Patient Engagement

Asynchronous virtual visits are helping reduce the burdens on primary care providers at Prisma Health – while also enabling easier access, convenience and speed to care for patients.

The ability to gain access to the data through reusable APIs significantly improves developer productivity, enabling CIOs to achieve more with the same resources.

Apple, IBM and Microsoft were some of the nearly 30 stakeholders asking CMS and ONC to "expeditiously finalize" the rules – but EHR vendors were not among them.

The IT giant’s global chief medical officer and vice president of healthcare speaks candidly on healthcare and what HIMSS20 attendees need to know.

That's 10 straight years for the IT giant, which in addition to Overall Software Suite won top marks for its acute care and ambulatory EHRs, application hosting, patient portal and more.

All stakeholders need to work collaboratively to provide optimum and personalized patient care, says Dr. Ali Abdulkarim Al Obaidli, group chief academic affairs officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services.

More pharmas are interested in patients' personal experiences — and their input — than ever, says Kevin Freiert, principal of Salem Oaks Consulting.

David Grauer, senior VP at Health Catalyst, says in addition to providing higher quality at a lower cost for patients, we need to get better at identifying payment models that reward physicians in the value-based environment.

The company has been lobbying hospital leaders to oppose them – and has said it might sue HHS, depending on the final rules' data provisions. Meanwhile, some patient advocates are also speaking out.