Risk Management

The rule limits short-term plans to no more than four months instead of the current three years as set under the Trump administration.

The INFRAM adoption model measures how well an organization infrastructure meets objectives of risk and performance requirements, says Philip Bradley, digital health strategist at HIMSS.

The partnership grows the portfolio of the clinical surveillance and life sciences side of the business, says Inovalon's Julie Lambert, president & provider GM, and Hayley Burgess, SVP for provider surveillance and safety.  

Sumit Nagpal, CEO of Cherish Health, said technology that can track people's movements inside the home has preventive benefits to move the dial on healthcare costs.  

Cybersecurity incident could have significant cascading and disruptive effects on revenue cycle and services by Optum, AHA says.

AI systems can summarize what's happening with a patient, but if the system makes up or omits information it can lead to catastrophic consequences, says Harjinder Sandhu, CTO of health platforms and solutions at Microsoft.

Physicians use a seven-day readmissions model in which they take AI risk assessment into account when discharging patients, says Luis Ahumada, director of health data science and analytics at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital.  

Hospitals within the HIMSS Southern California chapter want to know how to create and safely implement AI, with more education expected to follow from the HIMSS AI forum, says Carrie Murray, president of the HIMSS Southern California chapter.  

One closed and declared bankruptcy because, while it was able to deliver care, it was unable to do billing, says Iain Paterson of WELL Health Technologies, who, with Yotam Segev of Cyera, discussed the benefits of moving to the cloud.  

The Houston-based health system for children and women is a HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence winner.