Happy Holidays 2015
Today we conclude our annual 12 Days of Christmas posts on HITECH Answers. From all of us at Answers Media Company, have a happy, healthy, and safe holiday.
Watson-Powered Nutrition Recommendations for Expectant Mothers
Nutrino Inc. and IBM announced the launch of the Nutrino App Powered by Watson to provide expectant mothers with real-time science-based, personalized and contextual nutrition advice.
‘Tis the Season to Help Patients Around the World
Support the #healthITchicks holiday giving campaign today! Learn more about Watsi and to help patients around the world. By combining your generous donations with Watsi’s innovative giving platform, we can help fund medical care for patients in need around the world.
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.
Upcoming Guest on This Just In: Jitin Asnaani
All this week at 2:30pm ET, tune in to This Just In to hear Justin Barnes and Jitin Asnaani Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance talk about interoperability strategy and opportunity.
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.
WEDI Honors Industry Leaders through Award Ceremony
WEDI, the nation’s leading authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange, announces the winners of its annual awards program. Each award recipient was announced during WEDI-Con 2015 in Reston, Va. on Wednesday, October 28.
Follow and join the conversation with #NHITWeek, #IheartHIT
With partners across the U.S., National Health Information Technology Week is a virtual event with various activities in communities from Maine to California. Here are 10 ways you can celebrate NHIT Week in your hometown. Feel free to use one or more of our ideas, or come up with ideas your own.
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).
HIMSS President/CEO Stephen Lieber Honored
Leadership style varies among executives. For HIMSS President and CEO H. Stephen Lieber, CAE, change and innovation highlight his skillful approach, and he has now been tapped to as a judge for the inaugural Heart Health Prize of $100,000.
