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\u201cDigital technology will allow us to deliver smarter, more affordable and more accessible\u201d care, said Mihaljevic during his first State of the Clinic address. \u201cThe Cleveland Clinic has always been an early adopter, beginning with our electronic medical records. But now, we have to take technology even more seriously. We have to go for even more transformational technologic adoption.\u201d

Mihaljevic, who succeeded Toby Cosgrove in January, noted that telemedicine is the health system\u2019s fastest growing clinical offering through Express Care Online, an app that runs on smartphones, tablets and desktop computers to connect with healthcare providers.

\u201cToday, we can provide care for a variety of conditions anywhere on earth,\u201d he said in the recent address. \u201cWe had more than 25,000 virtual visits last year alone. And our vehicle for this is Express Care Online. It is a face-to-face app that puts you in touch with a caregiver from the comfort of your own home.\u201d

According to Mihaljevic, another technology area that the Cleveland Clinic continues to leverage is its ongoing relationship with IBM Watson Health. In late 2016, the two organizations announced a five-year agreement to expand the clinic\u2019s health IT capabilities including the use of IBM\u2019s secured cloud, social, mobile and Watson cognitive computing technologies across its clinical and administrative operations.

\u201cWe are fortunate to work with IBM Watson on the future of cognitive computing,\u201d Mihaljevic added. \u201cNow, the day will come when our decisions are supported by data from wearables, imaging, implants, genetic profiling, along with insights from global health trends and published research. And care through that will become more personalized and individualized than ever.\u201d

Also See<\/b>: Cleveland Clinic\u2019s IT expansion seen as critical to operations<\/a>

Speaking at last week\u2019s HIMSS18 conference in Las Vegas, Cleveland Clinic CIO Edward Marx said that the health system continues to explore areas of technological collaboration with IBM.

\u201cEarly on, it was really just to create the knowledge base and for Watson to attend medical school\u2014if you will\u2014and to understand all the literature and research studies and then apply that to very specific situations,\u201d commented Marx. \u201cSome examples would be in the area of oncology, where we explored the ability to do some predictive sort of analytics, and we have an ongoing relationship with them looking at other areas in the clinical realm focused on doing what I would call precision medicine. These are very specific to particular specialties, not broadly attributed yet. But, we\u2019re hoping based on our success in those areas that we can then extrapolate it on a broader scale.\u201d

To foster greater collaboration, IBM Watson Health is building a two-story, 43,000-square-foot building near the clinic\u2019s main campus, which will house the Cleveland arm of IBM Healthcare\u2019s data analytics enterprise.

\u201cThey have made a pretty large footprint in the city near our campus, where they\u2019ll bring 300 professionals related to IBM Watson, right across the street from where our researchers and providers are,\u201d said Marx. \u201cThat\u2019s really just going to escalate the relationship that we have together, because the future really is largely about data and the ability to learn from it and apply it going forward.\u201d

Marx pointed out that cloud-based healthcare intelligence company Explorys\u2014which is now part of IBM Watson and was developed by Cleveland Clinic physicians and IT experts\u2014has one of the largest secured clinical data sets in the world, representing more than 50 million unique patients, which is used by providers to identify patterns in diseases, treatments and outcomes.

Nonetheless, Mihaljevic emphasized that he does not envision a future of medicine in which computer-generated artificial intelligence will replace human caregivers, but instead will provide much-needed support to clinicians.

\u201cIt is a future where we will have access to 1,000 times more knowledge than we could get together today from our own reading,\u201d he observed. \u201cIt is also a future where caregivers will be liberated from repetitive tasks to give their full attention to patients\u2019 needs. And, we will use digital technology to humanize care and enhance our role as healers.\u201d

Similarly, Marx said at HIMSS18 last week that rather than artificial intelligence, he preferred the term \u201caugmented\u201d intelligence.

\u201cWe see that the caregiver will always be central to the care and the empathy that we offer as part of the patient experience,\u201d concluded Marx. \u201cWe talk a lot about augmented intelligence. This is providing the tools that the caregivers would require in order to take care of patients through predictive analytics and precision medicine, but at the same time retaining that connection to the patient.\u201d","saveContent":"The Cleveland Clinic\u2019s plans for the future will depend on digital platforms such as telemedicine, data analytics and artificial intelligence, as the $8 billion healthcare organization looks beyond its core electronic health record system capabilities, according to new president and CEO Tom Mihaljevic, MD.

\u201cDigital technology will allow us to deliver smarter, more affordable and more accessible\u201d care, said Mihaljevic during his first State of the Clinic address. \u201cThe Cleveland Clinic has always been an early adopter, beginning with our electronic medical records. But now, we have to take technology even more seriously. We have to go for even more transformational technologic adoption.\u201d

Mihaljevic, who succeeded Toby Cosgrove in January, noted that telemedicine is the health system\u2019s fastest growing clinical offering through Express Care Online, an app that runs on smartphones, tablets and desktop computers to connect with healthcare providers.

\u201cToday, we can provide care for a variety of conditions anywhere on earth,\u201d he said in the recent address. \u201cWe had more than 25,000 virtual visits last year alone. And our vehicle for this is Express Care Online. It is a face-to-face app that puts you in touch with a caregiver from the comfort of your own home.\u201d

According to Mihaljevic, another technology area that the Cleveland Clinic continues to leverage is its ongoing relationship with IBM Watson Health. In late 2016, the two organizations announced a five-year agreement to expand the clinic\u2019s health IT capabilities including the use of IBM\u2019s secured cloud, social, mobile and Watson cognitive computing technologies across its clinical and administrative operations.

\u201cWe are fortunate to work with IBM Watson on the future of cognitive computing,\u201d Mihaljevic added. \u201cNow, the day will come when our decisions are supported by data from wearables, imaging, implants, genetic profiling, along with insights from global health trends and published research. And care through that will become more personalized and individualized than ever.\u201d

Also See<\/b>: Cleveland Clinic\u2019s IT expansion seen as critical to operations<\/a>

Speaking at last week\u2019s HIMSS18 conference in Las Vegas, Cleveland Clinic CIO Edward Marx said that the health system continues to explore areas of technological collaboration with IBM.

\u201cEarly on, it was really just to create the knowledge base and for Watson to attend medical school\u2014if you will\u2014and to understand all the literature and research studies and then apply that to very specific situations,\u201d commented Marx. \u201cSome examples would be in the area of oncology, where we explored the ability to do some predictive sort of analytics, and we have an ongoing relationship with them looking at other areas in the clinical realm focused on doing what I would call precision medicine. These are very specific to particular specialties, not broadly attributed yet. But, we\u2019re hoping based on our success in those areas that we can then extrapolate it on a broader scale.\u201d

To foster greater collaboration, IBM Watson Health is building a two-story, 43,000-square-foot building near the clinic\u2019s main campus, which will house the Cleveland arm of IBM Healthcare\u2019s data analytics enterprise.

\u201cThey have made a pretty large footprint in the city near our campus, where they\u2019ll bring 300 professionals related to IBM Watson, right across the street from where our researchers and providers are,\u201d said Marx. \u201cThat\u2019s really just going to escalate the relationship that we have together, because the future really is largely about data and the ability to learn from it and apply it going forward.\u201d

Marx pointed out that cloud-based healthcare intelligence company Explorys\u2014which is now part of IBM Watson and was developed by Cleveland Clinic physicians and IT experts\u2014has one of the largest secured clinical data sets in the world, representing more than 50 million unique patients, which is used by providers to identify patterns in diseases, treatments and outcomes.

Nonetheless, Mihaljevic emphasized that he does not envision a future of medicine in which computer-generated artificial intelligence will replace human caregivers, but instead will provide much-needed support to clinicians.

\u201cIt is a future where we will have access to 1,000 times more knowledge than we could get together today from our own reading,\u201d he observed. \u201cIt is also a future where caregivers will be liberated from repetitive tasks to give their full attention to patients\u2019 needs. And, we will use digital technology to humanize care and enhance our role as healers.\u201d

Similarly, Marx said at HIMSS18 last week that rather than artificial intelligence, he preferred the term \u201caugmented\u201d intelligence.

\u201cWe see that the caregiver will always be central to the care and the empathy that we offer as part of the patient experience,\u201d concluded Marx. \u201cWe talk a lot about augmented intelligence. This is providing the tools that the caregivers would require in order to take care of patients through predictive analytics and precision medicine, but at the same time retaining that connection to the patient.\u201d","order":0,"get_parent":{},"attributes":[],"attributesType":{"content":{"type":"string","source":"raw"},"lock":{"type":"object"}},"dynamicContent":""}]

Cleveland Clinic lays out its health IT strategy for future

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