Intel and NH-ISAC Enable Healthcare to Benchmark Security Readiness
Breaches and ransomware continue to have alarming impact and disruption across the Health & Life Sciences (HLS) industry worldwide. The global average total cost of a data breach is now $3.62...
View ArticleA Hospital CIO Perspective on Precision Medicine
In the below video interview, I talk with David Chou, Vice President, Chief Information and Digital Officer with Kansas City, Missouri-based Children’s Mercy Hospital. In addition to his work at...
View ArticleHealthcare Blockchain: What Goes On Chain Stays on Chain
Many healthcare organizations are currently experimenting with blockchain. As use cases are defined, and prototypes created a key step is to decide what sensitive data goes on the chain (types of...
View ArticleGet Ready for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) is of great interest worldwide. As all industries undergo a digital transformation, they are finding that the ability to use data is both a competitive...
View Article5 Use Cases for AI in Healthcare
In my previous blog, I outlined some of the technologies that make up artificial intelligence (AI) and addressed the massive digital transformation that is taking place in healthcare today. In this...
View ArticleGetting Value Out of Predictive Analytics Today and Preparing for the Future
In a recent interview with Andy Bartley, senior solutions architect in the Health and Life Sciences Group at Intel, we dove into the topic of predictive analytics and the role it plays in healthcare...
View ArticleSix Top Security Gaps in Healthcare Organizations
As the deadline of May 25, 2018, for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance looms near, together with steep penalties for non-compliance of up to 4 percent of total worldwide annual...
View ArticleAI Enabling Tremendously Insightful Predictive Healthcare Analytics
There’s tremendous buzz in healthcare right now around AI accelerating solutions to large-scale problems that would otherwise take months, years, or decades to resolve. A key use for AI that we’re...
View ArticleHealthcare Use Cases for Blockchain: 5 Key Factors for Success
Many health and life sciences organizations are now bought into the concept of blockchain and are currently researching suitable use cases to implement this technology. Below I share five key...
View ArticleBoost Patient Engagement With Healthcare Technology
Anyone working in healthcare knows the value of patients who are engaged in their own care. The vast majority of healthcare organizations have strategies in place to increase patient engagement. That’s...
View ArticleThe Future of the Cloud in Healthcare
It seems like everything we do these days touches the cloud in some way. We connect to it from our computers, our mobile devices, and even smart technology like the thermostats in our homes. So it’s no...
View ArticleHealthcare Security Readiness Program Reaches 150 Health & Life Sciences...
Breaches and ransomware continue to have alarming impact and disruption across the health & life sciences (HLS) industry worldwide. The global average total cost of data breaches is now USD 3.62...
View ArticleIntel’s Prescription for Healthcare of Tomorrow: Predictive Analytics
You wouldn’t know by reading the news that has come out of Washington, D.C. on healthcare lately, but innovation and ingenuity to tackle today’s most pressing healthcare issues are still front and...
View ArticleDefining Precision Medicine and AI in Healthcare
Conversations about precision medicine and artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare are everywhere these days. When I speak at conferences and panels I’m often asked about the definitions of...
View ArticleBuilding an Algorithmic Business
Intel Corporation explores how, for an enterprise to become an algorithmic business, the challenge is as much about the organization as the technology. What is an algorithmic business? Is this yet...
View ArticlePowering Population Health Initiatives with Technology
There’s been a lot of discussion about population health in the health and life sciences (HLS) industry recently. Population health is an approach to healthcare that targets subpopulations with chronic...
View ArticleHealthcare Blockchain: Does Your Chain Have any Weak Links?
Security is all about protecting all links in the “security chain,” since any weak link represents a vulnerability open to exploitation and could enable a breach or other security incident. In this...
View ArticleWill Your Healthcare Blockchain Be Available When You Need It?
Healthcare Is Intolerant to Disruption Blockchain promises compelling benefits that could improve the quality and reduce the cost of patient care across a broad range of use cases. However, healthcare...
View ArticleA Lean Startup Approach to Predictive Clinical Analytics in Healthcare, Part III
In my previous posts in this series about predictive analytics in healthcare – an overview on why the time is right for healthcare organizations to implement an advanced analytics program as a core...
View ArticleBlockchain, Smart Contracts, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning in...
Today most healthcare data exists in silos. There is only limited sharing of healthcare data. There is massive, largely untapped potential for securely sharing healthcare data to improve the quality of...
View ArticleWill Blockchains Deliver Healthcare Interoperability?
The concise answer to the question posed in the title is: not exactly. Blockchain is certainly not a panacea or silver bullet that will magically address all interoperability woes. However, blockchains...
View ArticleHealthcare Analytics Require Trust and Security to Be Effective
Everyone is talking about the ways healthcare analytics are going to revolutionize healthcare. I have not seen anyone even suggest that the future of healthcare is built on anything but data. Given the...
View ArticlePatient Engagement is Being Redefined
Recently, I was reading the new KLAS Patient Engagement Performance Report [KLAS 2017 Patient Engagement Report]. In the report, the authors defined patient engagement as, ”the process of motivating...
View ArticlePowering the Future of Data-Driven Healthcare at HIMSS 2018
As escalating healthcare costs and an aging population require the industry to move from volume-based models to value-based approaches, a new data-driven standard of care is emerging. Artificial...
View ArticleHIMSS18 Preview: A Physician’s Perspective
It’s that time of year again when 40-plus thousand health tech geeks travel to HIMSS to network, and share and learn the latest and greatest successes and failures in the industry to date. I can’t help...
View ArticleBoost IT-Driven Care Improvements With These 4 Strategies
While technology is everywhere you look in today’s healthcare environment, hospital and healthcare organizations continue to struggle to make the most of their investments. These IT-related challenges...
View ArticleImproving Healthcare Outcomes with Artificial Intelligence
Predictive analytics can save lives. Healthcare has always come with the fine balance of prioritizing care and allocating scarce resources. Providers are faced with tough decisions about how long...
View ArticleHealthcare Blockchain in the Cloud
Many health and life sciences organizations are planning to prototype and pilot blockchain in 2018. As they approach a point of readiness to test and pilot blockchain, where to deploy blockchain nodes...
View Article5 Takeaways From HIMSS 2018
This year’s HIMSS conference didn’t disappoint when it comes to getting a great view of where healthcare technology is going and what is top of mind for those on the frontlines. Here are our top 5...
View ArticleWhat Are the Benefits of Cloud Analytics?
It seems that everything in healthcare is going to the cloud, and with good reason. The cloud has a lot of amazing benefits. This is true for healthcare cloud analytics as well and it is why so many...
View ArticleThe Healthcare System of Tomorrow: How Advanced Analytics is Evolving Patient...
At healthcare organizations, data sets are growing fast, both in volume and complexity, as the types and sources of data continue to multiply. Thirty percent of the world’s data is already estimated to...
View ArticleDigital Phenotyping and Healthcare
Healthcare is getting better and better at predicting patient outcomes. AI is getting more adept at interpreting and offering insight from diagnostic data. However, it’s not just vital statistics,...
View ArticleReal-time Analytics Use Cases
Streaming analytics has emerged from being a domain-specific capability to having broad appeal across a range of industries and an increasingly diverse set of scenarios. Each use case benefits from the...
View ArticleSocial Determinants of Health
Health isn’t just personally determined; it’s also socially determined. Socioeconomic factors directly influence an individual’s engagement in their health. Inadequate access to healthy food, poor...
View ArticleDigital Health to Improve Outcomes Related to Non-Communicable Diseases
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which include cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases and diabetes, account for more than 70% of...
View ArticleWho’s Winning the Global Battle for AI Leadership?
Washington Executive Magazine just released their most recent list of Top 10 Execs to Watch, and I’m finding it illuminating to see what categories they’re choosing to highlight, such as security,...
View ArticleMedical Imaging and AI: Better Solutions for Healthcare for Today and in the...
Intel is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a Corporate Symposium at this year’s RSNA conference in Chicago. The symposium will be the third installment in Intel’s popular SOLVE: HealthCare...
View ArticleTransforming Healthcare at SOLVE and CHC
Intel hosted three healthcare transformation panels at CHC. See how AI and other technology is facilitating real-world change.
View ArticleIntel Partners to Showcase Industry-Leading Technology at HIMSS19
Heading to HIMSS19? Take a sneak peek at the technology and products Intel's partners will be showcasing at the conference.
View ArticleTailor In-Memory Analytics to Your Needs
The traditional ‘rear view mirror’ approach to analytics is no longer enough. Rather than drawing insights after the fact, analytics need to provide insights in real time to inform business decisions,...
View ArticleReturning to In-person Collaboration More Safely
The way we’ve been collaborating has steadily evolved over the last decade – driven by rapid advancements in technology and Millennials and Gen Z demanding more flexibility in how they interact and...
View ArticleContactless Collaboration
The sign at the grocery store said “Use Clean Carts to Reduce Fomite Transmission.” Fomite? I had to look that one up: A fomite (/ˈfoʊmaɪt/) or fomes (/ˈfoʊmiːz/) is any inanimate object that, when...
View ArticleWhat Is the Future of AI?
When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), few people can match Andrew Ng’s breadth and depth of experience, combining research in a world-leading academic environment, accelerating AI education...
View ArticleHow Can AI Help the Developing World?
According to World Bank, there are roughly 750 million people in extreme poverty, those who barely survive on $1.90 USD a day or less. While this fact is staggering, and even shameful given the...
View ArticleHow Intel is Advancing Human and AI Collaboration
In writing about the world-renowned guests on the Intel on AI podcast, I’ve mostly covered innovators outside of our company. In this blog, however, I’m pleased to be highlighting the work happening...
View ArticleGetting Machines to Understand Human Emotions
Throughout season two of the Intel on AI podcast, many of the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence (AI) experts have talked about why they believe machines can’t simply improve performance on...
View ArticleThe Importance of Algorithmic Fairness
Algorithmic fairness is a motif that plays throughout our podcast series: as we look to AI to help us make consequential decisions involving people, guests have stressed the risks that the automated...
View ArticleHow Google DeepMind Turns AI Research into Application
Founded just over a decade ago (making it one of the oldest artificial intelligence firms) DeepMind cut its teeth teaching machines to master early video games—not so machines could displace humans in...
View ArticleIntel® launches inpatient telehealth app for the Intel Unite® solution
Patient Sight app seeks to enhance efficiency, improve security, and increase patient engagement Santa Clara, Calif. — Intel announces the launch of Patient Sight, a new inpatient telehealth app for...
View ArticleUniting Healthcare Professionals and Patients with a New Inpatient Telehealth...
The first industry to feel the impacts of the pandemic was healthcare, specifically healthcare professionals. The way they interacted with patients and each other changed and with little to no...
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