Analytics

Dr. Oscar C. Marroquin, chief healthcare data and analytics officer at the UPMC health system, discusses numerous AI algorithms used to improve care delivery, and a five-year agreement with Microsoft to modernize the clinical analytics infrastructure.

They're aiming to help ambulatory providers gain insights with help from artificial intelligence, and can surface key information to help develop plans of care based on recommended diagnoses, patient insurance and other information.

The private network, powered by Verizon, will enable 3D X-ray vision, augmented and virtual reality, digital twins and other data-intensive clinical innovations for veterans.

Also: U.K.-based Preventx announces a new Cincinnati lab offering remote STI testing to help American public health agencies manage the challenges of hard-to-reach populations.

Move beyond PACS-based strategies to leverage cloud capabilities.

Eddie Ades, executive advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton and former associate director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses the agency's efforts to refocus on interoperability and data modernization.

A new API that uses algorithms and proprietary machine learning to enhance energy usage data can alert caregivers about unusual habits that may require intervention.

Advanced analytics, 5G networks, artificial intelligence and remote patient monitoring are among the top clinical spending priorities for hospital IT leaders, according to a new brief from IDC and Redox.

The HIPAA-compliant video analytics platform will be layered on UMC’s existing security systems. When it identifies guns, trained experts verify the threat and can dispatch alerts and intelligence to the police.

Data integrity and model validity are also must-haves, says an expert, who offers his ideas on a "clean data" mentality and explains why explicit consent is essential for training algorithms.