Healthcare industry
As Australia's personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) project develops, IDC Health Insights predicts that citizen’s health records will be taken out of the traditional, controlled environments.
Construction begins for the $44.6-million Capital Region Cancer Center in Australia, which is part of the national health reforms rolled out by the government this year.
High incidence of hospital-acquired infections (HAI) has prompted the Malaysian government to cope up with a strategy for its prevention and control.
New research from In-Stat showed continued growth in the US healthcare and social services vertical, with healthcare spending on IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) expected to reach $518 million in 2015.
GE Healthcare Performance Solutions, a provider of end-to-end knowledge solutions to the healthcare industry, and Cisco, a provider of IT networking solutions, recently announced a collaboration to reduce healthcare "waste".
UNC Health Care and IBM recently launched a new health information exchange (HIE) to improve the flow of reliable health information among their affiliated hospitals and physician practices throughout North Carolina in the United States.
IBM and Nuance Communications recently announced a research agreement to explore, develop and commercialize the Watson computing system's advanced analytics capabilities in the healthcare industry.
US-based Sequoia Hospital has reduced its mortality rate in cardiac surgeries more than 50 percent through the use of IBM predictive analytics software.
From digital devices to mobile apps to electronic health records and advance hospital systems to sensors and predictive tools for containing disease outbreaks, technology in healthcare has gone a long way. Experts, however, hold the opinion that there is more to come and what is currently available has barely scratched the surface of the full potential of IT in improving service delivery.
Microsoft Corp. has introduced new encrypted e-mail functionality for Microsoft HealthVault, which allows clinical partner solutions to send messages to patients based on security protocols set forth by the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC’s) Direct Project.
