Data Warehousing
Among the projects that will benefit from the government’s new “big data” project is the National Institutes of Health’s "1000 Genomes Project Data Available on Cloud.” and also "Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering,” which the NIH is undertaking with the National Science Foundation.
The complete 1000 Genomes Project is now available on Amazon Web Services as a publicly available data set, the largest collection of human genetics available to researchers worldwide, free of charge.
Healthcare information technology, data mining and data analytics are driving rapid advances in personalized medicine across the country and around the world. The work being done today on this front is but a thin slice of what is yet to come, experts say, and many predict vast advances in the next four to five years.
When a server goes down in a typical office building, the disruption is annoying and frustrating for those affected. But in a healthcare environment, the consequences can literally mean life or death.
Cristine Kao, Global Marketing Manager of Carestream, takes us through a detailed demonstration of the Carestream Vue Cloud.
Managing populations – whether an aggregation of patients or a physical community – is a burgeoning field in healthcare as a way to improve care while containing costs. Many of the IT initiatives currently underway are related to population health in one way or another: electronic health records, meaningful use, interoperability, accountable care organizations, disease state management, pay-for-performance and patient-centered medical home all have elements that relate to managing patients in groups.
Premier healthcare alliance has partnered with Carmel, Ind.-based Clinical Architecture in an effort to normalize disparate healthcare data and help care providers better understand and use health information.
The Premier healthcare alliance has joined with Verisk Health, which develops risk assessment and decision analytics technology, to offer data to hospitals and health systems meant to help better measure the health of their communities and develop new care models.
Former Microsoft Health Solutions Group executive Peter Neupert will join Health Evolution Partners, a venture capital firm launched by former National Coordinator for Health IT David Brailer, MD, as an operating partner.
IBM has launched a new technology designed to extract relevant clinical information from unstructured data. Based on the same natural language processing technology used in IBM's Watson, its new Content and Predictive Analytics for Healthcare is aimed at preventing patient readmissions.