of the CVS Pharmacy app that can read important prescription information out loud. It is […]
Post COVID-19: 3 Things I Hope Healthcare Won’t Recover From
Randy Carpenter, SVP of the Executive Advisory Board at HCTec The loss of lives and livelihoods from COVID-19 is almost too much to comprehend. And […]
