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A collection of population health management highlights on this year's health IT conference agenda.
The Health IT Advisory Committee advises ONC, focusing first on the Trusted Exchange Framework -- meant to fuel data sharing between HIE networks.
Thought-leading innovators from startups and major academic medical centers will convene on March 5.
The daylong HIMSS18 pre-conference symposium will address the unprecedented level of communication, information sharing, and data integration hospitals, payers and policymakers must undertake in the shift from volume to value.
The electronic health record vendor will also be bringing new client-facing tools and recently-acquired technologies from McKesson and Practice Fusion to the show floor, CEO Paul Black said.
Thinking strategically about people and process that include adaptive workflows with strong informatics leadership are key to success.
Speakers at the daylong preconference event will address the roles nurses play in public health, and documentation challenges.
“This is a joint appointment between NHS England and NHS Improvement and is a tangible example of the intention for both to work much more closely together, and with NHS Digital, to harness the power of data to improve patient care while keeping costs to taxpayers to an acceptable level,” said Sigurd Reinton, NHS Improvement Non-Executive Director."
Blockchain healthcare data company BurstIQ has landed a $5 million investment from Millennium Blockchain.
The funding is the first of BurstIQ’s $20 million private placement offering initiated at the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which was held Jan. 23-26.
The decision to launch at Davos was based largely on the global visibility and opportunity to engage with blockchain and crypto-currency industry leaders and bankers interested best-of-breed blockchain investment opportunities, according to Frank Ricotta, CEO of BurstIQ.
“Blockchain is transformative technology that will fundamentally disrupt multiple industries,” Millennium Blockchain CEO Brandon Romanek said in a statement. BurstIQ is Millennium Blockchain’s first portfolio acquisition, he added.
Millennium Blockchain is a specialty diversified holding company focused on next-generation blockchain use-cases and revenue-positive emerging growth companies.
Executives said this partnership positions BurstIQ as one of the only revenue-generating and profitable emerging growth companies in the blockchain industry.
Burst IQ expects to complete the offering by March 31.
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The organizations will also form a collaborative team to work together on the deployment.