Cloud Computing

Healthcare Orgs Report Improved Processes, Patient Experience with AWS

by Shania Kennedy

A new report from KLAS Research found that a majority of healthcare organizations reported better and faster processes, improved clinician and patient experience, and reduced costs while using Amazon...

Shift to Cloud Key Strategy in Healthcare, But Challenges Persist

by Shania Kennedy

A report published late last month by Forrester outlines some of the challenges that healthcare organizations face, including security and compliance issues, and provides best practices when...

Microsoft’s Nuance Launches AI Collaborative for Health System Leaders

by Shania Kennedy

Nuance, a Microsoft company specializing in conversational artificial intelligence (AI), has partnered with peer-learning company The Health Management Academy (The Academy) to launch the AI...

Cleveland Clinic, IBM Launch Artificial Intelligence Partnership

by Jessica Kent

Cleveland Clinic and IBM have announced a ten-year partnership to launch the Discovery Accelerator, a center aimed at using artificial intelligence, high performance on the hybrid cloud, and quantum...

Using Machine Learning to Calculate Unreported COVID-19 Cases

by Jessica Kent

To reduce and track the spread of COVID-19, researchers and provider organizations have increasingly turned to artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to improve their surveillance...

Amazon, UCSF Partner for COVID-19 Genome Sequencing Projects

by Jessica Kent

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is partnering with researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct genome sequencing on the viruses infecting hundreds of COVID-19 patients in the...

For Opioids and Substance Abuse, Big Data Analytics Is Just the Beginning

by Jennifer Bresnick

Fentanyl, heroin, prescription opioids, and a growing number of synthetic drugs killed more than 50,000 Americans in 2016.  It is a statistic that is hard to compute –numbing in its scope and staggering in the sheer complexity...