Let’s build a smarter planet: Healthcare
Smart healthcare:
Achieve better quality and outcomes.
SMART IS
Improving patient care with unified treatment
plans and more accessible records.
Guang Dong Hospital of Traditional Chinese
Medicine: Deployed an intelligent information
management system that consolidates medical data into
a single record that can easily be shared, enabling better
patient care with unified treatment plans and access to
records regardless of location.
SMART IS
Establishing a strategic governance
structure and health analytics environment
to speed the development of disease
treatments.
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University of North Carolina: Defined a governance
structure and developed a health analytics
environment that enables researchers to analyze vast
amounts of patient data, providing clearer insights
leading to faster diagnoses and treatment decisions
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Let’s build a smarter planet: Healthcare
Smart healthcare:
Achieve better quality and outcomes.
SMART IS
Accurately simulating interactions of HIV
treatment drugs within a human body
EuResist Network GEIE: Partnered with IBM
Research to develop the world’s largest database and
prediction engine focused on HIV resistance and
treatment response. The prediction tool and repository
are accessible to medical staff across Europe, helping
to improve treatment for HIV patients across Europe.
SMART IS
Driving improvements in patient care
by opening up access to research data
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BioGrid Australia: Melbourne Health created a
research initiative and virtual repository of roughly 25
million medical records for users from various hospital
systems. The cross-organization initiative has yielded
greater insight from research studies by expanding
average sample size and equipping physicians with
complex analysis tools that help them choose more
effective treatment plans for patients.
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Let’s build a smarter planet: Healthcare
Smart healthcare:
Deliver collaborative care for prevention and wellness.
SMART IS
Standardizing clinical practices across
health systems, informed by integrated
information.
SMART IS
Speeding diagnoses and treatments by
making it easier for doctors to navigate
complex patient information.
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Servicio Extremeño de Salud: Implemented a
regionally integrated system that enables patients to
go to any health center in the region knowing the
doctor will be able to view their complete, up-to-date
records for faster clinical decision-making.
Thy-Mors Hospital: Developed a first-of-a-kind patient
records system that uses a three-dimensional model of
human anatomy to easily navigate patient records,
simplifying access to electronic health information and
helping to deliver and explain treatments to patients
easier and faster by focusing solely on medical data
relevant to current diagnostic efforts.
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Let’s build a smarter planet: Healthcare
Smart healthcare:
Achieve better quality and outcomes.
SMART IS
Using powerful algorithms to pinpoint
potential problem areas within medical
images and flag them based on the
probability of abnormality.
SMART IS
Having access to a person’s full medical
and familial history and coaching them
on care provider selection and health.
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Mayo Clinic: Worked with IBM to deploy an advanced
image processing capability and created new analytic
algorithms, integrating them seamlessly into its radiology
workflow. The automated system gives radiologists a
powerful new diagnostic tool and source of insight that helps
them improve patient care through better, earlier detection.
A 50 time reduction in motion correction processing enables
radiologists to provide results in minutes, not hours.
Geisinger Health System: Integrates real-time clinical,
financial, operational, claims, genomic and other medical
information in a massive clinical decision intelligence
system, assisting doctors to provide best practice care
and supporting innovative medical research and
treatments.
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Let’s build a smarter planet: Healthcare
Smart healthcare:
Deliver collaborative care for prevention and wellness.
SMART IS
Being able to access an individual’s full
medical history with a single trusted view.
Shanghai First People’s Hospital: Developed a
reliable, large-scale identity repository that
aggregates a patient’s historical care information while
eliminating duplicate and erroneous data, improving
care through the sharing of trusted patient information
and reducing costs through efficiency improvements.
SMART IS
Proactively driving the integration of
technology, process and people changes
back into the organization.
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American Hospital Dubai: Deployed an integrated
healthcare information system for the community of
Dubai and surrounding Gulf States, providing secure,
real time access to patient information and changing
the way medical, nursing and healthcare staffs
perform their jobs when utilizing technology.
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Let’s build a smarter planet: Healthcare
Smart healthcare:
Deliver collaborative care for prevention and wellness.
SMART IS
Enabling cross-organization knowledge
sharing on the effectiveness of patient
treatments.
Merit Foundation: Developed METEOR (Measurement
of Efficacy of Treatment in the Era of Outcome in
Rheumatology), the first pan-European database of
patient information for rheumatoid arthritis, enabling
clinicians to access anonymous patient records to
benchmark responses to treatment against information
for other patients.
SMART IS
Proactively fostering city-wide coordinated
action during emergencies and events.
Major Urban Emergency Response Center:
Implemented a SOA-based solution including
sophisticated messaging software to integrate all data
and applications used by emergency response units
and key third parties in a European city, improving
mobilization and coordination of resources for rapid,
effective response to emergencies and efficient
support of events.
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Let’s build a smarter planet: Healthcare
Smart healthcare:
Deliver collaborative care for prevention and wellness.
SMART IS
Engaging patients in new product design
and manufacturing processes.
Implanet: This supplier of hospital surgical implants
leveraged RFID technology and a customer portal to
gain visibility to customer demand and automated
warehousing and inventory operations, growing
customer satisfaction through richer pre-purchase
support.
SMART IS
Gaining real-time line of sight and
responses to individualized health
information.
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Western North Carolina Health Network:
Implemented an electronic health record exchange
that enables patient data to be securely shared across
hospitals, improving patient care through reduced
medical errors and unnecessary treatments, lowering
overall costs and speeding patient records retrieval.
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