Health Information Technology
Plexus wins FDA clearance for hemorrhoid-prevention device | Regulatory roundup
Here’s a roundup of companies announcing clearances and approvals from the Food & Drug Administration and foreign regulatory agencies. Check out MassDevice’s compilation of the latest regulatory news for additional clearances and approvals.
Regression to the Mean
You may have heard about the Sports Illustrated Effect, the notion that people who appear on the cover of the magazine are likely to experience bad luck, failure, or a career spiral.
The current state of U.S. health information exchange
As Massachusetts formulates its health information exchange goals, priorities and business models, we’ve been curious about plans in other states. We’ve reviewed case studies, blogs and academic papers. However, there has not been a collected summary of the national HIE experience we could reference.
That resource is now available.
Health data collector Explorys expands outside its home state
Medical data management company Explorys is already benefiting from a deal reached last month by Cleveland Clinic and Maryland health system MedStar Health.
Cleveland-based Explorys, a Cleveland Clinic spinoff company, said MedStar has become the fifth healthcare provider to join its network, and the first outside of Ohio.
CDC partners with GE Healthcare to test health alert system | HIMSS roundup
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working on a new public health alert system with General Electric Co.’s (NYSE:GE) healthcare business.
The CDC is collaborating with GE Healthcare to test an electronic medical record-based health alert system for doctors, the company said.
MedGadget’s MedTech Monday: Watson could answer medical questions, too
Watson could answer medical questions, too: If you watched Jeopardy! last week, you probably know that IBM’s highly-advanced artificial intelligence software, Watson, prevailed against Jeopardy!‘s most successful contestants. Besides the amazing ability to power through "Daily Doubles" and answer random trivia in the form of a question, IBM researchers believe that Watson could revolutionize the healthcare industry. From diagnostics to informatics, Watson could quickly search through medical records, clinical documents and research information for precise answers that would benefit both doctors and patients.
Defending doctors’ web-based clinical tools from hackers
The internet can be a swamp of hackers, crackers, and hucksters attacking your systems for fun, profit and fraud. Defending your data and applications against this onslaught is a cold war, requiring constant escalation of new techniques against an ever increasing offense.
Clinical-decision support: The next “disruptive innovation” for healthcare?
By Keeley Wray
The term disruptive innovation – introduced by Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen in a 1995 article — has been used by technology-development stakeholders to describe radical innovations and their implications for market entry strategies. Christensen describes the term on his website:
“An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.”
South Carolina company developing video-based EMR
Electronic medical records are still making their way into physicians’ offices, but a South Carolina startup thinks it’s already spotted a missing piece of the technology — video.
CareCam Innovations LLC received a $200,000 investment from SCRA, a Columbia, S.C.-based applied research and commercialization company.
The funding came from SCRA’s SC Launch program, which supports startups.
Massachusetts lands $3.4 million in additional federal health IT grants
Massachusetts is the recipient of another round of stimulus funding for statewide health information technology systems.
The funding includes two $1.7 million challenge grants from the Dept. of Health & Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) that are indicated to support innovation in population-level healthcare analysis and improving transitions from long-term and post-acute care.