Dive Brief: Aetna, Anthem, Health Care Service Corporation, IBM and PNC Bank are teaming up to design and develop a blockchain network aimed at improving transparency and interoperability in healthcare. The goal is an inclusive blockchain network that members of multiple organizations across the healthcare ecosystem can use to securely share personal health information. Potential… Read More »
GE Healthcare and Vanderbilt University Medical Center will collaborate on enabling safer and more precise treatment of cancer immunotherapies. Under the during the five-year program, the organizations will analyze the immunotherapy treatment response of thousands of VUMC cancer patients by using anonymized demographic, genomic, tumor, cellular, proteomic and imaging data. Cancer immunotherapy is a treatment… Read More »
FixingHealthcarePodcast.com The healthcare headlines of 2018 were a sorry sight: The opioid crisis lowered life expectancy for a third consecutive year. Skyrocketing drug prices deprived more Americans of life-essential medications. Some of the most decorated institutions were riddled with research scandals and ethics violations while hospital mega-mergers put profits ahead of patients. America’s political and… Read More »
Doctors are working with CT scan in hospitalGetty Remember the days where you would schedule a doctor’s appointment only to get there and wait for a couple of hours? If you had any tests done, it would take days to get results back and often you’d have to go back to the office and… Read More »
By CLAUDIA WILLIAMS Amazon has transformed the way we read books, shop online, host websites, do cloud computing, and watch TV. Can they apply their successes in all these other areas to healthcare? Just last week, Amazon announced Comprehend Medical, machine learning software that digitizes and processes medical records. “The process of developing clinical trials… Read More »