Boston Scientific Corporation announced a worldwide call for submissions to the fourth annual Boston Scientific Connected Patient Challenge, an open competition to promote the development of meaningful innovation to address complex healthcare challenges.
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New CTO Talk episode NOW on Demand with host Matt Ferrari. Matt talks to Aaron Friedman, Healthcare & Life Sciences Technical Lead, AWS Partner Network, where we dive into the new opportunities machine learning in the public cloud provides, among other trending topics.
As part of our on going series on InterviewsNOW, I spoke to Zack Tisch, Consulting Services Executive for Pivot Point Consulting. The episode is now on-demand. Check it out and take a listen.
Understanding how a person’s genetics, environment, and lifestyle can help determine the best approach to prevent or treat disease. We are on the beat to find and report just what is happening now in Precision Medicine which includes Accenture, Merck, Amazon Web Services, Caris Life Sciences, and Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist.
Next Week! National Health IT Week, the nationwide awareness week focused on catalyzing actionable change within the U.S. health system through the application of information and technology. Check out the calendar of events and get involved.
CMS would like to notify hospitals and vendors that as of September 12, 2018, the Hospital Quality Reporting system is available to accept eCQM data for the Calendar Year (CY) 2018 reporting period.
CMS developed and published the 2019 reporting period electronic clinical quality measure flows for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals to the eCQI Resource Center. This is a new resource for eligible hospital and CAH eCQMs for the 2019 reporting period, developed in response to stakeholder feedback.
By Bennett Lauber – The lack of usability of electronic health records (EHRs) and healthcare IT applications, in general, has been in the news again. We’ve heard time and time again that developers need to focus on “Stability,” “Reliability,” “Scalability” and “Interoperability” of systems.
By Marty Puranik – Especially given the Breach Notification Rule, the requirement to send out notifications to patients and other parties following compromise of your healthcare information defenses, it is important to think specifically about what a breach is and how likely ones of different types are to occur.