IBM Watson Health To Invest $50M In AI Research Deal With Brigham and...
IBM Watson Health has announced plans to invest $50 million in a research collaboration with two academic medical centers on the use of AI in addressing major public health issues. Big Blue has agreed...
View ArticleOnix Launches Dedicated Health and Life Sciences Division
ONIX, A LEADING CLOUD SOLUTIONS PROVIDER, LAUNCHES DEDICATED HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES DIVISION LAKEWOOD, OHIO (MARCH 5, 2019) – Leading cloud solutions provider Onix is addressing the growing demand...
View ArticleHealth Analytics Efforts Exploding Among Health Systems
Surprising absolutely no one, new research suggests that health systems have greatly stepped up their investment in and use of healthcare analytics technology over the past few years. What is...
View ArticleThe Complexity of Population Health
I love when I hear patients ask why healthcare isn’t managing populations better than they do today. There’s a certain naivety by a lot of patients who don’t understand our health system. They learn...
View ArticlePayers Demanding More From HIEs
A new study has found that while providers using HIEs are focused on interoperability, payers are demanding better access to clinical data. The survey, which was conducted by the eHealth Initiative...
View ArticleBill Would Regulate Handling Of Consumer-Generated Health Data
Call it a HIPAA reboot for the wearables age. A pair of senators have filed a bill which would impose new regulations on how companies manage data generated by consumer technologies such as health...
View ArticleThe Complexity of Genomics
I came across this relatively old Twitter thread from the amazing Eric Topol about genomics. The following tweet in this thread really stood out to me. In retrospect, it was naïve to think that we...
View ArticleNHS Patient Data Could Generate Billions For UK, But Is It OK To Go Down That...
I don’t know about you, but I don’t like the idea of governments selling off patient healthcare data. Still, given the financial benefits it could generate, I’m not surprised that people are still...
View ArticleIn Health Tech, Beware of Getting Exactly What You Want
Last night, I watched a video about the rise and fall of disgraced biotech startup Theranos, which claimed to have invented technology that would dramatically change clinical blood testing worked....
View ArticleChronic Care Management – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 8/16 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Brian Eastwood (@Brian_Eastwood) on the topic...
View ArticleCompany’s Struggles Point Out Roadblocks to Digital Therapeutics Progress
Digital therapeutics — therapeutic interventions driven by software rather than pharmaceuticals – have been on pharma’s viewscreen for quite some time. It’s not hard to see the appeal of such...
View ArticlePhysicians Increasingly Interested In Use of Patient-Generated Health Data
A new report from Stanford Medicine suggests that after years of holding it at arms’ length, physicians are becoming more comfortable with the use of patient-generated health data. According to a...
View ArticleHealthcare’s Failures in the Time Of COVID-19: It is Time to Completely...
The following is a guest article by Dr. Steven Steinhubl, Director of Digital Medicine at Scripps Research Translational Institute and a cardiologist for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and...
View ArticleA Genomics and Precision Medicine Update Amidst COVID-19
There is no more exciting subject in healthcare than genomics and precision medicine. The way genomics has been accelerating is just astounding. The original human genome sequencing project took 13...
View ArticleHow Should Health Systems Approach Their Enterprise Precision Medicine Efforts?
We love to talk about genomics and precision medicine, but I often wonder how much of it is really making it into hospitals and health systems. The good news is that the Center for Connected Medicine...
View ArticleGetting to a Lifetime Genetic Textbook for Treating Disease
The following is a guest article by Haim Neerman, CEO at Variantyx. As a society, how much should be invested in creating a “transformative textbook of medicine, with insights that will give health...
View ArticleNew AI Model for COVID-19 Patients in the ED Using a Federated Learning Approach
We’ve all known that data and AI was going to come together to make healthcare better. We’ve seen it in fits and starts for a long time. We were just waiting for people to really connect all the dots...
View ArticleHow Can Precision Health Enable the Delivery of Personalized, Precise Care...
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 11/13 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Brian Stout (@thinkstout) from @hc1dotcom on...
View ArticleCompany’s Struggles Point Out Roadblocks to Digital Therapeutics Progress
Digital therapeutics — therapeutic interventions driven by software rather than pharmaceuticals – have been on pharma’s viewscreen for quite some time. It’s not hard to see the appeal of such...
View ArticlePhysicians Increasingly Interested In Use of Patient-Generated Health Data
A new report from Stanford Medicine suggests that after years of holding it at arms’ length, physicians are becoming more comfortable with the use of patient-generated health data. According to a...
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