Futurist and founder of the consultancy Enspektos talks how digital health is moving into what he calls the “Age of Implementation” and about a new study designed to map digital innovation progress globally.
2015 has been another banner year for digital health. According to StartUp Health, nearly $5 billion has been invested into digital health companies to date. And, digital health has become a truly global phenomenon, with innovation hubs emerging in Finland, Israel, Canada and other
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Enlitic’s CEO Talks Data Driven Medicine using Deep Learning
In case you haven’t noticed, the age of artificial intelligence is upon us. What was once reserved for science fiction plots is now playing out in real life to save real lives, as a matter of fact. Chances are you’ve already heard of deep learning’s potential; remember IBM’s Watson and his impressive Jeopardy win?
Well, soon computers will be using deep learning to determine whether or not human health is in jeopardy, thanks to highly sophisticated algorithmic methods that better detect
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Dr. Saif Abed Talks Current State of NHS & Impact of Health IT
AbedGraham’s Dr. Saif Abed talks about what’s ahead for England and America when it comes to HIT and healthcare reform.
It’s hard not to look over one’s shoulder during a test, isn’t it—especially when the right answer seems just out of reach. The same could be said when comparing America’s healthcare reform to England’s National Health Care Services’ (NHS). Of course, it’s a lot easier to glance over a nearby shoulder than across the pond. Yet according to AbedGraham’s Dr. Saif Abed, it’s
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Dell’s Mandi Bishop Talks Challenges of Data Analytics in Healthcare
Data analytics promises to be the new darling of healthcare industry as providers move toward value-based methods of care. But is healthcare really ready to handle all the new data (both structured and unstructured) headed its way? How can one be sure that data analytics will produce an accurate picture of how to improve performance and efficiency?
We asked Dell’s Mandi (Phillips) Bishop, Lead for Health Plan Innovation Analytics, what are the considerations providers need to make when it
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SyTrue’s CEO Talks How NLP Technology Is Unlocking Data Driven Healthcare
Growing numbers of healthcare executives recognize the broad and critical uses of Natural Language Processing (NLP). To learn more, we sat down with SyTrue Founder and CEO Kyle Silvestro to discuss NLP’s key role in healthcare now, and its future direction.
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Big questions about Natural Language Processing (NLP) are fading away but a few remain. How do you define NLP’s capabilities when someone asks, “What is NLP, exactly?”
NLP allows computers to read, understand and extract in-context
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e-MDs Talks How to Get Your EHR & Practice Through the ICD-10 Transition
Are you ready for the ICD-10 transition? That’s the question most healthcare providers loathe, as the October 1st deadline nears and the potential for major problems and productivity loss grows. No one knows how many hiccups and headaches the more than 64,000 codes will create—but having the right products in place can help you prepare—according to E-MDs’ Mike Liter.
As Vice President of Account Management & Implementation at E-MDs, a leading provider in ambulatory electronic medical
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Ryan Howard Talks How Practice Fusion Overcame the Free EHR Stigma
The faith in EHR technology to cure our health system’s ills may be dwindling, but not for Practice Fusion’s CEO and founder Ryan Howard. Today, his San Francisco-based company is dominating the competition by offering the largest mobile cloud-based, Meaningful-Use-certified EHR platform in the U.S. And it’s free.
So how did a free EHR technology overcome the stigma that often comes with such technology to dominate the market? And how can a free product maintain the integrity and
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Catholic Health’s CIO Talks Leveraging Health IT for Value-based Care
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When it comes to disruptive forces, health care providers seem to have it all: evolving legal and regulatory requirements, unsustainable economics, challenging demographic shifts, industry consolidation, and fast-moving technology-driven change, among others. All of these
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Post IPO: What’s Next for Fitbit & The Future of Wearables in Healthcare?
It was an IPO to remember when Fitbit, Inc. hit Wall Street this June. In fact, it was the third largest U.S IPO of 2015, according to Dealogic. Its stock opened at $30.50, (52 percent above its initial public offering price of $20.00), raised $732 million, and sold 36.6 million shares—giving the San Francisco, CA-based, fitness-tracking device developer a valuation of approximately $4.1 billion.
Clearly it was a great day for Fitbit, but what does its initial success say about the long-term
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Modernizing Medicine’s CEO Talks Revolutionizing EMRs through IBM Watson
When we think about electronic medical records (EMR), lots things come to mind including the hiccups and headaches that have come with the technology’s lack features and functionality over the years. But that’s all changing, according to Modernizing Medicine’s CEO Dan Cane; EMRs are evolving to better assist physicians in unprecedented ways.
Cane should know since he’s helping his Boca Raton, FL-based company lead the way in developing a new league of sophisticated EMR technology across a
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