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IBM Watson aligns with health systems, imaging firms to fight cancer, diabetes, heart disease
IBM Watson Health has formed a medical imaging collaborative with more than 15 leading healthcare organizations. The goal: To take on some of the most deadly diseases.
The collaborative, which includes health systems, academic medical centers, ambulatory radiology providers and imaging technology companies, aims to help doctors address breast, lung, and other cancers; diabetes; eye health; brain disease; and heart disease and related conditions, such as stroke.
Watson will mine insights from what IBM calls previously invisible unstructured imaging data and combine it with a broad variety of data from other sources, such as data from electronic health records, radiology and pathology reports, lab results, doctors’ progress notes, medical journals, clinical care guidelines and published outcomes studies.
IBM Watson to acquire Truven Health Analytics for $2.6B
http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/ibm-watson-to-acquire-truven-health-analytics-for-26b/414133/
IBM will double in size following the acquisition
DirectTrust predicts the end of Meaningful Use
Interoperability, “freed” health data, patient engagement and data security among trends to watch in 2016
Commercial payers: Don’t leave money on the table
Five attributes of health plans poised to win
Building the Data Analytics Team
http://healthleadersmedia.com/page-1/TEC-322312/Building-the-Data-Analytics-Team
Leaders are finding that recruitment from the outside can be useful but difficult, and that internally, talent can be developed to support analytics efforts.
Healthcare looks to future in cloud computing
California Health, Technology Officials Discuss Future of Open Data
At the 2015 California Technology Forum last week, a panel of experts discussed:
- Approaches to using state data;
- Processes for opening data to the public; and
- Whether state controls over open data are necessary.
HENRY KOTULA 