Category: Health Information Technology
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Europe, AI, and Genomics – Big Topics Discussed at Digital Day 2018
By Mario Romao, Global Director, Health and Data Policy April 10th was a big day for the digital ambitions of Europe. We saw leaders from 25 nations signing a Declaration of Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence (AI), committing to join forces to advance research and deployment of AI, without forgetting the social, economic, ethical, and legal aspects. And a couple of...
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How to Use Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare While Protecting Privacy
By David Hoffman, Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer Technological advancements in health IT have created tremendous possibility for improved efficiency and better interoperability, empowering patients to play a more dynamic role in their healthcare. Increased access to data that can predict health outcomes, and more effective analytical capabilities including artificial intelligence, create tremendous potential to solve some of...
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2018 Bodes Well for Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring
By Mario Romao, Global Director, Health and Data Policy If 2017 ended on a high for telehealth and remote patient monitoring, the start of 2018 also did not disappoint. Indeed, on Feb 9, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 was signed into law. This bill, which provides a budget agreement for 2018-2019, also includes a number of policy provisions in support...
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Winds are Changing for Remote Patient Monitoring
In my last blog post I referenced the launch of the Intel® Health Application Platform for remote healthcare and also the recent solicitation for comments on “Current Year 2018 Revisions to Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule” (PFS), in which the Centers for Medicare 7 Medicaid Services (CMS) asked for input on how to pay for remote patient monitoring...
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Intel launches the Health Application Platform to Provide Better and More Efficient Care
Intel announced the launch of the Intel® Health Application Platform, software that, when coupled with an Intel-architecture-based design specification implemented by a third-party hardware vendor, can help enable healthcare solution providers to securely and reliably deliver distributed healthcare services and a new standard for remote patient care[1]. As digitization of healthcare systems progresses, more data about patients’ conditions are routinely...
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Advancing Precision Medicine, Promoting Better Patient Outcomes The U.S. is making exciting strides in precision medicine. Yesterday, Intel and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT announced revolutionary developments advancing the use of high-performance computing for genomics analytics that will accelerate precision medicine. Together we have created a new architecture, the Broad-Intel Genomics Stack (BIGstack), that dramatically improves the genomic analytics pipeline and supports data volumes at...
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How 5G and IoT Will Transform Healthcare
by Bob Rogers, chief data scientist for big data solutions Technology and healthcare recently came together as part of a public forum at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. I was honored to join representatives from the FCC and the health industry at this eminent institution to discuss how the advent of 5G, and the policies that enable it, will...
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