Bill Siwicki

Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner, DrChrono, Epic, Greenway Health, Meditech and NextGen offer an up-to-the-minute look at how they’re enabling complex immunization recordkeeping for their health system customers.

For the first three quarters of 2020, it has registered a 40% reduction in its patient no-show rate, compared with face-to-face visits.

The hospital is using communication technologies to bring care teams, patients and families together to plan healthcare. The tools have helped enable a 40% reduction in avoidable inpatient visits and a 29% reduction in length of stay.

Will a health system battered by the pandemic emerge stronger in the year ahead? The annual report predicts challenges such as profitably merging virtual and in-person care, capitalizing on new consumer- and clinician-facing digital health tools – and enabling pharma to find its footing in this changing ecosystem.

Neighborhood Family Practice has been reaching out virtually to its underserved patients for primary care, behavioral health, midwifery and more.

In our seventh and final feature on burnout, experts at Epic, Cerner, Allscripts and Mad*Pow discuss health IT usability problems and solutions, and describe where user experience is headed.

University of California, Berkeley, medical scientists use a Bluetooth-enabled tracking watch to study ways the bond between patient and caregiver benefits the patient.

Amarillo Legacy Medical ACO made that savings in just one quarter. If that trend continues, it’s on track for a bonus.

Two systems, two vendors, one experience: All staff are happy, which is getting them through the hard times of COVID-19.

The pandemic’s impact will be shown on a per-hospital basis, enabling researchers, policymakers and others to have greater insights into local healthcare response efforts.