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GE Launches Cloud, AI-Based Health IT Imaging Platform on AWS

August 9, 2021 - GE Healthcare has announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based imaging health IT solutions to hospitals and healthcare providers. GE Healthcare plans to offer its Edison Health Services platform on AWS, providing customers the ability to integrate large amounts of data...


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IBM, UK Sign Public Cloud Agreement to Boost Essential Services

by Samantha McGrail

Crown Commercial Service (CCS) and IBM recently signed a three-year public cloud agreement that will allow public sector organizations like the National Health Service (NHS) to innovate with digital...

Google Cloud Releases COVID-19 Public Forecasting Model

by Samantha McGrail

Google Cloud and the Harvard Global Health Institute recently launched the COVID-19 Public Forecasts to provide accurate and free projections of coronavirus cases, deaths, and other metrics over two...

Google, Box Extend Partnership to Transform Work in the Cloud

by Samantha McGrail

Google Cloud and Box Inc recently partnered to help customers transform the way they work and enhance the experience for organizations using G Suite with Box to power secure work in the cloud. As part...

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

by Samantha McGrail

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...

Iron Mountain Announces $225M Data Center Campus Expansion

by Samantha McGrail

Storage and information management leader Iron Mountain announced the expansion of its data center campus in North Virginia, with the construction of VA-2 underway. Iron Mountain predicted that it...

VNA and PACS Market Growth Increases Data Storage and Security

by Samantha McGrail

North America is leading the regional segment for the Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) and Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) market with a share of 28.51 percent in 2018, which increases...

New Partnership Aims to Solve Enterprise Imaging Data Problems

by Samantha McGrail

T-Systems North America (TSNA) and Hitachi Vantara recently announced a collaboration to create a new Hitachi Vantara-powered managed service that aims to address the growing volumes of enterprise...

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...

GAO Says Health IT Infrastructure Costs for VA’s EHR Unreliable

by Fred Donovan

Government Accountability Office (GAO) auditors were unable to determine the reliability of cost estimates for health IT infrastructure, data hosting, and system sustainment for the Department of...

Researchers Modify Flash-based SSD to Thwart Ransomware Attacks

by Fred Donovan

Researchers from the University of Illinois have modified a flash-based solid-state drive (SSD) to fight ransomware attacks that plague healthcare organizations and other industries. When a file is...

Healthcare IT Pros Warm to Putting Sensitive Data in the Cloud

by Fred Donovan

Despite a previous reluctance to put sensitive data in the cloud, healthcare IT pros now see cloud computing as a way to improve their data security and compliance posture. That is one conclusion of a...

Researchers Test Blockchain for Clinical Trails’ Data Integrity

by Fred Donovan

Researchers at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have developed a proof-of-concept method for using blockchain to safeguard data integrity of clinical trials. Blockchain creates an...

Health Data Archiving Provides Financial Gains to Organizations

by Fred Donovan

A full 85 percent of organizations who have retired legacy IT systems and opted for health data archiving report positive financial impacts, according to KLAS Research.   As a result, the...

MGH Works with Korean Startup on Healthcare Blockchain Project

by Fred Donovan

Massachusetts General Hospital’s Laboratory of Medical Imaging and Computation is working on a healthcare blockchain project with Korean startup MediBloc for patient data storage and exchange,...

Building a Healthcare Cloud Strategy Prevents Overspending

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Many organizations are moving to the healthcare cloud to reduce the cost of on-premises IT infrastructure deployment. While initially deploying a new cloud infrastructure may be expensive, over time...

Health System Consolidation, Mergers Impact PACS Vendor Selection

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations are looking to standardize and consolidate their picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) as health systems continue to merge and grow, according to a recent KLAS...

FUJIFILM Partners with American College of Radiology for PACS

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

FUJIFILM Medical Systems is extending its partnership with the American College of Radiology to provide the healthcare organization with picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) to help...

Hurricane Season Threatens Healthcare Disaster Recovery Plans

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Nearly 50 percent of healthcare organizations have doubts in their disaster recovery solutions as hurricane season begins to threaten the US, according to a DrFirst survey. Hurricane Florence is about...

Making Growing Healthcare Data Lakes Actionable for Providers

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Organizations are challenged by constantly increasing amounts of health data as more connected and digital devices contribute data. The rate at which the data is growing is also causing healthcare data...