Healthcare IT Infrastructure News for IT pros in the Healthcare Industry

How EHRs Are Leveraging Artificial Intelligence Capabilities

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Artificial intelligence capabilities are still evolving, but AI is a beneficial option for EHR customers who are prepared to operationalize models and drive outcomes themselves, according to a KLAS report.  The KLAS report investigates what four EHR vendors, Epic, Cerner, MEDITECH, and Allscripts, are doing in the world of AI.  Epic and...

HHS Offers $5M for Studying Use of Health IT During Pandemic

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HHS recently announced a new funding opportunity announcement through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that will award $5 million to support research efforts gauging provider use of health IT tools during the pandemic.  The funds will support novel, high-impact studies that evaluate the responsiveness of healthcare...

Surveillance Workstation Provides Remote Care to COVID-19 Patients

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Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) recently deployed Capsule’s Ventilated Patient Surveillance (VPS) workstation to provide effective remote care to COVID-19 ventilated patients. Yale Health System, the largest health system in Connecticut, reached out to Capsule for a technology solution and together, the companies came up with the...

Google Cloud, Splunk Help Orgs Boost IT Infrastructure Security

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Google Cloud and Splunk Inc, recently announced a strategic partnership to help organizations leverage data analytics for IT infrastructure security and drive actionable insights from their data.  Splunk, provider of the Data-to-Everything platform, will make Spunk Cloud available on Google Cloud to help customers uncover the value of their...

IBM Leverages Artificial Intelligence to Automate IT Infrastructure

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IBM recently launched new capabilities and services powered by artificial intelligence to help chief information officers (CIOs) help their businesses recover and restart in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. IBM’s Think Digital conference intends to help CIOs automate their IT infrastructures to become more resilient to disruptions and...

Data Interoperability and Exchange Recommendations During COVID-19

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The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy released short-term steps to improve data interoperability and exchange as states prepare to re-open. The center convened multi-stakeholder working groups to identify feasible healthcare data interoperability recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The expected surge in testing through point-of-care...

Cleveland Clinic, Epic Use Remote Patient Monitoring for COVID-19

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Cleveland Clinic and Epic recently launched a remote monitoring tool to allow clinicians to quickly respond to COVID-19 patients.  The initiative will manage care in a quick and efficient manner while keeping both patients and frontline workers safe. The tool is connected to patient medical records and is available through Epic’s MyChart...

IBM Blockchain Helps Combat COVID-19 Supply Chain Shortages

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IBM recently launched a blockchain-based network designed to help government agencies and healthcare organizations identify suppliers and address COVID-19 supply chain shortages. The initiative, IBM Rapid Supplier Connect, is part of IBM’s approach to combat COVID-19 and tackle the shortage of equipment, devices, and supplies needed for...

KLAS Names Top Healthcare Technical Services of 2020

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Galen Healthcare, 314e, Navin, Haffy & Associates (NHA), and J2 Interactive are some of the healthcare technical services firms that toppedthe charts in 2020, according to new KLAS rankings.  Most of the firms in the Technical Services 2020 report from KLAS provide technical services as an ancillary offering for clients who have already...

Apple Mobility Data Tool to Track User Movement, COVID-19 Spread

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Apple recently released a mobility data trends tool from Apple Maps to track and mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The app may be useful to governments and health authorities as a foundation for new public policies by showing the change of volume of people driving, walking, or taking public transit during coronavirus....

Google Cloud Launches Healthcare API During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Google Cloud recently announced it created a Cloud Healthcare API to improve data interoperability and give providers real-time access to health data during the COVID-19 pandemic. The API will allow for healthcare organizations to manage data from various health systems and ensures safe and effective provider-data interaction using web-friendly,...

Apple, Google Leverage Bluetooth for COVID-19 Contact Tracing

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Google and Apple recently announced a joint effort to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies bolster COVID-19 contact tracing. Across the world, governments and health authorities are collaborating to enhance efforts to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Software developers are developing technical tools to help...

Google Cloud Unveils COVID-19 Data Sharing Platform For Providers

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HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud recently launched a COVID-19 data sharing platform to enable the exchange of key information during the pandemic.  The COVID-19 National Response Portal, operated by SADA, runs on Google Cloud and promotes COVID-19 patient data sharing to uncover how the virus is spreading and help communities to prepare and...

Working From Home Exposes New Billing Data Security Threats

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Organizations are facing significant data security risks as stay-at-home orders increase and the first major remote billing cycle is carried out remotely, according to the Association of IT Asset Managers (IAITAM).  Thousands of US companies are leaning on employees who are unfamiliar with carrying out their jobs at home and using untracked...

Video API Powers Telemedicine Companies During COVID-19

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Cloud communication company Vonage is reporting higher demand for its video application program interface (API) as telemedicine companies leverage the technology to facilitate virtual visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. "While video conferencing has been in the headlines of late, the growth in video-based applications is even more important. In...

Interoperability Platform Ensures Access to COVID-19 Patient Data

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A leading internet and information services company recently announced that it will offer healthcare providers free access to on-demand patient record query through its healthcare interoperability platform during the COVID-19 pandemic. J2 Global recently launched its healthcare platform, Consensus, a tool that allows healthcare providers to access...

Allscripts Streamlines Telehealth Implementation During COVID-19

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Allscripts recently announced that it has created a specialized telehealth implementation plan for clients to implement virtual visits between providers and patients through its EHR-agnostic patient engagement platform.  The platform, FollowMyHealth, will allow clients across the nation to sign up and deliver telehealth visit capabilities in a...

AI Drug Discovery Platform IDs Potential COVID-19 Treatments

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A drug discovery platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI) technology has identified 18 potential treatments for COVID-19, according to an announcement from health IT company Gero. Six of the potential anti-COVID-19 drugs have already been approved, three have been withdrawn, and the other nine have already been tested in clinical trials for...

New Initiative Will Leverage Supercomputers to Combat COVID-19

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IBM Watson recently launched an initiative with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the US Department of Energy, and others to enhance researchers’ efforts to uncover possible COVID-19 treatments through supercomputers.  For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource page, updated twice daily by...

Hospitals Prepping Health IT Infrastructure for COVID-19 Outbreak

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Information-technology leaders are racing to get ahead of health IT infrastructure challenges and provide employees with remote work tools as they anticipate shortages due to the COVID-19 outbreak, according to an article featured in The Wall Street Journal. Officers are also refurbishing existing equipment including laptops to make them last...