Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Informatics leaders also have to be closely invested in their organization's goals, says Dr. Robert W. Warren, who offers advice drawn from a long career on bridging clinical and technological roles, making tough decisions and being a team leader.

The combined deployment of an enterprise-wide electronic health record with business and clinical analytics helped a health system deliver better patient care, among other benefits.

It initially supports personalised cancer treatment based on the hospital's big clinical and genomic data.

Artificial intelligence alone is not the answer, says Charles Worthington of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Connecting AI-enabled insights like risk scoring to a larger healthcare program is what helps move the needle on outcomes.

What began as an ONC initiative now independently supports a secure EHR-based communication network and accredits health technology, explains Kathryn Ayers Wickenhauser, DirectTrust's chief strategy officer.

Also, a new centre for excellence in AI in healthcare will be set up by two public universities in India.

Oracle Health's Romel Khalife discusses the company's AI-enabled data platform, which helps clinicians identify care gaps and manage disease-screening programs and can connect EHR and genomic data to improve patient outcomes.

Heart to Heart Hospice has achieved three of its top priorities, including reducing documentation time by almost 30 minutes and improving care planning – which speaks to the operational and compliance impact the technology has delivered.

Frederick Health’s precision medicine program integrates patients' genetic data into clinical workflows to support tailored decision-making. Jackie Rice, the hospital's chief information officer, describes the benefits.

More than 1,000 hospitals and 22,000 clinics are now exchanging patient data through Epic Nexus, the EHR giant's health information network operating under the national interoperability framework.