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Microsoft Azure Forms Collaboration to Enhance AI in Healthcare

October 13, 2020 - Microsoft Azure, UC San Francisco’s Center for Digital Health Innovation (CDHI), Fortanix, and Intel recently collaborated to establish a confidential computing platform to boost artificial intelligence (A) in healthcare.  The platform will include privacy-preserving analytics to accelerate the development and validation of clinical...


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Technology Issues Plague VA’s Health Information Exchange

by Samantha McGrail

The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently uncovered various technology challenges associated with health information exchange in various VA facilities, which are preventing utilization. The...

Payers, Providers Invest in Analytics for Social Determinants

by Samantha McGrail

A host of major payer and provider organizations recently invested in a health analytics company focused on tackling social determinants of health (SDOH). Socially Determined recently announced that...

Google Cloud Partners with Suki on Cloud-based Clinical Digital Assistant

by Fred Donovan

Google Cloud is adding Suki’s digital clinical assistant technology to its artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud computing healthcare products.   Under the agreement, Suki...

Medical Device Firms Shift Focus from Hardware to Data, Says Deloitte

by Fred Donovan

Medical device vendors, which have traditionally concentrated on developing hardware, are shifting their attention to software, data collection, and data analytics, concluded a new study from...

Mercy Unveils Health Data Network to Pool Clinical Data for Analysis

by Fred Donovan

St. Louis-based Mercy health system, through its Mercy Technology Services arm, has launched a health data network to pool clinical data from across the United States. Mercy plans to partner with...

Hospital Boards Lack Healthcare IT Expertise, Rely on Consultants

by Fred Donovan

A disturbing 91 percent of hospital boards rely entirely on consultants for healthcare IT strategy and advice, rather than on the healthcare tech expertise of trustees, a poll of 494 C-suite hospital...

VC Firms Invested More Money in Fewer Digital Health Deals

by Fred Donovan

Global venture capital (VC) firms invested more money in fewer digital health deals in the first half of 2019 compared to the same period last year, according to the latest stats from Mercom Capital...

Investors Pay $4.2B for Digital Health Startups in 2019 First Half

by Fred Donovan

Investments in digital health startups totaled $4.2 billion across 180 deals in the first half of 2019, putting the market on track to reach $8.4 billion this year, according to the latest data from...

MassChallenge Awards $220K To Five Digital Health Startups

by Fred Donovan

MassChallenge, a network of zero-equity startup accelerators, has awarded $220,000 in cash to five digital health startups as part of its HealthTech accelerator program. To select the winners,...

Information Explosion Makes Data Tracking in Healthcare Essential

by Fred Donovan

Data tracking has become increasingly important with the explosion of information in the healthcare environment. The benefits of tracking data are synchronizing large data sets generated by...

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...

Healthcare Data Analytics Having Big Effect on Clinical Workflows

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare data analytics is having the biggest impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of clinical workflows, according to an annual survey of 185 healthcare leaders by HealthCare Executive...

Digital Health Technology Needs to Fit into the Clinical Workflow

by Fred Donovan

CAMBRIDGE—The biggest question when it come to digital health technology is not getting “new, cool stuff” into the hospital, but how can it fit seamlessly into the existing clinical...

Poor I/O Performance Could Degrade Healthcare Big Data Analytics

by Fred Donovan

Poor input-output (I/O) performance could have a negative effect on healthcare big data analytics, warned Condusiv Technologies CEO James D’Arezzo. SQL databases in particular are a factor in...

Healthcare IT Spending Priorities Include Big Data Analytics, AI

by Fred Donovan

Top IT spending priorities for healthcare executives are accelerating digital transformation, investing in big data analytics and artificial intelligence, and modernizing IT infrastructure,...

Healthcare Big Data Analytics Market to See 22% CAGR Through 2023

by Fred Donovan

The healthcare big data analytics market is forecast by P&S Market Research to experience a strong compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22 percent, reaching a market value of $22.7 billion by...

Reports: Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Market CAGR of 47%-50%

by Fred Donovan

Three separate market reports agree that the healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of between 47 percent and 50 percent over the next few...

Organizations Upping Pace of Healthcare Big Data, AI Investments

by Fred Donovan

More than three-quarters of healthcare C-suite executives are increasing their pace of investment in healthcare big data and artificial intelligence (AI), according to a recent survey by NewVantage...

Big Data Analytics to Have Major Impact on Pharma Next Year

by Fred Donovan

Big data analytics is expected to have the biggest technology impact on the pharmaceutical industry in 2019, according to a survey of pharm professionals by GlobalData. Thirty-eight percent of...