Health systems jump into the cloud to make digital healthcare more accessible: UC Davis Health partnered with AWS to roll out a digital health innovation center focused on health equity—we unpack why it matters and why more health systems may flock to AWS.

Anthem, Humana JV could be a golden distro channel for DTx makers: The payers are developing a cloud-based pharmacy benefits management platform,—we unpack why its pricing transparency feature makes it a good choice for DTx vendors trying to get their therapies on drug formularies.

Google and The Harris Poll's recently released data shows how physicians unanimously say interoperability is a top priority—we unpack the obstacles preventing them from achieving it, and how cloud providers can help clear the path.

Moreover, Truveta has access to 15% of all health data in the US via its health system partnerships—combined with Microsoft’s cloud platform and AI-powered analytics, it could help providers make even faster and accurate clinical decisions.

Telstra Ventures lists a broad range of focus, in cloud, security, network, consumer, and media. Managing director Mark Sherman told Crunchbase in February 2021 that building the ecosystem for cloud infrastructure investments is key to the 5G adoption strategy. These investments reflect a global pattern.

The news: CVS Health is deepening its Microsoft partnership to leverage the tech giant’s cloud services and AI tech. CVS is aiming to provide consumers with more personalized care and to streamline CVS healthcare employees' workflows. For context, CVS Health already uses Microsoft’s services like Text Analytics to digitize tasks in its pharmacies.

It’s a blueprint for digital health advancement developed by HIMSS that consists of eight stages of digital health integration, like having a private cloud strategy (Stage 3) and home-based telemonitoring (Stage 7). Samsung is currently trying to obtain Stage 6 certification: hybrid cloud infrastructure and automation tools for virtual and non-virtual platforms.

PatientPop helps doctors grow their practices via tech-enabled marketing strategies, cloud-based offerings, online scheduling, and an online platform to practice virtual care.

Cloud adoption is expected to become mainstream in the next three years. According to the Accenture survey, 96% of healthcare executives worldwide said they would be in the cloud within that time frame. It is important to note, however, that not all workloads are well suited for the technology.

Microsoft is playing to its strengths with its cloud software Azure to make data exchange quicker and more seamless. Building out a new EHR system would be too complex considering all the different healthcare specialties and segments of the healthcare value chain it would have to consider.

Plus, Truveta has a deal with cloud vendor Microsoft Azure, which makes it easier to sift through patient data—something that is difficult to do with clunky EHR systems. It’s likely health systems will turn to solutions like Truveta Health and Graphite Health, as these tools will help organizations improve their patient care analyses and optimize decision-making:.

Mayo Clinic is already using the cloud-based Healthcare Data Engine to help providers analyze EHR data.

The news: Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled three new capabilities for the Amazon Connect platform (its cloud-based contact center)—and one in particular should be especially attractive to the tech giant’s healthcare partners.

Cloud and edge computing: The low latency can shift most heavy computing to the cloud, creating new opportunities for analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, encryption, etc.

For Teladoc: This partnership expands Teladoc beyond cloud-based, AI-enabled virtual care. For Proximie: While Proximie already operates in 100 hospitals across 35 countries, it is gaining access to Teladoc’s network of 600+ health systems and hospitals, allowing it to have a faster route to market expansion and an early entrance in the AR-surgery space.

Baxter develops medical products for chronic conditions, hospital care, surgical care, and critical care, and only recently delved deeper into digital health in August when it partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to transform its cloud infrastructure and better support its remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform, Sharesource.

Its cloud-based solutions span a wide range of digital health applications—including remote patient monitoring, AI-driven clinical analytics, data-sharing capabilities to make interoperability easier, and patient navigation tools.

The average time to identify and contain varied widely depending on the type of data breach, attack vector, factors such as the use of security AI and automation, and the cloud-modernization stage, IBM noted. Not-for-profit hospitals stand to lose more than money.

Amazon addressed the privacy issue at Halo’s introduction, assuring consumers that their health data is encrypted in both transit and the AWS cloud; additionally, it can be downloaded or deleted directly from the app. Body scan images are automatically deleted from the cloud after processing.