Cloud Computing

With the personal computer OS, browser and smartphone wars behind us, vendors including Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft are setting sights on AI devices. Here’s what hospitals need to know now about the emerging technologies. 

On Feb. 28, Amazon's S3 cloud-based service experienced outages that caused a number of major websites and apps – including many across healthcare – to stop working optimally.

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The companies said they intend to put the artificial intelligence-powered text analytics technology to work accelerating advances in patient care.

The new software-as-a-service application connects referring physicians to registered imaging provider order lists, bringing clarity to proper exam selection and reimbursement coding, the vendor says.

“EVO combines biometric, clinical, behavior, psychometric and lifestyle data to deliver an engaging, lifelong personalized wellness experience,” the vendor’s CEO says.

With new APIs, IT departments at health systems and hospitals can extend imaging and imaging data into other applications such as population health or reporting tools, the vendor says.

NTT announced at HIMSS17 it is expanding its relationship with Oracle to include cloud capabilities for Oracle’s healthcare analytics platform.

The goal of the new relationship, announced at HIMSS17, is to help hospitals and health systems simplify and modernize their information output infrastructures, the vendors say.

‘In our industry, you have to keep innovating,’ said Rometty about her experience at Big Blue for more than three decades.