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This case study shows how clinicians reduced the number of orders for one specific test from roughly 90 per month to five – helping with antimicrobial stewardship along the way.

Silvia Pfeiffer, CEO and co-founder of Coviu spoke with Healthcare IT News Asia-Pacific about her team's experience developing technology at the Women in Tech (Asia) conference in Singapore.

The health system needed to broaden the reach of its telephonic interventions and improve uptake of its Epic patient portal. Data-fueled heat maps, homing in on patients' "ZNA," are helping improve outcomes.

Tom Leary highlights milestones made during the annual event and looks at this year’s NHITWeek points of engagement.

NHITWeek 2018 moves beyond proving the value of HIT to focus on showing successes of using information and technology.

Its success with the HIMSS Adoption Model for Analytics Maturity highlights the value of investing in sound data governance practices and intuitive visualization tools.

The CEO of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase joint venture will speak at HIMSS19 in February.

Penn Medicine CISO Dan Costantino outlines the steps to gathering information so you can plan strategically and educate the business about threats.

InterSystems has announced a new data and collaboration platform to enable application developers to more easily and efficiently access health data. The aim is to help healthcare organizations be more agile and effective in creating and scaling innovative apps. WHY IT MATTERS Healthcare is generating more digital data than ever before, but the enormous volume and variety of that information can also be overwhelming. IRIS for Health, a healthcare-specific offshoot of InterSystems' new IRIS Data Platform, seeks to offer a streamlined approach for developers to access and make use of that data, officials say – giving them analytics and interoperability tools to help in the creation of apps. To do this, the platform leverages HL7's fast-becoming-ubiquitous Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard – including FHIR Server and SMART on FHIR capabilities. It also supports all major interoperability standards and certifications (HL7 Versions 2 and 3, Consolidated CDA, IHE, DICOM, and others), as well as an extensible data model enabling transitions between those standards. THE BIGGER TREND New and innovative clinical applications – cloud-based decision support, mobile tools for patients, AI-powered analytics  – are proliferating everywhere, and fast becoming key enablers of care transformation. But for all the creative energy in the app ecosystem, the raw materials available to forward-thinking developers could be improved As we showed in our Focus on Innovation this past month, there's boundless great ideas out there, and while the basic infrastructure is there to enable developers' success, startups and upstarts in the app creation space need the larger industry to be thinking as creatively as they are. And as hospitals and health systems look to scale up their own IT innovations, moving them from pilot to production, InterSystems hopes its new platform, available starting in 2019, will enable them to realize these innovations faster and more efficiently. ON THE RECORD "The explosion of healthcare data has created a dire need for innovations that can help the industry keep pace with payer, provider, and patient expectations," said Don Woodlock, vice president of HealthShare at InterSystems, in a statement. "Healthcare needs a foundational data platform that enables cutting-edge applications to rapidly evolve from concept to reality," he added. "We’re helping healthcare developers bring applications from whiteboard to production faster." Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com

A 16-year-old high school student built a website around public data from the NIH ClinVar archive, helping clinicians advance genomic treatments, and says similar innovations depend on more freely-available data.