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Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki is Managing Editor of Healthcare IT News. Bill has 36 years of experience in journalism, with more than 25 years experience in healthcare IT.

Tej Shah of Accenture on AI in healthcare
AI & ML Intelligence
By Bill Siwicki | 12:18 pm | March 27, 2025
But barely 1 in 10 are properly investing in the infrastructure necessary to support enterprisewide deployments, according to its new research report. An Accenture health analyst unpacks its findings.
Brett Faubion of Wise Hospice Options on AI
AI & ML Intelligence
By Bill Siwicki | 11:14 am | March 26, 2025
Once the AI was implemented with several accounts, the tool codified 99% of medications, 85% of sigs and 96% of allergies, Wise's director of operations and finance reports. It's an almost complete prevention of unmatched or invalid medications.
Dr. Arun Mathews, Dr. Anteneh Tesema and Christine Wiese, ARNP
Success Stories & ROI
By Bill Siwicki | 12:51 pm | March 25, 2025
The 13-hospital network's CDS system also maintained stable patient experience scores – and data validated that cost reduction was achieved without compromising quality of care.
Sherene Schlegel, RN, of Providence on telemedicine
Success Stories & ROI
By Bill Siwicki | 11:59 am | March 24, 2025
Sherene Schlegel, RN, chief operating officer and chief nursing officer for virtual care and digital health at the 51-hospital health system, offers a tour of its comprehensive telemedicine offering. She explains the program's evolution and highlights big results.
Robert Slepin of SE Health and Epic on digital transformation
By Bill Siwicki | 12:39 pm | March 21, 2025
Robert Slepin, chief digital officer at SE Health and an emeritus CIO adviser at Epic, describes the key aspects of digital transformation that provider organizations need to understand, the primary technologies involved and how to best organize such a comprehensive effort.
stethoscope on an iPad
By Bill Siwicki | 10:59 am | March 21, 2025
Chris Whelchel, a consultant with expertise in helping health systems with these varied challenges, shares advice that CIOs and other IT leaders at provider organizations can put into place now to help achieve results.
Dr. Avi Sharma of Jefferson Einstein on AI
Success Stories & ROI
By Bill Siwicki | 10:14 am | March 20, 2025
The provider organization has seen an increase in clinically appropriate interventions, a reduction in time to treatment, and increased efficiency in radiology workflows. The AI chief offers a deep dive into this AI technology success.
Anita H. Becker, DNP, RN, of UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center on AI
Success Stories & ROI
By Bill Siwicki | 11:59 am | March 19, 2025
UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center needed to help patients feel more ready for surgery. With new automated workflows, it was able to achieve 100% positive patient satisfaction scores.
Julia Strandberg of Philips on RPM
Remote Patient Monitoring
By Bill Siwicki | 10:47 am | March 18, 2025
The connected care leader at Philips explains how remote patient monitoring tech can combat hospitals' and health systems' problems with patient retention and overall capacity.
Dr. Emmanuel During of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on AI
AI & ML Intelligence
By Bill Siwicki | 12:46 pm | March 17, 2025
REM sleep behavior disorder almost always is an early sign of Parkinson's or dementia, often preceding other symptoms by 10-15 years. Researchers think the tool can enable development of new therapies for those diseases.