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HITInfrastructure | January 21, 2020

Masimo, a global leader in noninvasive monitoring technologies and connectivity tools for hospitals, recently announced a definitive agreement to acquire the connected care assets from California-based NantHealth for $47.25 million. NantHealth’s connected care assets, which include the DCX device connectivity, VCX patient vitals software, HBox connectivity hub, and Shuttle interface cable, provide medical device interoperability to hospitals and health system. Masimo will leverage NantHeal...

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Firmament and Panacea Healthcare Solutions | August 24, 2022

Firmament, a leading provider of structured equity capital solutions to small- and medium-sized enterprises, announced a growth capital investment in Panacea Healthcare Solutions ("Panacea"). Panacea provides strategic pricing, price transparency, chargemaster, compliance, and revenue integrity software and consulting services to healthcare companies across the full continuum of care. Firmament's investment will fuel innovation and expand Panacea's product suite through the ...

HealthITSecurity | March 02, 2020

Walgreens announced on Friday that it inadvertently exposed the personal messages stored on its messaging app due to an internal error. On January 15, officials said they first discovered an error in the Walgreens personal secure messaging features and launched an investigation. They found a data compromise, which allowed personal messages stored on its database to be viewable by other customers. Upon discovery, Walgreens temporarily disabled message viewing to prevent continued exposure and &ld...

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Fujitsu | July 19, 2021

Fujitsu has announced its support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS for Health program by bringing Epic on the Cloud to NHS trusts and UK healthcare providers. The development means that healthcare companies seeking to adopt Epic now have the option to operate the electronic patient record (EPR) on the cloud for the first time. Trusts may expect to save money, reduce technical risk, and save clinical and other resources by partnering with Fujitsu and its ecosystem o...