Value-based Care

GE Healthcare, ACC Team Up to Advance AI for Cardiac Care

June 8, 2021 - GE Healthcare and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) recently partnered to build a roadmap for artificial intelligence (AI) for cardiac care and develop new strategies for improved health outcomes.  The partnership, formed through the support and participation in the ACC’s Applied Health Innovation Consortium, will tackle the...


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Artificial Intelligence Enhances Cervical Cancer Screenings

by Samantha McGrail

A computer algorithm that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to automate dual-stain (DS) evaluation improved the accuracy and efficiency of cervical cancer screening compared with Pap cytology,...

Artificial Intelligence Helps Detect Early COVID-19 Symptoms

by Samantha McGrail

The West Virginia Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) and WVU Medicine, along with Oura Health, are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to detect COVID-19 symptoms nearly three days before...

KLAS Names Top Healthcare Technical Services of 2020

by Samantha McGrail

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...

Video API Powers Telemedicine Companies During COVID-19

by Samantha McGrail

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...

Allscripts Streamlines Telehealth Implementation During COVID-19

by Samantha McGrail

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...

ECS Tapped to Modernize Health IT Infrastructure for Military

by Samantha McGrail

The Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Defense Health Information Technology Division recently awarded a four-year $116 million contract to ECS to lead health IT infrastructure modernization...

Providers Plan to Up Spending on Health IT to Support More Risk

by Fred Donovan

Close to two-thirds of hospitals and health systems said they plan to increase investment in health IT capabilities to enhance their payer collaboration and support increasing levels of...

Reporting Remains “Killer App” for Healthcare Analytics

by Fred Donovan

Reporting is and will remain the “killer app” for healthcare analytics, according to a new report by Chilmark. Cost, quality, and utilization reports and dashboards are widely used in the...

Intel Uses Purchasing Power to Spur Health IT Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

Through its Connected Care model, Intel is using its purchasing power to accelerate health IT interoperability to benefit employees, their families, and the communities where they live and work. Intel...

Providers Using More Innovative Healthcare Payment Technology

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare providers are using more innovative payment technology to settle patient bills, according to a survey by BillingTree. In fact, 64 percent of healthcare providers now accept web portal...

Balancing Health IT Infrastructure Budget with Innovation

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Organizations are often caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to balancing a health IT infrastructure budget. Recent technological innovations can improve clinician workflow, patient...

Value-Based Care Dictates HIT Infrastructure Advancement

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations face many IT infrastructure challenges as they seek out advanced solutions that will accommodate current and future infrastructure needs. Analytics, wearables, and blockchain...

Pros and Cons of PACS, VNAs for Medical Image Data Storage

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

As healthcare providers invest in new medical imaging technologies that produce increasingly large and complex data files, organizations need to implement infrastructure tools that can support the storage and appropriate access of...

Healthcare Blockchain Puts Patients in Control of EHRs

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Organizations are exploring the possibilities of healthcare blockchain to more securely exchange data and help solve interoperability issues among disparate EHR systems. More vendors are developing...

Digitizing Health IT Infrastructure Promotes Value-Based Care

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Organizations are digitizing their health IT infrastructures as new technologies are developed and advanced technology becomes more tied to value-based care. A recent Frost & Sullivan report...

Healthcare Mobile Strategy Requires Diligent Planning

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Organizations still struggle to deploy an advanced healthcare mobile strategy to meet development and usage needs while remaining HIPAA compliant. Entities need to give clinicians and users what they...

Noninvasive Healthcare Tools Support Value-Based Care

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

HeartFlow and GE Healthcare announced their collaboration in increasing the availability of HeartFlow FFRct to assist clinicians in diagnosing patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), using...

Virtualization of HIT Infrastructure Supports Value-Based Care

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

CipherHealth announced its deployment of IBM Power Systems to support its HIT infrastructure, running it more efficiently through reducing costs and rate of patient readmission. CipherHealth needed to...

Hyper-Converged VDI Modernizes Health IT Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Workspot announced that it now offers a hyper-converged VDI solution in collaboration with Nutanix. The new hyper-converged virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) offering gives users a cloud-native,...