The W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity and Competitiveness...
Dr. Brent James, the chief quality officer at Intermountain Healthcare, was announced as one of this year’s Deming Cup recipients. The Deming Cup – which grew from Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards...
View ArticleDell Healthcare Announcements at RSNA
At RSNA Dell made several announcements involving significant customer and partnership alliances for its cloud-based medical image archive platform, pushing the company to the forefront of cloud-based...
View ArticleCCHIT UNVEILS NEW HIE INTEROPERABILITY TESTING AT HIMSS13
Will Introduce Programs and Demonstrate Tools to Test Connectivity CHICAGO – March 4, 2013 – Today, the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology is announcing the opening of the...
View ArticleLeading Healthcare IT Association Announces $1 Million Initiative to Protect...
Ann Arbor, MI, January 19, 2016 – Imagine a scenario in which a patient goes to a doctor’s office or a hospital and is misidentified or matched to the wrong medical record. Imagine a doctor making...
View ArticleSecuring IoT Devices Calls For New Ways Of Doing Business
While new Internet-connected devices can expose healthcare organizations to security threats in much the same way as a desktop PC or laptop, they aren’t always procured, monitored or maintained the...
View ArticleONC Announces Winners Of FHIR App Challenge
The ONC has announced the first wave of winners of two app challenges, both of which called for competitors to use FHIR standards and open APIs. As I’ve noted previously, I’m skeptical that market...
View ArticleHospitals, Groups Come Together To Create Terminology For Interoperability
A health IT trade coalition dedicated to supporting data interoperability has kicked off an effort providing fuel for shareable health IT app development. The Healthcare Services Platform Consortium,...
View ArticleHL7 Releases New FHIR Update
HL7 has announced the release of a new version of FHIR designed to link it with real-world concepts and players in healthcare, marking the third of five planned updates. It’s also issuing the first...
View ArticleIntermountain Readies Tests For Hereditary Cancer Syndromes
Intermountain Healthcare has begun the process of validating and launching several tests designed to identify disease-causing hereditary genetic patterns. The work will be done through Intermountain...
View ArticleIntermountain Creates Virtual Hospital
A couple of years ago, I wrote an item describing the Mercy Virtual Care Center, a four-story, $54 million venture which describes itself as a “hospital without beds.” The Center, which launched in...
View ArticleGeisinger Integrates Precision Medicine Into Care
Lately, it seems like we read about new advances in precision medicine every day. Increasingly, physicians are able to adjust drug therapies and predict conditions like cancer and heart disease before...
View ArticleA Missed Opportunity For Telemedicine Vendors
Today, most direct-to-consumer telemedicine companies operate on a very simple model. You pay for a visit up front. You talk to the doctor via video, the doctor issues as a prescription if needed and...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Care Pricing and Provider Quality Transparency?
I’m on the Utah HIMSS board and we’re hosting an event called “Full Disclosure- Price Transparency & Provider Ratings in Healthcare.” At the event on August 29, 2018, we’ll be talking about pricing...
View ArticleDoes NLP Deserve To Be The New Hotness In Healthcare?
Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot more talk about the benefits of using natural language processing technology in healthcare. In fact, when I Googled the topic, I turned up a number of articles on the...
View ArticleRedox raises $33M in Series C Funding Led by Battery Ventures to...
Redox, the company that is changing the way healthcare providers and software vendors share data, today announced that the company closed a $33 million Series C funding round led by global investment...
View ArticleLifeBridge Health Launches Virtual Hospital Service Integrated With...
LifeBridge Health has joined the ranks of healthcare organizations making a major investment in virtual care. The health system has created a “virtual hospital” which evaluates and in some cases treats...
View ArticleHospitals Shifting To More Strategic Uses Of Telehealth Technologies
For quite some time, hospitals have been adding to their portfolio of telehealth services, in part as a way to keep their brand top-of-mind with consumers in their service area. Well before physicians...
View ArticleIntermountain Reduces Waste With Blockchain, Saves $90M
If you’re wondering whether blockchain technologies are worth deploying in healthcare, you’ll probably find the following to be worth a look. According to a Forbes piece, Intermountain Healthcare has...
View ArticleNew Coalition Forms To Share Data, Coordinate Response To COVID-19 Threat
A group of healthcare, tech and non-profit organizations has come together to support the rapid deployment of open source solutions addressing the COVID-19 virus. The COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition’s...
View ArticleAmazon Launches Public Data Lake Making COVID-19 Data Accessible
Amazon has announced that it has made an AWS COVID-19 data lake available to the public for use in better understanding the virus. The data lake, a centralized repository of up-to-date curated datasets...
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