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The company also says it's working with groups such as the American College of Radiology to develop API standards to better integrate AI into radiology workflows, EHRs and PACS.  

From the research lab to the bedside to the back office, AI and machine learning are transforming the ways we think about care and how we develop treatments.

ClearData, IBM, PureStorage and others are positioning themselves for an emerging an environment where providers rely on a mix of public and private secure clouds for their data.

The healthcare venture formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase has hired insurance executive Dana Gelb Safran as head of measurement, a data-driven technology position, according to CNBC. Safran is the chief performance measurement and improvement officer and senior vice president of Enterprise Analytics, at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. She joins the Boston-based group headed by Dr. Atul Gawande. WHY IT MATTERS In her role at BCBS Massachusetts, Safran was responsible for leading efforts to use data, measurement, incentives, and reporting to improve the quality, outcomes, and affordability of care, according to biography information from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Webinar: Women in Blockchain: Making a Difference in Healthcare through Distributed Ledger Technology Safran’s experience improving quality and outcomes while lowering the cost of care through IT is exactly how the industry views Amazon’s new venture and its potential to tackle healthcare’s greatest challenges. Data and analytics will loom large, as will offering the 1-plus million employees of the three companies a personalized approach to healthcare benefits. THE TREND Not much has been released about the new venture, which the big three formed earlier this year. It still has no official name. Gawande was named CEO in June. Safran’s background in health insurance, however, aligns with the innovations expected of Gawande, a Brigham and Women’s Hospital surgeon, author and New Yorker staff writer who, in the November 12 issue, sympathized with physicians struggling to balance EHR technology with work schedules and patient care. DANA SAFRAN: THERE'S MORE TO KNOW Safran was appointed to serve on MedPAC in 2017 in a term through April 2020. She is also an associate professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. She serves on a number of state and national advisory bodies related to healthcare quality and affordability, including the National Quality Forum Consensus Standards Approval Committee and the CMS Technical Expert Panel on the Quality Rating System. Twitter: @SusanJMorse Email the writer: susan.morse@himssmedia.com

The Centre for Tropical Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology will take the influx of data generated in biological science to help make important discoveries and develop revolutionary techniques.

Innovation Factory’s Alaa Chalabi talks using wearables to detect sleep disorders and snoring habits at WISH in Doha, Qatar last week.

There is a small market for software that combines physical and mental health data hospitals can use to better understand threats before an incident occurs.

The three-day program at Harvard Medical School aims to educate healthcare leaders about best practices for using data analytics to drive business objectives.

John Daniels, VP of HIMSS Analytics, says there is more to digitizing an organization than installing EMR functions, and discusses other adoption and maturity models including artificial intelligence, continuity of care and infrastructure.

From basic information governance to advanced precision medicine, health systems large and small describe their strategies for putting data to work.