Data Warehousing
Conflicting regulations and ingrained processes can hamper data sharing – but WebShield can help build networks for secure sharing of sensitive data, says Walter Pistor, the company's director of digital health transformation.
During Converge2Xcelerate at the HIMSS Connected Health Conference, a blockchain expert and the CEO of DirectTrust put forth some ideas about how direct ledger technology could help solve a longstanding challenge.
Claus Torp Jensen, who comes to Memorial Sloan Kettering after holding positions at CVS Health/Aetna and IBM, will also serve as head of technology for the hospital.
As part of its work at the Center for Intelligent Imaging, or ci2, Nvidia will help the academic medical center "improve the value of medical imaging for the individual patient."
Patients need to have control of their data that is currently shared provider to provider to promote their own health, says Mark Kramer, chief engineer for MITRE's Health Technology Center.
The health system, which had been forced to shift operations into manual mode, using paper copies in place of digital records, purchased a decryption key from the hackers for an undisclosed sum.
Strategic Planning
The new offering, which includes patient matching, aggregation, normalization, deduplication and more, can help health systems launch more effective AI and machine learning projects, the company says.
The health system used a new data management platform to combine 15 different provider databases, better enabling patients to schedule appointments online and through a new Patient Engagement Center.
OMNY Health co-founder and COO Sunny Grewal, whose 3.5-minute elevator pitch was the audience's top pick at the "Shark Tank"-like competition, explains how his distributed ledger tech can help hospitals monetize mounds of unused data.
Jonah Comstock, HIMSS Media's new director of content development and editor in chief, discusses the state of health tech investment, value-based care and other major talking points at this year's Health 2.0 Conference.