Paul Barr

Get Involved, Health Information Technology (HIT), Leadership, Care Delivery, Strategic Planning, Leveraging Technology

Prevention, Communication, Prediction: Major Tasks of Health Care IT

If they didn’t know it already, members of the hospital field’s C-suites do now: Keeping health care data out of the hands of cybercriminals is harder than ever.

Thanks to stories in recent months about the escalation in the types of acts criminals will take to profit from stealing hospital data or holding it for ransom, an awareness of the depth of the problem has reached the general public.

Care Delivery, Leveraging Technology

IBM Watson Health Growing Fast

IBM Watson Health last year formally jumped into predictive analytics and has been on a tear ever since, doing deals and partnering with health care providers and commercial enterprises. For years, IBM had a traditional computer infrastructure business in health care.

Artificial Intelligence Gaining Ground in Health Care

Health care may still be at the very early stages of using computers that can learn and adapt over time, but the industry is advancing in that regard.

We recently heard about how Mayo Clinic and IBM are partnering to use the artificially intelligent computer known as Watson to link patients better to clinical trials.