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NSF Grants $1M to Develop Secure Health IT Infrastructure

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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...

ONC Proposed Rule ‘Turning Point’ for Healthcare Interoperability

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The ONC proposed rule supporting the use of the Health Level Seven’s (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards for healthcare application programming interfaces (APIs) is...

Gustave Roussy Institut, Embleema Team on Healthcare Blockchain

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Gustave Roussy Insitut, a Paris-based cancer center, has formed a partnership with Embleema, a New York-based healthcare blockchain network, to develop blockchain health data sharing applications for...

Aligning Health IT with Business Goals Is Top CIO Challenge

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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...

Texas To Deploy PULSE for Health Data Exchange in Emergencies

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Texas is looking to deploy the Patient Unified Lookup System for Emergencies (PULSE) platform, which was developed by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT to provide secure health...

First U.S. Smart Medical District Upgrades IT Infrastructure

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The Illinois Medical District and IGNITE CITIES, a tech consulting firm specializing in smart cities, have launched the first smart medical district in the United States designed to improve patient...

Digital Health Technology Needs to Fit into the Clinical Workflow

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CAMBRIDGE—The biggest question when it come to digital health technology is not getting “new, cool stuff” into the hospital, but how can it fit seamlessly into the existing clinical...

Upgrading Health IT Infrastructure Top Challenge for Healthcare

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Upgrading health IT infrastructure was cited as among the top challenges facing healthcare executives in 2019. On behalf of SAP, Porter Research polled 100 healthcare CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs from...

Intel Uses Purchasing Power to Spur Health IT Interoperability

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Through its Connected Care model, Intel is using its purchasing power to accelerate health IT interoperability to benefit employees, their families, and the communities where they live and work. Intel...

IT More Upbeat Than Clinicians About Healthcare Interoperability

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More than three-quarters of IT and tech leaders judged their healthcare interoperability efforts as excellent or good, but fewer than half of clinicians had the same opinion. Around one-third of...

Broad-based Panel Tackles Healthcare Interoperability Challenges

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Timed to coincide with the release of a new report by the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) and Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), a broad-based panel of public and private sector representatives at...

ONC Proposes Certification Criteria for Developers of Healthcare APIs

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ONC is laying out certification criteria for app developers in developing standardized healthcare APIs to allow individuals to securely access structured and unstructured electronic health information...

Digital Health Is Strategic Priority for Healthcare Investors

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Close to two-thirds of healthcare business leaders and investors said digital health is a strategic priority for them, with 63 percent planning to invest more in the future. A full 83 percent of 441...

Digital Health Innovators Need to Deliver Results This Year

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Digital health innovators will need to start delivering tangible results, not just hype, for consumers this year, judged the HIMSS 2019 Healthcare Trends Report. The report predicted that digital...

Healthcare Interoperability Will Be Focus of HIMSS19 Confab

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In less than two weeks, more than 45,000 healthcare IT professionals, clinicians, executives, vendors, journalists, and others will descend on Orlando, Florida, for the 2019 HIMSS Annual Conference and...

Healthcare IT Spending Priorities Include Big Data Analytics, AI

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Top IT spending priorities for healthcare executives are accelerating digital transformation, investing in big data analytics and artificial intelligence, and modernizing IT infrastructure,...

Senator Criticizes Cuts to VA Health IT Infrastructure Budget

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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...

ONC Urges Progress in Upgrading US Health IT Infrastructure

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Collaboration and innovation are vital to progress in upgrading the US health IT infrastructure, said ONC in its annual report to Congress. The report backed full support for implementing the...

Reports: Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Market CAGR of 47%-50%

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Three separate market reports agree that the healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of between 47 percent and 50 percent over the next few...

New Service Could Help Hospitals with Wireless Networking Strain

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With all the connected devices in healthcare environment, wireless networking capacity has become a priority for IT teams in hospitals. One solution being proposed by the CBRS Alliance is to use...