Analytics

With 11 hospitals validated at Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics EMRAM, China has been making great strides toward digitizing healthcare. Yu Quan, CIO at China Medical University's Shengjing Hospital, which achieved Stage 7, talks about the next steps.

As the population ages and there are fewer young people to help with care, the need for effective automation and artificial intelligence in healthcare is more crucial than ever, says Joe Kvedar, vice president of Connected Health, Partners HealthCare.

Vice President of Sales Support at NantHealth Wesley Madden offers advice for CIOs and CTOs looking to standardize all of their data sets and explains why artificial intelligence is the ultimate tool for clinicians.

Ali Slimani, Cerner's general manager of strategic partnerships for Middle East sales, says Cerner is aligned with IHI's "Quadruple Aim," which includes improving patient and clinician experience, creating better healthcare outcomes well as lowering overall cost of care.

John Daniels, VP of HIMSS Analytics, says there is more to digitizing an organization than installing EMR functions, and discusses other adoption and maturity models including infrastructure, AI and continuity of care.

Jane Miller, COO of Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, says her organization, which reached the elite stage 7 EMRAM, treated EMR implementation as a clinical transformation project, not an IT project.

Sam Hanna, associate dean of graduate and professional studies and program director in healthcare management at American University, discusses why workforce development is needed to use data and technology to create targeted therapies.

Dana Darger, director of pharmacy at Rapid City Regional Hospital, says building out a data analytics operation doesn't have to be a marathon. There are ways to start small.

The Steward Healthcare vice president says the consequences of not watching vendors closely can be too costly to ignore.

TIna Esposito of Advocate Health Care emphasizes the importance of aligning analytics strategies with overall business objectives.