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Atlantic Health System has reduced patient wait times for radiology by using workflow optimization, AI technologies and process modifications. Danielle Pieloch and Kumar Aditya preview of their HIMSS23 presentation.  

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.

Saudi Ministry of Health advisor for digital transformation Dr. Ahmed Balkhair explains how value-based healthcare helps improve the output of care and quality.

Tech vendor turned telemedicine provider organization Biofourmis can help support value-based care and benefits health systems facing staffing shortages and financial challenges, says CEO Kuldeep Singh Rajput.  

This week's top stories include providers aiming to extend the public health emergency that ushered in waivers and flexibilities during the pandemic, and clinicians at DOD, Coast Guard and VA sites could not update medical information for hours.

This week's top stories include the formation of Telehealth Access for America, which aims to protect and expand access to telehealth, and a last-minute deal that averted massive cuts to reimbursement to hospitals and physicians.

Hospitals can get paid up-front, according to Ben Simmons, VP of insurance at Gravie.  

Andrew Sorenson of at Castell Health, says value-based care concerns logistics - including supply chains - as much as it does science.

This week's top stories include a new report finding that rising costs are slowing hospitals' rebuilding of margins, senior living facilities benefiting from Alexa, and the VA being grilled over its EHR modernization effort.

This week's top stories include projections that hospitals could lose $54 billion in net income over the course of this year, and Apple looking to use digital biomarkers to help detect depression and early-stage cognitive decline.