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An estimated 130 ACOs are expected to participate in the five-year voluntary ACO Primary Care Flex Model that kicks off on January 1, 2025, says David Morris, EVP at Cedar Gate Technologies.
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The direct messaging network involves 300,000 organizations exchanging a billion transactions a year, says Scott Stuewe, president and CEO of DirectTrust.
These clinical and math models are a cheaper, faster and safer way to enhance treatment, says Thierry Marchal of Ansys and researcher María Angeles Pérez.
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The technology holds great progress to get that needle in a haystack data and do something with it, even applying higher levels of cognition, says Tim O'Connell, cofounder and CEO of Emtelligent.
Partnership with Valtruis, Blue Venture Fund, Mass General Brigham Ventures and CareSource provides app and individualized care.
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Other innovations include virtual bedside nursing support, ambient AI for documentation and population health strategies, says Dr. Roosevelt De Los Santos, medical director, health informatics at Trinity Health.
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Making patients aware of medications that are potentially dangerous is important, but alert fatigue poses a threat to physician wellness and burnout, says First Databank director of product management Anna Dover and NCH Healthcare System CMIO Dr. David Linz.
Where possible, Cedars-Sinai likes to look for solutions within existing platforms, such as using Epic's In-basket message-response technology, which queues up a draft to edit and send, says CIO Craig Kwiatkowski.
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Christopher Kunney won a 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award as advocacy chair for the HIMSS Georgia chapter and much more, including being involved in the HIMSS Health Equity Policy Task Force, the YMCA and Carry Meds that supplies drugs and supplies to West Africa.
Upon closing, the integrated system will operate 30 hospitals and more than 700 sites of care.