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Tom Zajac joined population health and data analytics company Wellcentive as CEO on Oct. 8.
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While the patient-centered medical home has been touted as the foundation for a better coordinated and more efficient healthcare system, experts now say medical home practices need to be connected to other parts of the healthcare system. To this end, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative...
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HIPAA makes it hard for organizations to obtain personal health information and even harder to use that information for the purpose of data analysis. Empowering patients to own and share their own data—and then assuring them that it's being properly de-identified—can ease this process.
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What it does: Treo Solutions offers consulting services, data analytics and business intelligence to commercial and government health plans.
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At Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan, Jeff Hammerbacher, a 30-year-old known for being Facebook's first data scientist, is designing a new computer system. He is applying the same data-crunching techniques used to target online advertisements, but this time for a powerful engine that will...
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The white-hot controversy surrounding President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul—grabbing headlines again amid the latest round of budget fights—has largely overshadowed other areas where the administration is crafting health policy, including how to wring more value from the vast...
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Jason Buskirk was named CEO of Health Care DataWorks this month after serving as the data warehouse and analytics company's interim leader since July.
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John Squire has been named president and COO of Amazing Charts, a North Kingstown, R.I.-based electronic health-record developer. He replaces the company's founder, Dr. Jonathan Bertman, who sold the company last November to Pri-Med, a Boston-based medical education division of Diversified Business...
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The New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. has awarded IBM a one-year, $10 million contract to build an analytics platform to improve patient care and operational efficiency.
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In today's society, technology has become deeply woven into the fabric of our daily lives. At home, at work and while traveling, we rely on our smartphones, tablets and computers for news, information, conversation and entertainment. But information technology is not yet close to reaching its...
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