Clinical
Shawn Weldin, IT director at Sabetha Community Hospital and a HIMSS25 Changemaker Award recipient, says concerns about reimbursement and the costs of new tools can hinder digital transformation efforts.
First Databank's technology resides within electronic health records and can offer clinicians guidance on issues such as patient-specific dosing and possible drug interactions, explains Virginia Halsey, the company's SVP of strategy.
Better information practices help new nurses learn proven treatment methods while gaining experience in hands-on care, explains Elsie Gori, nursing informatics specialist at Lone Star Communications and HIMSS25 Changemaker Award recipient.
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.
A new tool researched at Regenstrief Institute aims to help get symptom assessment data integrated into EHRs and incorporated into clinical workflows.
Medicomp Systems' LLM-adjacent software cleans, organizes and presents diagnostically connected data for clinicians at the point of care, explains President and CEO David Lareau.
Innovaccer, Veradigm and other companies are integrating real-time healthcare data, analytics and artificial intelligence-enhanced workflows into payer and provider systems to improve patient outcomes and care delivery.
Christine Stetler, a registered nurse and AVP of Solution Engineering at MedeAnalytics, says there needs to be a meeting of the minds between coders and clinicians to accomplish that goal.
Nursing and IT
Nurses with less than two years of experience increase their confidence in performing during electronic health record outages after escape room-style training, Michael Allen of Indiana University Health said at HIMSS25.
There are many valuable use cases for robotic process automation, says Dr. Jonah Feldman of NYU Langone Health, including streamlining patient intakes and analyzing charts to determine where care can be improved.