Analytics

Mayo Clinic CIO Cris Ross and Aashima Gupta, director of Global Healthcare Solutions at Google

Mayo Clinic, Google show how they're deploying cloud-based AI to combat COVID-19

By Mike Miliard 11:07 am August 06, 2020

In a HIMSS Learning Center presentation, Mayo CIO Cris Ross, Platform President Dr. John Halamka and other experts will show how the pandemic is accelerating the health system's infrastructure transformation.

"The system either queries the expert to diagnose the patient based on their chest X-ray and medical records, or makes the diagnosis itself by solely looking at their X-ray," CSAIL researchers explain.

New AI diagnostic tool knows when to defer to a human, MIT researchers say

By Mike Miliard 11:39 am August 04, 2020

The system, developed at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, can assess X-ray images and diagnose some conditions, but also appreciates its own limits.

New model draws on hospital data to help health officials time COVID-19 lockdowns

By Kat Jercich 03:05 pm August 03, 2020

The framework from Northwestern and UT Austin outlines the specific inpatient admission thresholds to help authorities determine when communities should enact short-term shelter-in-place orders.

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CDC director: COVID-19 reporting change was made without agency's input

By Kat Jercich 01:39 pm August 03, 2020

Dr. Robert Redfield said during a House subcommittee hearing that he was only told about the decision once it had already been made by HHS.

Idaho HIE partners with Aunt Bertha to help bridge clinical-social gap

By Kat Jercich 10:57 am August 03, 2020

Users working in a patient's record can access Aunt Bertha's network of more than 2,000 organizations.

Allscripts sells its EPSi financial planning business to Strata

By Mike Miliard 05:48 pm July 31, 2020

Strata Decision Technology, which develops cloud-based business intelligence tools, will pay $365 million for the subsidiary.

MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center.

Advanced analytics align nursing resources more accurately

By Bill Siwicki 11:34 am July 31, 2020

MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center, with the efficiency gained through Cerner EHR-linked analytics, has reduced the time spent aligning daily staffing by 70 hours per week.

Federal COVID-19 Insights Partnership aims to boost data-driven response

By Mike Miliard 11:39 am July 30, 2020

A joint project of the Departments of Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs and Energy, the initiative will leverage the DOE's artificial intelligence and high-performance computing capabilities to gain analytics insights more quickly.

MOH deploys Biofourmis’ remote monitoring platform for COVID-19 patients in Singapore

By Dean Koh 04:34 am July 30, 2020

Onsite medical teams at CCFs and SIFs are able to access and monitor patients' trending and real-time vital sign readings remotely using the Biovitals Sentinel dashboard.