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John Showalter, MD, is chief health information officer at the University of Mississippi. He spoke to Healthcare IT News about the ways "dirty data" can still help with population health, the criticality of patient engagement and how analytics are "the antibiotics of our time."
An international group of scientists is calling for a moratorium on making inheritable changes to the human genome, stating it would be "irresponsible to proceed" without a broad societal consensus about the appropriateness.
HIMSS on Thursday launched its Value Score program, touting it as the first international IT quality measurement for healthcare providers that factors in technological, clinical and financial outcomes.
Nearly 100 hospitals were singled out by The Leapfrog Group this week for performing at the highest levels of quality and safety: lower infection rates, higher high-risk procedure survival rates, shorter lengths of stay and fewer readmissions.
Manipal Hospitals' corporate and teaching facilities in Bangalore, India, will be rolling out IBM's Watson for Oncology, a platform trained by Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Thomas Hill Ph.D, Executive Director for Analytics for Dell Statistica Software, explains how historical data can be used to predict risk and how it applies to clinical settings.
Daniel "Danny" Sands, MD, Assistant Professor at Harvard School of Medicine, talks about participatory medicine at the 2015 Patient Engagement Summit in San Diego, CA.
Douglas Van Daele, CMIO and Associate Director at University of Iowa Healthcare, explains the changes his organization underwent to achieve the 2015 Davies Award from HIMSS.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will employ software from PeraHealth to improve clinician awareness of children who may be at risk for clinical deterioration while in the hospital.
AHIMA CEO Lynne Thomas Gordon says she's confident the transition that begins Thursday will go off with few, if any, glitches. As she sees it, all of healthcare will be better for it.