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By  Neil Versel 10:27 am November 16, 2012
Photo Credit: Adam Schultz / Clinton Foundation Remote and home patient monitoring technologies will be a key component of former President Bill Clinton's new push, through his William J. Clinton Foundation, to eliminate health disparities between communities of different socioeconomic and racial strata. Clinton this week introduced the Clinton Health Matters Initiative, in partnership with...
By  Neil Versel 06:36 pm October 24, 2012
NantHealth, a subsidiary of Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks, has received an unspecified equity investment from Verizon Communications, through the telecom's Verizon Investment arm. Verizon will help NantHealth develop a secure fiber-optic, cloud-based data infrastructure to deliver multimedia healthcare information to mobile devices, according to the companies. "If we can stream a movie into...
By  Neil Versel 01:07 am April 19, 2012
At the annual World Health Care Congress this week near Washington, D.C., Verizon Communications announced a partnership with Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks. As their first order of business, the two companies will build a system called the Cancer Action Knowledge Network to supply physicians with current cancer treatment protocols at the point of care. This partnership fits into many of...
By  Brian Dolan 05:39 am April 18, 2012
Verizon Communications has inked a deal with Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks to collaborate on a series of initiatives, beginning with an integrated information infrastructure that improves the treatment of cancer by equipping healthcare providers with the most up-to-date treatment protocols for specific cancer conditions right from their mobile devices. This first collaboration is called the...