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EHR & EMR

Why There’s Renewed Interest In The Cloud for Healthcare

August 23, 2022

Via: HitConsultant

From the development of the EMR to the growth of telehealth, the digital environment for healthcare has evolved tremendously over the last few years. So, it’s no surprise that IT spending is set to increase by 12.3% for cloud computing, […]


Innovation, Med Tech

Walgreens Partners With Centene And RxAdvance On Cloud PBM

October 17, 2019

Via: Forbes

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Centene and the pharmacy benefit manager RxAdvance Thursday said they are partnering to “increase transparency” and reduce costs through a cloud-based pharmacy benefit platform. Centene last year bought a stake in RxAdvance, a cloud-based pharmacy benefit manager […]


Innovation, Med Tech

Research project gathers data, images to improve breast cancer diagnosis

September 9, 2019

Via: Health Data Management

A research initiative is using a cloud-based approach in an effort to improve breast cancer care, aiming to develop personalized screening approaches. The Athena Breast Health Network, a long-established breast health collaborative, is conducting the initiative, aiming to use a […]


News

Google begins to stake out its place in healthcare

January 23, 2019

Via: Health Data Management

It’s no secret that Alphabet is knee deep in healthcare projects. Through acquisitions, new hires, partnerships and research efforts, Alphabet, parent company of Google, is using its expertise to organize and analyze enormous volumes of healthcare data. In mid-November, DeepMind—a […]


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Amazon joins NIH cloud initiative for biomedical research

October 24, 2018

Via: Health Data Management

A second major vendor has joined a National Institutes of Health effort to enable biomedical researchers to harness the power of commercial cloud computing. Under NIH’s Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES) initiative, Amazon Web […]


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The impact of cloud computing on medical devices

October 4, 2018

Via: medicaldevice-network.com

Cloud computing is a subscription-based infrastructure that delivers services such as storage, databases, software, and networking. The healthcare industry and in particular the medical devices sector has been relatively slow in adopting cloud computing technology. However, the tide is turning […]


Regulatory

VA launches platform for developers to build apps for vets

March 9, 2018

Via: Health Data Management

The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a beta version of its cloud-based application programming interface management platform that will provide commercial software developers with access to tools for building mobile and web apps on a standard set of APIs. […]


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Google announces Cloud Healthcare API to unlock health data

March 6, 2018

Via: Health Data Management

Search engine giant Google on Monday announced a new cloud-based application programming interface aimed at addressing the interoperability challenges that continue to dog the healthcare industry. Google’s Cloud Healthcare API is meant to extract data from electronic health records and […]


News

Amazon looks to supply chain as possible entry point for healthcare

February 15, 2018

Via: Health Data Management

(Bloomberg)—Amazon.com may have big ambitions to shake up healthcare, but it appears to be starting small. The Internet giant is angling to become the go-to source for basic medical supplies such as latex gloves, bandages and sutures. While that’s not […]


News

Amazon set to play role of technology disruptor in healthcare

January 31, 2018

Via: Health Data Management

The announcement by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase that they are forming an independent company to offer high quality and transparent healthcare at a reasonable cost to their combined 1.2 million U.S. employees is a long-overdue kick in the […]


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15 top healthcare information technology trends for 2018

January 16, 2018

Via: Health Data Management

New trends accelerate change within healthcare IT Various experts in healthcare IT expect the pressure will grow on healthcare information technology to achieve measureable benefits over the next 12 months. We queried several key knowledge experts in the field and […]


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VA uses IT to help post opioid prescribing rates for facilities

January 16, 2018

Via: Health Data Management

The Department of Veterans Affairs is the first healthcare system in the country to post information on its opioid-prescribing rates, including dispensing rates for each VA facility displayed on an interactive map that shows data over a five-year period. The […]


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NCATS awards $25M to create National Center for Data to Health

October 13, 2017

Via: Health Data Management

A five-year, $25 million grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science has been awarded to the Oregon Health & Science University to lead a consortium of universities and research organizations in creating a new National Center for Data […]


EHR & EMR

UC San Diego is switching to Epic’s cloud-based EHR

August 8, 2017

Via: HealthcareITnews

University of California San Diego Health on Monday announced that it is putting its Epic electronic health record in the cloud. The transition from managing its own on-premise Epic EHR to a cloud-based service has already involved moving some 10,000 […]


EHR & EMR

Could Amazon or Apple actually make a dent in the EHR market?

August 1, 2017

Via: HealthcareITnews

What with rumors swirling that Apple and Amazon are each considering ways to drive deeper into healthcare, including EHRs and telehealth, it’s time for a reality check. The central question is whether even technology stalwarts such as Amazon, Apple and their […]


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Who’s responsible for protecting patient data in the cloud?

July 19, 2017

Via: HealthcareITnews

Cloud computing is still fairly new to healthcare and, as such, confusion and a few myths surround the technology. And many of those skewed perceptions are driven by simple misunderstandings, most notably about information security. Indeed, cloud providers offer a […]


Innovation, Med Tech

How cloud-based platforms can advance public health research

July 17, 2017

Via: Health Data Management

Technology is bringing disruptive changes to the way clinical trials are organized today—from the electronic capture of patient data to real-time transmission of collected data. This evolution in clinical trials is exemplified at the Johns Hopkins Center for Global health, […]


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Analytics initiatives are encouraging cloud adoption

May 26, 2017

Via: Health Data Management

Many organizations that have adopted cloud services or are planning to do so say data analytics or big data is a primary driver, according to a new study by TriCore Solutions, a provider of application management products. The company surveyed […]


Innovation, Med Tech

How telemedicine pulled one rural hospital back from the brink of bankruptcy

April 18, 2017

Via: FierceHealthcare

Facing a declining population, one 14-bed hospital in Idaho was preparing to shut its doors before an enterprising new CEO pulled it back from the ledge by integrating innovative tech-based approaches to care. Now, the hospital may serve as the […]


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How does blockchain actually work for healthcare?

April 14, 2017

Via: HealthcareITnews

Health information technology and information security specialists are hearing a lot about blockchain these days. “It’s the answer to interoperability.” And “the technology can solve healthcare’s looming security problems.” But what the heck is blockchain, anyway? The so-called digital ledger […]