Cloud Computing

Twenty one hospitals will use the supercomputer and the Watson for Oncology software piloted by Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York to offer personalized care for cancer patients.

Hospital IQ’s operational planning and management platform will enable Allscripts clients to save money, reduce uncertainty and improve the quality of care, Allscripts says.

Doctors at the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Cancer Institute and the NIH Clinical Center will use the tools to combine genomic and clinical data for statistical analysis and pattern detection.

The supercomputer identified a different type of cancer than the one doctors were currently treating for a patient in Japan.

The software currently enables people living with epilepsy to track their seizures and researchers want to develop the program into a seizure detector as well.

As providers, payers and patients align in what Schoenberg calls a national play for delivering real-time care anywhere patients and providers can connect, telemedicine stands ready to revolutionize healthcare the way Amazon has rewritten retail.

The company also said its scientists are working with Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to test the technology on prostate cancer.

Tying Real-Time Location Systems with clinical information tools enables customers to streamline patient and staff flow, eliminate dual data entry and reduce human error, the companies said.

Big data company CognitiveScale intends to use the new financing to develop its portfolio of cloud-based cognitive computing products.

The Chicago-area hospital streamlined clinical documentation services and workflows using Nuance’s Dragon Medical One cloud-based platform.