Becker's Hospital Review

28 CIO / HEALTH IT Cleveland Clinic, 27 other health organizations join Apple's Health Records initiative By Julie Spitzer C leveland Clinic is one of the latest hospitals allowing its patients to access their health data on their iPhone as part of Apple's Health Re- cords beta program. "Access to one's own medical records is a crucial part of the digital transformation taking place in healthcare today, and enhances our relation- ship with our patients," said Peter Rasmussen, MD, a neurosurgeon and medical director of digital health at Cleveland Clinic. "Our goal is to make that access as easy, convenient and useful as possible, placing patients firmly in the center of their own health data." Here are 28 organizations that recently joined the trial, listed in alphabetical order: 1. Better Me Healthcare in West Palm Beach, Fla. 2. Centura Health in Centennial, Colo. 3. Circle Health in Lowell, Mass. 4. Cleveland Clinic 5. Cone Health in Greensboro, N.C. 6. Confluence Health in Wenatchee, Wash. 7. Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall, Mo. 8. Greenville Health System in Columbia, S.C. 9. Innovative Express Care in Chicago 10. Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City 11. Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif. 12. Kreptowski Family Practice in Canton, Ohio 13. Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allen- town, Pa. 14. Madison (Ala.) Primary Care 15. Methodist Health System in Omaha, Neb. 16. Missouri University Health Care in Co- lumbia 17. Mount Sinai in New York City 18. Omni Dermatology in Phoenix 19. Randolph (Wis.) Community Clinic 20. San Antonio Regional Hospital in Up- land, Calif. 21. San Francisco Gynecology 22. St. Luke's Health System in Boise, Idaho 23. Summit Medical Group in Berkeley Heights, N.J. 24. Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital 25. UC Irvine Health 26. Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y. 27. Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City 28. West Virginia University Medicine in Morgantown n Microso solidified its expansion into AI and healthcare in March, rebrand- ing its Microso Intelligent Network for Eyecare as the AI Network for Healthcare to emphasize the company's work across multiple medical spe- cialties. In May, Microso CEO Satya Nadella also unveiled a $25M funding program for disability research during a speech at the company's developer conference in Seattle. Cloud computing When Peter Lee, PhD, corporate vice president of AI and research at Micro- so Healthcare, announced the two new executives — Jim Weinstein, DO, and Joshua Mandel, MD — joining the division, he noted both new hires would be working on the company's cloud initiatives, pushing hospitals to make greater use of the cloud and developing the foundation for an open cloud architecture. It's a significant commitment — in mid-2017, Micro- so cut thousands of jobs as part of its shi to cloud services. A range of healthcare companies already use Microso's cloud services. New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System is developing an AI platform to pre- dict adverse patient outcomes using Epic's machine learning capabilities and Azure, Microso's cloud computing service. Health IT vendors like Allscripts and SnapMD also offer customers the option to purchase select platforms on Azure. Cybersecurity Microso President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith became a vocal ad- vocate of cybersecurity preparedness aer the worldwide ransomware attack WannaCry in May 2017. e ransomware exploited a vulnerability Microso had created a patch for two months prior, but many organizations — includ- ing hospitals — had not appropriately updated their systems before the attack. WannaCry hit healthcare organizations across the world, with the U.K. Na- tional Health Service canceling almost 20,000 appointments as a result of the ransomware attack. One year aer the attack, the U.K. Department of Health and Social Care, which oversees the NHS, announced it had entered into a deal with Microso to improve the health service's cybersecurity resilience. Genomics and precision medicine In February, Microso launched a set of cloud-based processing tools for clinicians and scientists pursuing genomics research in the U.S., Western Eu- rope and Southeast Asia. Microso developed the service, dubbed Microso Genomics, in partnership with Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and DNAnexus, a genomic data management platform Microso has helped finance. e tech giant has also pursued research in the genomics space. In January, a team of scientists from Microso Research, UC Los Angeles and the Cam- bridge, Mass.-based Broad Institute published a study in Nature Biomedical Engineering detailing how they used AI models to improve CRISPR gene-ed- iting outcomes. Telehealth Microso unveiled a project July 2 to expand broadband coverage in rural areas. For the project, Microso partnered with broadband wireless solutions provider Radwin to introduce internet solutions that leverage TV white spac- es, or the unused spectrum between TV stations, to deliver internet connec- tivity to underserved communities. e partnership with Radwin is part of Microso's Airband Initiative. e project with Radwin builds on a commitment Microso made in a July 2017 report, which detailed the importance of internet connectivity and out- lined a three-step plan to reduce the rural broadband gap. e report high- lighted the implications of broadband access for a range of industries, includ- ing healthcare, and discussed the role internet-assisted telemedicine may play in addressing physician shortages in rural areas. n

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