Strategic Planning

Oklahoma Heart Hospital went digital 22 years ago, a move that coordinated the EHR between the hospitals and the clinics for unified care and a better patient experience, says Oklahoma Heart Hospital CIO David Miles.  

Mike Pykosz, who has served in that role and confounded Oak Street Health, is leaving CVS.

Oklahoma Heart Hospital, a two-hospital physician-owned cardiovascular system, went all digital in 2002 to focus on workflow, not paper shuffling, says CIO David Miles.  

The share of commercial markets that are highly concentrated was 95% in both 2014 and 2023, not changing much in that span.

UPMC Enterprises and Vanderbilt Health will accelerate the consortium's pipeline of companies launching in the coming year, Aegis says.

Artificial intelligence makes efficient use of a massive amount of data, but it can also create deep fake technology, says Dr. Benoit Desjardins, professor of radiology at the University of Montreal.  

Tenet Physician Resources will use AI to integrate clinical workflows, reducing administrative burden.

New York State is mandating more stringent cybersecurity processes. Other states and the federal government may soon release similar regulations, says George Pappas, healthcare cybersecurity expert and CEO of Intraprise Health.  

One issue is that half of medical devices haven't been trained on real patient data during clinical validation, says Dr. Jay Anders, chief medical officer at Medicomp Systems.  

One of the biggest barriers in using AI clinical algorithms to reduce health disparities is the need for representative data sets, says Dr. Keisuke Nakagawa, director of innovation at UC Davis Health and co-chair of the HIMSS SDOH Committee.