Digital Health
Dr. Brian Lein, DHA assistant director of healthcare administration, said one system now covers every patient – about 2.7 million beneficiaries.
Tim Dawson, CTO at Canon Medical, said standardized data formats can help avoid painful data migration, make backup and recovery easier, and facilitate tie-ins with AI.
Anna Schoenbaum, VP of information services applications at Penn Medicine, said recent regulatory changes will improve the reach of technology in improving health outcomes.
For the average provider, this means getting prepared for a national level of access, says Michael Palantoni, vice president of platform and data services at athenahealth.
The movement to a modern infrastructure means rethinking business processes to allow more time for clinical care, says Rich Birhanzel of Accenture.
Lee Kim, senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy at HIMSS, says that about 12 percent of respondents to a 2022 healthcare cybersecurity study experienced a ransomware attack.
All chief nursing officers she spoke to say their hospitals are standing up virtual nursing programs, says Brianna Zink of Infor.
J29 works with "HIMSS Gives Back" in the Chicago area, leveraging public and private relationships, as well as the government’s role in social impact success, says president and founder Tracy Mills and VP of HHS programs Nick Vass.
Toby Eadelman, CTO at AvaSure, cites the statistic while discussing how virtual nursing and virtual sitting are being used to alleviate workforce shortages and to prevent adverse events.
The HIMSS nursing informatics workforce survey shows a significant shift from pre-COVID-19 and a new focus on AI for the field, says Tammy Kwiatkoski, senior director of clinical informatics at HIMSS.