February 1, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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MD Anderson, the Houston-based cancer center, has announced its going to start up an organization-wide analytics initiative, aimed at creating new types of personalized cancer treatments. The cancer center said it will use the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle to lay the foundation for this analytics initiative, which will aim to bring together clinical, genomic, financial, administrative and operational information from internal and external sources.
January 31, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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Recently, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) announced they are teaming up to improve data collection in electronic health records (EHRs) through a set of standardized data elements and definitions for the clinical management of patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and coronary artery disease (CAD).
January 23, 2013 David Raths
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The free, peer-reviewed e-publication's inaugural issue includes a paper on the effort to create an EHR-linked multicenter registry
January 16, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The Mayo Clinic, the Rochester, Minn.-based globally known non-profit medical group practice and research organization, has announced a partnership with health IT vendor, Optum (Cambridge, Mass.), to develop a collaborative research and development facility. The facility will combine the two organization’s experience, assets, technologies, and expertise as well as recourse from other healthcare, science, and academic organizations/institutions, to focus on better care for patients.
January 9, 2013 Joe Marion
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Two recent press releases caught my attention and appear to be indicators of a shakeup coming in terms of healthcare data storage. A couple years ago I blogged about the “thunder in the cloud” as a wave of activity attempted to address data storage in the cloud. In a similar way, these recent announcements seem to be a bellwether for a similar revolution in terms of local data storage.
January 8, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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There is no question that certain kinds of patients, especially those with chronic diseases, can cost a significant amount of dollars to a healthcare provider. At Summa Health, a large integrated provider out of Akron, Ohio, leaders are using a centralized data repository and an automated phone calling service to improve outcomes for diabetes patients.
December 20, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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The Forth Worth, Texas-based Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance (Texas Health Alliance) and the Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Medical Center are the latest providers to be recognized by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) analytics division, HIMSS Analytics, as a Stage 7 hospital on its EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM).
December 6, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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The University of Kentucky has created a model for electronic health record (EHR) reporting of cancer cases to the state’s cancer data registry, it recently announced, while touting the link as the first effort of its kind in the nation. According to the researchers responsible for the model, it allows Kentucky oncologists and other providers to feed clinical data to the Kentucky Cancer Registry in real-time.
December 5, 2012 Michael Craige
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Rapid improvements in technology, semantic data structures, informatics professional collaboration and sequencing technologies are not necessarily the only gaps needed for the realization of personalized medicine (improving genomic and phenotypic data integration) but these must be taken into account on how best to exploit the opportunities to facilitate personalized medicine.
December 4, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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A new report from the Rockville, Md.-based research and consulting firm, MarketsandMarkets indicates that the healthcare analytics market is set for double-digit growth over the coming years thanks to the emergence of big data and the advance of analytical technologies. The report, "Healthcare Analytics/Medical Analytics Market - Trends & Global Forecasts to 2017, says that by 2017 the healthcare analytics industry will be worth $10.8 billion.
November 26, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Meeting this morning during RSNA 2012 with executives from the Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, one thing was clear: those patient care organizations with an imaging informatics strategy—perhaps almost any imaging informatics strategy??—are already light years ahead of their peer organizations whose senior executives have no such strategy.
October 29, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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The New York-based Deloitte announced it has acquired the Newton, Mass.-based Recombinant Data Corp., a data warehousing and analytics provider. Recombinant Data, Deloitte says, uses their warehousing and clinical intelligence software to enable advances in personalized medicine, translational research, and healthcare performance management.
