Google Cloud and Redox unlock legacy formats for healthcare

Redox, a leader in healthcare interoperability, and Google Cloud have joined forces to simplify the exchange of healthcare data from legacy systems into Google Cloud products like Healthcare Data Engine and Healthcare API. As part of the partnership, Redox will replicate its platform on Google Cloud.

The Redox Healthcare Integration is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace, enabling health plans, providers, life science, medical device companies and digital health organizations to incorporate standards like HL7v2, C-CDA, X12, DICOM and more into FHIR. Leveraging existing provider integrations and libraries, this solution makes it faster and easier for organizations to use Google Cloud’s Healthcare API and Healthcare Data Engine, enabling an interoperable, longitudinal record of patient data.

Luke Bonney, CEO of Redox, said: “Healthcare organizations are transforming using new applications and analytics tools driven by cloud technol- ogy. Redox was designed to support these new tools with enterprise-scale data exchange with hospitals, clinics, health plans, Healthcare Information Exchanges, networks and other sources.

“Together, Redox and Google Cloud enable providers and health plans to maximize the use of their legacy system data in a single cloud database up to 80 percent faster than other solutions.”

Chris Sakalosky, vice president, strategic industries at Google Cloud, said: “When we first collaborated with Redox and saw how fast we could help a healthcare organization further accelerate data interoperability, we had an ‘aha’ moment.

“With this partnership, we continue to help organizations across the healthcare spectrum tackle the most complex data harmonization challenges, unlocking insights and improving outcomes.”

Snowflake launches Telecom Data Cloud to increase network efficiency and monetize data

Snowflake has launched Telecom Data Cloud, which unites Snowflake’s data platform, partner-delivered solutions and industry-specific datasets. The Telecom Data Cloud helps telecommunications service providers break down data silos within companies and across the ecosystem, allowing organizations to access data easily and securely in real-time and share and analyze data to drive better decision-making. Telecommunication companies can modernize the telecom network, maximize operational efficiency, access advanced AI and ML capabilities and monetize data and applications.

Punit Renjen, the former global CEO at Deloitte, is set to replace Hasso Plattner as the new SAP chairman.

Prof. Dr. Hasso Plattner, who cofounded SAP in 1972 with Dietmar Hopp, Claus Wellenreuther, Klaus Tschira and Hans-Werner Hector, is the only remaining founder still involved in an operational role at the German software company and will retire from his position at the end of his current term. His departure heralds another new era for SAP which will be confirmed at the company’s AGM in May this year.

Commenting on the announcement, Plattner said: “We are excited to propose Punit Renjen as a new member of the SAP Supervisory Board for a four-year term at the AGM in May 2023. This initiates a structured transition at the helm of the Supervisory Board, ensuring the continuity necessary for our company’s ongoing growth. With extensive experience as a highly successful CEO of one of the world’s largest consulting firms, Punit brings valuable insights and expertise to the board. His deep understanding of our customers’ needs, and the broader industry make him an ideal candidate for chairman of the Supervisory Board from 2024 onwards.”

Renjen served as Deloitte Global CEO from 2015 until his retirement on December 31, 2022. As Global CEO, Renjen developed and executed a strategy that resulted in Deloitte revenues growing from $35 billion to more than $59 billion in just seven years. Today, Deloitte is the leading professional services organization in the world and one of the world’s best places to work. Deloitte employs 415,000 people in 150 countries.

Deloitte also has a thriving partner ecosystem, of which SAP has been part of for over 30 years.

“I am very pleased to be considered for a role at SAP – an iconic company with a key role in the global economy,” said Renjen. “At a time when the company is successfully transforming into an enterprise application leader in the cloud and delivering on Hasso Plattner’s original vision of helping the world run better and improving people’s lives, I could not be more excited at the opportunity to help shape the future of a company that has unmatched relevance for global business. I am looking forward to working with talented colleagues around the world to ensure the company continues to help its customers solve their most pressing problems”.

Celonis and Carahsoft to combat US government inefficiency

Celonis is partnering with government IT solutions provider Carahsoft Technology Corp to make the Celonis Execution Management System (EMS) widely available to the U.S. federal, state and local governments.

The Celonis EMS is designed to reveal inefficiencies and accurately calculate their impact on performance by providing a real-time “X-ray” of an organization’s business processes.

The partnership has made the Celonis EMS operational in key departments and processes across government agencies like finance, procurement and administration transformation; to mission-focused employee and citizen service transformations.

Benefits include end-to-end transparency of how agency processes actually run and whether they are meeting key performance indicators; enabling agencies to improve process efficiency and effectiveness.

Chris Lisk, vice president of public sector sales at Celonis, said: “Celonis’ inclusion on Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule represents a major milestone for our public sector business. It allows us to serve government agencies at speed and drive our mission to enable government modernization, one business process and source system at a time.”

EY has unveiled the release of the fourth generation of EY Blockchain Analyzer: Reconciler. This webbased analytics tool can now be accessed through EY Blockchain’s SaaS platform, blockchain. ey.com, and is designed to support EY audit teams across the globe.

EY Blockchain Analyzer: Reconciler allows audit teams to bulk-reconcile clients’ offchain books and records to the public ledger. The tool also uses analytical dashboards to identify matches and mismatches in transactions, wallet address balances and digital signatures.

Additionally, this latest generation now analyzes data for Dogecoin, as well as five public blockchains; Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.

The update includes an Ethereum event search and retrieval dashboard and expands EY audit teams’ ability to reconcile more digital assets by making it easier to add new ERC20 tokens in the future.

Developments to the EY Blockchain Analyzer suite of tools form part of a multimillion-dollar investment from the firm. EY’s engineering teams are continually working to add

Cognizant reports growth for Q4

Cognizant has announced its fourth quarter financial results, showing 1.3 percent growth and bringing $4.8bn in revenues, reaching $19.4bn yearly revenues. By business segment for Q4, financial services revenue fell by four percent, while health sci-

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support for blockchain data across additional chains based on client demand, as well as to support the evolving needs of clientserving teams, such as additional blockchains, block explorers and staking.

David Byrd, blockchain strategy leader, assurance, EY, said: “This latest version of the EY Blockchain Analyzer: Reconciler with support for Dogecoin and event retrieval capabilities is a significant enhancement for EY audit teams and approved clients. These new features greatly improve EY audit teams’ ability to analyze a larger number of digital assets and Ethereum events on the public blockchain.” ences, products and resources and communications revenues all grew by 4.1, 2.9 and 5.4 percent respectively.

Despite narrowly missing expectations, Oracle announced a total Q3 fiscal revenue of $12.4bn, with Oracle Cloud bringing in the lion’s share and heading off a decent quarter of cloud growth. Q3 Cloud Infrastructure brought in the highest revenue jump at 55 percent in USD, 57 percent at constant currency to add $1.2bn of revenue to the pot.

Last June, Oracle acquired healthcare giant Cerner, which added $1.5bn to the Q3 fiscal results and allowed Oracle to increase Cerner’s healthcare contract base by around $5bn.

In the company earnings call, Oracle CEO Safra Catz shared that one of its competitors had coined the phrase ‘the Oracle playbook’, which she fully embraced and said was a reflection of Oracle’s ability to do more while spending less.

Predictions for the first quarter of this fiscal year sit at a decline of up to 2.5 percent, with revenues of up to $4.7bn expected.