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HHS awards $36.3M to reward, expand quality at health centers

The Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to distribute $36.3 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 1,113 health centers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and seven U.S. territories to recognize health center quality improvement achievements and invest in ongoing quality improvement activities.

Outcomes Based Healthcare and Big Data Partnership Secure Grant for a £1m Project to Use Big Data to Predict Complications of Diabetes

 LONDON, December 9, 2014--Outcomes Based Healthcare, one of the UK's leading health outcomes advisory and technology companies and Big Data Partnership, big data service provider across all industries, today announced that they have secured a match-funded grant for a £1m project from Innovate UK, the UK's innovation agency (formerly the Technology Strategy Board) for a 'Digital Health in a Connected Hospital' funding call. 

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Risk management standards for health IT

It’s time to do risk management standards for health IT, Mary Logan, president and CEO of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, said at the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Health Innovation Initiative policy forum on Dec. 3.

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University of Chicago to launch Genomic Data Commons

The University of Chicago is partnering with the National Cancer Institute to establish a comprehensive computational facility to store and harmonize cancer genomic data generated through NCI-funded research programs.

Frost & Sullivan Recognises ClearDATA with the 2014 North American Healthcare Cloud Leadership Award

LONDON, Dec. 1, 2014-- Based on its recent analysis of the healthcare cloud market, Frost & Sullivan has recognised ClearDATA with the 2014 North American Healthcare Cloud Leadership Award.

Foundation Medicine and Flatiron Health Collaborate to Develop First-in-Class Data Platform to Accelerate Precision Medicine for Cancer

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & NEW YORK--Foundation Medicine, Inc. (NASDAQ:FMI) and Flatiron Health today announced a strategic collaboration to develop a unique, proprietary cloud-based information platform combining genomic and clinical treatment and outcomes data to significantly advance the field of precision medicine for cancer.

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Barriers evident in global public health data sharing

Multiple barriers inhibit advances in global public health data sharing, according to a study published in BMC Public Health.

Editas Medicine Licenses Genome Editing Technology from Broad Institute and Harvard University

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Editas Medicine, a leading genome editing company, today announced that they have entered into an exclusive joint license agreement with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Harvard University to access intellectual property and technology related to the CRISPR/Cas9 and TALE genome editing systems. 

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These health systems have the biggest digital health portfolios

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

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Toylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles to connect

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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