Healthcare Data Analytics and Automation

When evaluating clinical surveillance solutions for hospitals, one key dimension to consider is the ability to do network wide surveillance and reporting (or the VISN level in the VA system), in addition to the level of the individual hospital. We spoke about this with Dr. Russell Ryono, who has over 30 years of experience as…

Dr. Russell Ryono According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at any given time, healthcare-associated infections affect between 3.5% and 12% of patients in developed countries, and between 5.7% and 19.1% of patients in low and middle-income countries. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates roughly 1.7 million hospital-associated infections cause…

Bill Maher As a truly momentous 2020 draws to a close, we spoke recently with Bitscopic’s Director of Sales and Business Development, Bill Maher, to get his perspective on the high-level trends he sees as he talks to numerous VA hospitals across the country. This is the first in a series of short interviews with…

Why Clinical Surveillance is Critical for a Modern Hospital According to The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health challenges of our time. Antimicrobial resistance each year causes more than 2 million infections, and 23,000 deaths. To put it in other terms, it causes the equivalent…

Bitscopic Inc., a Silicon Valley based healthcare analytics company, announced today that the US Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) Palo Alto Medical Center has selected Bitscopic’s PraediAlert platform for clinical surveillance. PraediAlert is an FDA registered clinical surveillance system that allows hospitals to improve patient care and patient safety by minimizing and managing patients at…

Joel Mewton Bitscopic announced today that it has released its “Project Hilleman” software as Open Source code on GitHub. The Project Hilleman software provides tools to connect and modernize the VistA Electronic Health Record system which is used by the Veterans Affairs Hospital system throughout the United States and in hospital systems in countries such…