Precision Medicine

Roy Smythe, MD, is the Global Chief Medical Officer for Strategy and Partnerships at Philips Healthcare – a company working aggressively to implement advanced computing into the clinical workflow to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of care delivery.  This webinar will review the use of AI in clinical medicine – discussing what is hyped, what is in current use, and what is promised moving forward.  Technical, regulatory and business model impediments to moving more quickly will be discussed.

Hospitals around the globe are investing in mobile computers and it’s redefining the way healthcare is delivered. Zebra commissioned three global research studies focused on nurse managers, IT executives and recently hospitalized patients to better understand the role of technology in acute care hospitals. The Future of Healthcare 2022 Hospital Vision Study report summarizes the key results of this analysis.

According to a recent industry survey conducted by Solutionreach, nearly one in three patients are at risk of leaving their healthcare provider in the next two years. One in eight have already left, and not just because of changes to insurance or a move. Nearly 40 percent left because of a poor experience. Practices can’t continue trying to engage with patients in the same old ways. It’s time for a change if successful patient retention is the end goal.

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Healthcare systems have been adapting to the need to analyze an unprecedented amount of data. The improvements to care delivery and cost have been well-documented, justifying this investment. Now, the arrival of precision medicine applications represents a new challenge. During this period of transition, healthcare IT managers will face the challenge of managing different types of data as they plan and build systems that will deliver better information to clinicians at the point of care. Michael Draugelis, Chief Data Scientist at Penn Medicine, will share insights that were learned from programs that have been developed at Penn. Key highlights of the presentation will include how artificial intelligence (AI) can advance treatment and prevention as well as scientific and technical challenges for AI to be successful. Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $5.3 billion enterprise.

In this presentation, Marc S. Williams, MD, Director, Genomic Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System will provide an update on work being done to enable the use of genomic data within the EHR. Dr. Williams leads the EHR integration workgroup of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and he will share work being done by the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) network, a consortium funded by NHGRI. Established in 2007 to study the feasibility of using EHR data in genomic discovery, eMERGE has studied the implementation of genomic medicine in the clinic. This talk will provide an update on eMERGE activities and summarize the enablers and barriers encountered by the eMERGE network sites that predict the success of implementation.

In healthcare organizations, risks to protected health information (PHI) are driving demand for new security tools that enable compliance. Where physicians and hospital staffers use unmanaged BYO devices to access health records from risky unsecured networks, healthcare firms need to carefully evaluate their security postures.  HIPAA is top of mind for every healthcare IT professional as they look to enable BYOD access. In this webinar, we explore HIPAA security requirements – access controls, transmission security, and audit capabilities – and how they apply to BYOD.  Please join our senior solutions engineer, Amish Kohli to learn how a comprehensive mobile security solution can mitigate risk by securing ePHI on any mobile device.  

Network reliability and availability of fiber-based services are acknowledged as key contributors to success at rural healthcare organizations adopting new care delivery models, but these same organizations also acknowledge challenges with funding and clinician buy-in in their efforts to enhance healthcare delivery. During this webinar, Bryan Fiekers, senior director of Research Services for HIMSS Analytics, will share the results of a new research study that explores the impact of connectivity on rural hospitals. In addition, Fiekers will offer actionable insights and prescriptive guidance into how rural healthcare organizations can gain the connectivity needed to help advance key clinical initiatives.

Most healthcare providers believe precision medicine is important to the health and well-being of patients, yet many are uncertain about how to integrate precision medicine into their organizations, according to a recent HIMSS Analytics survey.

The obstacles to personalized medicine include the high cost of precision cancer drugs, the challenge of getting patients fully engaged in their own care, a lack of mature, universal interoperability, and questions about the effectiveness of precision medicine interventions. This presentation will address these issues and discuss how to mainstream the benefits of precision medicine to institutions large and small.