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Highmark strikes six-year contract with Google Cloud
The insurer, which also owns Allegheny Health Network, struck a six-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud, which includes building out a new platform to help better manage patient care.
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Google Cloud continued its push into healthcare by striking a contract with a big insurer. It reached a six-year strategic partnership with Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health, which includes one of the largest insurers affiliated with Blue Cross Blue Shield and hospital system Allegheny Health Network. They did not disclose the terms of the deal.
The companies plan to build a platform that would make it easier for patients to share health information between visits and reduce some of the administrative burden for clinicians.
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Chief Quality Officer Tamra Minnier shows doses of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine to the media before administering it to five health care workers at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020.
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About 1,200 Pennsylvania health care workers received covid-19 vaccinations over the past three days as more shipments continue to arrive at dozens of hospitals statewide, Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Rachel Levine said Thursday.
No adverse effects have been reported in the 1,205 vaccinations, Levine said. Sixteen of the initial 87 hospitals chosen to receive the first shipments of the Pfizer vaccine have received those shipments. The remaining 71 hospitals will receive them by Friday’s end.
Highmark Health inks six-year cloud, tech deal with Google
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Highmark Health is launching a new consumer experience strategy, underpinned by a six-year contract with Google Cloud, the Pittsburgh-based healthcare company said Thursday.
Highmark Health, which owns health insurer Highmark and health system Allegheny Health Network, on Thursday formally unveiled its Living Health model, a project that the company has said is designed to provide patients with better coordinated and more personalized care and clinicians with technology that cuts down on time spent on administrative tasks.
As part of the project, Highmark Health will work with Google Cloud to build a cloud-based platform that includes centralized scheduling, care management and analytics and artificial intelligence tools. Highmark Health and Google Cloud will also co-develop analytics tools that help create care plans from patients health data and flag possible health issues for early intervention.
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Physicians and nurses at Allegheny Valley Hospital in Harrison are expected to be among Allegheny Health Network’s first caregivers to receive covid-19 vaccinations Friday morning, an AHN spokeswoman said.
Spokeswoman JoAnne Clobus could not say how many employees of the Harrison hospital would be getting shots Friday.
The health network was planning a virtual news conference from Allegheny General Hospital on Friday morning. AHN officials are expected to provide an update on the network’s distribution plans and plans for getting the vaccine to the broader community, including underserved populations, once it becomes more widely available.