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Nurse/patient ratios in hospital maternity departments are oftentimes inconsistent with national nurse staffing standards, data shows.

Accenture Chief Medical Information Officer Dr. Cecil Lynch previews his HIMSS23 talk on genomics in healthcare, its worth in value-based care and how to make translational medicine available to clinicians.

The group says the provider network serving rural Americans is fragile and more dependent on Medicare revenue.

OakWell will be reimbursed for its services by contracting with insurance companies that offer Medicare Advantage plans.

The goal is to allow clinicians to provide clinical care and eliminate or scale back unnecessary administrative work.

Christopher Girardo, LSU Health Shreveport and Ochsner Health fellow, clinical informatics/PRN staff, pathology, previews his HIMSS23 dive into health IT's part in combating sepsis.         

MITRE's executive director of global health security and biotechnology, Monique Mansoura, will lead a talk at HIMSS23 about responding to new health threats with help from real-world data.  

Jennifer Gaudet Hefele, senior scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, will show in a HIMSS23 presentation how AI can analyze vast sources of patient narratives.

In response to increased mental health needs, CMS wants flexibility for hospitals to open and bill Medicare for a new inpatient psychiatric units.

ROI and quality of care are realized through freeing up capacity for new patients and in being able to focus on more complex cases, says Dr. Anobel Odisho, associate professor of Urology at the University of California, San Francisco, who will be speaking at HIMSS23.