Cloud Computing

Healthcare Orgs Report Improved Processes, Patient Experience with AWS

by Shania Kennedy

A new report from KLAS Research found that a majority of healthcare organizations reported better and faster processes, improved clinician and patient experience, and reduced costs while using Amazon...

Shift to Cloud Key Strategy in Healthcare, But Challenges Persist

by Shania Kennedy

A report published late last month by Forrester outlines some of the challenges that healthcare organizations face, including security and compliance issues, and provides best practices when...

Microsoft’s Nuance Launches AI Collaborative for Health System Leaders

by Shania Kennedy

Nuance, a Microsoft company specializing in conversational artificial intelligence (AI), has partnered with peer-learning company The Health Management Academy (The Academy) to launch the AI...

Cleveland Clinic, IBM Launch Artificial Intelligence Partnership

by Jessica Kent

Cleveland Clinic and IBM have announced a ten-year partnership to launch the Discovery Accelerator, a center aimed at using artificial intelligence, high performance on the hybrid cloud, and quantum...

Using Machine Learning to Calculate Unreported COVID-19 Cases

by Jessica Kent

To reduce and track the spread of COVID-19, researchers and provider organizations have increasingly turned to artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to improve their surveillance...

Amazon, UCSF Partner for COVID-19 Genome Sequencing Projects

by Jessica Kent

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is partnering with researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct genome sequencing on the viruses infecting hundreds of COVID-19 patients in the...

Mount Sinai Builds Supercomputer for Precision Medicine, Genomics

by Jessica Kent

Mount Sinai Health System has received a $2 million grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services to develop a precision medicine and genomics supercomputer. The second “big omics...

UTHealth, Amazon Partner to Use Machine Learning for Medical Research

by Jessica Kent

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Amazon Web Services, Cardinal Health, and Virtusa Corporation are partnering to use machine learning to advance medical...

PHDA, Amazon Partner to Improve Care with Machine Learning

by Jessica Kent

The Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve medical imaging, cancer diagnostics, precision medicine, voice-enabled technologies, and other areas...

Big Data, Artificial Intelligence Key to National Cancer Control

by Jessica Kent

In order to establish a US National Cancer Control Plan, government organizations will need to access big data, including social, clinical, and behavioral information, as well as artificial...

UCLA Adopts Microsoft AI Tool to Advance Precision Medicine

by Jessica Kent

UCLA Health is deploying cloud computing services, powered by artificial intelligence, to advance precision medicine research and improve patient care. The cloud computing services, provided by...

As Artificial Intelligence Matures, Healthcare Eyes Data Aggregation

by Jennifer Bresnick

It hasn’t taken very long for artificial intelligence to become the most popular topic of conversation in the world of healthcare data analytics.  In what seems like an instant, AI has started to support incredible advances in...

Microsoft, Walgreens to Leverage AI for Retail-Style Healthcare

by Jennifer Bresnick

Microsoft and Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) are collaborating to apply artificial intelligence to the challenges of developing retail-style healthcare interactions. The two companies will work...

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Spending to Hit $36B

by Jennifer Bresnick

The global market for artificial intelligence in healthcare is set for incredible growth over the next few years, according to new research from ReportLinker. The AI in healthcare market is slated to...

Amazon Takes on Unstructured EHR Data with Machine Learning, NLP

by Jennifer Bresnick

Amazon is taking another big step into the healthcare industry by announcing a new machine learning service that can extract meaningful information from unstructured EHR data and free-text clinical...

Microsoft Azure Releases Open Source FHIR Server for Health Data

by Jennifer Bresnick

Microsoft is solidifying its commitment to FHIR by announcing the availability of its new open source FHIR Server for Azure. The tool, available on GitHub, allows developers to take advantage of...

Is Population Health on the Agenda as Google Nabs Geisinger CEO?

by Jennifer Bresnick

Google is taking another step across the boundaries between the tech sector and the healthcare industry by appointing David Feinberg, MD, MBA as head of the company’s healthcare...

Biometrics, Blockchain Markets Grow as Providers Seek Patient Data

by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare organizations taking on an increasing amount of financial risk are exploring new ways of identifying, tracking, and engaging with patients.  In order to maintain strong relationships...

Amazon, APIs to Support Cloud Informatics Platform for Life Sciences

by Jennifer Bresnick

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Accenture, and Merck have announced a collaboration to create a cloud-based informatics research platform to support advances in the life sciences. The project will...

Amazon, Google, IBM Pledge Health Data Standards, Interoperability

by Jennifer Bresnick

Half a dozen of the biggest names in technology – Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, IBM, and Oracle – have joined together to pledge speedy progress towards true health data...