Healthcare Internet of Things News and Resources for Healthcare

AMA, Google Launch Health Data Interoperability, PGHD Challenge

April 9, 2018 - The American Medical Association (AMA) and Google have announced an innovation challenge aimed at improving healthcare interoperability and developing new methods of collecting and managing patient-generated health data (PGHD). The contest will reward technology developers who offer streamlined tools and standards-based methodologies to import, extract, and transfer patient-generated health...

IoT, Machine Learning Integration Boosts Medicaid Patient Care

January 24, 2018 by Jessica Kent

Applying smart technology like the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning to Medicaid systems can drive better care for patients, according to a recent Deloitte report. Medicaid agencies could consider integrating connected devices and...

PwC: Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Population Health Top 2018 Trends

December 13, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

2018 is set to be another big year for healthcare organizations as they start to come to terms with emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence, while mastering the complexities of population health management, the Internet of Things...

How Soon Will Healthcare Connect Machine Learning with Consumers?

December 07, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Machine learning and artificial intelligence have taken the healthcare industry by storm as innovators offer tempting visions of sophisticated clinical decision support, smoother EHR workflows, and more intuitive consumer-provider relationships...

Amazon Machine Learning, Big Data Tools Have Healthcare Implications

November 30, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare organizations looking to expand their big data analytics horizons will have more infrastructure, Machine-Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS), and deep learning options thanks to a series of new product launches from Amazon. The bookseller-turned-innovation-juggernaut...

430M Internet of Things Devices Means a Healthcare Big Data Tsunami

August 23, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

By 2022, manufacturers will be shipping out 430 million Internet of Things devices each year, predicts a new report from Tractica, leaving healthcare providers little time to prepare for a massive influx of potentially valuable big data. As wearable...

How Healthcare Big Data Analytics Helps Build Smart Societies

August 14, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare providers often have little choice but to focus completely on conquering the constant stream of EHR grunt work, reporting requirements, and minor administrative emergencies that make up the majority of day-to-day practice. While...

Gaps in Chronic Disease Care Leave Patients, Docs Frustrated

July 24, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Patients and healthcare providers are both struggling to overcome gaps in education, knowledge, and confidence about how to effective engage in chronic disease management, according to a new report by West. Despite the health system’s growing...

By 2025, Blockchain, IoT, Machine Learning Will Converge in Healthcare

July 05, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Within the next five to ten years, healthcare organizations are likely to have access to integrated health IT platforms based on an emerging set of information management technologies including blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), and machine...

Healthcare Big Data, IoT, Cognitive Computing Markets Set to Grow

June 15, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare data analytics will continue to present lucrative opportunities for vendors of cutting-edge software, services, and devices, according to a new series of market reports. The healthcare industry’s appetite for the Internet...

IoT, EHRs to Push Healthcare API Market to $243M by 2024

May 30, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

The Internet of Things (IoT) and rising investments in state-of-the-art EHR technology will contribute to the ongoing growth of the healthcare application programming interface (API) marketplace, according to a new report by Transparency Market...

IBM, Rensselaer Open Cognitive Computing Center for Chronic Disease

May 23, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

IBM and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have announced a five-year collaboration centered on applying advances in cognitive computing and machine learning to healthcare. The Center for Health Empowerment by Analytics, Learning, and Semantics...

Growing Healthcare Opportunities for the Internet of Things

January 18, 2017 by Thomas Beaton

The Internet of Things (IoT), has jumped to the forefront of the healthcare technology market, exhibiting exponential growth with the advent of wearables, personal trackers, sensors, and other technologies that capture extensive data previously...

IoT, Analytics, HIM Push Healthcare IT VC Market Past $5B

January 17, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Venture capital investors are seeing major opportunities to support innovations that connect patients, providers, and their data more efficiently, says Mercom Capital Group in its annual healthcare IT investment report. Health information management...

Finding the Value in the IoT, Patient-Generated Health Data

January 11, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Patient-generated health data (PGHD) is one of the most important sources of information for clinical decision-making, yet many healthcare organizations struggle to define the term, let alone to collect, analyze, and use the information for quality...

IBM Watson Health, FDA Partner for EHR, IoT Blockchain Project

January 11, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

IBM Watson Health and the FDA have announced a new partnership aimed at applying blockchain technology to the challenges of securely exchanging big data across the care continuum. The two-year research initiative will explore blockchain’s...

EHRs, IoT, Revenue Cycle Bring Opportunities for Healthcare APIs

January 04, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are quickly becoming a critical tool for healthcare organizations looking to build interoperable connections, and it is likely that this new standard for health data exchange will keep growing in importance...

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