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His March 9 address at the 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition marks the first time a sitting president has spoken at the event.

The health system has embraced change management to encourage key clinical buy-in for incorporating social determinant data into the EHR and informing care plans.

The expanded bandwidth would be a big boost to smartphone-based healthcare consultations, enabling doctors to remotely monitor a patient’s vitals and analyze the statistics in real time.

The health system estimates referral volume grew 16.5% last year, adding 3,308 more patients than the previous year.

The Cerner system was scheduled to go live March 28, but was delayed due to the need for additional development of interfaces between the existing EHR, Cerner’s platform and VA's general IT infrastructure.

Sharing patient data with prisons can help more effectively manage behavioral care.

Sonia Patel, currently the joint CIO for London North West Healthcare and the Hillingdon Hospitals trusts, will join NHSX this summer.

“We no longer can rely on traditional security controls like vulnerability scans and periodic penetration tests to assure our stakeholders that our systems are keeping up with the rate and pace with which attacks occur,” says Taylor Lehmann.