A large hospital consortium and two health systems have launched a "big data" pilot project to automatically extract claims and clinical data from their information technology systems.
UHC, the Chicago-based University HealthSystem Consortium of 118 academic medical centers and nearly 300 affiliated hospitals, is collaborating with NYU Langone Medical Center in New York and the Cleveland Clinic on the project.
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Four charitable foundations in healthcare and one in journalism will participate in a $2 million contest to spark innovative uses of healthcare data.
“Health is an area where journalism, open data and public information overlap, giving us a direct, tangible opportunity to help people learn more and make smart choices through the use of technology and data,” Michael Maness, vice president for journalism and media innovation at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, said in a news release. The charity is named for the founders of the former Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers.
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Jain
When Dr. Anil Jain was an undergraduate in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University, he got a glimpse of his future in medical informatics.
“In many ways, cloud computing is a reminder back to when I was in engineering school,” Jain says. He recalls that students were given access to a slice of the school's mainframe computer. “I'd get to use a supercomputing environment without having to pay for it.”
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