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Microsoft, Providence St. Joseph partner on long-term cloud innovation project

By Nathan Eddy 11:42 am July 08, 2019

The health system will use Azure as its preferred platform and will deploy emerging technologies from Microsoft at an affiliated hospital facility in Seattle, near the technology giant’s Redmond headquarters.

Security, control of data seen as key barriers to cloud adoption by pharma

By Nathan Eddy 10:12 am July 08, 2019

There's continued resistance from many pharmaceutical industry executives, who think it's never possible to safely store sensitive data in the cloud.

Improve patient care – aim for the Triple

By Philipp Grätzel von Grätz 08:30 am July 08, 2019

Pay for performance models continue to experience a hard time, especially those that try to leverage capitated payment schemes to reach the ‘triple aim’ of improved population health, enhanced patient care, and cost reduction.

Note sharing "requires a culture shift in medicine, and that’s not easy," said OpenNotes cofounder Dr. Tom Delbanco. "But patients love it and gain important clinical benefits, and clinicians learn quickly to build it into their practice."

OpenNotes notches another big milestone, with 40 million patients now seeing their EHRs

By Mike Miliard 01:20 pm July 05, 2019

As more than 200 health systems have signed on with the patient empowerment movement, population health, patient safety and quality improvement gains are apparent.

Secure vendor access tech tightens up security, saves $1M at UMass

By Bill Siwicki 01:11 pm July 05, 2019

At UMass Memorial Health Care, an audit found a vendor security problem. Here’s how the health system bolstered its security while achieving a 594% annual ROI.

AI, virtual reality set to boost growth of integrated operating rooms

By Nathan Eddy 11:51 am July 05, 2019

A Frost & Sullivan report predicts that as many as 45% of ORs will be integrated with intelligent technologies within the next four years to improve the precision and predictability of surgical services.

How the cloud enables innovation for pharma and life sciences

By Nathan Eddy 11:06 am July 05, 2019

For all the potential benefits of SaaS-based analytics and AI apps, privacy concerns remain, slowing data sharing and suggesting the need for new approaches to cloud security.

Caldicott calls for data discussion to guide future commercial partnerships

By Leontina Postelnicu 07:32 am July 05, 2019

A new survey of over 2,220 people in England found support for collaborations resulting in access to the discoveries generated at less cost and improvements in the care provided.