Analytics Strategies

HHS Selects Initial Healthcare Innovation Workgroup Participants

by Fred Donovan

HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan announced Nov. 21 the initial core participants for his healthcare innovation workgroup and set Dec. 18 as the date of its first meeting. The...

Value-Based Care Dictates HIT Infrastructure Advancement

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations face many IT infrastructure challenges as they seek out advanced solutions that will accommodate current and future infrastructure needs. Analytics, wearables, and blockchain...

Machine Learning Supports Data Science Platforms for Analytics

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Applying data science and machine learning to health IT infrastructure has been gaining traction in the healthcare industry. Organizations want to make the data collected by connected medical and...

What is the IoT Impact on Healthcare Data Storage, Analytics?

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Organizations are adding more Internet of Things (IoT) devices to their network, which strains their infrastructure. IoT devices are constantly collecting data, causing entities to rethink their...

AWS Expands Healthcare Internet of Things Capabilities

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Amazon Web Services (AWS) made several announcements at AWS re:Invent concerning the healthcare Internet of Things (IoT), data management, and cloud computing. The rapid growth of healthcare IoT...

Healthcare Informatics Platforms Make Patient Data Retrievable

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Recordation announced the release of its new healthcare informatics platform that will digitally assist clinicians documenting patient information. It will aid clinicians as they collect and analyze...

All-Flash Arrays Support Data Intensive Healthcare Applications

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

AccelStor announced the release of its software-defined all-flash array (AFA) NeoSapphire H710 to support data center applications such as cloud computing, data integration, and artificial...

Solid-State Array Supports Future Health IT Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Solid-state array (SSA) storage is growing in healthcare as organizations seek scalable and flexible storage options for increasingly digitized health IT infrastructure. Gartner predicted in its 2017...

Pure Storage Upgrades Flash Array for Healthcare Analytics

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Pure Storage announced upgrades to its FlashBlade product line, including the release of its all-flash S3 object store upgrade, which is aimed at big data and advanced healthcare analytics. The...

Data Science Orgs Form GPU Initiative for Data Analytics

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Continuum Analytics, H2O.ai, and MapD Technologies announced the formation of the GPU Open Analytics Initiative (GOAI) to establish common data frameworks to support data analytics. The...

GPU-Based Collaboration Provides Advanced Database Analytics

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Fuzzy Logix and Kinetica announced a partnership to release a joint solution allowing customers to leverage high performing advanced database analytics. The new option will target the most time...

Vendor Development Aids Healthcare Artificial Intelligence

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare artificial intelligence is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 60 percent through 2022, according to a recent report by Research and Markets. The report stated that growing investments...

New HIT Open Source AI Platform Available on Azure HDInsight

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

H2O.ai announced the availability of its artificial intelligence (AI) platform on Microsoft Azure HDInsight, making it more widely available for health IT infrastructure deployment. H2O.ai’s...

Cisco, SAS Leverage Edge Computing for Clinical IoT Data

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Cisco and SAS announced their release of the Cisco SAS Edge-to-Enterprise IoT Analytics Platform to help manage health IT analytics by organizing clinical data collected by Internet of Things (IoT)...

Improved Patient Care Focus in Google, Tableau Collaboration

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

The Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM) announced that it is using Tableau Software and Google Cloud Platform to analyze patient data and improve patient care. The healthcare organization...

How IBM Universal Quantum Computing Impacts HIT Infrastructure

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

IBM announced its initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computing systems for business and science. The proposed system, IBM Q, will be delivered via the IBM Cloud platform and...

Big Data Analytics Solutions Significant to Health IT

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Big data analytics is becoming more and more prominent in healthcare as organizations are looking to analytics for assistance in population health, precision medicine, and value-based care. The global...

Pure Storage Releases FlashBlade for Clinical Data Storage

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Pure Storage announced the general availability of its FlashBlade solid-state array storage appliance, shipping in 8.8TB and 52TB capacities, to assist with clinical data storage. FlashBlade was...

CenturyLink, Cloudera Release Big Data-as-a-Service Solution

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

CenturyLink and Cloudera announced their collaborative release of a new managed service combining CenturyLink’s data and advanced analytics, network, and cloud application services with...

Top 5 Health IT Infrastructure Trends Heading into 2017

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Cloud migration, staffing challenges, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) are among the top healthcare technology trends outlined in Black Book’s Q4 healthcare C-suite poll.  According...