Pharmacy

Overall immunization process time at the hospital has dropped from about 48 hours per month to 2.5 hours. And four steps have been cut from the process.

More pharmas are interested in patients' personal experiences — and their input — than ever, says Kevin Freiert, principal of Salem Oaks Consulting.

Its new analytics project will apply AI to deidentified data from across Mayo and other health systems, and comb scientific literature to gain insights into new medical advances.

The company is making the agency's open-source MyStudies platform available, enabling for easier access to data for research into new medications, devices and more.

The pharma company will work with MIT's School of Engineering to establish an education program focused on developing new machine learning approaches to drug development and more.

Automated sig translation system created time savings of 34 hours per month for clinicians, translating into about $11,000 in recaptured nursing productivity over 12 months. Further, 30-day readmission rate fell from 6.2% to 5.5%.

Eduardo Cornejo, senior director of digital innovation at Sanofi, describes how the life sciences company decides which information technology vendors to partner with.

Efforts are underway to self-regulate drug price control with Malaysia's unique healthcare payment landscape, says Dr. Kuljit Singh of Prince Court Medical Centre.

Hakim Yadi, CEO and co-founder of Closed Loop Medicine, says the development of digital health technologies should not stray "too far away" from the academic and clinic rigor applied to the pharma industry.