1. Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital is collaborating with Google Cloud and ProofPilot to enhance the existing ProofPilot digital clinical trial platform to better serve researchers at academic medical centers and universities.
2. Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health is both a founding member and the first health system to join the Cerner Learning Health Network, which aims to make de-identified clinical data more accessible for medical studies.
3. Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital partnered with Agathos to provide more clinical feedback to physicians in order to improve their patient outcomes.
4. Verily, the life sciences offshoot of Alphabet, partnered with ophthalmology-focused Santen Pharmaceuticals to establish a joint venture to develop and commercialize new digital tools to improve eye health.
5. Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medicine, all in New York City, on Feb. 1 went live on a new Epic EHR system.
6. Oklahoma University Medicine and its academic partner University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center signed a five-year, $200 million contract to install an Epic EHR.
7. Sunnybrook Health Sciences in Toronto will implement Allscripts‘ cloud-based, mobile anesthesia information management system.
8. South Boston, Va.-based Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital, part of the Sentara Healthcare network, deployed an Epic EHR on Feb. 2.
9. University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System will integrate clinical workflow solutions from TransformativeMed with its EHR system.
10. Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora is now providing remote second opinions via health advisory firm PinnacleCare‘s virtual care platform.
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