IBMers and Friends on Networked, Patient-Centric Healthcare:
Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchange, Clinical Transformation, Biobanking, etc.
A Smarter Planet — The Social Traffic Conundrum: An IBM vPanel...
The Social Traffic Conundrum: An IBM vPanel Interactive Dialogue Date: Wednesday, September 22, 4pm ET Location: The IBM New Intelligence Video Studio, http://www.livestream.com/newintelligence Description: For Social Media Week 2010 — taking place simultaneously across five cities — IBM is bringing together four thought leaders from around the globe via a...
IBM Bolsters Scientific Research to Improve Healthcare Quality and Costst
(via IBMLabs) IBM is enlisting some of the company’s leading scientists and technologists to help medical practitioners and insurance companies provide high-quality, evidence-based care to patients. As part of this initiative, IBM is collaborating with clinicians in numerous medical institutions and hiring medical doctors to work alongside its researchers to...
Rhode Island's Focus on Primary Care
GoLocalProv | Health | National Implications for Rhode Island’s Focus on Primary Care Physicians Rhode Island is at the epicenter of a powerful new concept in patient care garnering attention from Washington D.C. and across the country Anthony Morettini, IBM Senior Location Executive
A Smarter Planet
IBM Smarter Healthcare Saint Michael’s Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey is using IBM’s real-time location services to keep track of more than 2,000 pieces of medical equipment (think heart monitors, infusion pumps, ventilators) at a moment’s notice.
The Analytics Virtual Center
Over the course of 2009, IBM opened centers in Berlin, Beijing, London, New York, Tokyo and Washington D.C. to advance the frontier of analytics: namely turning big data into new intelligence, predictive capabilities and insight. Healthcare is one area where analytics holds great promise. To support those physical solution centers...
Enabling Smarter Healthcare
Enabling Smarter Healthcare. The following is a guest post from Lonne Jaffe, Director, Public Sector Solutions, IBM Software This Smarter Health video describes some of the benefits of connecting electronic medical record systems with each other and with other healthcare software systems. Technology like the IBM Health Integration Framework that...
A special report on managing information: Data, data everywhere | The Economist
A special report on managing information: Data, data everywhere | The Economist The world contains an unimaginably vast amount of digital information which is getting ever vaster ever more rapidly. This makes it possible to do many things that previously could not be done: spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat...
From HIMSS: Collaboration and data analytics for Smarter Healthcare
From HIMSS: Collaboration and data analytics for Smarter Healthcare. Following is a guest post from IBMer Lonne Jaffe: At the HIMSS 2010 conference in Atlanta this week, the topic of improving collaboration in the healthcare industry will be front and center. At IBM, we believe software that can enable hospitals,...
Join The SeeClickFix Challenge on the Smarter Cities Scan
SeeClickFix empowers residents to actively care for and improve their neighborhoods. Welcome to the SeeClickFix Challenge: Feb 8-21 on the Smarter Cities Scan Smarter Cities asked if this great new service wanted to use our platform to share user suggestions and success stories on its citizen-powered service. So here’s the...
“Lord of the Rings” meets Smarter Healthcare | A Smarter Planet Blog
“Lord of the Rings” meets Smarter Healthcare | A Smarter Planet Blog. in silico modeling creates images of liver inflammation and cancer that are similar to what might be seen under the microscope. At the University of Pittsburgh’s McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, researchers are using IBM technology to open...
Thoughts, comments, news, and reflections about healthcare IT from Microsoft's worldwide health senior director Bill Crounse, MD, on how information technology can improve healthcare delivery and services around the world.
