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Speaking at UK e-Health Week today (15 May), Matthew Swindells, NHS England National Director, Operations and Information, urged organisations to address issues with ‘basic IT’ in an effort to start moving towards a ‘personalised, data-led, fast to deploy new innovations’ system.

But Epic leads in the physician office sector, according to the new report, and GE is now among the top four electronic health record vendors.

Accountable care demands that data crunching these days be agile to enable quick pivots in strategy, says the director of pharmacy at Rapid City Regional Hospital.

The multi-specialty group practice undertook a large project to use analytics and reduce emergency room utilization – and it worked.

Some vulnerabilities in Philips’ Brilliance CT scanners and GE Healthcare Mobile tech could allow an unauthorized user to obtain elevated credentials and make modifications to system settings.

The report points to usability, cybersecurity, user training, help desk among reasons to delay implementation.

The provider will integrate genomic medicine into clinical care and give all its providers access to that information, officials say.

As hospitals collect patient data they must characterize it well, apply new technologies – and practice what Cleveland Clinic’s Paul Ford calls "human medicine."

Hospitals should expect orders of magnitude more data, with emerging tools, to put information to work.

After years of wariness from healthcare providers about off-premise data, new AI capabilities from Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft could make cloud storage easier and more trustworthy than ever.