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CMMI Director Adam Boehler shares the impact of new interoperability rules from CMS and ONC.
Healthcare IT News Editor-in-Chief Tom Sullivan, a veteran HIMSS conference-goer, offers tips on preparing for the massive event, what to look for and the best ways to keep pace with breaking news.
Tiesong Zhang, president of China's Kunming Children's Hospital, discusses the hospital's use of IT to improve quality, safety and efficiency - and achieve Stage 7 of the EMRAM.
Huimin Xia, CEO of the Stage 7 EMRAM validated Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, explains how IT is a basic driving force for hospital development, and why CEOs need to make it a priority.
Josh Gluck, VP of Global Healthcare Technology Strategy at Pure Storage, explains how application and data storage silos have effectively trapped data in systems so it cannot be of value.
Adrian Zai, director of research at Partners HealthCare, discusses the need to create a framework that supports innovators so they can move new ideas forward.
Tongyu Zhu, director at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, discusses how connecting data between the public health department and hospitals in Shanghai has improved services for patients.
Blockchain technology enables the flow of information between treatment points regardless of location to ensure patients get the treatment they need, says Shada AlSalamah, a visiting scholar at MIT.
Laurie McGraw, SVP of Health Solutions at the AMA, describes how the AMA's award-winning tools help alleviate the problem of physician burnout by improving clinical workflows and removing patient-care barriers.
As more people with chronic conditions come into the system than its infrastructure can handle, Hodgkins says we need trust in digital tools and care teams, standards and strict criteria about evidence.