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Comcast’s ‘Tech ETA’ Feature Goes Wide (Multichannel News)

Probe of China traders shows how Comcast learned DreamWorks was For Sale (Philly Deals)

Tosh in deeper financial doo-doo as banks turn up the pressure (The Register)
Its Westinghouse problem.






Lumos ends fiber spin-out plans, sells to private equity firm EQT Infrastructure for $950M (FierceTelecom)

Following Lumos’ sale, analyst fingers T-Mobile’s possible interest in Zayo (Fierce Telecom)

Google Fiber’s Webpass internet service coming to Seattle, job posting reveals (Geekwire)

Verizon Stock the Cheapest It’s Been in Fifteen Years, Says Moffett Nathanson (Barron's Tech Trader Daily)


Outcome Health snags Salesforce exec (Crain's Chicago Business)
Outcome Health is the former Context Media.


GE’s secret weapon is its training center on Hudson River (Boston Globe)

News from HIMSS 2017 with a local spin

Tom Paine

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Epic to add Geisinger spin-off xG Health Solutions care management content in EHR, population health platform (Healthcare IT News)

Epic's new app program tries to connect EHR networks (Modern Healthcare)

As Rometty prepares to open HIMSS, M.D. Anderson walks away from Watson (Med City News)

Salesforce builds out ecosystem for Health Cloud, adds better patient targeting, risk scoring (ZDNet)

Healthcare model: Choose Netflix over Blockbuster (Med City News)
"Zajac credits Stephen Klasko, the president and CEO of Philadelphia-based Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, as the person who is talking about the Netflix effect in healthcare."



Expert breaks down the difference between customer service and patient experience (Healthcare IT News)
Christine Holt of Holy Redeemer Health System said that the entire patient experience paradigm must include an emotional connection that produces loyalty.


Cerner IT support: 'We've flipped the model upside-down' (Kansas City Business Journal)

.@MedStack Announces First Healthcare App Integrations of Its HL7 FHIR Database API – SAT https://t.co/Mjq7tz27qa @dreamit co

— Steve Barsh (@sbarsh) February 21, 2017

Thank you @InstaMed for a great evening! I apologize for eating all of your oysters! #himss17 pic.twitter.com/MczxJQsEqk

— Jonathan Hatfield (@WC_HIT_Man) February 20, 2017

HIMSS17 Sessions to Get Excited About This Year (InstaMed)


From HIMSS 2/20/17 (HISTalk)

CloudMine and Redox Partner to Optimize Seamless and Secure Sharing of Healthcare Data in the Cloud

Dell Boomi Speeds Healthcare Innovation and Digital Transformation with Cloud Integration

@boomi all geared up for #himss17 pic.twitter.com/3MLwCC18b1

— thameemkhan (@thameemkhan) February 20, 2017

With DHA's electronic health records system operational, Bono eyes next steps (Federal Times)

Siemens Healthineers Establishes Global Digital Ecosystem to Drive Digitalization of Healthcare

MyPOV: what a trip to an #AI driven hospital may look like @harvardbiz https://t.co/edvmUgMu4C #ArtificialIntelligence #himms17 #himss17 pic.twitter.com/CCbt2p4Nv1

— R Ray Wang (王瑞光) (@rwang0) February 21, 2017

DYK visual #analytics can help #healthcare orgs limit clinical variation? https://t.co/cdb98r67GA Learn more at our #HIMSS17 booth pic.twitter.com/hqyNjV95Ad

— Qlik (@qlik) February 22, 2017

Timely for #himss17: The #EHR companies are a set up for disruption https://t.co/z3KkmaFs7N @HDMmagazine @fbazzoli @jselaniko pic.twitter.com/AfqW3vpIln

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) February 20, 2017

The most timely and patient centered product I've seen so far: Salesforce. Docs and patients as customers. #HIMSS17

— HIStalk (@histalk) February 22, 2017

InstaMed sent a small army:

The full @instamed team. Out in force for #HIMSS17. pic.twitter.com/jGSPZbpwus

— Matt Fisher (@Matt_R_Fisher) February 20, 2017

Things I learned at HIMSS17
(Med City News)



Big data? Not yet. At HIMSS, time moves slowly (AthenaHealth)

Great visual of the history of coding in #healthcare on display at #himss17! #HIT #AI #healthcareIT https://t.co/H3RxxtIfaO

— Dell Boomi (@boomi) February 23, 2017

Our #pophealthpioneer is ready for #himss17 pic.twitter.com/thdkmREx7n

— Medecision (@Medecision) February 19, 2017

Uncertainty surrounds nation's largest health IT gathering (Modern Healthcare)