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The elephant in the room: care management
As one of my colleagues says, IBM has always been known to take on the gnarliest problems. From tabulating social security to putting a man on the moon to playing chess and Jeopardy, the resume is...
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Why cognitive computing is exciting the Healthcare Industry? Cognitive...
As Cognitive Computing continues to make headlines globally and be a focus of many industries we continue our look at its potential impacts in the Healthcare industry, we present the third part of our...
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Cognitive Computing: A Game Changer for Healthcare? Cognitive Computing Q&A...
The healthcare industry is experiencing an explosion of data points from various sources and there is a need to organize, access and analyze all forms of structured and unstructured data. Cognitive...
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The Meaning of Cognitive Computing for Healthcare Industry? Cognitive...
Q. Why should Healthcare Organisations read the IBV Study on Cognitive Computing? A. As a relatively new concept in the field of computing and informatics, the nature, value and potential benefit of...
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A C-Suite Perspective on Increasing the Velocity of Successful Transformation...
Preface: With 2015’s record-breaking $2 trillion in M&A deals,[1] many transformations have included the accompanying announcements of layoffs for “business optimization” reasons. However, should...
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HIMSS 2016: Experience the ‘Future of Health’ at the IBM Healthcare Booth #5932
The healthcare industry landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation and the healthcare organizations across the globe need to embrace this transition. Technology breakthroughs in the field of...
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Defining Population Health
The New Year invites an opportunity to both reflect on and make projections related to changes in healthcare delivery and what the short-term future may hold for us. One of those changes relates to the...
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The Role of Analytics in Healthcare. Bringing the Watson Health Flavor
Health professionals are asking “How can we use data more effectively?” – The answer is pretty simple: To give them insights to support better outcomes for patients. The available data for healthcare...
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Enabling the Path from CIO to CEO: Three Reminders as You Meet & Greet at...
If you’re a senior IT executive about to connect with old and new friends in Las Vegas, how about adding your personal career aspiration to your upcoming attendance goals? Given findings referenced...
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Consumerism in Healthcare
I recently had surgery (my first ever) and experienced US Healthcare delivery first hand in a hospital setting. If I had to put a word cloud about my experience it will be filled with words like –...
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Tapping the Untapped Medical Knowledge
“Knowledge is a precious social asset” ~Haruki Murakami Knowledge is indeed a precious social asset. Unfortunately this asset is often trapped within minds of individual experts and storage, such as...
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Population Health and Evidence-Based Treatment Respects the Individuality of...
Does evidence-based treatment mean that our patient will always have to undergo an MRI if she experiences certain symptoms? Does it have to map to one clinical pathway? Out of respect for the...
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A C-Suite Perspective on Increasing the Velocity of Successful Transformation...
Preface: While this sector has successfully exceeded their annual remits for decades, how might its C-Suite leaders avoid the challenges that many other once-successful entities have experienced? This...
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Hyper Acceleration of Personalized Medicine: Part 1
In a dozen years since the completion of the Human Genome Project, the healthcare industry is moving rapidly to develop treatments that can be tailored to the unique genetic code of each patient. One...
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Hyper Acceleration of Personalized Medicine: Part 2
Part 1 of this blog provided an overview of drivers accelerating the transformation of healthcare to personalized medicine. This blog provides more detail on how IBM is helping facilitate this...
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Taking Care of Business, Mom, and Eventually Yourself
With the number of potential caregivers for every 80+ year old person (caregiver support ratio) projected to sharply decline to four-to-one by 2030 from seven-to-one in 2010, technical innovations,...
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Innovative Business/IT Solutions: An interview with Clark Golestani, EVP and...
Preface: Per IBM’s 2015 C-Suite study, “…CxOs believe technology and market factors are by far the biggest of the various external forces buffeting their organizations. CEOs put technology at the top...
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A C-Suite Perspective on Increasing the Velocity of Successful Transformation...
Preface: As a number of Fortune 500 firms introduce “start-ups” within their own entities to transform their cultures into more innovative environments, what strategies might be deployed to accelerate...
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Apply now: IBM Health Corps: New Initiative to Help Communities Tackle Public...
IBM has recently announced a new global corporate citizenship program: the IBM Health Corps, in which health organizations, selected through a competitive process, will receive the expertise of IBM’s...
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A game changer for life sciences
Over the last few weeks the papers have been filled with stories about computers beating the very best in the world at the very hardest board game in the world. Now I don’t profess to be knowledgeable...
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