Analytics

Many of the 800 accountable care organizations are lagging in critical IT infrastructure, though commercial ACOs are earning more success today than their non-commercial counterparts.

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Enterprise unit acquired the company to advance analytics, workflow and clinical interventions focused on reducing costs connected with underuse, overuse and misuse of prescription drugs.

The North Carolina city tapped analytics tools to help hospitals better serve an influx of immigrants in the community by understanding the patients on both individual and system levels.

The system helps provide nurses with a comprehensive, single-source view of the factors most associated with driving nursing excellence – quality, patient experience and nursing engagement, the vendor said.

The venture capital firm has already invested in Redox, founded by former Epic employees, as well as upstarts focusing on analytics, billing, and cloud-based machine learning.

The Mentrics system from ODH will integrate data to support prevention, treatment and recovery services for persons with mental health and substance use disorders in Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties.

The first step toward Connected Health is to integrate siloed clinical data and then look to use cases that are easy to integrate and expand into Connected Health initiatives.

IBM announced October 3 that it would put Watson to work on IoT, and would devote up $200 million of a $3 billion total investment – the most IBM has ever spent in Europe – to open a new global headquarters in Munich for Watson's IoT business.

One of the largest healthcare providers in Hawaii, it's only the second two-time winner of the Enterprise Davies Award since the inception of the program in 1994.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded $347 million to 16 national, regional or state hospital associations, quality improvement organizations and health systems to continue efforts in reducing hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions.