The Sequoia Project announced Wednesday that it’s forming a new Data Usability Workgroup to continue removing barriers to interoperability, and is calling for participants in advance of its first meeting later this month. WHY IT MATTERS The workgroup, part of the Sequoia Project’s Interoperability Matters cooperative, is focused first on…
Mount Sinai seeks citywide engagement with app to track COVID-19 spread in NYC
To help better understand transmission patterns and help coordinate its own response to the COVID-19 outbreak proliferating across New York City, Mount Sinai Health System has enlisted its own data scientists, engineers and clinicians to develop a new app aimed at halting the spread. WHY IT MATTERS Mount Sinai is…
Depression in physicians linked to medical errors, study shows
Physician depression has implications for the quality of care delivered by them and they are highly likely to report medical errors, according to a report based on an analysis of 11 studies involving more than 21,500 physicians. WHY IT MATTERS The University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor study,…
GE Healthcare introduces Edison Developer Program to spur AI advancements
With its new Edison Developer Program, GE Healthcare hopes to speed the adoption and utility of artificial and machine learning applications and developer services for health systems, the company announced this week. WHY IT MATTERS GE’s Edison platform (named for the company’s founder) is designed to help providers gain easier…
Alcidion launches Australia’s first mobile EMR app
Melbourne-based healthcare software solutions provider today launched Miya MEMRe, a mobile Electronic Medical Record (EMR), which provides clinicians’ access to caseloads, critical issues and comprehensive patient records on the go. The app is the first locally developed solution of its type to offer full access to EMR data, and the…
Quantum computing could turbocharge healthcare analytics, AI
Google’s recent claim that it has achieved quantum computing supremacy – apart from being contested by rival tech giants such as IBM – is still quite a ways off in terms of real-world applications. The healthcare industry, for example, will still need to build a new set of applications to…
Capital and Coast DHB in New Zealand develops antibiotic prescribing app
An antibiotic prescribing app developed at Capital and Coast District Health Board (DHB) has improved doctors’ adherence to prescribing guidelines. Developed by the DHB’s Infection Services with computer science students from the Victoria University of Wellington, the Empiric app gives prescribers easy mobile access to antibiotic guidelines and assists with…