Analytics

Visualisations are receiving considerable attention in the age of COVID-19, but is there more to them than meets the eye?

Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Dr. Daniel Gold discusses how Israel's military defense expertise fueled the production of medical devices, diagnostics and other data intelligence tools in response to COVID-19.

The UK’s Royal Marsden Hospital in London has developed an e-form solution using Hyland OnBase that captures and tracks COVID-19 symptom responses from cancer patients remotely, prior to an appointment or treatment visit.

“The pace of innovation with COVID-19 has been extraordinary but the challenge is to maintain that pace and benefits from it,” said Peter O’Halloran.

Last year, the organizations embarked on a decade-long partnership to advance the health system's AI and ML innovations. Then the novel coronavirus began to spread.

A case report published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association shows how algorithms can be used to augment the contact-tracing process for COVID-19 patients.

Those pandemic-era technologies will reach the fabled Plateau of Productivity sooner than other emerging innovations approaching the peak of the curve, such as digital twins, data fabric and SASE network architecture, researchers say.

Dr. Elizabeth Marshall, director of clinical analytics at Linguamatics, talks about data management and workflow challenges during the pandemic – and describes how natural language processing can help.

The initiative aims to drive digital transformation across the state and identify services in need of investment.

A new article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association points to the dissemination of "under-developed and potentially biased models" in response to the novel coronavirus.