Analytics

Claus Torp Jensen, who comes to Memorial Sloan Kettering after holding positions at CVS Health/Aetna and IBM, will also serve as head of technology for the hospital.

NHS Digital Chief Nurse Caron Swinscoe discusses the recent launch of the HIMSS Nursing & Midwifery Network for England.

The machine learning tool, which helps to extract data from scanned documents, joins six other AI tools that are HIPAA-eligible: Amazon Translate, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Polly, Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Rekognition.

California is pushing new analytics initiatives to improve population health, says Michael Wilkening, special advisor on innovation and digital services to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

With cloud migrations, proper planning, oversight and management go a long way, says Penn Medicine's Associate Vice-President of Information Services Jim Beinlich –  just like they do with any successful technology pilot or rollout. 

Administrative process improvements top the list of investment priorities, led by technologies to help automate business processes like administrative tasks or customer service.

Project Apollo, built using AWS cloud infrastructure, was unveiled by CEO Brent Shafer at the Cerner Health Conference, where it was also announced that Geisinger signed a 10-year deal to make Cerner's HealtheIntent the preferred analytics platform.

Watch the second day of our livestream from AsiaPac19 in Bangkok, Thailand, which includes interviews with healthcare IT industry luminaries, thought leaders and innovators.

Australians can benefit from being able to access their tests and reports in their My Health Record, enabling them to keep track of their results, monitor and compare results over time and access their data whenever needed.

In the first six months, a quality improvement initiative helped realize a 662% increase in the number of patients identified each month for follow-up – from eight per month to 61.