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Health Informatics

Closing Racial Disparities in Patient Portal Usage

by Lindsay Zimmerman, PhD, MPH VP, Bartosch Patient Activation Institute, Upfront Healthcare 04/26/2023 Leave a Comment

Closing the Racial Gap in Patient Portal Usage

Over the last decade, the healthcare industry has experienced an explosion of digital innovation. Simultaneously, shifting consumer preferences around convenience and access to care has accelerated the pace of technology adoption at unprecedented speed, especially in the wake of the pandemic.  The value of these digital tools is manifold: healthcare enterprises report increased operational efficiency, higher quality care delivery, cost savings, and the potential to deliver a more
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Exec Hires: GE HealthCare Names Taha Kass-Hout First Chief Technology Officer

by Jasmine Pennic 01/05/2023 Leave a Comment

Exec Hires: GE HealthCare Names Taha Kass-Hout First Chief Technology Officer

What You Should Know: GE HealthCare announced today that Taha Kass-Hout MD, MS has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead the company’s new science and technology organization. - Reporting to GE HealthCare President & CEO Peter Arduini, Dr. Kass-Hout will help drive GE HealthCare’s D3 precision care strategy, a framework and digital products that emphasize the company’s smart devices, aligned to disease states and enabled by digital. D3 brings data and insights together to
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The Mounting Provider Burden of Patients Disconnected from Their Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices (CIEDs)

by Dr. Arnaud Rosier, CEO at Implicity 07/28/2022 Leave a Comment

The Mounting Provider Burden of Patients Disconnected from Their Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices (CIEDs)

The first implantation of a pacemaker in a human occurred in 1958. Since then, the technology behind permanent cardiac rhythm management has steadily evolved, enabling a variety of implants known collectively as cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs). Today, CIEDs are the standard of care for a range of cardiac arrhythmias, and researchers estimate that 1.2–1.4 million of these devices are implanted annually worldwide. And experts predict that number will continue to increase in years to
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30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

by Fred Pennic 12/30/2020 Leave a Comment

30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare executives to share their predictions and trends for 2021. Kimberly Powell, Vice President & General Manager, NVIDIA Healthcare Federated Learning: The clinical community will increase their use of federated learning approaches to build robust AI models across various institutions, geographies, patient demographics, and medical scanners. The sensitivity and selectivity of these models are outperforming AI models
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Using HIEs to Prepopulate Forms Improves Public Health Disease Reporting, Study Finds

by Fred Pennic 06/15/2020 Leave a Comment

Using HIEs to Prepopulate Forms Improves Public Health Disease Reporting, Study Finds

What You Should Know: - A new study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University shows that using electronic health information exchanges (HIE) to prepopulate forms for notifiable disease reports increases reporting and completeness of information. - The system extracts data from the Indiana Health Information Exchange and fills in the information fields on the official state reporting form. - The form is delivered to an ambulatory care clinic using the HIE network, acting as a
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2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners Announced

by Fred Pennic 05/21/2020 Leave a Comment

2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners Announced

What You Should Know: - MedTech Breakthrough announces 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award Winners that recognizes the top companies, people, platforms, and products in the health, fitness, and medical technology industries today. - The 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Awards program is open to all individuals, companies, and organizations involved in producing digital health and medical technology products and services.  MedTech Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization that recognizes
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COVID-19 Outbreak: The Opportunity & Importance of Health Informatics

by Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) 04/21/2020 Leave a Comment

COVID-19 Outbreak: The Opportunity and Importance of Health Informatics

Never before has health informatics played a greater role in public health than during the COVID-19 pandemic.  While the Health IT industry is certainly challenged due to the overall disruption to the healthcare system, the pandemic undoubtedly underscores the opportunity and importance of health informatics, such as telehealth, remote patient monitoring, patient engagement, AI-based drug discovery, precision medicine, and clinical decision support, but nowhere more pressing than the fields of
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AMIA President & CEO, Douglas B. Fridsma Steps Down

by Fred Pennic 01/06/2020 Leave a Comment

AMIA President & CEO, Douglas B. Fridsma Steps Down

- Douglas B. Fridsma, MD, Ph.D., FACP, FACMI, FAMIA is stepping down as President and CEO of The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). - Karen Greenwood, Executive Vice President, and Chief Operating Officer will serve as interim CEO while the Board of Directors begins the search for a replacement.  The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has announced the departure of President and CEO Douglas B. Fridsma, MD, Ph.D., FACP, FACMI, FAMIA, effective January 1, 2020.
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Amazon Comprehend Medical Adds Ontology Linking to Help Clinicians Detect Medication and Medical Conditions in Unstructured Clinical Text

by Fred Pennic 12/18/2019 Leave a Comment

Amazon Comprehend Medical Adds Ontology Linking to Detect Medication and Medical Conditions in Unstructured Clinical Text

- Amazon Comprehend Medical, Amazon’s HIPAA eligible natural language processing service that uses machine learning to find insights in unstructured texts, announced a new capability of linking information to medical ontologies. - The new ontology-linking feature will help clinicians to detect medication and medical conditions in unstructured clinical text. Amazon will now support ICD-10-CM and RxNorm ontologies through Comprehend Medical. Amazon Comprehend, a HIPAA eligible natural language
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CHIME, Digital Health Canada Launches Chapter in Canada

by Jasmine Pennic 11/06/2019 Leave a Comment

CHIME Strongly Recommends 1 Year Extension to Meaningful Use Stage 2

- CHIME and Digital Health Canada launches an international chapter in Canada that will be operated by Canada’s Health Informatics Executive Forum (CHIEF). - CHIEF brings together more than 150 CIOs and senior healthcare leaders from healthcare delivery, government, and private sector organizations across Canada.The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Digital Health Canada announced today that they have launched an international chapter in Canada at the CHIME Fall
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