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Nemours | June 10, 2020

Nemours Children’s Health System had a big challenge around electronic information: It needed to change its culture, to move to a model where staff started pursuing data versus just receiving data. And the health system has addressed this problem. By shifting that culture over time and bringing on IT tools to help, along with training, the organization has evolved significantly, said Rishi Muchhala, manager of enterprise intelligence at Nemours Children’s Health System.“W...

Healthitanalytics | March 30, 2020

Google is offering researchers free access to critical coronavirus information through its COVID-19 Public Dataset Program, which will help accelerate analytics solutions during the global pandemic. The program will make a hosted repository of public datasets free to access and query, including the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CSSE) dashboard, Global Health Data from the World Bank, and OpenStreetMap data. Researchers will also be able to use BigQuery ML to train...

HIT Consultant | March 16, 2020

Virtual care provider Teladoc Health announced that the company is experiencing unprecedented daily visit volume in the United States as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread globally. This week, patient visit volume spiked 50 percent over the prior week and continues to rise. The company had been handling visit demand consistent with peak flu volumes, but last week Wednesday began to see that number accelerate to as much as 15,000 visits requested per day. Teladoc Health has prov...

HIT Consultant | March 27, 2020

Apervita, the leading platform for value-based collaboration in healthcare, today announced they are offering Deep Encryption™ to their health plan and provider customers. The new feature introduces an unprecedented level of security to the U.S. healthcare system by encrypting data at the field level. Personal health information is not just protected at the level of a database but down to the components of individual health records that make up the database—records containing informa...