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Microsoft, MIT, Verily Partner to Advance Biomedical Innovation

January 14, 2021 - Microsoft, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Verily, an Alphabet company recently announced a strategic partnership to accelerate biomedical innovations through the Terra platform. Terra is a secure, scalable, open-source platform for biomedical researchers to access data, run analysis tools, and collaborate. Using the Tera platform,...

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Tufts Taps Olive’s AI Centers to Expand COVID-19 Testing

by Samantha McGrail

Tufts Medical Center recently announced a partnership with startup healthcare company, Olive, to leverage artificial intelligence to streamline COVID-19 testing operations. The partnership will aim to...

Improving Health IT Infrastructure Key to Reducing Clinician Burnout

by Fred Donovan

Improving the usability of healthcare IT infrastructure and other health IT technology, such as electronic health records (EHRs), is one solution to reduce clinician burnout, according to a new report...

Consumers Would Use Blockchain-based Tokens to Control EHR Access

by Fred Donovan

Consumers are willing to use blockchain-based tokens for a variety of applications, including using them to control access to their electronic health records (EHR), according to a survey of 1,000 U.S....

NYeC Seeks Vendors for Patient Access, Secure Messaging Platform

by Fred Donovan

The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is looking for industry input about a platform that enables patients to access and aggregate their electronic health information and supports secure messaging...

CommonHealth Enables Android Users to Share EHR with Health Apps

by Fred Donovan

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is piloting CommonHealth, an open-source, non-profit service designed to enable people to securely collect their electronic health record (EHR) data...

MyCHOP Portal and App Simplifies Adolescent Proxy Process

by Fred Donovan

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) teamed with chief information officers and chief medical officers from other pediatric healthcare organizations to simplify the adolescent proxy process...

CHOC Combines AWS Cloud Computing with Cerner EHR for Data Science

by Fred Donovan

Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) is using the AWS cloud platform with its existing Cerner electronic health record (EHR) to give it the computing power to perform advanced data...

OSU’s Wexner Medical Center Pilots EMS-Hospital Health Data Exchange

by Fred Donovan

Ohio State University’s (OSU) Wexner Medical Center is piloting a project to increase health data exchange between hospitals and emergency medical services, the Columbus-Dispatch reported August...

Healthcare Interoperability Gaps Make It Hard to Use Apps, Share Data

by Fred Donovan

Lack of healthcare interoperability is making it difficult for health systems to use healthcare apps, tap into unstructured data, and reduce the cost of care, according to a survey of 100 IT and...

Kettering to Deploy Health IT System for Faster EMS, Hospital Links

by Fred Donovan

Kettering Health Network is implementing a new healthcare IT system designed to speed exchange of patient information between emergency medical service (EMS) personnel and hospitals. Kettering is...

Middlesex Health IT Team Grappled with Frustrated First Responders

by Fred Donovan

CAMBRIDGE—Middlesex Health in Middletown, CT, gets 10,000 emergency calls per year, but the first responders were getting frustrated by the expensive but unreliable ruggedized laptops they were...

AMA, Sling Expand Work to Add Doctor Input into Health IT Innovation

by Fred Donovan

The American Medical Association (AMA) and student-run biotech incubator Sling Health are expanding their joint efforts to include physicians in health IT innovation to improve clinical workflows...

ACR Offers Free Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Platform

by Fred Donovan

The American College of Radiology (ACR) is providing a free healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) software platform to its members to encourage them to build, share, adapt, and validate AI...

Many Virtual Care Solutions Not Integrated with EHRs

by Fred Donovan

Many virtual care solution do not integrate with electronic health records (EHR), according to a survey of healthcare organizations by virtual care software provider Zipnosis. In fact, close to half...

HHS Warns Health IT Infrastructure Could Put Patient Data At Risk

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare’s increasing dependence on interconnected health IT infrastructure, such as electronic health records and connected medical devices, could put sensitive patient data at risk, warned...

Senator Criticizes Cuts to VA Health IT Infrastructure Budget

by Fred Donovan

Proposed budget cuts to IT projects could undercut healthcare IT infrastructure modernization requirements of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a key senator is warning. In a Jan. 11 letter...

HHS Aims to Reduce Burden of Cumbersome Health IT Infrastructure

by Fred Donovan

HHS has issued a draft strategy designed to reduce administrative and regulatory burdens, which can make health IT infrastructure, such as electronic health records (EHR), cumbersome to...

Making Innovation Work For EHR Integration, Interoperability

by Kyle Murphy, PhD

Improving healthcare interoperability will require innovators to move providers beyond their dissatisfaction with early EHR and health IT systems and adopt integrative technologies capable of improving...

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