Tom Sullivan
The hospital deployed an alert system that not only reduces care costs and lengths-of-stay but also saves three lives every month.
New software hints at the potential to better understand and avoid adverse health events by tapping into weather data.
But don’t expect artificial intelligence to replace nurses or care managers in our lifetime.
But experts at Monday’s National Committee for Quality Assurance event say cutting costs without compromising quality is the hardest part.
Hospitals are beginning to think big about patient experience, which starts in people’s homes, communities and even workplaces.
Cerner, athenahealth and eClinicalWorks said they are incorporating new data types, such as social determinants, population health and precision medicine to make EHRs more “comprehensive.”
Cerner President Zane Burke has posted a music playlist to get pumped up for the company’s user group meeting.
Improved interoperability requires integrating exchange frameworks, improving usability, earning the engagement of caregivers and patients, and more.
The potential to harness this data to both make people healthier and help hospitals and payers save money is enormous.
Telehealth, infrastructure modernization and a cyber exec for HHS. They’re all on this year’s list.