Analytics

Government guidance and best practices will only get hospitals so far. Both value-based care and population health require a stronger-than-ever orientation toward teamwork and that includes patients as well as communities.

Jennifer Girka, a healthcare strategist with Dell, discusses how precision medicine can become a reality.

Big data company CognitiveScale intends to use the new financing to develop its portfolio of cloud-based cognitive computing products.

The small percentage of hospitals already tapping into the CMS PROs are tracking chronic care management, surgical interventions, mental health and cancer treatments, the company found. And there is evidence more healthcare entities will get in the game in the future.  

The entities are building a statewide health information network that will enable doctors to share real-time patient data and analytics. 

Only 102 hospitals of 3,617 hospitals received the top rating of five stars.

The tech giant said it is making its virtual crowdsourced supercomputing platform, the World Community Grid, to researchers in the U.S. and Brazil for the OpenZika project. 

Funding for emerging companies is on the rise across all sectors so far in 2016. 

The organizations kick off a project to recruit 1,000 people for whole genome sequencing using the NantHealth platform and the university's population health database.

HCA and OhioHealth are also among the first movers overhauling initiatives from technology-led to clinically-focused programs and already reaping early results.