silos news from FierceHealthIT
NewsIBM, Mayo Clinic partner on imaging research
A chip that's mostly known for powering the Playstation 3 console will soon be put to use in new medical imaging applications. Under a new partnership, IBM is working with the Mayo Clinic to find new Read more...
Editor's Corner
Today we're delighted to premiere the first-annual FierceHealthIT Health IT Innovators awards. While we realize that there are always more industry movers to discover, these companies are some of the best, … Read more...Case study: U of Pittsburgh develops with vendorsAt the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), execs are on to something really cool. Sure, they've deployed EMRs to 18 of their 19 hospitals, but that's already a given. What's really interesting is the extent to which execs at UPMC have taken the vendor-buyer relationship to a new level. Within the past 18 months, CIO Dan Drawbaugh signed an eight-year, $402 million deal with IBM to overhaul the facility's three data centers and a $300 million deal with Alcatel to upgrade … Read more...IBM hopes open source will open healthcare IT silosThough the ability to collaborate and share information is a critical component of modern IT infrastructures, it is often lacking in healthcare environments, where siloed information is the frustrating norm. Unfortunately, the information is housed on proprietary computing architectures that can't always be accessed by different platforms. So IBM said last week it is open sourcing technology to the Eclipse Foundation's Open Healthcare Framework project in an effort to bridge the … Read more... |
