Dallas Medical Jobs to Improve with IBM Technology
ningcontentThose with Dallas medical jobs, and healthcare careers in other places throughout the country, will soon get some help with improving their positions.
IBM recently opened the Health Analytics Solution Center, a research center in Dallas that will be dedicated to developing tools to allow healthcare professionals to more efficiently use data as a part of medical decision making.
Not only will the new center help healthcare professionals get better at their jobs, but it also will help create new jobs. The center plans to employ more than 100 experts in healthcare analytics, technical architectures and other, related specialties.
The overall goal of the center will be to create analytics systems that can leverage healthcare data streaming from electronic medical equipment, such as patient monitoring systems, physicians’ hand-held devices and other smart medical instruments.
“With all the dynamic changes occurring in healthcare and the availability of new data from more sources, deep analytics unlocks new possibilities for improving the way healthcare is delivered by reducing risk, saving lives and even helping to reduce costs,” Rob Merkel, healthcare leader for IBM Global Services, said.
In developing its healthcare technology, IBM is working with such institutions as Duke University Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the University of North Carolina.
According to an article by InformationWeek, many experts believe the healthcare industry – including pharmaceutical companies, insurers and device manufacturers – can use analytics to predict trends, reduce risk and improve patient care and safety.
“Tapping into mountains of data within hospitals and clinics can provide powerful new insights into what’s working and what isn’t,” Dwight Carter, CIO of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council, said in the article.
“New analytics technology makes it possible to see important health trends and allow physicians and hospitals to design more effective treatments,” he continued. “As hospitals become more interconnected in the future, this will be an especially powerful tool for hospitals, physicians and patients alike.”
