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Dec 11, 2018
By Matt Ferrari, Chief Technology Officer, ClearDATA Twitter: @cleardatacloud Host of CTO Talk – #CTOTalk At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services announced the launch of their new machine learning solution, Amazon Comprehend Medical. This new set of natural language processing APIs is powered by Amazon Comprehend, which Amazon recently shared as being supported within the Business Associates Agreement (BAA). Comprehend can extract data insights from unstructured…
Dec 6, 2018
By Scott Corbitt, MHA, BSN, RN, VP of Commercial Operations, AirStrip Twitter: @AirStripmHealth Twitter: @Scott_Corbitt Customer feedback is a critical piece of any commercial relationship, and its impact in health IT can be particularly valuable – but timing is everything. For other industries, customer feedback surveys and Likert scales at the end of a project may be effective means of measuring satisfaction. In…
Nov 29, 2018
Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said Washington should get out of the way of private companies that are “disrupting the health care system” with cost-cutting innovations. “The cost of health care is an issue that is at the front of every Americans’ mind – according to a Gallup poll released days before the midterms, 80 percent of registered…
Nov 27, 2018
CommonWell Health Alliance (@CommonWell) announced the rollout of its connection to the Carequality Framework, which is now Generally Available to CommonWell members and will increase health IT connectivity nationwide. The connection will allow CommonWell- and Carequality-enabled health care providers, through some of the industry’s largest participating EHR vendors, to connect and bilaterally exchange health data to improve care coordination and delivery.…
Nov 21, 2018
The alphabet soup of acronyms in the world Artificial Intelligence. What are they? What do they mean? What is the difference between them? This is our ongoing reporting on AI and how it is being integrated into healthcare technology. We are seeking out the thought leaders and innovations that are moving the needle forward using artificial intelligence. Read more posts…
Nov 13, 2018
By Gopal Khanna, M.B.A., Director of AHRQ Twitter: @AHRQNews I'm very excited to tell you about the 10 winners from the first phase of the AHRQ Step Up App Challenge. Their stellar work moves us closer to achieving the goal of developing an app that integrates standardized patient-reported outcomes (PRO) data into clinical care and research. These data are critically important. Insights gained…
Nov 5, 2018
By Don Rucker M.D. and Talisha Searcy Twitter: @ONC_HealthIT Today, nearly all non-federal acute care hospitals have adopted certified health IT. New data show that this momentum continues with the introduction of the 2015 Edition Health IT Certification Criteria (2015 Edition), which includes new technical capabilities (such as application programming interfaces) that were not required as part of the prior 2014…
Oct 31, 2018
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Virtual Panel Discussion on the Current and Future State of Industry-wide Interoperability When: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 Time: 2:00 - 3:15 pm ET The march towards full Interoperability has been a goal for the industry for years now. The HITECH Act, MACRA and the 21st Century Cures Act are major pieces of legislation designed, in part, to advance Interoperability across…
Oct 30, 2018
By Susmit Pal, Healthcare Field Director, Dell EMC Twitter: @DellEMCHealth Twitter: @SusmitPalAtDell Next-generation connected health solutions are helping clinicians be more efficient, patients more engaged, and IT more receptive to the needs of the modern healthcare system Connected, intelligent healthcare organizations are reclaiming a precious commodity: time—more specifically, time to spend with patients. Leveraging the latest in mobile, IoT, integrated compute, multi-cloud,…
