Nathan Eddy

The Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University show how a natural language processing system can "read" and identify keywords or phrases that indicate housing or financial needs while it performs accurately.

As individual member states embark on their own healthcare digitalisation initiatives, EU-wide programs are pushing standardisation and interoperability plans. 

Although AI holds much promise for the healthcare industry, more work remains to ensure the technology is calibrated to the demands of clinicians and patients – a development which legislation could help shape.

Integrating the cloud-based models into daily workflows will "increase productivity for many of our providers," says one CIO, "allowing them to focus on the clinical duties that truly require their attention."

A new survey found healthcare is still struggling with cloud transformation, with security cited as the top barrier and compliance as a leading driver.

The patient engagement partnership aims to help AMCs, pediatric providers, community hospitals and others close gaps in care, reduce readmissions and more.

The companies are shaping their future plans for cybersecurity risk management, patient safety data and other health IT use cases.

The newest IBM X-Force Cost of a Data Breach Report also shows healthcare organizations have the longest breach cycle of any industry, requiring nearly 11 months to identify and contain security incidents.

"While I fully appreciate substantial challenges exist," he said of the rocky Cerner Oracle rollout, which has been put on pause, "the fact is that more is working than is not."