Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Defense Healthcare Management Systems' Stacy Cummings and the DHA's Major General Lee Payne and Pat Flanders discuss the giant change management problem and infrastructure needs for an enterprise EHR implementation.   

Ochsner's system uses data patients collect at home to treat COPD, diabetes and hypertension. "Patients are thirsty for the data," claims Chief Clinical Transformation Officer Dr. Richard Milani.

Cisco Systems is taking on the challenge of linking the enormous amount of data generated by EMRs as well as consumer and enterprise devices in the same clinical space, says Brendan Lovelock, health practice lead at Cisco.

With telemedicine evolving, efforts are underway to provide medical care to refugees in camps using a cloud-based electronic health record built on blockchain, says Brian de Francesca, CEO of Ver2 Digital Medicine.

Ian McCrae, founder and CEO of Orion Health, discusses how machine learning can provide medical records to physicians and nurses in a coherent manner so the data is not overwhelming.

Prof. Jane Griffiths, associate professor and chief nursing information officer at the Dubai Health Authority, says for game-changing tech to be effective, technology partners and clinical partners must be on the same page.

The industry must put patients at the center, use standards like HL7 FHIR and get the entire ecosystem working together, say Kari Hedges, SVP at Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, and Laurent Rotival, SVP at Cambia Health Solutions.

Surescripts’ product allows doctors to tell the patient at the point of care the price of prescriptions along with alternatives, says CEO Tom Skelton.

Advancements in healthcare technology are necessary, but they can’t take away the human element, says Tammy Kwiatkoski, director of clinical informatics for the HIMSS Office of the CTIO.

Robin Tenenbaum, IT director, El Rio Community Health Center, shares the importance of earlier screenings for detection of eye disease.