Circle Connections: Tech Updates Collaborative technology development efforts between providers and vendors likely will increase as the former continues its search for new avenues to earn revenue, according to University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) CIO Dan Drawbaugh. Drawbaugh, who recently spoke with InformationWeek about trends he sees emerging in health technology, said that recent partnerships--like the one between Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and IBM focusing on using Watson to improve cancer care, or the one between Mayo Clinic and Silicon Valley Biosystems to advance personalized medicine through genomics--represent the tip of the iceberg for such opportunities . . .

Circle Connections: Tech Updates Collaborative technology development efforts between providers and vendors likely will increase as the former continues its search for new avenues to earn revenue, according to University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) CIO Dan Drawbaugh. Drawbaugh, who recently spoke with InformationWeek about trends he sees emerging in health technology, said that recent partnerships--like the one between Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and IBM focusing on using Watson to improve cancer care, or the one between Mayo Clinic and Silicon Valley Biosystems to advance personalized medicine through genomics--represent the tip of the iceberg for such opportunities . . .