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In the old days, sales representatives from drug companies would chat up local pharmacists to learn what drugs doctors were prescribing. Now such shoulder-rubbing is becoming a quaint memory—thanks to vast databases of patient and doctor information being used by pharmaceutical companies to...
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Regarding “Leap to ICD-11 not recommended: AMA board”: Our government is systematically decimating the practice of medicine in the U.S. It is past time to acknowledge the real costs and challenges of electronic documentation and the financial and physical toll our government has placed...
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Trinity Health will look to the cloud to enhance its data processing and data analytics capabilities as well as its ability to more rapidly adapt its information technology systems to the fast-moving future.
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"Of all the transformations reshaping American healthcare, none is more profound than the shift toward value.”
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Despite what has so far been an uneven rollout of EHRs in the U.S., doctors are already, in effect, building a treasure trove of patient information that can be tapped to improve patient care, a repository that will revolutionize medicine for decades to come. That is, if everyone can figure out how...
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Making use of the petabytes of patient data that healthcare organizations possess requires extracting it from legacy systems, normalizing it and then building applications that can make sense of it. That's a tall order, but the facilities that pull it off can learn a lot.
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Editor's note: The Mayo Clinic is working to stay at the forefront of healthcare delivery and medical research in an era of retrenchment in public resources. Modern Healthcare Washington Bureau Chief Jessica Zigmond caught up with Mayo Clinic President and CEO Dr. John Noseworthy during a visit...
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Zhenqiu Liu joined Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles as director of bioinformatics in the department of medicine's hematology/oncology division on Feb. 18.
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A California independent practice association has announced the close to new entrants in its two-year, $3 million Big Data analytic software competition.
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The American Society of Clinical Oncology is again trumpeting a software development project that it says will one day use routine clinical data collection and real-time data analytics to drive members of that medical specialty toward the Institute of Medicine's goal of creating a learning...
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