NSF Mines Medical Records for Patient Care
Heng Huang, a computer scientist at UT Arlington, has been tasked with leading a National Science Foundation (NSF) project to mine medical records data to personalize patient care and ...Full Article
Data Curbs Healthcare Overtime to Cut Costs
Healthcare labor arguably fills up the industry’s largest division of funding, with some reports estimating that labor alone accounts for roughly 60 percent of operating budgets. But while labor ...Full Article
MD Anderson Teams up with Watson for “Moon Shots”
Today, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and IBM have announced that Watson’s cognitive computing system will come to the facility to help put an end to ...Full Article
Watson Comes to Cleveland Clinic Patient Rooms
When IBM’s Watson made his debut on Jeopardy!, the supercomputer’s makers were quick to point out that while its knowledge of trivia may be impressive, the real impact will ...Full Article
Big Data Commands at Mount Sinai Hospital
For the 160-year-old Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, organizing and making sense of its patient data has been a necessity to streamline its operations, but doctors are ...Full Article
YarcData and Selventa Align for Personalized Medicine
YarcData has recently announced that it will join together with the systems diagnostics company, Selventa, to bring big data to Selventa’s push for personalized medicine. Through the collaboration Selventa ...Full Article
Deloitte PopulationMiner Digs into Healthcare Landscape
To offer data analytics to life sciences researchers in need of information from broad patient populations to answer questions about complex disease and drug interactions, Deloitte has announced the ...Full Article
Strata Rx Conference Talks Big Data for Healthcare
At this year’s O’Reilly Strata Rx Data Makes a Difference Conference in Boston, experts discussed the three “V”s of big data: velocity, volume and variety, and how they’re being ...Full Article
Interoperability Still Hurdle for Healthcare IT
Healthcare providers are often blamed with slowing down the industry’s technological adoption by being sluggish in picking up the latest tools. But Linda M. Girgis, a physician with Girgis ...Full Article
Hiding Big Data in a Haystack
More and more, elderly patients whose vital signs must be monitored by physicians are able to stay home and send information about the condition to a physician over the ...Full Article
