IBM Smarter Healthcare

The growing prevalence of chronic diseases and aging populations around the globe are placing a heavy burden on health systems. It’s no wonder that healthcare costs continue to rise rapidly and relentlessly worldwide. Increasingly healthcare is turning to digital information and electronic resources to enable greater access to care, to improve quality and reduce costs.

Healthcare organizations are starting to do the hard work of reassessing their capabilities, how they care for patients, and who they partner with, in order to provide patients better value. Smarter healthcare is about creating a more coordinated, aligned and efficient healthcare delivery system for the future.

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*News releases*
Date	Title
22 Mar 2012	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, IBM to Collaborate in Applying Watson Technology to Help Oncologists
01 Mar 2012	IBM Forms Watson Healthcare Advisory Board
29 Feb 2012	Society of Critical Care Medicine Taps IBM Analytics for Collaborative Patient Care
10 Feb 2012	University Teams Tap Mobile Phones and Social Networks to Fight Non-communicable Diseases
08 Dec 2011	IBM Unveils Analytics Solution to Help Clients Extract Insight from Patents and Intellectual Property
08 Dec 2011	IBM Contributes Data to the National Institutes of Health to Speed Drug Discovery and Cancer Research Innovation
07 Oct 2011	IBM Launches University Competition to Combat Growth of Non-Communicable Diseases
25 Oct 2011	New IBM Software Helps Analyze The World's Data For Healthcare Transformation
12 Sep 2011	WellPoint and IBM Announce Agreement to Put Watson to Work in Health Care
27 Jun 2011	IBM Study Identifies New Generation of Connected Health Devices
26 May 2011	IBM Expands Health Analytics Solution Center to Address Explosive Growth of Medical Information
18 May 2011	IBM Helps Entrepreneurs Empower Patients With Tools To Improve Personal Health
03 May 2011	Harvard Medical School Faculty Advances Drug Safety Research With IBM Business Analytics
06 Apr 2011	IBM Helps Bring Smarter Healthcare to Nigeria's Cross River State
07 Apr 2011	IBM's MRSA Infection-Fighting Nanotechnology Caps Century of Healthcare Innovation
04 Apr 2011	IBM and The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Find Breakthrough for MRSA Treatment
23 Mar 2011	Southeast Texas Medical Associates Building Strong Post Treatment Care Programs with IBM Business Analytics Software
14 Mar 2011	IBM Delivers Initial Phase of Canada's First Province-Wide Electronic Health Record System
04 Mar 2011	IBM Business Analytics Software Helps BJC Healthcare and Washington University Improve Healthcare Through Better Research
03 Mar 2011	Made in IBM Labs: IBM Reinvents the Patient Portal
22 Feb 2011	UNC Health Care and IBM Announce Nation’s Latest Major Health Information Exchange
17 Feb 2011	IBM to Collaborate with Nuance to Apply IBM’s "Watson" Analytics Technology to Healthcare
09 Feb 2011	IBM Business Analytics Helps Sequoia Hospital Cut Mortality Rates in Cardiac Surgery by 50 Percent
11 Jan 2011	Russian Hospitals Digitize Medical Information, Improve Access to Patient Data With IBM Technology
06 Jan 2011	IBM and the Premier Healthcare Alliance to Integrate Nation's Healthcare Data to Gain Insight, Measure Performance and Improve Population Health

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IBM and MSK Advancing Cancer Care

Date added: 22 Mar 2012

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and IBM are developing a powerful system built upon IBM Watson to help doctors create individualized cancer treatment recommendations for their patients.

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IBM Health Information Exchange

Date added: 21 Feb 2011

IBM technology and services for Health Information Exchange and patient identification already touch 80 percent of the population of North America and are relied on by more than 100 large healthcare systems, more than 40 health information exchanges and the nation’s largest retail pharmacies.

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Picture Story: How Smarter Healthcare Works

Date added: 06 Aug 2010

Healthcare is a complex system with many moving parts, including vast networks of doctors, patients, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, insurers, medical equipment ... and the millions of pieces of data, images, prescriptions, documents, and other information that get exchanged every day. The ultimate goal is a fully connected, coordinated and integrated healthcare system where everything is focused on the patient!

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