Cloud Computing

NTT announced at HIMSS17 it is expanding its relationship with Oracle to include cloud capabilities for Oracle’s healthcare analytics platform.

The goal of the new relationship, announced at HIMSS17, is to help hospitals and health systems simplify and modernize their information output infrastructures, the vendors say.

‘In our industry, you have to keep innovating,’ said Rometty about her experience at Big Blue for more than three decades.

The new backup service offering enables healthcare organizations to quickly, easily and securely use the cloud to protect and recover mission-critical application data, the vendors said.

The new system is designed to help providers handle the complexity of managing and modeling payer contracts while ensuring accurate payment from claim creation through the appeal process.

Verato announced at HIMSS17 this week a partnership with RightPatient to together offer a cloud-based system that addresses the comprehensive challenge of patient identity – spanning every point of encounter and extending through every repository of pre-existing medical records and information, Verato said.

Big Blue also announced value-based care solutions, Watson Health consulting services and a partnership with Atrius Health.

As AI and machine learning evolve and start to make their mark on healthcare, "we're not trying to replace the human interaction, we're trying to augment it," AI developer says.

Trivalent Protect uses a process of file-encryption, shredding, and local or cloud storage designed to transform the properties of sensitive and regulated data to make it completely unusable to hackers.

The new version also brings analytics and risk stratification capabilities for population health management.