Data Warehousing

Efforts to connect data from various sources at the population level must also emphasize the principle of simplification, says Charles Sevior, Dell Technologies CTO for Unstructured Data Solutions.

The cochairs of FAST Deepak Sadagopan and Duncan Weatherston say FHIR standards provide a consistent pathway to address the variability and costs of payer and provider data exchange and achieve interoperability goals.

MorganFranklin Consulting’s Ferdinand Hamada and Matt DeFrain offer their perspectives on the current threat environment and how health systems can build better cybersecurity resilience and business continuity strategies.

It is launching a data collaboration lab with Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks.

"By prioritizing healthy data management practices through the deployment of AI, IT leaders can make a huge impact on the day-to-day experiences across a healthcare organization," says one CTO.

Among its success stories, the health system built an app that identifies more than 10 patients each week with potential malnutrition who then are referred to nutritionists.

Consolidate a hospital's image repositories into one central archive to make data accessible to patient EMRs and researchers (while also streamlining admin and security), recommends Chris Brice, EMEA healthcare director at Hyland.

Guardians of the Grid, designed for individuals and organizations to use as a preparation tool, invites players to take their roles as cybercriminals or cyber defenders. The healthcare CISO who invented it wants to raise funding with Kickstarter.

Larger companies are taking an "all or nothing" approach in light of proposed legislation, one HIE leader says, but electronic health record developers can look to modernized data lakes for inspiration and place guardrails around PHI.