HIT Infrastructure September 25, 2019
Fred Donovan

Intermountain Health is using blockchain technology and artificial intelligence to identify waste and lower costs at its health system, which includes 22 hospitals.

Intermountain initially used a combination of BurstIQ’s blockchain platform with Empiric Health’s AI-based analytics product to reduce costs in its surgical area, which saved the health system tens of millions of dollars during a two-year period, explained a Forbes article.

Intermountain is now expanding the solution to other areas of its health system, the article related.

The BurstIQ platform provides a way for healthcare organizations to securely management, store, and analyze big data. It also enables many IT systems to run on top of it, said BurstIQ CEO Frank Ricotta.

“Blockchain is a trust overlay over the...

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