The medical community is breathing new life into Google Glass. The once-anticipated hot tech trend that consists of a pair of eyeglasses with a computer, microphone and camera built into the frame failed to catch on with the broader mainstream market when it debuted to select consumers in 2013. But now, the old technology is taking on a new function — serving as a tool for doctors in emergency situations.
A publicly funded nonprofit is weighing a policy that would give doctors and hospitals more access to patients’ health records, and one of the state’s leading privacy advocates opposes the move. Officials with the Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL) are talking with stakeholders about a policy change that would give doctors automatic access to patient records unless a patient objects.
Edmund Billings spends about three weeks out of the month living out of a suitcase. He racked up 20,000 miles on the road in the past nine months, while driving to some of the most rural and remote parts of the country. Billings is a traveling salesman of sorts, but his business isn't vacuum cleaners or encyclopedias. It's health software. Billings is the associate chief medical officer for acute care at AthenaHealth, an IT company with a market cap of more than $5 billion.
Massachusetts General Hospital announced Wednesday it suffered a privacy incident involving information stored by a third-party vendor. On Feb. 8, MGH learned that an unauthorized individual gained access to electronic files stored on the system and later confirmed the files contained some MGH dental practice information.
IBM is teaming up with the federal government to bring Watson technology into America’s largest hospital and healthcare network. The initiative is one of the first public-private partnerships setup as part of Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot program. The partnership will bring IBM’s Watson for Genomics technology into the U.S. Department of Veterans Affair’s hospitals and doctors’ offices so that more former soldiers can access the best in precision medicine in the battle against cancer.
Healthcare giant McKesson is partnering with Change Healthcare on a new healthcare company with an emphasis on healthcare information technology, the two companies announced on Tuesday.