Operationalizing Innovation
By Malini Sekhar – The notion of innovating in government is a cool thing to say and think about these days. But what does that actually mean for leadership and managers seeking to operationalize and spread this vision?
Watsi for Urgent Healthcare Crowdfunding
In August 2012 a small group of people launched a crowdfunding website to enable donors to directly fund urgent healthcare procedures for needy people around the world. The first few hours following the launch saw a trickling of donations from friends and family.
FDA Launches precisionFDA to Harness the Power of Scientific Collaboration
By Taha A. Kass-Hout MD, MS & Elaine Johanson – Imagine a world where doctors have at their fingertips the information that allows them to individualize a diagnosis, treatment or even a cure for a person based on their genes. That’s what President Obama envisioned when he announced his Precision Medicine Initiative earlier this year.
T-System Honors Healthcare Organizations For Improving Care Delivery
T-System Inc. announced the five recipients of their sixth annual T-System Client Excellence Awards, chosen from more than 1,900 facilities nationwide that have implemented its emergency department solutions. The award recognizes healthcare organizations who have effectively implemented T-System solutions to improve clinical, operational and financial outcomes for emergency care in the U.S.
CMS Awards 16 Partnership-Driven Special Innovation Projects
By Patrick Conway, Jean Moody-Williams, & Dennis Wagner – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has taken another step toward ensuring that beneficiaries receive better care, better health and greater value by awarding 16, two-year Special Innovation Projects, to 10 regional Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations.
Guthrie Wins Spok Innovation Award for Unique Approach to Patient Satisfaction
Spok, Inc. announced that Guthrie, an integrated health system based in north central Pennsylvania and south central New York, is the winner of the 2015 Spok Innovation Award for creatively using Spok® solutions to improve patient satisfaction.
AMA and MATTER Partner to Bring Physicians and Entrepreneurs Together
The AMA partnership with MATTER reached a new phase to enhance support for startup companies seeking to have a transformational impact on health and medicine. This milestone was marked as the newly installed AMA Interaction Studio at MATTER opened to facilitate connections between entrepreneurs and physicians.
Boston Children’s Hospital to Tap IBM Watson to Tackle Rare Pediatric Diseases
IBM and Boston Children’s Hospital announced that they intend to collaborate to apply IBM’s Watson cognitive platform to help clinicians identify possible options for the diagnosis and treatment of rare pediatric diseases.
The Open Science Prize
By Audie Atienza – As part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Big Data to Knowledge Initiative (BD2K), NIH is pleased to partner with the Wellcome Trust, with additional support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, to launch the Open Science Prize – a prize competition supporting the development of technology platforms and tools that make open biomedical data more discoverable, accessible, analyzable, and citable.
Hackensack University Medical Center CIO Named CHIME Innovator of the Year
Hackensack University Medical Center is at the forefront of adopting technology solutions aimed at arming clinicians and patients with information that can help them make better decisions, as well as reduce healthcare costs. Dr. Shafiq Rab, VP and CIO at HackensackUMC, was awarded the College of Healthcare Information Management Executive’s 2015 Innovator of the Year Award.
New York Digital Health Accelerator Announces Selected Companies for 2015 Program
A select group of six innovative healthcare startups were chosen to participate in the third annual New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA), a four-month program run by the Partnership Fund for New York City (Partnership Fund) and the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC).
Obesity Data Challenge Winners!
By Adnan Mahmud – Local health officials are responsible for promoting the health of the populations they serve. However, they don’t always have access to the most effective tools for communicating about priority health issues. Obesity is one of the most critical health epidemics of our time, and health officers are working hard to address it right in the communities where they live.
