Analytics Infrastructure

AI-Based CT Scans Can Distinguish COVID-19 Cases from Influenza

October 2, 2020 - A University of Central Florida researcher is part of a new study, which found that artificial intelligence can detect COVID-19 in the lungs like a virtual physician.  Because COVID-19 looks similar to influenza-associated pneumonia, computed tomography (CT) scans are not the generally recommended diagnostic tool. But the development of the...


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ONC Awards $2.7M to Projects to Advancing Healthcare Data Sharing

by Samantha McGrail

The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently announced four awards totaling over $2.7 million to projects addressing the greatest healthcare data sharing...

Google Cloud, Orange Partner to Boost AI, Edge Computing Services

by Samantha McGrail

Google Cloud and telecommunications operator, Orange, recently partnered to advance edge computing and cybersecurity services through artificial intelligence and data analytics..  The companies...

Interoperable IT Infrastructure Vital to Link Healthcare, Social Care

by Fred Donovan

The United States needs to develop interoperable IT infrastructure that will facilitate the integration of healthcare and social care, advised a new report from the National Academies of Sciences,...

NIMH Awards $4.6M to UC San Diego for NEMAR IT Infrastructure, Tools

by Fred Donovan

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded $4.6 million to the University of California San Diego to build IT infrastructure and tools to add human neuroelectromagnetic brain imaging to...

AHA: Hospital Acquisitions Improve Healthcare IT Infrastructure

by Fred Donovan

Hospital acquisitions help improve healthcare IT infrastructure needed for data-driven, value-based care by increasing the scale at which the combined systems operate and invest, concluded a...

FDA Funds Health IT Infrastructure for Rare Disease Research

by Fred Donovan

The FDA is providing funding to the Critical Path Institute (C-Path) and the Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) for a centralized and standardized health IT infrastructure to support rare disease...

VA Needs Healthcare IT Infrastructure to Utilize Health Data

by Fred Donovan

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) needs to build healthcare IT infrastructure that can utilize increasingly large amounts of health data on veterans, observed Gil Alterovitz, who was recently...

Oak Ridge Probed Health IT Infrastructure to Solve VA Problem

by Fred Donovan

Oak Ridge National Laboratory took a look at the underlying health IT infrastructure when the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was having trouble with thousands of automatic cancellations of...

CIOs Should Incorporate These 3 Ideas in Data Analytics Strategies

by Fred Donovan

CAMBRIDGE—CIOs and other IT leaders should keep these three ideas in mind when developing their data analytics strategies, advised Barbara Haley Wixom, PhD, principal research scientist at MIT...

Rucker: Healthcare Interoperability Stymied by Contracts, IPR

by Fred Donovan

Contractual and intellectual property rights (IPR) are being used to limit access to electronic health information (EHI) and to prevent competition from developers of healthcare interoperability...

One-Quarter of Medical Devices Still Running Outdated Windows 7

by Fred Donovan

More than a quarter of medical devices are running Windows 7, which will no longer be supported by Microsoft after January 14 of next year, according to a survey of 600 global healthcare IT...

Providers, Payers Have “Hangover” from Choosing Health IT Products

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare providers and payers are suffering from a “technology hangover” when trying to decide on a range of health IT products and solutions, judged Sage Growth Partners in their new...

GAO: HHS Fails to Implement High-Priority Health IT Recommendations

by Fred Donovan

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has not implemented four high-priority health IT recommendations by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), according to a recent report by the...

EHR Pilot Issues Spur USAF Spending on Health IT Infrastructure

by Fred Donovan

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) is updating the health IT infrastructure at its military treatment facilities to prepare for MHS GENESIS EHR system implementation because of problems with a pilot deployment...

Scripps Health Selects Avaya for Health IT Integration Program

by Fred Donovan

Scripps Health has turned to unified communications provider Avaya to bring its diverse systems into a comprehensive health IT integration platform. Scripps Health chose the Avaya IX Attendant...

NSF Grants $1M to Develop Secure Health IT Infrastructure

by Fred Donovan

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year, nearly $1 million grant to University of Massachusetts and Elizabethtown College researchers to develop a secure health IT infrastructure...

Philips Agrees to Buy Carestream’s Medical Imaging IT Business

by Fred Donovan

Dutch health technology behemoth Philips has agreed to buy U.S.-based Carestream Health’s medical imaging IT unit for an undisclosed consideration. Carestream’s unit provides medical...

Early Phase EHR Adopters Focus on Health IT Infrastructure

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare organizations in the early phase of EHR adoption are focused primarily on health IT infrastructure, such as interoperability and data security, according to a roundtable of 31 high-level...

Aligning Health IT with Business Goals Is Top CIO Challenge

by Fred Donovan

Aligning health IT with business goals was identified as a top challenge for healthcare and life sciences CIOs, according to the 2019 CIO Survey Report by Grant Thornton and the Technology...