Baylor wins $12.7 million from PCORI to fund brain injury study
Researchers at Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation and Baylor Scott & White Research Institute will participate in a nationwide study to improve post-acute care for patients who have suffered a...
View ArticleRachelle Blake an early pioneer of identifying value to healthcare during...
Rachelle Blake has led teams through the development, implementation, and optimization of health IT for more than 30 years, and has learned – and taught – a thing or two about instilling value in...
View ArticleIBM says big data has provided new insight into how Ebola spread
IBM researchers are employing big data analytics to zero in on a group of Ebola virus-infected animal carriers that had not been previously identified.Direct contact with the infected animal – most...
View ArticleCan computer-assisted coding revolutionize care delivery?
Computer-assisted coding tools are showing considerable potential to improve both billing and care delivery and many hospitals are gearing up to deploy CAC software in the near future.During the...
View ArticleNo women are shaping the Senate healthcare bill
Led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a working group of 13 senators is drafting a new healthcare bill to replace Obamacare. All of them are men.The healthcare bill working group is composed...
View ArticleSenate confirms Gottlieb as FDA head; AHRQ gets new director
With a vote of 57 to 42, the U.S Senate confirmed Scott Gottlieb, MD, on Tuesday as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.Gottlieb was most recently associate professor at New York...
View ArticleGE Healthcare begins $25.8M project to outfit Egypt hospitals with new tech
GE Healthcare has signed a deal designed to help hospitals across Egypt improve healthcare services. Under the agreement, GE will bring 700 units of advanced technologies to more than 200 hospitals....
View ArticleIBM Watson thinks it can use AI to fight opioid addiction
IBM Watson Health and MAP Health Management are working together to bring Watson’s data expertise to bear on curbing substance abuse and addiction in the United States.The partnership aims to fill the...
View ArticleEHR natural language processing isn't perfect, but it's really useful
The rise of electronic health records with natural language processing technology is transforming provider workflow and clinical documentation.Though NLP is not without its challenges, it can offer...
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Healthcare Technology Immersion: Empowering Your Care Teams with Real Time...
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Preventing Diabetic Blindness: The Innovative Solutions of 3 Health Systems...
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View ArticleGE Healthcare, Women in Global Health pay tribute to ‘Heroines of Health’ at...
GE Healthcare and Women in Global Health, which strives for greater gender equality in global health leadership, are working together to honor women in healthcare around the world, they announced May...
View ArticleDeSalvo: Interoperability crucial to patient safety
Interoperability doesn't just mean ensuring easy data exchange between two EHR systems anymore, Karen DeSalvo, MD, said on Tuesday. Patients have have an essential role to play, too.DeSalvo, former...
View ArticleIntermountain goes live on American Well telehealth platform
Salt-Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare has joined American Well’s online care marketplace, best known as “the Exchange.”Through the Exchange, Intermountain will make its nurse practitioners and...
View ArticleGoogle strikes several hospital partnerships for machine learning research
Google announced expanded partnerships with three blue-chip academic medical centers this past week, where bioinformaticians will explore how its machine learning technology can be deployed in clinical...
View ArticleNorthwell Health jumps into wearables
Northwell Health will deploy wireless technology from Peerbridge Health to improve the remote medical monitoring of its patients by using wearable sensors.The move is part of a strategy to "introduce...
View ArticleIU, Regenstrief score $2.5 million from NIA to test new care model for...
Indiana University and the Regenstrief Institute are collaborating on a $2.5 million, five-year project aimed at developing a care model for the 1.4 million Americans over age 50 who are hospitalized...
View ArticlePenn researchers score $9.25 million from Microsoft co-founder to study...
A research team at Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine has secured a $9.25 million grant to study of concussions with the aim of improving care and recovery.David F. Meaney, professor and chair of...
View ArticleOutcome Health value climbs to $5.5 billion after first funding round
Outcome Health, a startup that CEO Rishi Shah and President Shradha Agarwal launched a decade ago, appears to be going strong.After growing Chicago-based Outcome Health over 10 years, the co-founders...
View ArticleEHRs are overflowing with copy-and-paste records, JAMA study shows
For all the benefits brought about by electronic health records, it's long been known that they have their pitfalls, whether it's ungainly user experience or agita caused by alert fatigue.Another major...
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