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Complimentary from the publishers of Care Analytics News

June 2021

"A model that relies on shortcuts will often only work in the hospital in which it was developed, so when you take the system to a new hospital, it fails -- and that failure can point doctors toward the wrong diagnosis and improper treatment."
- Alex DeGrave, doctoral student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and the University of Washington's Medical Scientist Training Program

According to The Accenture Digital Health Technology Vision 2021 report, two-thirds (66%) of the nearly 400 healthcare executives surveyed said they expect to move their technology infrastructures to the cloud within the next year, and almost all (96%) said they would do so within three years. 87% of them said that their organization's business and technology strategies are becoming inseparable.

Source: Care Analytics News, Volume 14 Number 12, June 2021, "Five Takeaways From Accenture Digital Health Technology Vision 2021 Report."

Deloitte survey: 4 Challenges to Healthcare Digital Transformation

1. Lack of requisite expertise, such as cloud engineering and software architecture: 69% of respondents
2. Incremental investment approach: 66%
3. Disparate systems and businesses from M&A activity: 54%
4. The lack of defined vision: 49%.

Notes: From an article entitled, "Future-proofing the business," by Bill Preston, Matthew Kaye, Natasha Elsner, Hemnabh Varia, and Jimmy Joseph. Based on a survey of 35 technology leaders at health plans and 30–60-minute interviews with 10 technology executives.

Source: Deloitte Insights, May 20, 2021

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In the first June edition of Care Analytics News:

HCA Healthcare Partners With Google Cloud To Create HCA Data Analytics Platform
Study Results on IEHP Pilot With AI Platform for Population Medication Management
Pandemic Leads Doctors to Rethink Unnecessary Treatment
Emergency care for heart attacks and strokes rebounds
Industry News with briefs including: AvMed Expands Partnership with Certilytics; Moving Analytics Partners with Health Insurer CDPHP to Expand Access to Cardiac Rehabilitation Services; Press Ganey Acquires SPH Analytics; GE Healthcare and the American College of Cardiology Join Forces to Advance AI in Cardiac Care

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