Three ways to run a more efficient drug trial
Nearly half the expenses companies have for a new drug are for trial amendments, delays and failures1. A single protocol amendment can add almost $500,000 in unplanned expenses and extend a protocol by...
View ArticleResearch suggests link between hospital performance and telehealth adoption
New data released by IBM Watson Health and the ATA (American Telemedicine Association) shows a correlation between hospital performance and the adoption of telehealth strategies in care delivery. This...
View ArticleConvergence of government, payers and providers to solve the opioid epidemic
If you had unlimited funding and authority, what would you do to fix the opioid epidemic? We discussed this question at an executive roundtable event with healthcare leaders representing providers,...
View ArticleThe Rise of Consumer Experience in Healthcare
In response to changing consumer expectations across industries, improving the customer journey in healthcare is a top priority. But healthcare stakeholders often rank lower than other industries as it...
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Forrester Names IBM a Leader in Enterprise Health Cloud
Healthcare organizations face challenges as they move their workloads to cloud and incorporate data into their decision-making, including data integration, patient matching and risk stratification. In...
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Clinical trial matching: the frustration of matching patients to cancer...
If you work in oncology or cancer clinical trial coordination in the US, you already know the numbers don’t always work in your or your patients’ favor. Less than 5 percent of adult patients with...
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How to help manage rapid growth in the emergency department
Health systems need to be flexible and respond quickly to the various challenges in health system operations, especially the emergency department. Health systems also need to adopt a system that...
View ArticleIntelligent analytics help enable better oncology performance
Oncologists share many of the challenges facing practicing physicians across the globe, including physician shortages coupled with growing demand for services, increased information overload, and...
View ArticleExamining health disparities in precision medicine
Precision medicine is an emerging approach to patient care that considers the individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle. It involves the integration of all the relevant clinical and...
View ArticleAutomated Technology: The Key to Helping Drive Mammogram Adherence
Every year in the United States, more than 245,000 women develop breast cancer. While a health system’s best tool to catch breast cancer early is through mammography, only 67 percent of women over the...
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IBM Watson Health Announces the IBM FHIR® Server to Enhance Health Data...
Interoperability in healthcare data is critical to improving clinical and operational workflows. Without it, health organizations are challenged to extract value from data to achieve simpler processes,...
View ArticleWhat challenges does the healthcare industry face with price transparency?
Introduction: Since the White House released an executive order to help improve price transparency for healthcare consumers, industry leaders have been discussing and preparing for the final rule. This...
View ArticleWhat are some of the potentially unintended consequences of price...
Introduction: Since the White House released an executive order to help improve price transparency for healthcare consumers, industry leaders have been discussing and preparing for the final rule. This...
View ArticleAutomated Technology: The Key to Helping Drive Mammogram Adherence
More than 245,000 women develop breast cancer every year in the United States. While a health system’s best tool to catch breast cancer early is through mammography, only 67 percent of women over the...
View ArticleHow governments are driving digital innovation in health and human services
IBM Watson Health was recently featured on the podcast FCW Expert Voices in a discussion about how governments are using technology and data to transform health and human services. The expert guest was...
View ArticleWhat technologies are needed for success with price transparency?
Introduction: Since the White House released an executive order to help improve price transparency for healthcare consumers, industry leaders have been discussing and preparing for the final rule. This...
View ArticleProgram integrity’s changing workforce sparks new approaches to policy knowledge
A recent study estimated the annual cost of waste in the United States healthcare system to range between USD 760 billion to USD 935 billion.1 Government professionals dedicated to finding cases of...
View ArticleCreating Human Centered Design
At IBM Watson Health, we have always put the users we serve at the center of our work. When we started the development of our social program management platform for government agencies more than twenty...
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A Smarter Fight Against Fraud
For Medicaid integrity programs, the fight against wasteful spending and fraud is a never-ending burden. The good news is that augmented technologies are available to help investigators make the most...
View ArticleHow automation helped engage patients, close gaps in care
According to the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, six in ten adults in the U.S. have a chronic disease, and four in ten adults have two or more.1 Patients with...
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