Cloud Computing

The organizations announced a collaboration on joint products and services for sharing health data under value-based care models.

The company said it will use the funding to advance its HIPAA compliant and HITRUST certified platform for exchanging protected health information.

A new survey determined that hospitals using cloud-based infrastructure services are seeing improved care and patient satisfaction, faster time to innovation, and higher staff productivity and efficiency. 

CEO Jonathan Bush said athenaInsight will mine the company’s network of providers and patients to determine what works at high-performing hospitals as well as the drivers of physician engagement and public health trends.

The software giant joins rivals IBM and Google in putting supercomputing to work on cancer research and treatment. 

The organizations are building a research laboratory for brain-inspired machine comprehension to develop systems that mimic certain human abilities.

Cavulus cloud-based services can help insurance companies automate marketing, sales, enrollment, retention and compliance.

In an early-adopter program at the National Institutes of Health, the cloud-based genomics platform will be used to gauge how best to deliver precision medicine data to clinicians at the point of care.

The new technology taps open standards to help customers streamline application integration and move from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement, McKesson executives said.  

MIT professor John Guttag said that growing sets of aggregated data, federal rules mandating access to information and existing tools make machine learning a reality today. Here’s what healthcare organizations need to know about the emerging technology.