Amazon Web Services on Monday announced the launch of a new initiative to help organizations worldwide build IT-powered social and healthcare programs to help patients in underserved communities. WHY IT MATTERS AWS is pledging $40 million over three years…
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How a new wireless infrastructure changed the way one provider does business
Photo: Dickenson County Behavioral Health Services Dickenson County Behavioral Health Services is a small, rural community service healthcare organization that provides a variety of mental health, substance abuse and development services to the residents of Dickenson County, Virginia. Since the…
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Gartner CIO report: IT spending expected to increase for cyber, analytics, cloud
A Gartner survey of nearly 2,000 chief information officers found that 2021 will be a race to digital innovation, with organizations seeking to keep up the momentum from COVID-19 responses. The 2021 Gartner CIO Agenda survey found that the…
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An Epic cognitive computing platform primer
In production machine learning systems, the model itself is only a small part of the implementation. The “scaffolding” required to run machine learning models, also called machine learning operations or MLOps, is another crucial component. This scaffolding includes configuration, data…
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Major security incidents are the new normal for hospitals and health systems
The 2020 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey gathered feedback from 168 US based healthcare cybersecurity professionals – mostly IT and infosec leaders at provider organizations, but also some consultants and vendors – to offer an updated snapshot showing the of the current…
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Cerner unveils new interoperability tools, as CEO Brent Shafer says 'innovation is accelerating'
At the 35th annual Cerner Health Conference, which launched virtually on Tuesday, CEO Brent Shafer described the many ways the company has been helping providers around the world deliver high-quality healthcare more efficiently during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We created tools…
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Amazon security tool can help automate risk management readiness
Healthcare is no stranger to security frameworks the can help provider organizations get their arms around sprawling and detailed infosec challenges through concrete checklists and sets of best practices. They’re hugely helpful, even if far too few providers make use…
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How athenahealth’s EHR FaceTime feature is helping a solo practice during COVID-19
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March, Dr. Mamdouh Riad, a solo practitioner in Hyannis, Massachusetts, began to take notice that he would not be able to see patients in the office as usual and had many patients…
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Cerner, AWS partner to make COVID-19 data available to researchers
Healthcare technology company Cerner and Amazon Web Services are teaming up to offer researchers fight the COVID-19 pandemic access to de-identified patient data. WHY IT MATTERS Stored on Cerner’s HealtheDataLab platform, which is hosted on AWS, the de-identified patient data…
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