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Blockchain Helps Keep Healthcare Data Secure for the Homeless

May 18, 2021 - Technology solutions, including blockchain, can be used to keep crucial healthcare information secure and portable for homeless individuals, according to researchers from Dell Medical School at the University of Texas Austin. Missing proof of identify is a major challenge for the homeless population when it comes to crucial services, such as...

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GE Healthcare Unveils New Edge Computing Technology for Providers

by Samantha McGrail

GE Healthcare recently announced that it launched a new edge computing technology to help clinicians collect, analyze, and act upon critical data closer to its source.  With the COVID-19...

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 to Advance Wipro Limited’s System, Data Processing

by Samantha McGrail

Google Cloud recently announced that it will now be the cloud provider for Wipro Limited’s enterprise-wide systems applications and products in data processing (SAP) footprint. The partnership...

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...

Google Cloud Launches Multi-Cloud Solution to Help Orgs Analyze Data

by Samantha McGrail

Google recently launched BigQuery Omni, a multi-cloud analytics platform designed to help customers to bring the power of BigQuery to data stored in Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and...

SADA Launches Data Sharing Portal to Aid in COVID-19 Recovery

by Samantha McGrail

SADA recently announced the official launch of the National Response Portal (NRP), which is designed to boost efficient data sharing among healthcare providers and policymakers during the COVID-19...

Data Interoperability and Exchange Recommendations During COVID-19

by Samantha McGrail

The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy released short-term steps to improve data interoperability and exchange as states prepare to re-open. The center convened multi-stakeholder working groups to...

HL7, CAQH CORE Join to Boost Admin, Clinical System Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

Health Level Seven International (HL7) and CAQH CORE are working together to improve interoperability between healthcare administrative and clinical systems.  The two organizations...

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...

Senate Bill Would Modernize Public Health IT Infrastructure

by Fred Donovan

A bipartisan Senate bill introduced this week would invest $100 million per year in modernizing the public health IT infrastructure in the United States. The Saving Lives Through Better Data Act,...

Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Group Forms to Set Standards

by Fred Donovan

More than 30 organizations are joining together in an initiative led by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) to develop standards and best practices for healthcare artificial intelligence...

US Government Shutdown Delays OMB Review of ONC Health IT Rule

by Fred Donovan

The US government shutdown, which is in its fourth week, is likely to further delay an ONC health IT rule being reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), observed AMIA Vice President...

Wi-Fi Alliance WPA3 Launch Improves Healthcare Network Security

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Wi-Fi Alliance announced security enhancements and new features for its Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) Wi-Fi CERTIFIED technologies. These upgrades will improve healthcare network security by refining...

AMA Collaboration to Develop a Standard Data Framework

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

The American Medical Association announced the creation of the Integrated Health Model Initiative (IHMI) platform, bringing healthcare providers and technology vendors together to establish a standard...

3 Health Information Exchanges Make Health IT Investments

by Kyle Murphy, PhD

November proved to be a busy month for a handful of health information exchanges looking to add to their health data exchange capabilities. In the Midwest, Michigan Health Information Network Shared...

Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure Key to Advancing Care

by Kyle Murphy, PhD

The first is a global assessment of value-based care The Economist Intelligence Unit. Despite increases worldwide in EHR adoption, several countries, including the United States, have as of yet been...

WEDI: EHR Integration Necessary for Leveraging Genomic Data

by Kyle Murphy, PhD

A white paper published by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) explores the potential to improve care coordination and health outcomes through the use of genomic information, a...

Group Recommends Faster Paths to Health IT Interoperability

by Frank Irving

Health IT interoperability is a key area for elevating health system value identified by a coalition of industry stakeholdersHealth IT interoperability is a key area for elevating health system value...

National HIE Connection and App Store in ONC Plans for 2016

by Frank Irving

National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo, MD, revealed on Dec. 8 two key initiatives intended to catalyze health information exchange and health IT interoperability initiatives during the...

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