HMH in the News
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HMH: Improving practitioner productivity and user experiences
Hackensack Meridian Health wanted to reorganize its operations and IT program to improve practitioners’ user experience, allow more people to work from home, and enable telemedecine. "In the past, IT organizations would spend a small amount on future technology and a much larger amount on managing legacy applications. We’re seeing a reversal of that, with more spending on flexible, cloud-based digital technologies," said Mark Eimer, CTO, Hackensack Meridian Health. Hackensack Meridian Health chose Chrome Enterprise to speed up its digital transformation. Chrome and Google Workspace provide collaboration, videoconferencing, and productivity tools. Read more.
Google Unveils New Generative AI Search Capabilities for Physicians
Google Cloud revealed new artificial intelligence-powered search capabilities claiming they will help healthcare personnel swiftly extract correct clinical information from various types of medical records. Customers will be able to sign up for early access to Vertex AI Search for health care and life sciences, but Google Cloud has already been testing the capabilities with health organizations such as Mayo Clinic, Hackensack Meridian Health, and Highmark Health. Read more.
HMH is Partnering with Google Cloud to Deploy Generative AI
Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) announced that it will be working with Google Cloud to develop and deploy generative AI technology into its care delivery models. Specifically, the new initiative will expand on the technology giant’s existing work with HMH; the prominent healthcare organization already uses Chrome Enterprise and currently employs cloud infrastructure backed by Google. Read more.
How Healthcare is Going Google
In today’s age of Digital Transformation, healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to move their data to the cloud. It wasn’t always this way – pre-pandemic, healthcare systems had their reservations about migrating organizational and patient data into Google Cloud. What if the transition requires too much effort? Can we trust Google with our data? How is patient data kept safe? Does it meet compliance? Is it even cumulus? All valid questions many asked as they watched others adopt this digital puff from afar. Read more and Listen to the podcast.
HLTH22: Google, Epic ink deal to migrate hospital EHRs to the Cloud to ramp up use of AI, analytics
New Jersey-based Hackensack Meridian Health plans to move its Epic workloads to Google Cloud, the health system announced this week. The health system aims to accelerate digital transformations by moving to the cloud. The 17-hospital system also plans to leverage technology like analytics and AI to improve patient outcomes while benefiting from enhanced security. Read More.
Google Cloud is launching accelerators to improve health equity, efficiency, and care value
Google Cloud is relentless in its efforts to transform healthcare. This week, at one of the world’s largest healthcare innovation conferences, HLTH, the organization announced yet another step forward: the launch of three new Healthcare Data Engine (HDE) accelerators which will aim to address pertinent issues that plague healthcare delivery. Read More.
Google Cloud CEO sees bright future with healthcare partnerships
The company announces a new collaboration with Epic to give providers more choices on the cloud, and new accelerators to help health organizations do more with their data. Read More.
Google Cloud announces Epic partnership
Google Cloud and Epic have signed a deal that will enable hospitals using the electronic health record company's products to take those records to the cloud, they announced Monday. New Jersey-based Hackensack Meridian Health will be the first health system to migrate its Epic records to Google Cloud. Read More.
Google Cloud, Epic partner; Hackensack first health system to migrate EHR
Google Cloud and Epic have reached an agreement to enable health systems to migrate their EHRs to the cloud, while Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health will be the first organization to do so. The partnership between the tech giant and leading EHR vendor will help facilitate health systems' digital transformation, giving them access to analytics and artificial intelligence services that aim to boost patient outcomes. Read More.
Today at HLTH 2022, Hackensack Meridian Health shared its plans to move its Epic workloads to Google Cloud, with the aim to drive greater innovation, efficiencies, and security. Google Cloud's agreement with Epic will give healthcare organizations more choices for their cloud environments. Read More.
HMH: Modernizing healthcare IT and collaboration for better patient and practitioner experiences
HMH uses Google Workspace, ChromeOS and Citrix DaaS to modernize its IT infrastructure and collaboration, lowering costs while simplifying management and bolstering security. Read more.
Google's Project Starline starts real-world testing, bringing light-field video calls to partners
Google’s Project Starline is an experimental system for immersive video chatting that aims to close the distance between people without needing an AR or VR headset. At Google’s annual Cloud Next conference, the company announced it’s rolling out the booth-sized device in early access to select enterprise partners, officially taking it beyond the walls of Google’s offices for the first time. The company says in a blogpost that early access to Project Starline is starting this year, with the installation of prototypes at the offices of Salesforce, WeWork, T-Mobile, and Hackensack Meridian Health. Read More.
Make zero trust a reality with Google Workspace security solutions
To protect against cyberattacks, businesses need more powerful security solutions to keep employees, customers, and partners safe. The legacy approach to security, bolting on more complex products, has passed its useful life. But what’s the alternative? In this session, learn how Google Workspace delivers data protection, access management, and AI-powered protection from phishing, ransomware, and malware to make zero trust a reality. Speakers: Andy Wen, Mark Eimer. Watch here.
Google Cloud launches medical imaging suite to make AI-based diagnosis easier
New Jersey-based Hackensack Meridian Health is set to implement Google Cloud’s newly released Medical Imaging Suite to de-identify petabytes of images to enhance the health system’s image-based clinical diagnosis capabilities. Using the new technology, the press release states that Hackensack plans to build artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to predict metastasis in patients with prostate cancer, a life-threatening condition that disproportionately affects Black men. Research suggests that metastatic prostate cancer is also on the rise in men of all ages following recent recommendations by the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) against routine prostate cancer screening. Read more.
Google Cloud rolls out medical imaging suite
Google Cloud has announced a suite of medical imaging tools that the company says will enable the development of artificial intelligence for imaging to support faster, more accurate diagnosis of images, increased productivity for healthcare workers, and improved care access and outcomes for patients. Read more.
Google Cloud unveils medical imaging suite with Hologic, Hackensack Meridian as 1st customers
Google Cloud unveiled a new product suite to make medical imaging data more interoperable and useful via artificial intelligence. Hackensack Meridian Health has begun using it to detect metastasis in prostate cancer patients earlier, and Hologic is using it to strengthen its diagnostic platform that screens women for cervical cancer. Read more.
Google Cloud introduces digital suite for medical imaging
Google Cloud is rolling out a set of tools specifically for digital imaging, designed to make diagnostic data more accessible and interoperable. Read more.
Google Cloud launches medical imaging suite to make AI-based diagnosis easier
Google Cloud today brought its expertise in vision-based artificial intelligence to the healthcare industry with the launch of its new Medical Imaging Suite. Vision AI has the potential to make a huge impact in healthcare. Medical imaging is one of the most critical tools hospitals use to diagnose patients, and billions of images are used by clinicians each year to help them understand why people are sick. medical images are so important, Google says, that they make up about 90 percent of all medical data. Read more.
Google will let healthcare organizations use its AI to analyze and store x-rays
Google on Tuesday announced a new set of artificial intelligence tools aimed at letting healthcare organizations use the search giant’s software and servers to read, store and label X-rays, MRIs and other medical imaging. Read more.
Google Cloud collaborates with Hackensack Meridian Health on new AI imaging tool
Google Cloud has unveiled a new software program that uses artificial intelligence for medical imaging diagnostics and has already begun collaborating with Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health to improve cancer detection. The tech giant says its Medical Imaging Suite will lead to faster, more accurate diagnoses, increased productivity for providers and improved interoperability. Read more.
Hackensack Meridian Health Transforms Patient Care with Citrix
Healthcare today is a different game. And Hackensack Meridian Health is changing it. Using digital workspace solutions from Citrix Systems, the largest integrated delivery network and hospital system in New Jersey has built a modern platform from which employees at the 17 hospitals and 500 patient centers it operates across the state can seamlessly deliver the superior care its patients expect from wherever they happen to be. Read more.
Celebrating the Winners of the Google Cloud Customer Award
HMH won a Google Cloud Customer Award in the healthcare and life sciences division. Reflecting Google’s press release, HMH was one of 12 organizations that was honored for its success “from handling genomic data for biomedical research, to supporting front-line medical professionals, to continuing the fight against COVID-19, healthcare and life sciences organizations are harnessing the power of cloud computing to carry out essential work. Google Cloud is proud to partner with organizations who are saving lives through delivering more accessible services, providing high quality care, and speeding up medical breakthroughs.” Read more.
Google highlights HMH in this "What's New with Chrome Operating System" video
Learn about new features of the Chrome Operating System and how Google is expanding its footprint in the health care industry. HMH is mentioned by name in this video (at 5:23). View it here.
Q&A: Mark Eimer Reflects on Google Workspace and ChromeOS Rollout
The mantra of Mark Eimer — C2S2, or consistency and collaboration, simplicity and security — reflects the organization’s experience with the cloud-based productivity tools: Chromebooks offer a consistent experience anywhere, Google Workspace improves collaboration across teams, ChromeOS provides a straightforward end-user experience, and security is baked into the Google platform. Read more.
Google Health announces the first-ever integration with an electronic health record vendor
The tech giant has entered into a collaboration with Meditech to develop “a deeply integrated solution” that marries the search, contextualization and data harmonization capabilities of Google Health’s Care Studio with Meditech Expanse, the vendor’s web-based EHR platform. With Google Health’s search functionality, clinicians can find salient information faster for a more frictionless experience and the intelligent summarization can highlight critical information directly. Read more.
Security and equity: Scaling remote work in healthcare with Google
Hackensack Meridian Health executive Mark Eimer explains how an ambitiously-timed rollout of a comprehensive suite of Google products helped the entire organization—from doctors to IT staff—achieve better security, cultivate a more equitable work environment, and ultimately, improve patient outcomes. How does a recently merged, 17-hospital healthcare system fast-track a platform migration and hardware rollout securely and in a way that improves work for everyone, regardless of location or role? These are the questions that kept me up at night when the pandemic demanded a “big bang”—something our legacy laptops and operating systems couldn't handle. Read more.
Hackensack Meridian Health expands Google Health collaboration
The New Jersey health system will deploy clinical AI and machine learning from Google Cloud, and will transition to Google Workspace and ChromeOS devices enterprise-wide. Hackensack Meridian Health will make a complete transition to Google Workspace and ChromeOS devices as one of the first health systems taking this path. It will also broaden its collaboration with Google Cloud to enable deployment of more artificial intelligence tools for clinical decision support and enhanced care delivery. Read more.
For Hackensack Meridian Health CIO, a year of change
The healthcare network moved 40,000 staffers from Office 365 to the Google Workspace productivity suite, following the rollout of thousands of Chromebooks to workers. Mark Eimer explains how it all happened. The New Jersey healthcare network rolled out thousands of Chromebooks to staff to support a rapid shift to remote work for many workers. The deployment was also the first step in a wider project that involved replacing Office 365 with Google Workspace for 40,000 employees and the adoption of Google’s Cloud Platform. “At the beginning of the pandemic..., we did not have a full UC platform rolled out,” said Mark Eimer, senior vice president and associate CIO and CTO at Hackensack Meridian Health. “Most of our applications work very well within our four walls, but they didn't work for a true mobile workforce." Read more.
Chrome Enterprise: Tea Time Tech Talk with Mark Eimer, Hackensack Meridian Health
Mark Eimer, Senior Vice President, Associate CIO, and Chief Technology officer of Hackensack Meridian Health, the largest hospital network in New Jersey, joins us to discuss the organization’s Google partnership. The Chrome Enterprise journey begins with productivity solutions Chrome browser and Google Workspace. To secure endpoints, HMH deploys ChromeOS devices running Citrix with Imprivata and extends the life of old PCs and Macs with CloudReady. Google Cloud and Hackensack Meridian Health also partner to deploy Google Cloud’s AI/ML offerings to enable physicians and care teams to provide better care at scale and drive operational efficiencies. View on YouTube.
Article by Mark Eimer, Senior Vice President, associate CIO, and Chief Technology Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health. The healthcare industry is always changing, thanks to innovative medical breakthroughs and new, responsive technology. But the pandemic brought more change to the 36,000 employees of Hackensack Meridian Health than we’ve ever seen in our lives. From the viewpoint of our IT team, which manages the technology infrastructure for 17 hospitals, the change means supporting not only a mobile workforce, but a work-from-home team that can be anywhere in the world and still deliver patient care. With our modern cloud platform, built on Chrome Enterprise and Google Cloud, we’re ready to thrive during these momentous changes. Read more.
Hackensack Meridian fully integrates with Google to drive patient care improvement
Hackensack Meridian Health is among the first medical care systems anywhere in the world to take the full leap into integrating with Google Workspace and ChromeOS devices to improve the overall digital ecosystem for patient care. The partnership will also tap Google Cloud services to deploy artificial intelligence and machine learning in clinical settings and enhance care for patients across New Jersey, according to a press release. The full transition to Google’s services is intended to improve data security, boost practitioner productivity and make healthcare delivery for thousands of patients more efficient. Read more.
Hackensack Meridian Health: Improving practitioner productivity and user experiences
Hackensack Meridian Health chose Chrome Enterprise to speed up its digital transformation. Chromebooks became the device of choice in a variety of settings, including ambulatory exam rooms. The mobile workstation Chromebooks run Epic’s electronic health record solution, as well as Imprivata’s practitioner badge reader software. Hackensack Meridian uses Citrix for access to legacy applications, giving workers at home the same experience they have at the office—a vital capability in the wake of COVID-19 closures and stay-at-home orders. Chrome and Google Workspace provide collaboration, videoconferencing, and productivity tools. IT resources are conserved through centralized management of the Chromebook device fleet, with minimal need for endpoint management. Read more.