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IBM Agrees to Sale of Watson Data, Analytics Assets to Francisco Partners  

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Today, IBM and Francisco Partners announced a definitive agreement under which Francisco Partners will acquire data and analytics assets from its Watson Health business, multiple outlets...

Definitive Healthcare Exceeds Initial Public Offering Projections

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On Wednesday, Definitive Healthcare opened 38.0 percent above the initial public offering’s price. Definitive provides a healthcare commercial intelligence and analytics platform, and its IPO is...

UPMC Starts Artificial Intelligence Company to Combat Chronic Disease

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Realyze Intelligence, a company launched recently by The University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences (UPMC), will use natural language processing and artificial intelligence to pinpoint...

Google, HCA Healthcare Partner to Develop Data Analytics Platform

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Google Cloud and HCA Healthcare have announced a partnership to enhance data analytics and clinical decision support technologies at HCA Healthcare. The organizations will work to create a secure and...

Google Unveils Artificial Intelligence Tool for Dermatology

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Google has announced a dermatology tool powered by artificial intelligence that will help users understand issues with their skin, hair, and nails. The tool uses many of the same techniques that...

Yale Establishes Biomedical Data Science Fellowship Program

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Yale University and Boehringer Ingelheim have partnered to launch a Biomedical Data Science Fellowship program, to be awarded to post-doctoral researchers focused on drug discovery and...

White House Announces Website to Advance Artificial Intelligence

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The White House has launched AI.gov, a website that will be home to the National AI Initiative and ensure continued US leadership on artificial intelligence research and development. The National AI...

Microsoft Acquires Nuance to Enhance Healthcare AI, Cloud Strategy

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Microsoft has announced that it will acquire Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading provider of conversational artificial intelligence and cloud-based ambient clinical intelligence. Microsoft will...

$1M Award Will Help Expand COVID-19 Treatment Database

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Researchers at the Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment and Laboratory at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have received a $1 million award to enhance their COVID-19...

Cleveland Clinic, IBM Launch Artificial Intelligence Partnership

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Cleveland Clinic and IBM have announced a ten-year partnership to launch the Discovery Accelerator, a center aimed at using artificial intelligence, high performance on the hybrid cloud, and quantum...

FDA Data Dashboard Shows Adverse Events Related to COVID-19 Products

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The FDA has launched the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), a public data dashboard showing human adverse event reports for drugs and therapeutic products used under emergency use...

90% of Hospitals Have Artificial Intelligence Strategies in Place

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Nine in ten hospitals now have an artificial intelligence strategy in place, and 75 percent of healthcare executives believe AI initiatives are more critical now because of the pandemic, according to a...

Data Dashboard Informs Disabled Populations About Vaccine Rollout

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A team from Johns Hopkins has created a data dashboard that shows how states are prioritizing people with disabilities in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. The tool can also help people with disabilities...

Google Opens Office in MN to Enhance Mayo Clinic Partnership

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Google has announced its first office in Rochester, Minnesota, a new space that will help the tech giant deepen its long-term strategic partnership with Mayo Clinic. The two organizations launched...

Intermountain Launches Precision Medicine Study on Genetic Diseases

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Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital has launched the HerediGene: Children’s Study, an effort to speed the development of precision medicine therapies for children with genetic...

Genetic Database May Enable Precision Medicine for COVID-19

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Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham have created a genetic database designed to help advance precision medicine treatments for COVID-19. The database, called PAGER-CoV-2, includes...

Henry Ford Opens Facility to Advance Cancer Precision Medicine

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The Henry Ford Cancer Institute at Henry Ford Health System has launched the Brigitte Harris Cancer Pavilion, a facility that will include specialty clinics for 14 different types of cancer, precision...

ONC Enters Next Phase of Genomic Data Sharing Pilot Project

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ONC is currently recruiting additional demonstration sites for phase four of its Sync for Genes pilot project, an effort to standardize and improve genomic data sharing between laboratories, providers,...

Big Data Analytics Platform Helps Chicago Track COVID-19 Cases

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The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) and Rush University Medical Center (RMUC) recently launched a big data analytics tool that offers information about COVID-19 testing, cases, and...

Population Health App May Facilitate Large-Scale Data Sharing

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A population health app may allow payers to access permitted data and metrics on covered populations, potentially creating a foundation for pay-for-performance and assessment of value-based care. In a...