IBM expands Dallas health analytics center

Jeff Byers | | Health Exec | Precision Medicine
IBM is adding specialists and new technology to its Health Analytics Solution Center, in Dallas, to accommodate the exponential growth in medical information and mobile devices.

Health Analytics Solution Center teams are working to help physicians connect smartphones, tablets and other devices to EMRs while also assisting healthcare providers building new solutions for remote patient monitoring, IBM stated.

Using voice recognition technology from Nuance and communications and medical terminology management from Health Language International, IBM is working to improve the mobile EMR experience through voice recognition and technology that provides understanding of medical text.
IBM is also increasing its efforts in the remote patient monitoring arena, with the goal of helping hospitals integrate and connect devices from different manufacturers, the company said.

The Health Analytics Solution Center has worked with more than 150 hospitals, health plans and other healthcare organizations since opening in late 2009, IBM added.

Jeff Byers

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