Oracle has announced that Seema Verma, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will head up its life sciences division.
Verma will serve as senior vice president and general manager for life sciences, where she'll lead the division, as well as the company's data analytics and research arm Cerner Enviza. She most recently worked as a senior advisor to private equity...
As the first national coordinator for health information technology in 2004, David Brailer, current executive vice president and chief health officer at Cigna, said he and his team had four priorities: increase clinical decision-making quality, advance public health, accelerate consumer self-care and self-empowerment, and advance clinical research and science at the bedside.
At Tuesday's event,...
Earlier this week enterprise software giant Oracle shocked the healthcare IT world when it announced its plans to buy one of the leading EHR systems Cerner for $28.3 billion. The news puts Oracle on the map as a potential major player in the health technology world.
“This was a deal that no one saw coming. Beyond that, I would say it puts Oracle quietly in the healthcare tech space for the first...
WASHINGTON, DC – A broad coalition of technology giants took the stage in an unscheduled session at the Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference here in the White House.
Specifically, Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Salesforce came together to pledge to remove interoperability barriers.
Dean Garfield, CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council, lead the session and described the...
Here are all the digital health deals, partnerships, and customer wins that MobiHealthNews has tracked over the past two weeks.
UK-based pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline partnered with South San Francisco-based Verily to create Galvani Bioelectronics – a joint venture to develop implantable bioelectric medicines, a branch of medicine that works to fight diseases by targeting electrical...
Ingestible sensor company Proteus Digital Health and computer giant Oracle have integrated Proteus's digital health feedback system, which includes an ingestible pill sensor, a wearable patch, and a software system, with Oracle's InForm software for data collection. Clinical trial researchers using Oracle's software will now be able to track patients' medication adherence with Proteus's...
Healthrageous officially launches its mobile app h!GO: Healthrageous, a personalized connected health technology company that spun out of Boston-based Partners Healthcare earlier this year, announced the official launch of its new mobile app, h!GO, which aims to help users shed unhealthy habits and embrace healthy lifestyles. The app also aims to aid in the effective self-management of blood...
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