Conversa Health’s Scott Anderson provides a brief take on the state of data security in healthcare.The wave that is big-data doesn’t appear to be cresting in healthcare anytime soon, and unfortunately, neither are the threats waged against it. Hijacking and hacking into personal health information (PHI) has become a growing trend that’s here to stay. So, the question remains: what should be done about it?The last couple of years have unveiled a fair share of data breaches in healthcare: in 2017,
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Proteus Launches Digital Cancer Chemotherapy Pill Program for Cancer Patients
Proteus Digital Health, Inc., Fairview Health Services, and the University of Minnesota Health announced that for the first time cancer patients are using digital oncology medicines to support treatment regimens and improve outcomes. This advancement helps patients complete oral chemotherapy cycles while oncologists gain new insights into their patients’ treatment progress and overall health status. Proteus, Fairview, and the University of Minnesota Health unveiled the care model for digital
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Industry Roundtable: AI, Greater Collaboration, Integration are Key to Unlocking Healthcare Data’s Ability to Enhance Care Delivery
Chasm Partners, an executive search firm in the healthcare technology and services space recently convened a roundtable discussion to assess how the transformation of “big data” in clinical informatics provides the healthcare industry with an opportunity to gain new insights into patient care, as well as key lessons learned about artificial intelligence’s impact on the industry.Hosted as part of the firm’s quality newsletter, ChasmPOV featured viewpoints from three recognized thought leaders in
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InterSystems Launches Data Platform to Accelerate Development of Data-Intensive Health Apps
With data at the heart of the digital transformation sweeping healthcare, InterSystems (a provider of IT platforms for health, business, and government applications) is releasing the world’s first and only data platform engineered specifically for healthcare data and is empowering developers to rapidly build and scale the industry’s next breakthrough applications.InterSystems IRIS for Health is built upon the company’s newest product, InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, which combines transaction
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Value-based Care Success: 7 Stages of the Health Data Life Cycle
Back in the day – the late 1960s, when social norms and the face of America was rapidly changing – a familiar public service announcement began preceding the nightly newscast. “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?” Today, as the healthcare landscape changes rapidly with a seismic shift from the fee-for-service payment model to value-based care models, there’s a similar but new clarion call for quality healthcare: “It’s 2018. Do you know where your data is?”Compliance with the
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Is Your Health Data More Safe or Vulnerable in the Cloud?
The illusion of control is tempting, even intoxicating. It’s also a common characteristic that almost all humans manifest to one degree or another as we work to satisfy competence motives, the need for security, survival instincts.Because proximity often feels like control, it might also get in the way of secure healthcare IT.“Files stored in reliable cloud services are some of the most secure files you can have, provided you have good passwords,” says software engineer John Miller, PhD.
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Precision Health AI Launches Oncology AI Platform Driven by EMR Dataset
Precision Health AI, a healthcare technology company focused on the application of artificial intelligence to cancer care, today announced the launch of the Eureka Health Oncology AI Platform. The 60+ set of pre-trained AI solution modules will utilize Precision Health AI’s proprietary data to predict a patient’s cancer stage, treatment journey, flow through the healthcare system and survival rate.Driving the new Eureka Health Oncology AI platform is Precision Health AI’s deep, longitudinal
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Sequoia Project eHealth Exchange, DSS Launch Health Data Sharing Pilot
DSS, Inc., today announced a DSS Direct Messaging pilot program on the nationwide eHealth Exchange health data sharing network. The pilot program is designed to bridge a gap for secure relevant data sharing with federal agencies using Direct Messaging. The pilot will increase the ability to coordinate care with community health facilities by reaching more rural community care / critical access hospitals and community health providers.When government entities choose to participate in this Pilot,
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Healthcare Data Tsunami: Organizing Data in the Internet of Things Age
If you’re of a certain age, you had the opportunity to experience life before the Internet – the days before email, Facebook, and online shopping. If you wanted to send a note to your old buddy from high school, you’d pen a letter, stick a 15-cent stamp on an envelope and drop it in the mail. You might make a few purchases from a mail-order catalog, but do most of your shopping at a brick-and-mortar store.The Internet allows us to find just about everything we’ve ever wanted within one or two
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Why NLP-Driven Platforms Are Vital For Next-Gen Healthcare Analytics
Years ago, you’d ask your doctor during his house call, “What’s in your black bag?” and you’d get to peek inside.Old Faithful: The Medical “Black Bag”Now that MD has been replaced by a telehealth practitioner who arrives by video. And the “black bag” is virtual, attracting many providers and executives who are beginning to use it. It’s harder to peek in, but a more relevant question is, “How will the new technologies inside drive value-based care for providers and health plan payers alike?”It
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