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Tribune officials said that partnering with Soon-Shiong will give them access to patents for machine vision and artificial intelligence to transform the publishing company. 

The EHR maven has pledged to give away most of her fortune.

The analytics vendor combined new capabilities including machine learning to automate the process of finding, stratifying, enrolling and communicating with patients eligible for CCM. 

KCBP analyst Mary Meeker noted that the next wave of big data will be all about leveraging existing infrastructure for both analyst and knowledge workers to improve people’s lives and the ways businesses operate. That includes healthcare organizations. 

Froedtert medical Director James Thomas said Watson for Clinical Trial Matching is expected to make better matches and do so more quickly.

A surge of recent developments – the rise in apps for care management and wellness, advances in research data, precision medicine gains – is placing a great responsibility on healthcare leaders to break down data silos to simplify data sharing among providers. And consumers, too.

Healthcare IT News and HIMSS are accepting topic and speaker proposals for Pop Health Forum 2016, scheduled for September 12-13.

The protected health information of thousands of football players may have been compromised after a backpack that held a laptop containing the digital medical records of NFL team members was stolen from the car of a Washington Redskins trainer.

While precision medicine – the medical model that focuses on the customization of healthcare and tailors decision-making, practices and treatments to the individual – has been evolving in the last 20 years, but recent advancements are enabling it to be applied for treating diseases.

Chief Data Officer, Nicholas Marko, MD, outlines three strategies that have helped Geisinger become a large scale data-centric organization.