Posted on 02/18/2016 10:42:56 AM PST by Citizen Zed
IBM's Watson Health, the company's 10-month-old healthcare data crunching unit, plans to acquire Truven Health Analytics and its 215 million patient profiles, with the ultimate goal of helping health-care providers make better business and patient-care decisions.
The $2.6 billion deal, announced Thursday, gives IBM Watson Health access to a huge new data set in the unit's efforts to mine data to improve health-care quality while controlling costs.
Including data from Truven, Watson Health will have access to about 300 million patient data sets, IBM said. Using IBM's Watson Health Cloud, health-care organizations will be able to combine several data sets.
Truven's health-care provider data, combined with other data sets and the computing power of Watson, gives IBM's a "pretty powerful platform," said Eric O'Daffer, a health-care supply chain analyst with Gartner.
The acquisition of Truven, expected to close later this year, will also add hundreds of clinicians, epidemiologists, statisticians, health-care administrators, policy experts and health-care consultants to Watson Health, IBM said. IBM will purchase Truven from current owner Veritas Capital.
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How does a patient’s medical records become the property of IBM?
I hope that there won’t be any Lotus Notes code or design involved.
How many of those records have errors in them?
I bet lots.
Probably no patient identifying data - just a number.
Click book for more info...
Just sayin'...
No guarantee of that.
Data brokers are having a field day with ALL of our medical records.
Hospitals, insurers, data brokers are among the 8000+ entities that share your PHI data in a 2 BILLION a year business racket.
Go to: thedatamap.org
Happy fishbowl everyone...
RE: “Probably no patient identifying data - just a number.”
“Probably no patient identifying data - just a number.”
You can individually identify people without a number. Just correlate their medical condition, the time it was reported, and their geographical location.
My wife has spent the past 6 weeks trying to sort out Obamacare and the insurance company refuses to talk with me because it is my wife's insurance. Ya know, HIPAA.
Our wait for a hacker to connect the two.
yeah...a Social Security Number
you should be able to get a statement that you and your wife sign that allows you to talk about her info....or have her authorize it....we’ve done things like that on financial stuff.
I am happy to stay out of the fray for as long as possible. My wife was about to get me involved yesterday, but she was able to finally get it working.
Crossing my fingers, toes and eyes.
What a mess Obamacare has created. My wife has 10 pages of notes, has talked to 20 different people (not including the same people multiple times), has spent hours on the phone, and still she couldn't get them to fix it. But she should be good now.
Might as well disrobe and have that prostrate exam on Main Street.
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