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Sanford Health, Sharp HealthCare Join Clinical AI Development Collaboration

August 3, 2022 - Sanford Health and Sharp HealthCare have joined a consortium spearheaded by healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) company Dandelion Health to launch an integrated data platform that allows health systems to access representative, high-quality patient data for clinical AI development. The Dandelion Platform is designed to provide secure and...

Mobile App Uses Machine Learning to Screen Toddlers for Autism

April 28, 2021 by Jessica Kent

A mobile app was able to distinguish toddlers diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder using machine learning, indicating that the technology could someday serve as a scalable early screening tool. In...

Population Health App May Facilitate Large-Scale Data Sharing

December 23, 2020 by Jessica Kent

A population health app may allow payers to access permitted data and metrics on covered populations, potentially creating a foundation for pay-for-performance and assessment of value-based care. In a...

Artificial Intelligence Identifies Asymptomatic COVID-19 Infections

November 03, 2020 by Jessica Kent

Researchers may be able to use artificial intelligence to distinguish asymptomatic individuals from healthy people, resulting in a noninvasive screening tool for providers, a study published in IEEE...

How Social Determinants Data Can Enhance Machine Learning Tools

October 28, 2020 by Jessica Kent

In order to provide holistic, quality care for patients, clinicians have to address the non-clinical factors that influence overall wellness – individuals’ social determinants of...

Predictive Analytics Tool Helps Fill Gaps in COVID-19 Data

October 28, 2020 by Jessica Kent

A predictive analytics tool has helped public health leaders in Chicago improve the quality of COVID-19 data, reducing the category of “unknown” race in tests from 47 percent to 11...

UCI Uses Campus Wi-Fi to Test COVID-19 Contact Tracing App

July 10, 2020 by Jessica Kent

The University of California, Irvine is seeking to leverage the campus’s Wi-Fi connectivity to deploy a COVID-19 contact tracing application, which could help reduce the spread of the virus. For...

Cellular Network Data Detects Potential COVID-19 Hotspots

July 02, 2020 by Jessica Kent

A team from Colorado State University are pinpointing potential hotspots for COVID-19 transmission with cellular wireless network data, which could help regions manage risk. For more coronavirus...

How Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Can Determine COVID-19 Severity

June 15, 2020 by Jessica Kent

When COVID-19 first started spreading across the country, hospital capacity and the allocation of resources were among the top concerns for healthcare leaders. For more coronavirus updates, visit...

Using Big Data to Prioritize Cancer Treatment During COVID-19

June 01, 2020 by Jessica Kent

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has threatened to overwhelm hospitals and health systems across the country, leading many providers to defer surgeries and other procedures for an unknown period of...

How Will Big Data Analytics Factor into the Next Phase of COVID-19?

May 07, 2020 by Jessica Kent

As COVID-19 has made its way across the US and around the world, healthcare stakeholders from all areas of the industry have prioritized containing the outbreak. Leaders at all levels have utilized...

AMA Calls for More Data Privacy in Proposed Health IT Rules

June 05, 2019 by Jessica Kent

The American Medical Association (AMA) is calling on CMS and ONC to implement stricter data privacy controls in their health IT proposals. In comments submitted to CMS, AMA responded to the...

Can Health IT Platforms Support Success as Artificial Intelligence Looms?

June 15, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

The healthcare industry is frequently labeled as one of the slowest sectors to adopt new technologies, respond to consumer demands, and implement process changes that take advantage of the type of big data analytics that are...

athenahealth EHR App Marketplace Grows, Targets Patient mHealth

April 24, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

The recent flurry of interest in public application programming interfaces (APIs) as a way to connect disparate health data has prompted electronic health record vendors to open the floodgates to...

How to Build a Successful Big Data Analytics Program in Healthcare

May 05, 2016 by Jennifer Bresnick

When it comes to big data analytics in the healthcare industry, there’s a significant difference between starting an initiative and succeeding with it. Most hospitals and health systems...

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