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IBM Rolls “Internet Of Things” Starter Kit
IBM today said it teamed up with wireless sensor builder Libelium to offer what it calls an Internet of Things starter kit that would let customers deploy dozens of different sensor applications. Read More »
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IBM Throws Its Weight Behind MongoDB For Mobile Apps
IBM and 10gen are collaborating on a standard that would make it easier to write applications that can access data from both MongoDB and relational systems such as IBM DB2. Read More »
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IBM to Bring Swift to the Cloud to Radically Simplify End-to-End Development of Apps
IBM today announced the next phase of its roadmap to bring Swift to the Cloud with a preview of a Swift runtime and a Swift Package Catalog to help enable developers to create apps for the enterprise. IBM is the first cloud provider to enable the development of applications in native Swift – a powerful and intuitive programming language – unlocking its full potential in radically simplifying the development of end-to-end apps on the IBM Cloud. Today's announcement is a key next step in IBM and Apple's shared journey to help enterprises advance their mobile strategy with innovative app design, analytics, process transformation and integration required for a mobile first experience...
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IBM To Help Doctors Fight Heart Disease With Smarter Use Of Data
IBM Research, Sutter Health, and Geisinger Health System have been granted $2 million for a joint research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new type of analytics and application methods that could help doctors detect heart failure years earlier than they do now. Read More »
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IBM Tries To Put Twitter In Patent Cage
This may have been the day that IBM actually started to look desperate. In an update to its S-1 filing prior to its initial public offering some time this week, Twitter somewhat casually revealed that IBM has notified the social media company that it is infringing on three of IBM's patents. Read More »
IBM's Potential x86 Server Sale To Lenovo Highlights Oncoming Train
IBM famously unloaded its PC business to Lenovo well before the post PC era hit. Is Big Blue bailing on commodity servers before the floor falls out? Read More »
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IBM's Reinvention Should Inspire Flat Pharma Businesses
The pharmaceutical giants look remarkably similar to the IBM of the late 80′s and early 90′s. For those of us who remember the IBM of that era, this is bad news. Read More »
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IBM's Smarter Approach To Contextual Cities
I am writing a book called Age of Context with Robert Scoble. It is expected to be complete in October. Following is an excerpt from a chapter called Contextual Cities and the New Urbanists. Read More »
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IBM's Watson Wants To Fix America's Doctor Shortage
The supercomputer's greatest opponent may be the American healthcare system Read More »
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IBM, Epic Already Prepping For Military EHR Work
The IBM team has plenty of competition from other teams of top federal technology integrators and electronic health records providers. But since announcing its bid back in June 2014, IBM has been exuding confidence that its team is in the best position to land the deal and execute the military's vision for a new health care system. Read More »
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IBM, Epic Unveil Advisory Group As They Vie For Big Military EHR Contract
IBM Corp. and Epic Systems Corp., likely hoping to show why their joint bid should win the Defense Department's $11 billion, 10-year EHR contract, Wednesday unveiled a 17-person group they've assembled to help advise the department and guide it through implementation if they win the work. Read More »
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IBM’s Dr. Watson Is NOT A Meaningful User
IBM’s Dr. Watson of Jeopardy! fame has finally completed its residency and fellowships and, presumably to its creators’ utter delight, is now a practicing Oncologist. The prodigy “cognitive system” completed its training in less than a year at the illustrious Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and although only proficient in lung cancer right now, Dr. Watson’s career as an advisor to oncologists everywhere is off to a great start... Read More »
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iCare Announces General Availability of New Enterprise Cloud EHR at NHS England Expo
iCare, the Enterprise Cloud EHR provider has announced the general availability of the company’s enterprise cloud EHR at the annual NHS England Health and Care Innovate Expo in Manchester, England. Read More »
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iCare to Showcase Web-Based HTML5 GUI for VistA at Military EHR Conference
iCare releases pioneering new Graphical User Interface that would enable the Warfighter to access VistA on any device via any Web browser. Read More »
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ICD-10 Two Months In: Consultants Give an Inside Look at How the Transition Has Impacted the Industry
Leading up to the healthcare industry’s transition to the ICD-10 coding set on Oct. 1, 2015, there seemed to be a collective feeling of uncertainty on the part of providers—particularly physician practices that frequently expressed doubt about their readiness for the shift. What’s more, numerous pieces of legislation were introduced into Congress, several of which advocated a “grace period” where healthcare providers’ ICD-10-based claims submitted to Medicare and Medicaid would not be denied due to coding errors. This led to providers becoming even more leery if the transition would indeed occur on the set date, given that it was delayed three times previously...
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