Data Warehousing

Healthcare providers face mounting pressure to reduce clinician burnout, improve efficiency and increase patient satisfaction. To achieve this, they need easy access to data that can be aggregated, consolidated and provide insight into clinical and operational decisions

Although "technology can be a great equalizer," it can also be used to further inequities, said panelists at HLTH VRTL 2020.

In a conversation with George Halvorson, the CEO discusses interoperability, telehealth, rapid dissemination of new clinical insights and the ability to do installs and go-lives quicker and less expensively.

By keeping its storied brand name associated with its cloud platform and artificial intelligence work, while splitting off a new company focused on managed infrastructure services, Big Blue is gearing for an innovative but competitive future.

The machine learning model, which has been shown to have up to 90% precision, may help clinicians to determine which patients can be sent home safely.

Noncompliance with the new reporting rules "could result in termination for both Medicare and Medicaid," said CMS Administrator Seema Verma.

The organizations say they expect the platform, announced Wednesday, to reduce the time and cost associated with creating clinical grade AI algorithms while maintaining data security.

"We have proven we can systematically improve compliance and enable hospitals around the country to report on their COVID-19 data," said TeleTracking President Christopher Johnson.

The AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard aims to help healthcare and other organizations ensure they're aligning with a set of core infosec principles.

Dueling letters published this week in JAMIA take issue with the degree to which public health agencies are able to receive information electronically.