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3 Big Changes Coming to Health Care

Educators, innovators and organizations from across the biomedical and technology spectrum met recently at the Exponential Medicine 2018 conference to explore the future of health care.

How You're Transforming: Intermountain Healthcare

Intermountain Healthcare's new Kem C. Gardner Transformation Center will house programs to improve care quality while reducing costs for the nonprofit health system. In one of its first ventures, the center will partner with the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives to collaborate with innovative health IT leaders worldwide.

3 Keys to CVS Health’s Growth Strategy

CVS Health’s strategic priorities are in care coordination and chronic-disease management, health IT and home health especially bear watching as the nation’s health system continues to transform.

Health Care No. 1 in Venture Capital Funding

Through the third quarter this year, U.S. health care companies are topping all other business areas in venture capital funding, according to a report from PitchBook.

How You're Transforming: Advocate Aurora Health

In their first joint initiative since forming a collaboration to drive innovation, Advocate Aurora Health and Chicago-based health technology incubator Matter launched the Health Care Tech Venture Challenge.

Blockchain: Ways to Improve Health Care Efficiency

Hospitals, insurers, labs, researchers and others are exploring ways blockchain technology can improve business and clinical operations. Many believe the technology could sharply boost business and clinical efficiency while providing data-security benefits.

Blockchain Pilot Aims to Streamline Physician Credentialing

Five health care enterprises, including two national insurers, Spectrum Health of Michigan, Accenture and a medical-services staffing firm, will deploy blockchain technology in a new pilot program designed to simplify physician credentialing. ProCredEx, a new company backed by Hashed Health, which specializes in blockchain and distributed technologies for health care, launched the initiative.

Amazon Software Sifts Medical Records for Data to Improve Care, Cut Costs

Amazon has introduced a new cloud-based software service that reportedly will sift through patient medical records in seconds searching for actionable intelligence to provide hospitals and physicians with clinical decision support and coding while reducing costs. Amazon Comprehend Medical can identify health information such as medical conditions and medications and determines their relationship to each other (for example, medication dosage and strength).