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Medical infrastructures are getting more and more complex, creating a demand for health care IT monitoring solutions than ensure perfect functioning of the devices, and their connection to the classical IT. We cover everything there is available on the markets for Health Care IT monitoring solutions, best practices, tools and vendors.
Fitbit Health Solutions and Google Cloud announced a solution for healthcare and life sciences companies to accelerate analytics and insights. Data from Fitbit devices with user consent will be accessible via the Fitbit Web API to generate analytics and thereby facilitate the management of chronic health conditions and also promote advances in clinical researchDevice Connect for Fitbit service addresses health data interoperability to "make the invisible visible". Using Google Cloud technologies, it offers several pre-defined components to make Fitbit data accessible, interoperable and useful, with security and privacy.
Alarming rates of cyberattacks on healthcare companies worldwide have been in the news recently. It is true that other industries have also been the target of large scale intrusions, particularly those in critical infrastructure. However, in the case of hospitals and clinics, any security breach can lead to fatalities and not only financial losses.It is not unknown that this is also an industry that has low levels of protection for systems, networks and, more recently, for Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices. A report jointly prepared by the Ponemon Institute and Cynerio, based on data provided by 517 healthcare experts in leadership roles in hospitals and health systems in the United States
After Oracle’s largest acquisition completed in June, in a process valued at US$28.3 billion to acquire Cerner, a company that provides information systems for hospitals and other organizations in the health area, now it’s time for another shot from Amazon. Big Tech has just announced the purchase of One Medical for US$ 3.9 billion, the third largest acquisition – it only loses for the Whole Foods acquisition for US$ 13.7 billion and MGM for US$ 8.5 billion – and the largest in the health segment, where Amazon sees huge business opportunities.One Medical is a network of primary care clinics that operate under a subscription model and mainly serve companies, in a similar way to the health...
