Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks. 

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$1.6M AHRQ grant to investigate health IT communication

A $1.6 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is supporting a new University of Michigan School of Nursing study that focuses on health IT’s effects on provider communication.

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FTC, ONC collaborating on HIT competition

Following up on a Federal Trade Commission workshop last spring on health IT competition, the agency has announced plans to collaborate with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to help promote competition in health IT.

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Technology is only part of the solution at Geisinger

CHICAGO—Geisinger Health System is working on data analytics, innovation and incremental behavior change to improve patient outcomes, said Alistair Erskine, MD, the health system's chief clinical informatics officer, speaking at the 2014 Healthcare Leadership Forum. “That’s what we’re convinced will make the changes in the end.”

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ONC exodus continues; Murphy headed to IBM

Yet another member of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT is leaving. Judy Murphy, chief nursing officer and director of the Office of Clinical Quality and Safety, is leaving ONC for the role of chief nursing officer with IBM Healthcare Global Business Services.

SMC Partners Announces Partnership with PilotFish, the Leader in Healthcare Integration Engine Solutions

Hartford, CT, October 01, 2014 - -SMC Partners LLC, an information technology, business process, and human performance solution delivery company, announced today that it has entered into a partnership with Applied PilotFish Healthcare Integration, Inc.

HIMSS to HHS: Time to reset health IT expectations

As frustrations mount among providers that the Department of Health & Human Services’ expectations for health IT are unrealistic, it’s time to re-establish expectations, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society told HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell in a letter.

SMC Partners Announces Partnership with PilotFish, the Leader in Healthcare Integration Engine Solutions

Hartford, CT, October 01, 2014 -- SMC Partners LLC, an information technology, business process, and human performance solution delivery company, announced today that it has entered into a partnership with Applied PilotFish Healthcare Integration, Inc. PilotFish offers a full suite of Healthcare Data Integration Solutions that have been designed and architected to be easy to use, highly flexible, and infinitely extensible.

CMS’ release of Open Payments data opens window to financial relationships

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has unveiled its first round of Open Payments data, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the financial relationships between healthcare industry, doctors and teaching hospitals.

Around the web

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A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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