At a recent event in Madrid, 120 members of the region’s biomedical technology innovation community, including public leaders, engineers, entrepreneurs, scientists, and clinicians gathered to celebrate five years of the Madrid-MIT M+Visión Consortium. They’re looking forward to future to continued collaboration.
Supports local IT initiative
Presidio, a national provider of professional and managed services for advanced IT solutions, announced that it has completed its’ purchase to acquire the business of Netech Corporation. Presidio is now a $2.8 billion company with 2,700 employees in over 60 offices serving more than 6,500 clients. Netech will operate as “Netech, a Presidio Company,” transitioning to the Presidio brand in the next 60 days.
“We’re at the golden spike phase of the electronic health record (EHR),” said Frank Byrne in reference to the ceremonial spike that completed the nation’s first transcontinental railway. “We’re at the beginning of this journey,” added the senior executive advisor of HealthX Ventures, a digital healthcare-focused seed fund.
And according to Byrne, there’s more than a bit of catch-up taking place at the moment. “Let’s be honest with ourselves,” he said. “We dug this hole by underspending on IT for years.” Banking was an industry that moved forward with IT as a strategic tool, and the health care field only did enough to get by and survive. “We are going to have to overspend until we get it right,” Byrne noted, “and we’re not there yet.”
HealthMyne, a Wisconsin Start-up has announced that that their quantitative imaging analytics platform will now integrate with Epic and UW Health, HealthMyne provides radiologists a view of electronic health record (EHR) data and imaging information.
According too the company, this will unify and improve more efficient clinical work, but also the move to a correlative, evidence-based population health model where individual patients can be assessed and treated with the bene cial insight of similar patient cohorts.
What happens if someone attacks the American power system and turns off the electricity for a city, or a region? What would it be like without power? At the Fusion Executive Summit on Cybersecurity this week, the Wisconsin Adjutant General, the state CIO, and the head of Madison Gas & Electric were discussing just that.
Thinking the unthinkable used to involve the Rand Corporation and the American military war-gaming nuclear attacks. Thinking about a hack of the power grid is almost enough to make people nostalgic for those days — at least you knew who the enemy was.
“If I buy a toaster and my wife says, ‘It’s lousy; throw it out,’ to preserve domestic tranquility I throw out the toaster and buy a new one,” says Ross Koppel, a scholar in the Sociology Department & School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. “If I spend $1.2 billion or $1.7, I am married and I don’t have a heck of a lot of options.”
He says the same is true for electronic medical record (EMR) systems. Over the course of the last 15 plus years, Koppel has studied healthcare IT and pointed out that these systems are severely flawed – at least in part because of the difficulty of breaking free from an ineffective platform.
Without electricity, the world pretty much shuts down, and without gas to heat homes, Wisconsin residents would have hard time coping with winter.
As CEO of Madison Gas & Electric, Gary Wolter knows his company has to secure its technology to provide those services to its customers. And he knows a cyber attack that shuts down either power or gas could be deadly on a large scale.
Wolter spoke at the Fusion Executive Summit, produced by WTN Media, Monday at the Fluno Center in Madison, Wisconsin. “We recognize we are the infrastructure upon which other critical infrastructure depends. The communications system doesn’t work without electricity, the Madison Metropolitan Sewer District doesn’t work without electricity and the water supply system needs big pumps. Right down the line, our infrastructure depends on electricity — think about hospitals.”
Walgreens today announced its Healthcare Clinics will soon transition to the Epic electronic health record (EHR) platform, to further enhance care coordination among providers, while also supporting the long-term growth plan for its clinic business. The move to the new EHR, EpicCare, will begin in early calendar year 2016.
Exact Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: EXAS) today announced that the company continued its strong performance during the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2015, completing 34,000 Cologuard tests, an increase of 60 percent from the second quarter, which resulted in $12.6 million in revenues. The cumulative number of ordering physicians grew to 21,000 during the quarter, an increase of 42 percent.
Obstacles to Interoperability: Can’t We All Get Along?
Top-management representatives from the leading rival Electronic Medical Records software companies Cerner and Epic, will face off in a panel discussion at the Disruptive Healthcare Conference produced by WTN Media and WTN News, on Tuesday, November 10, 2015, in Madison, Wisconsin. This session’s topic is the heated debate on software interoperability between competing platforms to achieve better patient outcomes.
Obstacles to Interoperability: Can’t We All Get Along?
Top-management representatives from the leading rival Electronic Medical Records software companies Cerner and Epic, will face off in a panel discussion at the Disruptive Healthcare Conference produced by WTN Media and WTN News, on Tuesday, November 10, 2015, in Madison, Wisconsin. This session’s topic is the heated debate on software interoperability between competing platforms to achieve better patient outcomes.
Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced the availability of its Omni-Payer™ solution, the latest addition to its data integrity and integration arsenal. Designed for health insurers, Omni-Payer is a complete member information management solution that equips payers with a 360-degree view of every member covered.
Aurora Health Care today announced the hiring of Preston Simons as the health care system’s new Chief Information Officer. Simons, a veteran information technology executive, will lead Aurora’s efforts using technology and innovative IT platforms and services to help it continue to deliver a high-quality, patient-centric integrated health care experience.
Analysts Explore Next Phases of Digital Business at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2015, October 4-8 in OrlandoGartner’s Maverick Research Sparks New, Unconventional Insights
Gartner, Inc. claims to define the “programmable economy”. The programmable economy represents a massive technology-enabled transformation of traditional concepts of value exchange, empowering individuals and smart machines to both define value and determine how it is exchanged.
Rates charged for medical care and procedures in Wisconsin are typically higher than elsewhere in the country, says Ross Bjella, co-founder and CEO of Alithias, Inc., a Milwaukee company whose software products analyze insurance claims data and promote health care value for employers, employees, health care providers, third party administrators and brokers.
Accenture announced that it has finalized its agreement to acquire Sagacious Consultants, an electronic health record consulting practice, to expand capabilities for helping clients to better manage healthcare quality, efficiency and costs.
Sentara Healthcare and the Department of Defense are now able to securely share electronic patient health information across the nation using the eHealth Exchange. Sentara hospitals, physician practices and outpatient facilities in Hampton Roads and northern Virginia that use the Epic EHR platform are among the early adopters of a nationwide effort to improve care for active duty personnel, dependents and retirees.
The challenge information technology (IT) companies face in filling technical positions is likely to persist in 2015, according to the IT Industry Outlook 2015 released this week by CompTIA, the IT industry association.
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