Strategic Planning

The gift designates $100 million to establish two research entities within a new institute, each funded by $50 million.

Orr Inbar, cofounder and CEO of QuantHealth, discusses how artificial intelligence can predict how patients will respond to therapies still in development, and the role tech has to play in drug development in the future.  

Dr. Guido Giunti, adjunct professor of digital health at the University of Oulu in Finland, said healthcare organizations can prepare for the future by harnessing tech to leverage information.

Aside from assisting in clinical matters, RTLS technology can allow leaders to track clinicians and respond quickly if they need help, said Northeast Georgia Health System CIO Chris Paravate.

Health systems can use predictive analytics and AI in models to staff the ER and for other intelligence scheduling, says Larry Adams, RN, EVP and chief nurse executive at ShiftMed.  

Security risk trends include the move to mobile, a password-less future and outsourcing, says Joel Burleson-Davis, SVP Worldwide Engineering Cyber at Imprivata.  

The critical access hospital will become AdventHealth Polk and join AdventHealth Hendersonville in providing care to Western North Carolina.

The state has taken steps to save five Steward hospitals after WARN notice announces closure of two others.

An automated process resulted in Humana instantly approving 70% of prior authorization requests, says Greg LeGrow, executive director of payer product market strategy at athenahealth, and Mark Fleming, senior director of product at Availity.

Virtual specialty care company Story Health helps patients go home after hospitalization through a model built on technology, an expanded care team and partnerships, says CEO and cofounder Tom Stanis.