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AMIA Backs NIH’s Plan to Revise Health Data Management Policy

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AMIA is supporting development of a new health data management and sharing policy for research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the group said in an Dec. 10 comment letter. The trade...

Global Healthcare IT Market to Increase at 8% CAGR to 2022

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Global healthcare IT market is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 8 percent, reaching $206 billion by 2022, according to a market report by Technavio. The growth will be fueled by the need...

Digital Therapeutics Grows More Integrated into Care Delivery

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Digital therapeutics and connected health devices are becoming more integrated into healthcare delivery, according to a new report by PwC. In fact, 82 percent of physicians said they have discussed...

Healthcare Internet of Things Market To Grow at 11% CAGR to 2022

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The global healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) market is forecast by Zion Market Research to increase at a robust 11 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR), reaching $14.7 billion by 2022. Market...

US Gov’t Report Says Health IT Infrastructure Impedes Competition

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Health IT infrastructure often facilitates anticompetitive practices in healthcare, such as blocking clinical information exchange between providers or not supporting regional information sharing,...

Global Healthcare IT Outsourcing Market To Reach $61B by 2023

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The global healthcare IT outsourcing market is forecast to reach $61.2 billion by 2023, according to the latest report by Transparency Market Research. Demand for healthcare IT outsourcing services is...

Implementing 21st Century Cures Act Preoccupies ONC’s Work

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The work of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is dominated by implementing the 21st Century Cures Act, particularly in the areas of reducing provider...

Health IT Interoperability Is Common Thread at ONC Annual Meeting

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A common theme of Thursday's plenary sessions at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) 2018 annual meeting was health IT interoperability. HHS...

HHS Aims to Reduce Burden of Cumbersome Health IT Infrastructure

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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...

AWS Launches Machine Learning Service to Mine Patient Data

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its Amazon Comprehend Medical machine learning service that enables healthcare professionals and developers to mine unstructured medical text and...

Healthcare CIOs’ Power over IT Purchasing Decisions in Free Fall

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The power of healthcare CIOs over the IT purchasing decisions of their organizations has virtually evaporated, according to a newly released survey by Black Book Research. Three years ago,...

HHS Selects Initial Healthcare Innovation Workgroup Participants

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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...

Healthcare Blockchain Could Solve Industry’s Biggest Problems

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Healthcare blockchain could solve some of the biggest problems in healthcare, such as compliance, interoperability, and data security issues, according to a recent study by CB Insights. The...

Major Tech Firms Partner to Boost Healthcare IT Interoperability

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Major tech companies, like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, are increasingly partnering with health IT vendors to remove barriers to healthcare IT interoperability. In a letter released recently by ITI,...

Healthcare Blockchain Is Poised to Transform Patient Care

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Healthcare blockchain technology has the potential to transform patient care, observed Bill Frist, a heart and lung transplant surgeon, former Senate majority leader, and chairman of the executive...

New Healthcare Blockchain Effort to Ease Credentialing Burden

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A new healthcare blockchain initiative has been launched to help ease the administrative burden of professional credentialing, a process that can require four to six months to complete. The...

AWS Expands HIPAA Eligible Machine Learning Services

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the expansion of its machine learning services to healthcare organizations. Amazon Translate, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon Transcribe are now HIPAA...

EHR Integration Among Top Health IT Infrastructure Priorities

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The foundational technologies that make up health IT infrastructure are critical to supporting telehealth, patient engagement, population health management, and value-based care. According...

Blockchain in Healthcare Could Be “Game Changer” for EHR Interoperability

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Blockchain in healthcare is a potential game changer for the way providers exchange data. However, understanding the potential of blockchain and how to realistically implement it are not always...

Lack of Use-Cases Delay Healthcare Blockchain Implementation

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Healthcare blockchain is growing, but with the technology being so new, organizations should be aware of what obstacles may hinder blockchain adoption before adding the technology to their health IT...