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Rise of Digital Voice Assistants & The Hospital Room of the (Near) Future

by Murray Izenwasser, VP of Consulting and Design Thinking at OZ 12/10/2019 Leave a Comment

Digital Voice Assistants and the Hospital Room of the (Near) Future

Hospital rooms thrum with the steady beat of monitors. And while a patient must quickly adapt to a cacophony of beeps and drips, when a sudden alarm pierces the air, it’s a nerve-wracking experience—especially if a nurse doesn’t step in immediately. The patient must fumble for the nurse-call button, which can usually be found dangling by the side of the bed. But if you’re sick, weak or hugely pregnant, even rolling over slightly to grab the cord can be a herculean effort. Soon that dangling
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Despite Deployment Challenges, Healthcare Cloud Adoption Is On The Rise

by Jasmine Pennic 12/03/2019 Leave a Comment

Despite Deployment Challenges, Healthcare Cloud Adoption Is On The Rise

- Cloud adoption in healthcare is accelerating amid deployment challenges, according to the results of a recent survey conducted by HIMSS Media in collaboration in Perficient and Red Hat. - The blinded HIMSS Technology Outlook Survey: The Outlook for Cloud finds healthcare organizations are already deploying or planning to deploy a significant share of their healthcare information technology (HIT) workload to the cloud.Cloud adoption continues to accelerate in healthcare, a fact reflected in the
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Cerner Names AWS as Its Preferred Cloud and Machine Learning Provider

by Fred Pennic 12/03/2019 Leave a Comment

Cerner Names Amazon Web Services (AWS) As Preferred Cloud Provider

- Today at AWS re:Invent, Cerner has selected Amazon AWS as its preferred cloud and machine learning provider.- Cerner will use migrate its core apps to AWS’s broad portfolio of services, including ML, analytics, and Internet of things (IoT), to help create the next chapter of healthcare’s digital age.- Cerner will offer providers and healthcare organizations the ability to access and leverage clinical data in new ways to drive faster innovation, improve quality of care, and provide patients
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Amazon Launches EHR-Integrated, Machine Learning-Powered Transcription Service

by Fred Pennic 12/02/2019 Leave a Comment

Amazon Transcribe Medical

- Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches Amazon Transcribe Medical, a HIPAA-eligible, machine learning-powered medical transcription service that utilizes automatic speech recognition applications to offer a more efficient and accurate medical note-taking experience.  - By utilizing voice-enabled technologies, Transcribe Medical automatically translates audio streams into medical speech -- designed to be deployed at scale to patients’ healthcare providers, allowing for affordable, consistent,
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The State of Patient Access and Engagement: Consumer Demand Versus Reality

by Fred Pennic 11/27/2019 Leave a Comment

State of Patient Access and Engagement

- DocASAP, a patient access and engagement platform for health systems, health plans and physician groups revealed the findings of its first annual “State of Patient Access and Engagement” survey. - The survey, conducted by OnePoll and commissioned by DocASAP in October 2019, uncovers insights into patients’ preferences, frustrations and expectations when communicating and engaging with health plans and healthcare providers.DocASAP, a provider of the most advanced patient access and engagement
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Can Consumer Price Transparency in Healthcare Live Up to the Hype?

by Meg Koepke, Vice President of Strategy at NovuHealth 11/22/2019 Leave a Comment

Meg Koepke, Vice President of Strategy at NovuHealth

There has been a lot of discussion in recent weeks and months about price transparency in healthcare. The idea is simple—payers and providers reveal the rates they pay or charge for health services in order to help consumers make better choices. Despite the hype surrounding price transparency, it will undoubtedly come with a whole set of realities and limitations—there are a variety of factors that go into setting prices, and in many cases, the prices that get posted don’t reflect the price
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InterSystems, Virtusa Partner to Enhance Patient Data Integration

by Jasmine Pennic 11/20/2019 Leave a Comment

InterSystems, Virtusa Partner to Enhance Patient Data Integration

- InterSystems and Virtusa Corporation partner to enhance the healthcare data integration capabilities of its vLife™ life sciences platform.- The Collaboration will create an advanced platform for healthcare data management, research and analytics.InterSystems, and Virtusa Corporation, a global provider of digital strategy, digital engineering, and IT services and solutions have announced their partnership in an effort to drive positive patient outcomes while reducing cost through improved
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Life Image, Graticule Launches Imaging Dataset In AWS Data Exchange

by Fred Pennic 11/18/2019 Leave a Comment

Life Image, Graticule Launches Imaging Dataset In AWS Data Exchange

 - Life Image and Graticule announced the availability of GLIMPS (Graticule Life Image Machine Parsed Set) data licensing subscriptions in AWS Data Exchange. - GLIMPS (Graticule Life Image Machine Parsed Set) is a de-identified patient-level data set including a summary of features generated from NLP processing on Life Image data. - The goal of GLIMPS is to provide a cost-effective patient-level snapshot to biopharma data science teams to fuel the necessary discussions about these data, leading
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Deloitte, Amazon Web Services Partner to Create New Health Ecosystems Through Data

by Fred Pennic 11/14/2019 Leave a Comment

- Deloitte is now working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its new cloud-based service AWS Data Exchange to help organizations quickly and easily find, access and share data from other institutions securely.- Deloitte and AWS Data Exchange together will help organizations and researchers uncover the value created from the vast amounts of data generated throughout the healthcare ecosystem. Most of this data has been inaccessible – and if it is accessible, it’s difficult to find and obtain. -
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Google-Ascension: Why Is HIPAA Probably Not Being Violated?

by Matthew Fisher, Partner & Chair at Mirick O’Connell 11/13/2019 Leave a Comment

- Various arrangements between Google and systems including the Mayo Clinic, University of Chicago, and Ascension draw concern and fears of Google just taking multitudes of personal information about thousands or millions of individuals. - Despite the most common statement being that Google is stepping around HIPAA, the most likely answer is that Google (and really many other technology-based vendors) can receive the data as a business associate. - Why is HIPAA probably not being violated?
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