First venture launched by an academic medical center to use blockchain technology to solve healthcare and medical science problems. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Institute for Next Generation Healthcare has announced the official opening of the Center for Biomedical Blockchain Research. The center is the first of its kind at any academic medical center to utilize blockchain technology, a distributed, decentralized secure database system originally developed for Bitcoin, to
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Mount Sinai Taps Joel Dudley, PhD to Create Precision Health Enterprise
Joel Dudley, PhD, an internationally recognized investigator in translational bioinformatics and precision medicine, has been named Executive Vice President for Precision Health for the Mount Sinai Health System. In this new role, he will create a Precision Health Enterprise by linking pioneering research conducted in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) with implementation strategies developed in collaboration with leadership and staff throughout the Health System.Precision
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Mount Sinai Researchers Use AI-Driven Algorithms to Help Doctors Diagnose Diseases
Researchers used machine learning techniques, including natural language processing algorithms, to identify clinical concepts in radiologist reports for CT scans, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published today in the journal Radiology. The technology is an important first step in the development of artificial intelligence that could interpret scans and diagnose conditions.From an ATM reading handwriting on a check to Facebook suggesting a photo
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Mount Sinai Taps MuleSoft to Create API Economy to Share Patient Data
MuleSoft, an application network company, announced Mount Sinai, New York’s largest integrated health system is leveraging Anypoint Platform to broaden its ability to share data beyond the four walls of its hospitals. Historically, Mount Sinai struggled to share patient data across its massive health system which includes 7,100 primary and specialty care physicians, 12 joint-venture ambulatory surgery centers, more than 140 ambulatory practices and 31 affiliated community health centers.Mount
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Mount Sinai to Deploy Lumeris Value-Based Services to Optimize Population Health Outcomes
Mount Sinai Health System, New York City’s largest integrated delivery system has signed an agreement with Lumeris, a value-based care management service provider to optimize Mount Sinai's population health outcomes. Mount Sinai has already made great strides in covering populations at risk but under the guidance of Lumeris they plan to double the number of lives covered under value-based care arrangements.The multi-year collaboration focuses on better engaging physicians in the value-based care
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Mount Sinai Scientists Reveal Solutions for Opioid Epidemics Using Machine Learning
Mount Sinai researchers have identified unique structural, biological and chemical insights in the way different opioid drugs activate the receptors and specific signaling pathways responsible for the drug’s beneficial and adverse effects, according to a study to be published in Nature’s Scientific Reports. Opioid overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. The findings of this study may provide a blueprint for designing improved painkillers.There have been many
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Mount Sinai Launches Ophthalmic Innovation and Technology Program
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) has announced the creation of the Ophthalmic Innovation and Technology Program that aims to bring in full-time, world-renowned experts to train faculty and residents in the latest and most advanced surgical technologies in ophthalmology. The program establish NYEE as a center of excellence and bring patients closer to breakthrough technology and minimally invasive surgical techniques.The Ophthalmic Innovation and Technology Program DetailsThe
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Mount Sinai Launches EHR-Integrated Imaging Research Warehouse
Mount Sinai Health System has created an Imaging Research Warehouse (IRW) to revolutionize clinical care and translational research to ultimately improve human health. Developed by the Mount Sinai Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute (TMII), the image database integrates clinical imaging with EHRs to enable researchers new access to information about more than 1 million Mount Sinai patients. The IRW is supported by a National Institute of Health pilot program. For researchers, the
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Mount Sinai Taps Salesforce Health Cloud to Coordinate & Manage Care of 350k Medicare Recipients
Mount Sinai Health System, an integrated health system announced it is using Salesforce Health Cloud to to coordinate and manage the care of 350k Medicaid recipients in its Performing Provider System (PPS) in New York City. Salesforce Health Cloud enables providers to get a more precise view of patient demographic, lifestyle and health information to better serve their needs. With Salesforce Health Cloud, more than 10,000 Medicaid service providers and 200 community organizations will gain
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Mount Sinai Taps Kyruus’ Patient-Provider Matching to Streamline Referral Process
Mount Sinai Health System has selected Kyruus, a provider search and scheduling solution to implement its ProviderMatch for Access Centers and KyruusOne provider data management to help streamline the referral process and help match referrals to the most clinical appropriate provider. The partnership ensures that Mount Sinai’s Physician Access Services team, which currently handles appointments for nearly 700 providers, has detailed provider profiles, user-friendly Smart Search capabilities,
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