The Road to Big Data Passes Through Informatics
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor I have written a number of postings over the last year about various aspects of electronic health…
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Health IT Business News – Monday, April 29, 2013
Today’s Business News Big Data analytics company Explorys announced today Trinity Health, the fourth largest Catholic healthcare system (10th largest overall) in the nation, has joined the Explorys…
Health Leaders Launch Big Data Challenge to Transform Healthcare Delivery
National Contest Calls on Health Care Organizations to Identify Roadblocks to Implementing New Care Models Today, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), Heritage Provider Network (HPN),…
Biomedical and Health Informatics vs. Data Science, mHealth – New Disciplines or New Terminology?
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor When I entered the field of informatics in the 1980s, a great deal of the research…
Intermountain, Deloitte Forge Alliance Around Big Data and Analytics
Unlocking the Power of Big Data to Reduce Cost, Improve Outcomes In a move that will help accelerate the transformation of U.S. health care around…
Health Fidelity Receives NSF Grant to Support Big Data Research
Grant will support use of big data to meet or exceed quality of care requirements Health Fidelity, a healthcare big data company and technology leader…
Health IT Business News Recap – February 3, 2013
This Week’s Health IT Business News The holidays are over and today marks one of the year’s milestone events as the Ravens and the 49ers…
The Learning Healthcare System and Evidence-Based Medicine
Implementing the Learning Healthcare System Can Be Facilitated Using the Principles of Evidence-Based Medicine William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor The enthusiasm…
Big Data for Healthcare: Why are we collecting all this data?
The induction of electronic health records, the building of health information exchanges and moving big data to the cloud seemed unconceivable for most. And for many the words healthcare technology, data and analytics strike a sense of etherealness. All this time and investment in data and where it is leading us to? The latest news in Health IT has started to present some optimistic signs for healthcare providers and hospitals