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Trust And The 21st Century Health System

Luke Slawomirski, Health Economist & Jillian Oderkirk, Senior Analyst, Health Division, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Personal health data are very sensitive, which means trust is critical in enabling their use....

vRad Offers Teleradiology Through Physician's Lens

Shannon Werb, President & COO, Virtual Radiologic

VRad (Virtual Radiologic), is a MEDNAX company and the nation’s leading teleradiology services and telemedicine...

Analytics on a Budget..... A Targeted Approach

Anthony Belluscio, Director of Web and Mobile Applications, Hunterdon Healthcare System

Most of the questions that come my way are fairly straightforward. The complexity arises largely because systems...

Enabling IT to be a Digital Business Partner

Chris Akeroyd, VP & CTO, Children’s Health

The overarching principle to remember: don’t reduce costs at the expense of IT service quality.

Keeping Pace with a Changing Healthcare Environment through Academic Detailing

Joy Leotsakos, Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Atrius Health

Clinical pharmacists used our ADS workflow to provide an educational presentation on the new anticoagulants, the evidence base for their place in therapy, supporting documents and prescribing tools for appropriate use.

Innovation and Electronic Health Records: Can They Get Along?

Dr. Richard Zane, UCHealth Chief Innovation Officer, University of Colorado Health and Steve Hess, UCHealth Chief Information Officer, University of Colorado Health

Many organizations that want to innovate don’t have the resources to design and build EHR-based solutions themselves, so they are beholden to the EHR vendor building and releasing solutions.

Reducing Clinical Variation in Medicine with Artificial Intelligence

Michael C. Sanders, M.D., Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Flagler Hospital

Let’s start with acknowledging that Medical Errors are now the 3rd leading cause of death in the USA, having surpassed COPD.

The Responsibilities of a True Caregiver

Timothy G. Ihrig, Chief Medical Officer, Crossroads Hospice and Palliative Care

Doing things to people rather than with and for them results in unwarranted suffering, decreased quality of life and even death.

Virtual Healthcare Soon To Be New "Presence" In Patient Rooms

Mark Zielazinski, Chief Information & Technology Integration Officer, Marin General Hospital

Telemedicine has resulted in money-saving efficiencies to hospital operations, improved patient safety, and given more people access to healthcare service among other benefits.

Promoting New Functionality for an Effective Patient Experience

Linda Shanley, VP & CIO, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center

When dealing with real-time predictive analysis the more comprehensive the data set is the higher the probability of the systems to generate early detection of diseases and other key metrics in disease management.